The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-24
TALK OF A DARK HORSE Enemies of Parker Are Ac-
 tive. ALL. TO BEAT THE JURIST The Other Boomlets Will Be
 ADalgamated. Tcwne One of the Chief Opponents of the New York Judge Despite
 His Instructions to Vote
 For Him. .
ALL TO BEAT THE JURIST
Advertiser Bureau. Colorado Building,

WasninEton, May 3.
 There has been more dark horse talk with reference to the outcome of the st Louis convention within the past few days than at any time since the New Fork Democratic State convention gave decisive instructions for Judge Parker.
 Since that time, emissaries of Tam many have been busy here and elsewhere disparaging the, candidacy of the New York jurist. One of the most persistent knockers'i as the saying is. has been former Senator Charles " Towne who ia under instruction as a delegate from Tammany to vote for Judge Parker.
 Towne has several times while in Washington been heatedly reminded by Parkernien of his disregard of his obllga- Hons under the instructions.
 Jones Another One.
 Chairman James K. Jones. who has aii along evinced decided aversion to anything like reorganization of the party ls another of the dark horse touters. He said before he left Washington last night that 1t looked to him very much like a dark horse. The German contingent Is landing encouragement to the dark horse idea. as tending to distract at- fention from the Parker movement with the hope that uninstructed delegations wili be susceptible to the superior politi- cal biandishfnent of the Maryland Sen ator in a possible tie up at St. Louis. There Is also some talk about Folk and much remark is made of the fact that Tom Johnson has come out for the strenuous young St. Louis poodle smashef.
 Efforts are making also in behalf of Mayor Mcclellan and the Tammany ex- ploiters are laying stress upon the 4t.. holding the lid on,
 Along with all this apparent discre- sion and division Of sentiment. there has again arisen talk of Grover Cleveland as x f only winning solution.
 Parker Mon Keeping Quiet.
 Meanwhile. the Parker Democrats are emulating the conduct Of their favorite and are doing no talking for publication. They have welcomed the sentiment ex- pressed by John Sharp Williams in his recent speech before the Mississippi Press Association that Judge Parker was a statesman who knew how to stay at homo at this time, and keep his mouth shut. They are expected that all the dark horse talk and the favorite son dls- play will wear itself out in good time before the St. Louis convention.
 The Parker men expect to start into the convention with the solid Eastern and Southern and most of the middle West vote, demonstrating so powerful a lead as to make opposition absurd.
 Meanwhile, the now very generally frazzled out Hearst bow will be used in all of it's fragments to promote any thing to beat Parker It is to the Par ker movement that the Hearst people ascribe their discomforture They have been told by the Gormanites and every other element everse to Parker that there was no real. sincere, partiality for Par ker in the Southern and other States, but that his name was merely used as a means to defeat aggressive Hearst ef- forts for instruction.
 All to Beat Parker.
 The Hearst people here who are in close touch with the object of the devo- tion, who has been much detained in Washington on account of the recent birth In his family. have for some weeks been pretty free and frank in their decla- ratlons that if it was not Hearst for the nomination 1t should not be Parker. They have now about given up all hope of landing their man and are indus triously turning their attention-to join ing the Tammanyites the Gormanites and others fin belaboring the Parker senti- ment.
 Meanwhile, again the Parken men are assuming If not really feeling a quiescent serenity and awaiting with some con- fidence the action of the Alabaam and Tennessee conventions to meet on Wednesday next. R. H. Watkins.