The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-06

to stick together, beat Parker II poss'oie
| and then talk candidate
| EFFORT TO HOLD A THIRD.
This will be done. They will try to
hold to one-third of the delegates until
| the convention is well under way. and
then the floods of oratory will be turned
| loose Bryan. Cochran, Towne-these sill
ver-tongued men. superlatively skilled in
! fine frenzies and fine phrases-will en-
| deavor to prove to the delegates the error
which they say les In the choice OF Par
ker Strong debaters are upon the other
| side of the question-John Sharp Williams
! and Senator Joe Bailey. notably.
| By the way. Bailey and Bourke Cochran
| have never clashed. and it looks now as II
| the time for comparison Is at hand
| The skilled hand of David B. Hill ap-
, pears in the drift of talk for the vice
| presidency. Hill. of course. would elm
| mate Bryan II he could. and. Doubtless.
| he came to this convention undecided upon
| his policy toward the Bryan wing of the
party, desiring to sound and determine It's
strength. Whatever his conclusions are,
plainly II is not the policy of the Parker
managers to ride roush-shod over the
Bryan men either. in the matter of plat
form or of the second place ~ the { cket.
| The plan is apparently 20 hand over the
vice presidential nomination to so pro-
nounced a Bryan man :!at Mir. Bryan
may have no course whatever to cncose
and retain prestige than to Join i'll and
heartily support the ticket.
Such is the politics behind the boom for
George Turner of Washington. Turner
was bolter in 1896. He went into the
Democratic party on the silver issue and
with Teller and Dubois stays in 1t on
other issues Two years ago. in a pub
lished statement, he proclaimed his be-
lief that silver was dead as an issue and
that the gold basis under present condi-
tions affords a sufficiently elastic stand
ard Now as a former close adhefent or
Bryan, he is willing to stand upon
coinage plank, such as that in the Mis-
sissippi platform.
A general and vigorous move. which had
its source and aninus in the Iowa Hearst
supporters in the Iowa delegation, devei-
oped to combine the opposition to Parker
in support of Mayor Mcclellan Of New
York.
G.F. Rinehart of Newton. Ia. and c.
D. Huston, Mayor of Cedar Rapids said
that in case it appeared that Mr. Hearst
Iowa men would be for Mcclellan. and as
the delegation is under the unit rule it
would mean twenty-six votes for the New
York Mayor.
Mr.. Rinehart, who is the original Hearst
man, will second the publishers nomina-
ton. He expressed the opinion that. If
Parker is nominated, he will not poll
more than 100000 votes in Iowa.
Former Governor Thomas of Colorado
is authority for the statement that the
vote from that State on the first ballot
Will be four for Parker ard five for Hearst
and one for Mcclellan. After the first
ballot he said that the Hearst mel will
go to Mcclellan. The Oklahoma deeGa-
ton is divided between Hearst and Par
ker, three each. although in their fight for
statehood they have taken no radical
stand. The Oklahoma men have been
counted In the Hearst column, but when
the Territory crowd of sixty-five visitors
arrived yesterday there were some very
strong Parker men, and the complexion Of
the vote was changed.
Advocates are pushing the Mcclellan
boom with eager earnestness. 1t Is not
likely that the New York Mayor will
prove strong on the first ballot but the
above, which Is true of these several
Western States, is generally true among
the Western delegations. Mcclellan also
is strong in the South. This appears by
the announcement that Georgia's second
choice is Mcclellan. also Alabama's: and
Kentucky at its caucus last night formal
ly named Mcclellan as second in the favor
of its delegates.