Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-07-09
WILL NOMINATE
! JUDGE PARKER
Democratic National Convention Con.
trOlled by Conservatives.
BRYANITES IN THE MINORITY

The prospect is that Judge Alton B
Parker, of New York, the candidate of
me conservative forces, will win han
ally Where week ago were doubt
uncertainty, sparring for position, par
teying for time. factional scheming and
manipulating to overthrow the favor
ste. is now the foregone conclusion that
The field will come in poor second
Not only does it appear unat the CON
troll of the nomination for first place
On the ticket will be in the hands of
those Democrats who were in the mi
nority in 1896 and again in 1900. but
that they will select the nominees
running mate and dominate the plat
form on which the race will be made.
In defiance of such handicaps as were
created by the ambitious friends of
German, Cleveland, Gray, Olney. Nc
Clellan and favorite sons who had fol-
1owings that has divided conservative
Democrats, this element, which ad-
vanced the claims of Democratic re-
habflltation, struggled against the
combined opposition Of Bryan, repre-
senting the ruling Democratic force in
ehe last two presidential contests, ana
William Randolph Hearst.
Throughout the week the Parker
forces received material accessions. one
candidate after another who threat
sned to sap the strength of the conser-
vatives being eliminated. until the op-
position is now confessedly' in the mi
nority and seemingly too unorganized
20 present fighting front The band
wagon seats are in such demand that
. nomination is confidently predicted
on the second ballot. and the surprise
would be small if the first was de-
cisive.
For several days Mr.. Bryan and the
hand-tied Tammany delegates opposed
10 Parker have been working TO one
snd-the defeat of Parker but they
have not moved in unison. The Tam
many delegates are listed as conserva-
lives and the Bryan forces as radicals.
and in consequence their team work
has been poor.
The Parker opposition was disturb
cd. but not routed, by the action of
Pennsylvania The 6S votes of that
state have been for weeks placed in
the Parker column, and are a part OF
the 800 odd votes that have been
claimed for him. They were not in
structed, however, and If they could
have been secured for any other can
didate it would have beer a serious
blow TO the Parker interests
Criticism Of the action OF Pennsvl-
vania has been free and harsh among
some OF the anti-Parker men. but 9TH
ers say that proposition made by one
or the Pennsylvania leaders is quite
fair. IL is stated that after the action
oil the Pennsylvania delegation mem
Der OF the delegation held a conference
with some OF the anu-Parl1er leaders
and said that Pennsylvania. notwith-
standing the endorsement OF Parker.
would give 6S votes TO any eastern cam
didate-with the exception of Hearst
upon whom the opposition could con
centrate with enough pledged votes
which, together with the 6S votes OF
Pennsylvania, would make two votes
more than one-third of the convention.
Among the candidates named who
would be satisfactory were: Pattison.
OF Pennsylvania; German, of Mary
land; Gray, of Delaware: Harmon. of
Ohio; Olney. of Massachusetts, and
Coler, Of New York.
Upon this proposition some of the
hni-Parker men have been working.
but they have not been meeting with
much success.
Cohesion of the anti-Parker men is
apparently impossible Hearst cannot
transfer his delegates, and his sup
porterS cannot promise the instructed
and pledged Hearst men for any man
after Hearst is out of the running
Massachusetts will give no Indication
or pledge of her delegates beyond Oh
ney. The same is true of Wall in Wis
eonsin, Harmon in Ohio and CockreIl
In Missouri, although it is supposed
that Missouri would go to German
should there be an opportunity. The
German men in West Virginia. Mary
land and Ine District of Columbia pre-
Ter Parker TO uncertainty and are
Chatting under the restraint imposed
upon them by the venerable Henry G
Davis, who clings to the hope that
something may turn up favorable to
German.
Upon slender threads of various
kinds the Parker opposition has hung
It's hopes, while the Parker men have
been moving forward, with calm assur-
ance, to other matters connected with
the convention. Former Senator Smith.
OF New Jersey, who has been holding
MS delegation in the leash while it was !
anxious to go to Parker, said that Par |
ker would be nominated unless the dis
agreement over the platform should |
drive some state delegations from New
York's candidate.
A story was current that David B |
Hill, flushed with the fruits of victory.
would undertake to force upon the on
position platform so radical that /
some Of the southern delegations would
break away from New York's candi-
cate. But the illusion was dispeIled. 1t
was learned that Hill would not be
chairman of the resolutions committee.
out that John A. Mcmahon, of Ohio.
or Senator Bailey, of Texas, would be
chairman OF the resolutions commit
tee, and that Bailey had been selected '
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