The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-30
HILL BURDEN TOO HEAVY FOR PARKER Candidacy of the JuristiS Being
 Injured LOOKS LIKE HILLS MAN Believed That Judge Can Win South if He Can Rid Himself of Hill
 Atmosphere-Boom is
 Progressing.
LOOKS LIKE HILLS MAN

New York. March 2s.-A special from says
 Friends of Judge Alton B. Parker of New York, who are engaged in booming
 him for the presidency are seeking to re-
 lieve him of the dead weight of David B. Hills support The impression has
 gone through the south and the west
 that Parker is Hills candidate, and this
 is having an unpleasant effect. | Judge Parker has been having a good
 run of luck lately, but his friends are learning that the argument being used against him in distant states is that he is Mir Hills man, and that if he should win the presidency he would put Hill in
 the cabinet, probably as secretary of state. This argument has gone far and
 wide, and it is hurting Parker in those localities where antagonisms of long standing have grown up against Hill. Re- cent developments in New York state have made these assertions seem even more plausible.
 It is said that Hill has seized on the
 Parker boom as a means of getting back into power. A few months ago he was almost politically bankrupt Tammany was in the ascendencX Hill had failed to appear in the campaign in New York city, and this, coming one year after the disastrous defeat of his candidate. Coler had left him almost out of consideration by democrats.
 HllI's Grasp of the Situation. It is asserted here that after the Parker movement got well started, Hill, who had vainly planned to become a candidate himself, saw that Judge Parker stood a better chance of getting the New York delegation than any one else. William F. Sheehan, August Belmont and other democrats had done great work for Par ker. Many of the former followers of William J. Bryan also got aboard the Parker wagon. Hill embarked iaso in the eleventh hour, and since then has taken
 to himself the credit for the work of others
 This Is hurting Judge Parkers candida cy mot only among the substantial sound money element of the party who are friendly to the Cleveland wing, but among the men who are willing to support any candidate to win, but who have leanings toward the Bryan element.
 I1OW DcSl lO Btl Tlu Dl lie lDcuDuS Dl Hill Is problem being considered by the supporters of Judge Parker. They say that 1t is true that Parker has always been friendly to a certain extent to Hill But they point out that Hill really pre- vented Parker's nomination for governor in 1902.
 | Hills fear at that time was that if Parker were elected governor he would | inevitably become the nominee of the dax. t- fax he Dra. candidate then himself Judge Parker knows this as well as anybody in the state of New York and the Parker men are spreading the story once more in or der to show that Parker Is not in any sense a Fill candidate, but that Hill had seized on Parker's availability in order once more to come to the front
 Interest by Members.
 Every democratin congress has become nightly interested in the New York po- litical situation. The impending smash of the Tammany- Cleveland Nc Clellan, what is 1t? Alignment is accepted here as meaning that Parker will have walk over in the state convention.
 There is also a growing feeling that in the end Parker If he can get rid of the Hill atmosphere will be accepted by the democracy of the south as the conserva- tive man for whom it is looking. Representative John Sharpe Williams of Mississippi whose leadership in the house has attracted such widespread attention, has written great many letters recently urging southern democracy to keep firm ly in view the idea of getting a man who is not welded to either the extreme Bry- an or the extreme Cleveland school
 MT. Williams refuses to declare for any particular candidate, believing that he can best aid the cause by remaining ab- solutely neutral At the same time, his influence Is being quietly exerted in the direction of stifing both the Bryan and the Cleveland arguments and having the party take the middle of the ground.
 It is freely admitted here that Parker is making headway. He is apparently doing this in spite of Hill and also in spite of Cleveland, Bryan and Hearst Some of the more important leaders who support ed Bryan in his two campaigns In states
 like Michigan, Wisconsin. Minnesota. In diana and Illinois are ready at the proper time to take position in favor of Par ker If Hill can be kept in the background