The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04

from the two secretaries of the Judge, his agents of transmission
 Why the Telegram Was Sent. The fact was Judge Parker had not nt any time anticipated the result in the Committee on Resolutions, ns 1t was revealed to him on Saturday morning through the ordinary news sources and private dispatch from New York City, rehearsfng in detail the events of the sixteen hours session.
 He had supposed, prior to the meet ing of the Committed, thnt . gold standard plank would he offered and that. if opposition manifested itself. the Mississippi plank. which recognized the present standard, would, at least, he accepted. Such plank, in his judg- ment. he could stand on, holding the theories on finance he did, well known to be in favor of the gold standard. and would be properly subject to the interpretation he would put on it, for whether the reasons given in the plank as justifying the recognition of the present standard were sound or not, the fact of its recognition by the cOn- ventiOn would sufince.
 But when the events were developed as they were at St. Louis, an amrma- tive gold plank presented, . counter proposition involving reafirmatiOn of the contrary, the proposition and the counter proposition resulting In the compromise of the omission, he sasv that the situation was wholly changed, that the voting down in that Commit tee of a declaration thnt the question wRs settled and the gold standard es- abolished, and his acceptance of that action would place him in q position of entertaining views contrary to those he did and, therefore, decided it his duty to inform every element of the convention what his position was. so that, if his vieos were not satisfactory to the majority, 1t could place some one on the platform adopted whose views were.
 His conclusion reached, the dispatch was sent--a great net simply done. and done on his own Initiative with out consulting with any one whOmsO- ever and without knowledge of any, body until it was received by Cover nor sheehnn in St. Louis.
 That dispatch was received in St. Louis, not with foreknowledge, but with consternation, by those. who measuring the value of the nomina- tion of Judge Parker by the pains and labor it had required to achieve it. at first realize the greatness of the abnegation involved.
 Nor should there he failure to com- prchend that Judge Parker, In per- forming the act, did not fail to realize the possible consequence that there would he n change of candidates for the presidency and that before the ad- tournment his declinntiOu Of the nOm- ination would be presented to tke con vcntion.
 That this was present in his mind all day was known to one. at least, and yet he moved among those who came In large numbers in the afternoon and evening to congratulate him serenely, calmly, making no a1lusions to the event, but patiently awaiting knowl. edge of the effect produced by his dis patch on the convention. And that knowledge was not given him until long after midnight of July 9. He re. ceived his neighbors of Ulster who came in array of band and torchlights 10 facilitate him. compelled to talk to them on everything but his nomination, lest it might be that while he was ad dressing them he was no longer the nominee of the Democratic National Convention of 1904.
 William c. Hudson.