Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-07
NEW YORK JUDGE is PRACTICAL.
i LY ASSURED OF VICTORY
\ EARLY IN BALLoTINe.
BR Van FOR MCCLELLAN
The Nebraskan. Beaten But Not Dis.
B heartened VIII Nominate Young
New York Mayor for Presidency II
Fsvorlte Son Idea Lacks Popularity
IBY E. P. ADLER.]

III ADLEH,
.., st. Louis, July 5.
Although Parkers nomination
has been assured the past two DAYS
the action Of the Pennsylvania
!, delegation in caucus late yester-
day afternoon in giving it's en-
! tire sixty-eight votes for Parker
makes his nomination on the first
pailot as certain as anything can
be. No change in the situation
had taken place at noon today.
Bryan for Mcclellan.
! - All efforts of Bryan and his followers
Were used to induce Pennsylvania not
10 go to Parker but they were unavaiI-
Ing. Bryan today is championing Nc.
Clellan and there is little boom on
for him this morning.
1t cannot amount to much, however,
as 1t has no head and no organization
The "AIso Rams"
4 Hearst and all others are entirely
out of the race. Parker will probably
! have enough votes on the first ballot
], to secure the nomination.
Bryan to Nominate Mcclellan.
The Tammany men are out for Nc
Clellan, and Bryan has consented to
place his name before the convention,
Cato Sells, of Vinton, Iowa, says
the second choice of the Iowa delega.
ton is Mcclellan.
h With Parker named, "Tom" Tag.
TART: OF Indiana, undoubtedly will be
chairman of the national committee.
Twenty for Vice President.
Turner, Washington, and Wall OF
Wisconsin, are talked of for second
place and SO are twenty others. No
one seems to have any united sup.
port.
No Thought of Platform.
The platform seems to excite no dis
cussion as it is admitted that if Parker
i, is named 1t will be a Parker platform
The Illinois Flight.
The more interesting business on
hand is the fight in the Illinois delega.
\ ton. A subcommittee of five headed
N by Stone of Missouri heard the case
from 2 o'clock yesterday to midnight
last night and adjourned until today
with no decision. The sentiment
seems to be that the Hopkins faction
4, will win out because il 1t
is decided that the Dunlap
crowd is entitled to seats
1t will mean that the entire state
ticket named at the same convention
would be invalidated, which even the
Dunlap people do not want.
The weather is hot and the hotels
y are packed with delegates. There are
ten times as many people as can get
seats and a frantic scramble for
tickets is being made.
he Nominating Speeches.
M. = Littleton. of Brooklyn, will
nominate Judge Parker Tarkey, of
California, is for Hearst and Bryan is
for Mcclellan.
ST Louis, Monday night, July 4. -
haven't the slightest reason in the
world Tor changing the views I have
expressed in these columns that Park.
er was the only logical candidate be.
lore the democratic national conyen.
ton and will be nominated on the sec.
ond Or third ballot In fact about
everything that has happened around
the political storm center in the Jeffer-
son hotel today has strengthened me
In the above belief. The only opposi.
ton to Parker's candidacy worth Civ
ing any consideration is Bryan Tam
I many is against him, but the entire
New York delegation is tied up with
Parker instructions first, last and all
the time, and hence the opposition of
Tammany. while it may make great
deal of noise, can do no harm. Hearst
opposition is weak and carries no
weight. With these exceptions and the
few struggling state delegations that
are bolstering local favorite sons and
are only for them until after the first
ballot, Parker has the entire conven-
ticn right now A little further noisy
opposition appeared today when there
arrived 25 delegates chosen by Cooper
union, of New YORK, to oppose the
nomination of Parker before the con-
Vention, where one of the delegates
told me the fight would be carried.
They wore green badges with the fol-
lowing legend: "Anti-Parker Protest
ing Delegation, New York" asked
him why they were. against Parker, and
he said because he couldn't carry New
York, Hill, Parkers manager, having
lost the state by upwards of a hun
dred thousand and that no Hill man
could be elected. This. Of course. is
simply the Tammany fight against
Parker, or rather against Hill, and does
not take on any serious proportions
at least as yet. The Tammany train
load Of delegates arrived in town to-
night and Immediately began to cir.
f'ilate among the bunch" at the JEFF.
fe-vo1,. where they will be quartered.
Convention May Stampede.
ut want every reader who is fol-
= ing these lines to remember that
s,frI democratic national convention
IS lianle to stampede, and in fact for
: last dozen years each one has been
ring with just this spectacular prop
sition. While the Parker forces and
rkcr managers seem to have Park
~ nominated all except the Formally
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