The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-17
THE NATIONAL CHAIRMAN.
Judge Parker Believed to Be Consider


Judge Parker Believed to BE Consider
ing 1t.
Esopus Special to N. Y. World.
Callers began today in earnest. When
the 1918 express from New York ar
rived Parker's carriage was waiting.
Congressman w. Bourke Cochran, Au-
gust Belmont and William 5. Rod1e
stepped from the train to the carriage.
Their coming had been unannounced
They were driven to Rosemount, where
they lunched with Judge Parker. The
carriage returned for the 2:O4 train
and took on Senator McCarren.
When everybody had gone the rumor
factory started in full blast, and mere
Is it's product:
Mr.. Belmont wants to be Chairman
of the National Committee. Mr.. Cock
ran and Senator McCarren desired to
be heard on the subject, and Senator
selection. Mr.. Cochran was less urg-
ent. but not discordant. Mr.. Cochran
came individually. not as the repre-
sentative of Mr.. Murphy and Tammany
Hall. Judge Parker listened to all they
had to say, but gave no sign.
This mornings World printed the
strong probability that the Southern
and Western leaders who have stood
by Judge Parker in the closing crit
ical moments of the Convention would
be asked to agree on one of their Sc
lection for Chairman. The plan is that
a distinguished Senator, or Governor.
or Representative should be Chairman
and conduct headquarters in New York.
where Democrats from all over the
United States should be welcome and
feel at home; that the Democratic lead
ers of the Middle West should select
one of themselves to manage from
Chicago the campaign in the Middle
Western States; that Mr.. Sheehan
should act as amicus curiae and be
the official waver of the olive branch.
In other words, that Mr.. Sheehan
should be the real manager of the
campaign, free from the routine work
and the official duties of the commit
tee Craftsmanship.
Belmont Wants 1t.
Against this policy the rumor fac
tory says todays distinguished callers
came to protest. Mr.. Belmont wants
father was Chairman years ago. Sem
ator Hanna was a Chairman twice. and
Mr.. Hanna Is dead. Now Mr. Belmont
wants to be it.
Mr.. Belmont is not enthusiastic over
Mr. Hill, and still less loving of Mr..
Sheehan. He blanfes Mr.. Sheehan for
dropping him off the list of delegates
at-large at Albany on which list he
and Senator McCarren secured him a
place and he blames Mr.. Hill for as
senting to Mr.. Sheehan's action. Mr..
Sheehan put Mr.. Belmont off because
he thought Tammany was entitled to
would not allow Mr.. Belmont to be
credited to TammanY. Mr.. Hill thought
Mr.. Sheehan's suggestion was good
politics and assented to It, as he all
ways does to anything that seems to
him good politics. regardless of any
other consideration Just what Mr..
Sheehan's position would be in the cam
paign If Mr.. Belmont's wishes are graf
flied is a question.
Many of Judge Parker's friends have
urged him to get rid of David B. Hill
and August Belmont
Judge Parker's telegram to Mr.. Shee-
han seems to have done the first half
of this. Outside of these emanations
of the rumor factory there was a good
deal of genuine news given out. Every
thing is harmonious in New York CITY.
There are no local candidates to be
elected there this fall, and everybody
is for Judge Parker. Up the State in
tho rural districts where only a sham
of Democratic organization has eX-
listed for years, there is to be a real
organization. The State Executive
Committee will meet soon and go to
work at it. The State campaign will
not wait for the State Convention, but
will begin this month.
There is more talk of Mayor McCIel-
Ian for Governor. If Charles F. Muir
ply goes about it with a reasonable
amount of tact and common sense,
Mayor McClellan's nomination is more
than probable