The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-16
POWWOWS WITH PARKER.
GORM4N'S AID ENLISTED AND
GOJERNORSHIP DISCUSSED.

say soft shoe) conferences
The Hotel Aston. where the candidate is
staying, was a puzzle box, with the con-
ferees moving in and out. oh, so mysteri-
ously None Of them was caught entering
the Judges rooms by way Of the fire escape,
hut it was bruted about the hotel that
every other means Of access was employed.
The candidate saw:
President.
WILLIAM F. SIBERIAN.
Senator ARTHUR PUE GoRMAS.
AudUsr BELMONT
pFRRT BELMONT
GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY. treasurer OF the ma
iiona committee.
Col DANIEL s. LAMONT.
CORD METER chairman OF tho State committee.
Sen'tor PATRICK HENRY MccARRES. chairman
OF the State cGccut We committee.
WILLIAM S. RopIg, head OF the organization
bureau.
DASIFL MccoSvILLr. chairman Of the speakers
bureau
HERMAN RIpprR. editor OF the Stats Zrauno.
WILLIAM r. HoRNBLowER.
HOWARD TAILOR.
He did not see
GROVER CLEVELAND.
THOMAS TAGGART.
CHARLES F. MURPHY.
Mr., Cleveland was reported to have an
enga cement with Judge Parker. but the
report proved to be mere air.
Mr.. Taggart, although chairman OF the
national committee and. theoretically. the
boss OF the campaign, had gone to Indian
apolis
Mr. Murphy did not call yesterday. but
to-day is another day.
Two young women tried hard to see
the candidate in the afternoon, but got no
further than Secretary McCausland. One
Of them said she was Countess. They
were suspected Of being autograph fiends.
Judge Parker had nothing to say about
the purpose of his visit. In fact. he had
nothing to say about anything for the
public His friends about the hotel said
that the chief reason for the Judges ex-
cursion was a feeling that he ought to
come to New York to save old Mr.. Davis
another trip to Rosemount, seeing that he
and Mr.. Davis had to get together on their
letters Of acceptance.
They had their little chat about the letters
and the result was an announcement that
Judge Parker's letter will be made public
on Sept. 20. This is almost a week later
than was expected. The delay, 1t was said,
is for the purpose Of giving wider publicity
to the letter. Mr.. Dawes letter will appear
q week after his principals.
Judge Parker's friends said that another
reason for his trip to this city was his desire
to talk over the situation with Sen ator
German Of Maryland, one Of the big Demo
crats who has not found it convenient to
60 to Esopus.
But the thing which the Judges friends
said they did not expect, yet which they
reluctantly ad mtted did happen, was
scrap over the Jerome boom for Governor.
That scrap might not have come yes
terday had not David B. Hill made his visit
to the District Attorney for the alieged
purpose Of asking him to run for Governor.
As soon as the few Democratic leaders
who are dead set against Jerome's nomi-
netion heard Of Hills visit they started
q move on the Hotel Astor not In numbers,
but In representation. Whatever their
message may have been to the Judge, and
Shatever his answer to them, one Of the
anti-Jerome men came downstairs from a
talk with Judge Parker last night and said:
sIll bet money that Jerome won't be nom
mated for Governor
The smile that accompanied the offer
indicated that the speaker felt confident
that his mission had been accomplished.
This and other signs Of antagonism
toward Jerome started the politicians to
inGuiring to what extent Judge Parker
had favored the Jerome boom.
He was dead stuck on it, said one OF
them. He realizes that up to date the
prospects are for dead campaign In this
State, and he thought that Jerome might
be brought in to make a whirlwind Of 1t.
Personally, he would like to have Edward
". Shepard run for Governor, but he has
decided that one constitutional lawyer Is
enough for the ticket. Now he has been
told that the German vote would snow
Jerome under and that for lot Of other
reasons Jerome is an impossibility.
Other Democrats would have it that the
attack on Jerome was caused by a false
alarm; that Hill merely offered to Jerome
p nomination for any State Office except the
Governorship, hoping thus to infuse some
snap into the campaign.
Outside OF the Jerome blaze, the con-
ference between Judge Parker and Senator
German was the most important business
Of the day. The Senator arrived at the
Hotel Aston at II A. NJ. and remained with
Judge Parker until P. NJ. He was ac-
companied by Thomas F. Ryan Of Virginia.
After Senator German went away the
enthusiastic Parkerites said smilingly that
the most needed Democrat in the country
had been corralled at last One Of the
candidates. closest friends said last night
that Senator German would take an active
part in the campaign, at least in an adj
Nisory capacity.
Senator German would not discuss his
visit. Mr. Ryan expressed his belief that
after the Democratic State convention the
campaign would be begun in earnest
The days conferences began about 10
o'clock Judge Parker did not reach the
hotel until $40 A. NJ. The yacht Sapphire,
on which he came from Esopus, put into
Cornwall when the gale came UP on Wednes-
day night and lay there from o O'Clock
until O'Clock yesterday morning, when it
steamed on to New York 1t had been in
tended to dock at West Eighty-sixth street.
but the plans were changed and the can
dldate, accompanied by John B. Mcdonald
and Secretary McCausland, went ashore at
West Thirty-fifth street at 9I5 A. M.
The Judge had had good nights sleep
and his breakfast. Justice Morgan j.
q Brien, who made the trip to and from
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