The San Francisco call., 1904-06-21
WI. Bryan, Principal Speak
er of Political Enemies of
Jurist, Attacks ''ReOrgani-
zers" and Their Nominee
REFUSES TO NAME
FAVORITE CANDIDATE
Dissatisfied Democrats Adopt
aPlatform i'll Which Judge
Is Referred To as the Candi-
date of Tariff Beneficiaries

NEW YORK, June 20.-Cooper Union
was crowded tonight at the anti
Parker convention called by some of
those who do not concur in the Parker
instructions given at the New York
State convention. w. ]. Bryan was the
principal speaker and when he ap
peared on the platform was enthusi-
astically applauded. Before making
his address he said he would not name
his favorite candidate for President,
but he made a savage attack on the
'reorganizers' and vigorously opposed
the nomination of Judge Parker, who
was held up as the candidate of the
corporations and not of the people.
Judge Samuel Seabury of the City
Court, who presided, spoke of Parker
as the candidate of the "plutocracy."
He advised the meeting to repudiate
Parker and urged the sending of a del
egation to st. Louis to protest against
his nomination and to assure the con-
vention that if nominated Parker could
not carry the State of New York.
ADOPT PLATFORM.
The platform adopted at the meeting
opens by condemning the expansion
policy of the Republican administra-
tion In speaking of the recent Demo
cratic convention, the platform recites
that the convention instructed for Par
ker by a vote of 301 to 149 and that
many of those who voted against this
resolution of instruction represented
the Democratic districts of the State
where enthusiastic support of the nom
inee is essential to party success. The
platform goes on to say that Parker's
candidacy is discredited by the char
acter of his sponsors and that neither
he nor those who spoke for him have
presented his candidacy so as to de-
serve success. The platform continues:
Judge Parker is silent. Senator Hill
speaks for him. We know Senator
| Hills record. As Governor of the State
of New York he blocked the secret bal
lot. AS Senator he opposed his party's
position on the tariff and income tax.
J The people of New York expressed
their opposition of Senator Hill when
he was beaten for the office of Govern
or in 1894 by 156,000 votes. Neither
harmony, confidence nor success can
now follow his discredited leadership"
The platform continues by saying
that Parker was elected Chief Justice
of New York in 1898 because the name
of his opponent did not appear on the
ballot of the Citizens Union in New
York City, and then says:
Judge Parker is the candidate of
tariff benehciaries, imperialists, mo-
nopolists and those who profit by spe-
cial privileges and seek to uphold them
as vested rights.
THE present issue is whether the
beneficiaries of special privileges shall
control the Government or whether 1t
shall be administered for the protection
of the rights of all the people"
BELMONT DENOUNCED.
The party should refuse to follow the
leadership of such men as August Bel
mont, declare the resolutions, adding
that the Albany platform failed to
make a single issue with Republican
policies, contained no denunciation of
President Roosevelt's usurpation of
power" no reference to the breach of
faith with Colombia, no opposition to
the government of colonies by this re-
public and no condemnation of monop-
ohes in private hands. The platform
adopted tonight denounces protection
of monopoly by tariff and concludes:
BE it resolved, That d committee of
twenty-five, of which the chairman
shall be one, be appointed by the chair
to present this protest to the st. Louis
convention"
In the course of the resolutions this
declaration is made as to a candidate:
"The candidate of the Democratic
party must be a man who has stated
his principles and can be trusted to
apply them with firmness and cour-
age"