The sun., 1904-08-28
RBRORHBRS AT R0sEIOUNT.
MARY JANE, AT SIGHT or THEM,
FLEES TO THE ONION he'd.

John II. Dos Passos Precedes the Solemn
Procession and Talks To Judge Parker
on the Precarious Condition Of the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Arrives Later.
EsoPUs, Aug. PA thick cloud OF 80
lemnity settled down upon Rosemont just
after noon to-day and left the caves and
the buildings and foliage OF the trees drip
ping with righteousness. Mary Jane, the
ordinarily aggressive lamb, hed to the
onion bed for solace, and Teddy, the white
bulldog, took one look at the cohort Of
reformers coming up the road, and hid
under the barn.
The solemn procession began with the
arrival Of John r. Dos Passos. one OF the
pillars Of the newly-formed Parker Con-
stitutional Club, composed OF Democrats
who refuse to vote for Roosevelt. When
Mr.. Dos Passos arrived his face was long
enough to eat oats out Of churT, and 1t
was thought at first that he was coming
to serve some kind Of a political death
warrant upon the candidate. 1t subse-
quently appeared that all his solicitude
was subjective, for 1t was given out at Rose
mount that he came to talk to Judge Parker
about the impending publication OF his
(Dos Passos's) views on the "unoonstitu-
tional trend" OF these days. 1t must have
been serious business, for he arrived
just after noon, and was disentangled with
difficulty In time for the 5:45 train.
The precarious condition OF the consti-
tuition had received only predatory atten-
ton of solemnities. Everett Y. Abbott,
James w. Pryor, Isaac H. Klein, Everett
Green and Charles Stewart Davidson
arrived together on the 200 train, and were
hauled over to Rosemount under the es-
tested that they didn't represent anybody
but themselves, even though most OF them
did belong to the Reform Club, the City
Club and other organizations devoted to
the rectifcation Of other people.
The certainty OF an epidemic OF mora!
indigestion at Rosemount Tomorrow was
obviated at the last moment BY the arrival
of the CHEEKY personally Of Billy Sheehan
who came to tell Judge Parker about the
certainty that the Democrats will carry
Maine and Vermont with fighting chance
sion fee to see the expression with which
Mr.. Sheehan. whose soul is already calloused
with the labor of directing the national
executive committee and OF corking UP
Tom Tagga,rt. viewed the group OF expert
tened with fine exhibit OF interest to what
Mr.. Dos Passos said in conclusion" about
the rape of the Constitution.
Then the theorists went away and Sheehan
and the candidate settled down to the dis
cussion Of the real thing-the problem Of
electing the ticket. Judge Parker hasn't
seen Mr. Sheehan since he went to Bar
Harbor two weeks ago. e,
Mr.. Sheehan tried to create the impression
that he had been only resting in New Eng
land during this last fortnight and that
the facts did not justify the reports that
he was looking into political conditions in
Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts,. May
be he told the nominee only about the rocks
and the tide and the green sea of the Maine
coast. If so, it was exhaustive, indeed;
for he stayed at Rosemount to dinner, and
he and Judge Parker talked until very late
about something of very deep interest and
concern to both.