The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-28

New York situation is a grave peril
to the Parker candidacy. His friends
here recognize it, but are powerless.
They have seen state after state elect,
ing delegates to the st. Louis cOnven-.
ton and withholding Instructions
They recognize that if this continues,
1t will probably mean the defeat of
their candidate.
Already it means that the majority.
of the delegates perhaps two-thirds
of then-altho perhaps for Parker at
heart, will be ready on call to vote
for some man who can command the
support of Tammany.
New York is a democratic necessi-
ty this year, no matter how the stu
alton is figured. They must carry it
to elect their candidate. Why, then,
the enthusiasm of the only force in
the state which can make demo-
cratic victory possible?
This is the question which the Par
kerites find much difficulty in an
swering. At the same time, the feud
has reached such proportions as to
suggest the possibility that Hill and
didate who, at Tammany's ,behest,
snatches the prize away from Parker.
i Tammany makes light Of this talk,
but it is worthy Of serious considera-
ton. The Hill forces can perhaps
control from $4,000 to $4,000 upstate
democratic votes, or more than
enough to have changed the result
in any democratic year the state has
had for a generation, save when
Cleveland ranafor governor and again
for president.
All of which points to the wisdom
of nominating a dark horse at st.
Louisa man recommended by
neither Hill nor Murphy, and whom
both can therefore support. The
quietly working to that end, notWith-
standing the loose talk of such men as
Tom Taggart that Parker must and
will be nominated, and that work ex-
plains the large number Of unin-
structed delegates.
If prediction were in order, the
st. Louis convention situation might,
with reservations here and there. be
sized up about as follows:
If Tammany and Hill can be got
together for Parker, Parker will be
nominated, for he is the genuine IA
vorite of the east and south, apart
from the Cleveland following in Mas
sachusetts and New Jersey.
If they cannot be got together--and
even those who are working for har-
mony do not expect to secure it
the convention leaders will turn to
some other candidate, perhaps a gem
un1ne dark horse, perhaps Grover
Cleveland or Judge Gray.
Scenes Are Shifting.
The democratic scenes have shifted
a number of times since the presiden-
tial talk began last fall, and may shift
several times more before July 6.
A first, German doomed up big in
the foreground, but his failures in the
senate early in the winter quickly
made him of no consequence in the
race. r.
Then the talk of Parker, started as
long ago as last spring, began to take
on considerable importance, which in
creased with astonishing rapidity,
reaching it's maximum at the time Of
the Albany convention, which, after a
bitter fight, instructed for him.
Since that convention the Parker
boom has been on the decline, a1tho
he is still the most conspicuous figure
in the contest. Had Tammany and
Hill pulled together, Parker's nomin-
alton would six months ago have been
as certain as Roosevelt's.
Side by side with the Parker boom
there grew up the boom OF Hearst
artifcially stimulated. It at no time
was important, aItho, in it's possibili-
ties. now happily unrealized, many
decent and patriotic men in all par
ties at first saw much tina was dis
quieting.
Tammney, while Hill was talking
Parker, was itself talking Cleveland,