Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-07-08
FRIENDS or JUDGE PARKER SAY
He WILL. BE NOMINATED :
BY DEMOCRATS.
Opposition Is. AT SEA, BEING IN.
ABLE TO AGREE ON ANY
' ONE CANDIDATE.
PENNSYLVANIA DELEGATION DE-
cIDEs TO VOTE AS A UNIT
FOR NEW YORKER.

st. Louis, July y.-Parker on the
second ballot, perhaps on the first
That is now the claim Of the men
who are in charge of the political af.
fairs of the New York candidate. All
day long the Parker opponents have
tried to perfect programme which
would prolong the balloting and afford
an opportunity to name another con-
didate, but apparently they have not
succeeded. Many combinations have
been suggested, but so far they seem
to have proven incapable of being as
sembled into shape sufficiently sub
stantial to show the Independent and
uninstructed delegates how another
candidate can be named. Men who
are supposed to hold the balance of
power have asked the Parker oppo.
nents to say what would be done after
Parker had been put out of the race,
but they say they as yet have received
no satisfactory answer.
The keystone of the anti-Parker
arch fell last night and the delegation
of Pennsylvania, by vote of fifty-sev-
en- to five, six not voting, decided to
cast it's slxty-eight votes as a unit for
Judge Parker on the first ballot. This
seems to be the beginning of the end.
German, Gray and Cleveland have
been suggested. But no man is pre-
pared to give assurances that either
could receive the nomination. The
mention of Cleveland has a tendency
in some quarters to solidify the Par
ker strength, for many delegates say
they do not want to take even the
slightest chance of allowing Cleveland
a fourth nomination.
German Boom Too Late.
While there is a friendly feeling for
German among the Southern dele
gates, including those who are under
instructions or bound by the unit rule
to vote for Parker, yet the-predom-
inant expression from this element is
that the effort now making in behalf
of the Maryland senator is too late.
They also point to the fact that when
delegates were being chosen German
gave no sign that he desired the NOM
tnation. It is too much to expect,
they say. that delegates who were
chosen as Parker men, whether under
instructions or not, will desert him
now or as long as there is a POSSIBLE
ity of securing his nomination.
The opposition to Judge Parker in
its effort to tighten the lines and make
sure Of holding the delegations now
counted as opposed to him, brought out
two new candidates in the persons Of
Former Governor Pattison of Pennsyl-
vania and General Miles. The opposf-
ton leaders appreciate to the utmost
the difficulty of preventing stampede
to Parker should his lead become pro-
nouncedly manifest; but they are
counting upon doing this by appeal
ing to the local pride of the different
favorite son delegations to hold on as
long as possible, . y
No announcement has bean given
out from Senator German, but his posi-
ton as a conditional candidate has,
however, become so we'll known that
no formal statement from him is me-
cessary. His friends still expect to
press his candidacy II Parker fails of
success, and in the meantime they will
do all they, can to bring about such a
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