Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-28
HARMON AND HARMONY
Slogan of Ohio Democrats at
st. Louis Convention.
GORMAN BOOM GROWING
MARYLAND MAY BENEFIT
THROUGH HEARsT's AMBITION.
Anybody's Fight UP to This Hour,
but Factions Are Gathering Forces
for Confict-Bryan's Following.

If any doubt has existed in the mind of
any one as to the nature of the proceedings
in the st. Louis democratic convention
it is rapidly being dispelled. AS the
time for the convention draws near 1t be-
comes more and more evident there will be
general scramble among the score Of can
dldates for presidential honors. Whether
this scramble will result in the selection of
one Of the men now regarded as leading in
the race for the nomination or will bring
to the front a candidate little considered In
the estimates OF the President makers Is
guessing match in which all can take part
with about equal chances of success
There iE every indication that all the can
didates will have their headquarters estab-
lished IN ST. Louis at a very early date.
Before the end of the week they will be at
work in such a way as to gather in the
stray delegates who may reach the conven-
ton city early. The democratic national
committee will be bus! settling disputes
that will come before 1t in the work pre-
Eminary to the meeting of the convention.
The Parker forces have been very appar-
emily disappointed in the failure of their
candidate to secure pledges of only half the
votes necessary for his nomination.
They claim that after several votes have
been taken and other candidates compli-
mented by the support of their home dele
cations there will be stampede to the
standard of the New York jurist.
On the other hand. outside of the Parker
fold the nomination is regarded as any
body's fight. Mr.. Bryan will shortly he in
st. Louis, and will have an enthusiastic fol-
lowing. The middle of the road men who
are determined to kill off every boom tinged
with conservatism will be back of Mr..
Bryan and to a very large extent will fol-
low his dictation.
The Parker men also will have a very Sc
we're opposition among that element of the
party which will want German. There has
been much activity in the German camp,
and plans are being concocted there which
may bring about unexpected results. The
secret meeting here yesterday of Col. j. M.
Gufey, William Brennan of Pennsylvania,
former Senator Smith of New Jersey John
r. Mclean Of Ohio and Senator German is
understood to have been in the interest of
Senator German. Mr.. Germans friends
claim that he has the sympathy of an
enormous number of delegates who will go
and that after a few votes have been taken
and the time comes for a scattering of the
delegates to different candidates. Mr.. Cor
man will develop great strength.
The fact that 1t will be anybodys fight
has given encouragement to many candi-
dates who have friends who claim genius
for political intrigue. All sorts of combi-
nations are being discussed as possible in
the general mix up at st. Louis. The Hearst
people are counting on the personal popu-
larity of Mr.. Bryan with his midde-of-the-
ROAD followers TO Sen0 a tremendous
amount of support to him. The scant Cleve-
land brigade look hopefully to Parker, in
the event that the New York jurist should
get tied up In a tangle of opposition which
cannot be overcome to deliver his strength
to Mr.. Cleveland
Judge Gray of Delaware has no sooner
been indorsed by Mr.. Cleveland than he Is
heard from. declaring that he is for Cleve-
land first and Parker afterward. Olney of
Massachusetts. Cockrell of Missouri, Wall
OF Wisconsin. Pattison of Pennsylvania,
Mcclellan of New York. Harmon of Ohio,
Folk of Missouri are all occupying inter-
esting positions in the background. An
Indication of the feeling that exists gem
orally among democrats is shown by the
fact that few of the candidates have had
anything to say about not being candidates
a; ALL
The feeling is general that lightning
might strike almost anywhere at the con-
vention next week, and men who have
any backing at all feel very comfortable
to keep within view of the delegates and
to have their names occupy as prominent
a place possible in case the nomination
should come within their reach.
The secret of the hope of candidates with
little backing at this time Is in the ami
mosities which may be stirred up among
the big fellows and nurtured in such way
as to make impossible the choice of any
Of the leaders.
The opposition known to exist between
Hearst and Parker is supposed to be of
immense Importance to all the other can
d1dateS, ana Mr.. dorman S frlendS expect
to reap a great reward by this clashing
of ambition between the two New Workers.
There a large number of delegates
who would like to get on the band wagon
of the successful candidate and the Parker
managers are doing all they can to i'm
press that class of the delegates with the
knowledge that their strength is beyond
question.
Private advices from Cincinnati are to the
effect that the democrats are pushing the
JudSOn Harmon boom so vigorously that 1t
promises now to eclipse the Colonel Kill
bourne movement. There will be Harmon
headquarters at ST Louis next week, and
Harlan Cleveland, who was United States
district attorney under the last Cleveland
administration, will present his name to the
convention, unless by the time the conven-
ton opens the nomination of Judge Parker
or some other man on the first ballot is in
dicated. The cry of Harmon and Har-
mony' will be heard from Ohio democrats
at ST. Louis next week.