The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-22
cLrARTNc TN NEW YoRK.

Judge Patker. showed his tact and good sense in Advisins. If he did advise, the compromise agreed on at Albany as to the maKclup of the delegation to St. isou:s. There could have been no, sense In running Tammany down bexQnd the point of giving instructions to the deie-tt sctes. Tafnn-any has enjoyed for te. longest. just as district delegates to a. state Convention have everywhere ,ep- joyed. the right to name the delegates from the given district; to the National Convention: It would have been tyran-. ism and enseemdy for the Albany conyen- tion to have sent anti Tsmmany men to s. Louis as the representatives of Tam many. Tamnsany now has no grievance whatever and It is bound by every con- sideratiens of party loyalty to support Parker if he is nominated. That he win get it's cordial support we have no doubt. There issno reason that we can see to harbor such a doubt
 There is no great mystery. about Mur- rbys conduct in the fight he has lost. Hc and Hiil were engaged in a desper-
 
 ase struggle for supremacy in the Demo- cratic State machine. Murphy as the leader of the party in the city where the majorities arc polled naturally felt h. should have controlling voice. in the councils of the party in the State. Hill showed last fall that he dreaded Mur- phys possible growth in power and he made overtures to share in Mcclelian's trii mph then foreseen by him. Murphy spat on these overtures and set to work immediately to oust Hill. He could not have succeeded. if sis now, apparent even is he had not encountered a Formidable revolt across the river in Brooklyn. Hill, Jared better than he could have anticl- pated. Fortune took care of him by ad- varcing Parker's candidacy with such rapidity that it swept Hearst and his h;r ed men clean off their feet and all but enruifed Tammany besides. It is absurd though to speak of the result as tri- umph for Hill or defeat for Tammany The struggles of Murphy and Hill as in- dividuals little concern the party as whole in New York State and less stiIl in the country By asstroke of luck Hill becomes a titular leader once more. By the same stroke Murphy is relegated to the city as the proper scene of his politi- ca; activity. Judge Parker's alleged in- tertention to bring about peace shows he well recognizes that the welfare of the noIty is q higher consideration than personal victory for either Murphy or Hill. They have both been taught by t., result and we believe the election in New York will demonstrate that the par ty has been lifted to a higher plane in that State We have been unable to sec in the contest just now ended any dark ulserior motive to influence Murphy He vas not working for Cleveland, nor Mc- Clellan; he was working for his own or ganizaticn. Tn.nmany. He is not as big as he hoped 10 be; he is quite as big as he ought to be. So with Hill. He has remains the same David Bennett Hill, known we'll throughout the country. He has joined his fortunes with those of stronger and saner man in the person of Parker. The latter's first adventure fin politics on larger scale shows that he realizes that his strength does not lie in subservieRce to any individuah-subser- vience he has not-but in the widespread, universal. desire and intention of the Na- nonal Democracy to put up man as its candidate who U1yfIl Ired sobriety, strength and intelligence of his character to the sound and patriotic instincts of the people. Parker against Roosevelt, a judge against jingo, is the shape it is now taking