The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-14
PARKER SENT NO
 x MESSAGE TO HILL
JURIST'S ONLY DESPATCH TO ST.
 LOUIS WAS ONE TO STEPHAN.
Was Surprised at Omission of Pinnk Acting Entirely on Own Initiative, He Wrote and Forwarded He- markable Telegram. Would
 Not STrck Party"
MIR. sHEEHTN's DENIAL FOR
 JUnEE DARKER.

l maFkaDhe IeleGrIm. "ouiu Not 'Trck Party" l
 MIR. sHEEHTN's DENIAL FOR JUDGE PARKER. T. Esopus, N r.. July II. I am authorized to say tath no tele- | gram was sent by Judge Parker to Senator Hill on any subject while the | latter was at St. LOUIS
 I (signed) William F. sheehan. 1 Srecial Despatch to N. Y. Herald. Esopus, N. r., Monday.-The Herald
 nay authoritatively deny: Tirst--That. Juds, Alton B. Parker | sent a despatch to David B. Hill at
 5t. LoufsAon Trjda3 demanding that Johp Sharp H'i.lsr1s's financial plank,
 as approved Dy the subcommittee or the committ.e c1 resolutons' be al | te;td.
 Seconc-Thlt Judge Alton B. Par
 ker ent to Dlv:d F Hill at St. Louis
 tele.:tAm OF q letter announcing his | position on the money question, and l that David B. Hill during the St. Louis l Convention by telegraph, telephone or l otherwise.
 | Thus the charge of treachery l brought against David B. Hill by vari-
 ous persons and newspapers falls to | the ground.
 l ThY first and only despatch sent by Judge Parker to any person in St.
 Louis during the convention defining | his position on any question at issue W-S that duOTeSSeU to w lllldH oHee-
 han or Saturday-filed in Esopus about | twt I've o'clock a"c received in St.
 Louis about three o'olock-which was as follows:
 l I regard the gold standard as firm | ly and irrevocably established, and | shall act accordingly if t.e action of l tho convention today sha!I be ratified by the people. AS the platform is silent on the subject my view should | bs made known to the convention and n hn iC n l the majority, l request you to decline the nomination for me at once. so that another may be nominated before ad- jcuInment
 "A B. Parker" Jidge arker sen, another despatch to M.. William I. Sheehan late on Saturday evening, stating that an inn porfant message had been sent earlier
 the receipt of which had not been ac
 knowledged. and asking MT. Sheehan
 whether it had been duly received.
 To this a reply was received in Escpus during the evening stating that tn" original despatch was in Mir Shee- hans hands and would be acted upon. As stated in The Herald this morn ing Judge Parker went to bed about tcl o'clock on Friday night. At that time the convention had not adopted platform, and no word had come fl om St. Louis to Esopus as to the proceedings of tte night session. First News of Platform. Judge Parker received his first news of his nomination from the reporters
 In the morning while taking his daily swim in the Hudson river. The New York newspapers had not then reach ed Esopus. When the New York pa- pers came Judge Parker received his first information as to the omission of | the gold plank. There was no oppor- tunity for consultation with political | or personal friends. and. acting en- tirely on his own initiative, he wrote ani forwarded the remarkable de-
 spe tch printed above. This despatch | was carried to the local telegraph of-
 hcc by Ava Newcom. deputy reporter | of the Court of Appeals It reached the telegraph office about twelve o'clock noon. and was sent by the ope-
 rator after some delay siueP.o the fact | Una other messages were ahead of it. When Mr. Sheehan received the | message he called on the Western | Union for proof of it's genuineness The
 chief operator at Esopus was called up by the Western Union officials and was instructed to verify the despatch beyond question. This the operator
 did and the reply was then rushed to l St Louis in recoi time
 | That night John B Mcdonald a
 ccatractor, and Judge E. w. Hatch,
 Of the New York Supreme Court, called
 on the Judge and sat wi 2 him in his
 library until about threv o'clock in | the morning.
 l serenaded the Judge. who made a IT # l speech. No news of any kind came
 to Judge Parker direct from St. Louis during the convention that day and | the only information the Judge receiv- | ed as to the progress of events, in | which he was so deeply inte' sted, was over a telephone from private sourde
 In no way connected with politics When the convention finally acted
 on the question. about two o'clock in I the morning, the news was telephoned
 from the same non-political source to
 the Judge. who made no comment. and
 soon afterward he left the house to l escort Mir. Mcdonald and Judge Hatch | to their yacht. returned and went to l bed
 It is clear, therefore. that neither
 Mir. Hill 2lor any of Judge Parker's | friends could be accused of trickery | o" the suppression of communications
 fer him. and 1t is likewise certain l tfat Judge Parker had during the | whols convention relied on the nev-s-
 Tepers and non-political sources r
 at convention in which his inter
 ests were so much at stake. Friend Explains Telegram.
 One of the closest friends of Judge
 most constantly during the last few days. told today the exact circum- stances of the sending of the famous
 despatch. He said:
 nave talked With Judge Parker
 explicitly on this po1nt. for it was plain that tbe"e w"uld be no end of
 political argument from the stump
 about it during the coming campaign.
 Judge Parker reiterated that he | standard believe for years: that he
 thought he was known to be q gold | voted for Bryan in spite of and not be-
 cause of Bryan's attitude on the money | question in 1896 and again in 1900. He thought the battle at St. Louis was to be I decisive conflict between | the conservatives and the radicals He | thought if the conservatives won there would be no question about the plat | iO' m bcnS CCLstiHCteG along cOnser- v.:tiVe lines--that Is, repudiating the
 silver heresy.
 The conservatives who were ad-
 vancing his candidacy did win. The
 Judge was the choice of more than
 two-thirds 1f the delegates. and he as
 4med that the cIat:ornN would be one l O. which there cCu!d be no question about his entire aIIIcVal as d gold l Democrat.
 Not an outline Of the platform as
 ait pted was sent t, him not even q l sII gle plank of il was known to him
 wteu the repprte:5 tolC him as he
 Clin bed out of he Hudson at seven
 o'clock in the moirlnc that he had been nominated.
 Two hours later. when he received the New YOIk newspapers and read the Tlatform thHfein he was non
 I!hsg'Q He vent fer his usual horse
 ac's ride As he fcde over the hill
 jII, rc. end tLr EscTus railroad sta
 iioa he suddenly realized his position. Ha wheeled his horsa around and gal