The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-08
LEADERS EXPECT
 ID FINISH TODAY Parker's Friends Think One
 Ballot is Enough ANTS HAVE LITTLE HOPE Insertion of Gold Plank in the Plat form May Cause Some Delegates
 to BaIk-Talk of Vice
 Presidency.
ANTS HAVE LITTLE HOPE

St, Louis, July 7-Before tomorrow night the democratic convention will have adopted platform. nominated candidates for President and vice president and ad- journed sine die If the programme of the leaders can be carried out The Parker men are now talking of securing his nomination on the first ballot but they do not anticipate that more than two ballots at the outside will be necessary.
 The vote today on the Illinois case was the test, and favorable to Parker. There were 946 votes cast of the 1000 votes in the convention, the 54 of Illinois being withheld. The negative vote on Mr.. Bry- ans minority report was 647 which is 20 votes short of the necessary two-thirds to nominate. 1t represented with some ex- captions the Parker strength. although 1t has in it also some of the oppostion in- cluding the 32 votes of Massachusetts.
 At the same time there were cast on the other side IS votes of South Carolina, and 26 of Kentucky and 21 votes of Louisi- ana, making total of 62 votes from states that have declared for Parker. De- ducting the S2 votes of Massachusetts and adding the 62 votes gives d total of 6T votes which may be classed as Par ker and with some exceptions from the smaller states which did not vote Par ker or anti-Parker on the contest case It woudl seem likely that these few votes would be balanced by those who voted in the affirmative today and are likely to vote for Parker tomorrow.
 Illinois May Go to Parker.
 But in addition to the GIT votes &C., counted for there are 54 in Illinois that are ready to come to Parker when he needs them There was a report tonight that the Illinois delegation, under instruc- tions for Hearst, may feel that they no longer are obliged to vote for him be- cause the Hearst men all joined in an effort to unseat them.
 This was emphatically denied by Chair man Hopkins. At all events 1t would seem that Illinois is in a position to make ParlSers nomination sure even if some votes cast that were in the negative col umn should be cast for other candidates for President.
 The anti-ParlSer men are building some hopes on the action of the subcommittee on platform in adopting a gold standard and asserting that some of the southern states instructed or pledged for Parker will defeat him if the convention adopts the gold standard plank. Among the states named in this connection are South Carolina. Kentucky, Mississippi and Tex as This Is the only apparent hope the anti-Parker men have tonight
 The Vice-PresidentiaI Outlook.
 With the end of the convention in sight, there is still a chaotic condition in regard to the vice presidency and the outlook is that a large number of can didates will be voted for and perhaps several ballots taken before any one is chosen. Among those whose names are connected with the second place are David R. Francis and Governor Dockery of Mis- sour: John w. Kern of Indiana: James R. Williams of Illinois; Senator John w. Daniel of Virginia; Charles B. Aycock of North Carolina and George Turner of Washington. Quite an effort has been made to concentrate on Francis and the same effort for Kern. The Carolinas are for Aycock and the Virginia delegation tonight secured the consent of Senator Daniel for the presentation of his name. Conferences on this subject were held late in the night and probably will con- tinue during the convention hours to- morrow.