The sun., 1904-07-18

a.. hssn reached by no sotion Of Govern
-, hut by tho act Of God, thfoush human
- strune nentalities Of discovery and invention.
Soes not lessen our gratitude.
Independence Day. July Z, was COLE
,rated In tho convention city by the an
no,noement that the Parker managers
hsd rot along far enough IN their oalcu-
ia aons to assert that Judge Parker would
y. nominated on either tho first or the
socond ballot and that ex-United States
Senator George E. Turner Of Warrington
would be his running mate. Mr.. Hin IA
yorod the nomination Of Turner. while Mr..
sheehan remained true to his first love,
M.rshau Field Of Chicago. Judson Har-
mon OF Ohio pulled out a. candidate for
1 ths Presidential nomination and his friends
b.ssn to speak Of him - Vioe-Presi-
dental possibility. John h. Mclean OF
washington and Ohio was also mentioned
for the place, as he has been mentioned In
all Democratic national conventions for
decade. The Turner boom lasted only
two days Turner was denounced by
the Southerners as having been q carpet
haseer in the reconstruction days and
others declared that Turner had been a
fat money man, an anythmg-in.poh-
tics. and 40 on. Still that boom for Cor
man for the Presidential nomination was
heard in the land PennsyHania declared
positively for Parker, Gen. Miles arrived
and announced his candidacy, and all hands
orinned. Thomas r. Ryan Of New York
and Virginia arrived - :th this money plank,
Of which he WAS the author:
The Democratic party pledges itself TO the
| maintenance Of the existing money standard
Of value.
Mr.. RYAN was soon with Mr.. Davis and
later Mr.. Ryan visited all the delegations
- in his advocacy Of his money plank. Mr..
Davis was West Virginia's representative
on the committee on platform, and he
worked assiduously for Mr.. Ryan's plank.
Tammany, with Charles r. Murphy, arrived,
and Mr.. Cochran, Corporation Counsel John
! Delany and Senator Victor ]. Dowling
bombarded the delegates with the declara-
+ ton that Parker couldn't carry New York
and that Cleveland could.
The delegates wouldn't listen to the
name of Cleveland. but declared that II
there was any way by which New York
could switch from Parker to Mcclellan
there might be some Use in the talk Of
Cochran, Delany and Dowling.
1t was on this day, July 4, that the na-
tional committee began it's sittings to hear
the contests. Seventy-one seats were In
dispute as follows: The entire Illinois
Il delegation. numbering 81 votes; the Dis
Ntrict Of Columbia delegation, with votes;
the Second district Of Maine, with 8 votes;
the Tenth district OF Indiana, with votes;
the Twelfth Ohio district. with votes. and
the First and Sixth districts Of Pennsyl-
vania, votes.
The national committee had become
wearied OF Organism and Hearstism and
all radicasm and while It was the same
committee, individually, that had been
selected at the Bryan-Stevenson conven-
tion at Kansas City in 1900. the committee
as body had undergone a complete change
in it's collective sentiment
The most interesting dispute to be settled
was that in Illinois, whose ffty-four dele
gates had been inst structed to vote for Hearst
on the first and last ballots in the conven-
ton and never to desert him. They were
to stand by Hearst, according to their in
structions, until the COWS came home. Tho
friends Of Judge Parker in the committee,
and they dominated 1t. decided that dele
cation which believed in accepting such
ironclad instructions should be unseated.
Judge Parker's friends. in other words.
wanted delegation which, while obeying
the Instructions Of the Illinois State con-
vention to vote for Hearst. would desert
him after the first ballot.
Bryan's fight In the committee for the
original Illinois Hearstites was fierce. He
denounced John P. Hopkins Of Chicago as
-highwayman" and likened him to "a
train robber' Bryan thumped the table
in the committee room and shouted his
anger at the Hopkins crowd.
On July the committee decided against
the Bryan-Hearst contestants, and the
Illinois dispute was referred to the COM
mittee on credentials to be named in the
convention, 1t was on this day also that
Mr.. Cochran submitted to the New York
delegation the following resolution:
Resolrod, That in the opinion OF this dele
cation plain statement in the Democratic
platform that the decision Of the people. as
twice expressed. on the standard Of value
should be accepted as a final settlement OF
the coinage question. and is absolutely es-
sental to any prospect Of success at the
election.
Mr.. Cochran submitted this when he
saw that Senator McCarren had not pre-
.fented his promised resolution. Mr.. Cock
rams resolution was, on motion Of Mr..
Sheehan, referred to Mr.. Hill, who had
just been elected New York's member on
the committee on resolutions. The knowl-
edge that the Pennsylvanians had declared
for Parker induced other delegates from
other States to hop aboard the Parker
band wagon. and the day closed with Parker
steadily gaining. Bryan, though, stoutly
Npersisted in maintaining that he had 400
delegates pledged to vote against Parker
On the first and the 1Olst ballots, and that
Parker thus couldn't get the necessary two
thirds vote to nominate him.
But Thomas F. Ryan and his friends
in the South who had favored German IL
he would stand would make no coalition
whatever with Bryan or any of Bryan's
friends, and without Mr.. Ryan and his
associate Southerners Bryan's claims were
falacious and Parker's nomination was
assured, II not on the first, certainly on the
second ballot.
This situation was copper riveted on
july Q, when Maryland, Virginia and. West
virginia declared for Parker in tho morning,
before the first session Of the convention