The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-22
JUDGE PARKER GETS THE NEWS
HEARS OF HERRICK'S NOMINA-
TON soon AFTER 1T IS MADE.


Then He Dons His Riding Breeches and
Rides Down tho Esopian. Roads In
Fine Spirits-He Dominated the Con.
vention as Much rs One Man Could do II.
EsoPUs, Sept 2i--Judge Parker learned
Of the nomination OF Herrick ten minutes
after the State convention had made its
choice. He wrote telegram Of congratu-
lation to Judge Herrick, sent It to the tele'
graph Office and went to his room to don
his riding breeches. When he came down.
stairs and met the newspaper men on the
veranda he appeared to be In the height
Of good humor yet his spirits we're hardly
better than they were yesterday when
the convention seemed to be in the throes
OF discord and indeoision. He had no COM
ment to make on the nominations, which
by this time were complete, other than to
authorize the publication Of his despatch
to Judge Herrick. He galloped the big
brown horse Tom down the hill, swinging
his riding crop.
A fine day for ride, he said. comment
ing on the good autumn weather
No one could have told from his demeanor
that he had been in close touch all day with
the convention and that he had dominated
il as much as any one man could dominate
it. He looked completely innocent OF hav-
ing insisted upon nomination that would
not ALLEVIATE Tammany Hall and could not
bear the stamp OF his old friend Hill. The
master Of Rosemount had sifted the stu
alton so fine that Of all the available candi-
dates Herrick alone appeared above the
meshes.
william j. Gaynor, the first choice OF
Parker and his friends, had taken himself
out OF the question by his absolute refusal
to run for Governor. Considering the known
desire of the Hill -Sheehan- Belmont group
to nominate the man Judge Parker be-
lieved would be his strongest running mate
and the expressed consent OF Charles F.
Murphy to the nomination OF a candidate
ind orsed by the Judge, it must be calcu-
lated that Gaynor could have had the nomi-
nation IL he but turned his hand. 1t Is said
that when William F. Sheehan returned
TO New York from Esopus last Sunday he
carried to Justice Gaynor the offer OF the
nomination for Governor When Justice
Gaynor declined to serve, Judge Parker
looked elsewhere for a candidate.
Judge Parker recognized Jerome as a
graft campaign for him through the State,
but in spite Of his personal desire for the
services Of speaker like the District At
torney OF New York county, he could not
figure out the nomination Of Jerome in a
convention made up OF two or three ma
chimes Besides, Jerome had been knocked
out by Herman Ridder and other Demo-
Gratis friendly to Parker,
AS for Comptroller Grout, Justice Parker
saw from the first that Murphy could never
be brought to consent to his nomination
much less support him. Hill and McCarren
might cry "Grout, Grout'' till the rest OF the
Democracy was deaf, but the call would
not reach Rosemount 80 long as Mr. Murphy
remained as a barrier. When Judge Parker
was in New York, he and Mr. Murphy were
together for hours, and it has not been
reported that they sat in silence or that
they parted on unfriendly terms -,
Judge Parker is quite certain that he will
get the support OF Senator McCErren,
Circuit or no circuit. He could not figure
on making Patrick Henry more loyal oy
asking for the nomination Of circuit, and
he knew what Murphy and his men would
OF E tfT ..dA' u. Shepard p was eliminated,
not because of any unfriendliness on the
part of Judge Parker who personally likes
many was chilly toward Shepard and
for several other minor reasons: Stanch-
fsld would not do because Of the Hill stamp
on him. This process simmered the situs-
ton down to George VI. Palmer and %.
Cady Herrick, both reputed tc oe in fair
favor with Tammany. OF these two. &C
cording to information and belief, Judge
Parker chose Herricls as the better cam
paigner and the one whose name was more
familiar to the voters OF the state
The nominate of Herrick, it was figured,
would unite the Democrats of Albany, as
surning that Hill would be able to hold his
own men from a revolt against his old foe
Herrick. 1t was also thought that Her
rick would run well in the western part OF
the State, where the Democratic factions
may not take sides against him.
So a certain solitary horseman, riding
over the Esopian roads this still, cool even
ing, may have figured that he had made
friends Of HIS enemies and that his older
friends would have to remain loyal. They
used to say, and not In Ulster county alone,
that Alton B. Parker was the wisest poll,
tican in the State.
1t is underst God here that Judge Parker
i, delighted with the action OF the Ncon-
vention in nominating Cullen and Werner
for the Court of Appeals and keeping John
Cunneen in the nomination for his present
position of Attorney General. Judge Par
ker knew that Cunneen's friends were
an xous to have him on the ticket but the
Presidential candidate recognized the pop
ular demand that the Court Of Appeals
be kept free from political monkey bust
ness. He and Judge Cullen are close friends
and he was anxious that Cullen be assured
OF election.
While every one else at Roseinount was
shivering this morning and trying to light
the furnaces Judge Parker went to the