Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-04
Report He Has With
drawn His Name From
Consideration
BY THE CONVENTION
Illinois Democratic Con-
test Goes to a Sub
committee.

St. Louis, July 4.-ft is said at Par
ker headquarters today that German
has written letter to the Maryland
delegation and which will reach here
today in which the senator will say
he declines to be a candidate for pres
ident.
Parker people are now claiming the
nomination for their man on the first
ballot Notwithstanding the arrival of
the Tammany contingent who claim
Parker could not carry New York
state, and count upon the aid of Cor
man in accomplishing Parker's nomi-
nation.
The national committee this morn
ing took up the contests for temper
ary seats in the convention.
Illinois Contest to subcommittee.
AS soon as the Illinois fight was TAX
en- up it was agreed by both sides the
better way to settle the matter was to
permit it to rest with a subcommittee
which should report to the national
committee later. The subcommittee
will be composed largely OF men fav
orable to the Harrison-Hearst forces. |
VIII BE No split.
St. Louis, July 4.-The democratic |
national convention, which will begin |
in St. Louis Wednesday, will not be
exactly a love feast, but the prelim-
inaries indicate that the feeling which |
resulted in bolt eight years ago has
been overcome sufficiently to prevent
any split this year.
The convention will be called to or
der at noon Wednesday by James X.
Jones of Arkansas, chairman of the
national committee. Former Senator
Jones will make his bow, and if in
clined to speech-malzing will follow
with his valedictory. Eight years ago
he stepped to the fore when the old
party machine surrendered the reins
of power. There is to be another
change, and Chairman Jones will hand
over the scepter to another.
May he Long Contest.
4 four days convention seems most
probable. with the chance for pro-
longation of the proceedings into the
following week if the fight on the pres
idential nomination lasts more than
TWO OF JDTee DallOtS.
On the opening day nothing will
take place in the convention. aside /:
from the keynote speech of the tenn ]
porary chairman and the appointment s
Of the regular committees. The great
interest on Wednesday. which proba-
bly, will linger into the small hours I
Of Thursday morning, vii be centered {
in the contests to come up before the
on credentials and the l
work of the committee on resolutions.
The reports of these committees on l
The second day of the convention will
open the floodgates of oratory, and
what a symposium there is in store,
Bourke Cochran, the eloquent man
from the east; William jennings Bry- :
an, the peerless leader of the last two
Towne and Grady, of New
York; David B. Hill, and a host of
others, will be primed with thoughts
% which they will give expression at
he moment that seems TO them re- r
spectively the psychological one. 9th
er orators of lesser prominence will be
,retting for the opportunity to get in
heir speeches. Not in years has y
here been the prospect for so much
mpromptu elOquence to stir the cOun-
ry as is promised for this week in the
city of St. Louis. :,
Speeches Not Prepared. a
Days and even weeks before the re- il
publican national convention of 1904 l
vas called to order in Chicago the big il
speeches that were to be delivered Y
we're in type in all the newspaper of !;
ices Of the country, having been sent
'ut in advance by the press assOcia- Z
ions. That was a cut-and-dried af
air. notable in many respects for the
excellence Of the oratory that was a
)art of ii. 1t lacked, however, the ex- n
,iting element of expectancy that c
haracterizes the approaching event Il
lnder the auspices of the party of the b
opposition. +
In this case not a single speech has Il
'een prepared in advance. 1t is known b
Who the great orators are to be. but
he things they are to say and the
manner in which they are to say them
lepend upon the exigencies of the mo- :
nent D
The big takers may have the out Z
ines of their sPelIbinding efforts o
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