The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-04
HISTORY OF PARKER'S GOLD TELEGRAM.

New York, Sept. s.-The following
lean campaign text book for 1904 is
o. tomorrow:
From staff correspondent.)
Esopus, n. Y, Sept. 3.-The Repub-
lean campaign text book for 1904, is
sued by the Republican national COM
mittee, contains an attack upon the
good faith. the character and the honor
of Alton y. Parker, the Democratic
candidate for president. It devotes oil
OF ten pages TO what 1t calls the st
LOuis-Esopus Episode and in the
course of its attack insinuates that the
telegram sent by Judge Parker 70 Mr..
Sheehan at st. Louis on July 9. was
prearrsnged. II calls the platform and
the telegram a Joint performance"
TO deceive the voters Of the United
States" Neither deftly nor skillfuily.
yet maliciously, IL seeks To convey the
impression that Judge Parker was a
party to a trick. and makes this point:
Then ut il O'Clock on the 9th, about
thirty hours after the committee had
taken the fatal step, about eighteen
hours after the convention had rati-
fed it. Judge Parker sent the following
telegram TO the convention, addressed
10 his friend William f. Sheehan;" 1t
seeks 10 convey the idea that prior TO
Saturday morning Judge Parker was
Informed OF all the occurrences at st.
Louis knew that reference to the gold
standard had been omitted in the plat
form, and says in these exact words
that ''it seems impossible to suppose
that Judge Parker could have failed TO
receive this information very early in
the day on Friday" The entire effort
OF the ten pages is to show that Judge
Parker had been guilty of a trick,
that his telegram was sent TO st. Louis
by Encouragement and the foreknOwl-
edge Of his friends in st. Louis.
The high character Of Judge Parker
and his widespread reputation for high
mindedness does not protect him from
this wanton attaek-an attack made in
the full knowledge that II was based on
untruth. It must fail in its purpose.
for there is no truth, even in a slight
degree in its assertions. It's only ef-
feet can be to show that those who are
responsible for the management of the
campaign of the Republican candidate
feel that blow. crushing in its effect,
had been dealt their cause by that act
of Judge Parker, which Grover Cleve-
land declared 10 be "a splendid mani
festation of honor and courage"
There could have been no ''prear-
raRgement' and no "foreknowledge,"
because the situation which called
forth the dispatch was anticipated or
foreseen by nobody prior to the assem-
bling of the convention.
The situation made by the final act
of the committee on resolutions at the
close of its sixteen hours session. was
anticipated and fOreseen by nobody in
ST. Louis or elsewhere prior TO the act
itself.
From the time of the assembling of
q I too m Int IONS Of nV
the convention had finally acted by
raufying the stand taken by Judge
Parker in dispatch to William r. Shee-
ham, by that vote OF IA to 191, Judge
Parker had no communication whatso-
ever with any leader in the convention
with any person of that convention, or
with any person in the east on any
matter which could be construed as po-
litical.
The action of the committee on res
oluuOnS on the SIh was not final and
conclusive. Before its report was made
the platform of the party it was nee
eSsary for the convention 10 approve
and adopt IL. 1t was widely known
that not one man. but several, stood
ready TO sotfer a resolution in the con-
ventiOn affirming the establishment OF
the gold standard if there should be
failure Upon the part of the commit
tee TO do so. Not until uhe afternoon
of Friday did any one. even In st.
Louis, know what the platform would
be. And what was not known ia St.
Louis could not have been known else
where.
Judge Parker did not have and
could not have had knowledge If the
events as they developed On Friday
and Friday night in St. Louis, until
about O'Clock Saturday morning,
when several reporters informed him
of lis nomination. But not until
O'Clock that morning did he learn the
history OF the money question, and
then from the morning papers which
reached him at that hour
Though Judge Parker did know that
his name would be presented to the