The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-05
PENNSYLVANIA
 MIXES THINGS UP Tammany Men Consult With
 Alabama Delegates
PARKER HAS STRONG LEAD
New York Anti-Parker Men Were Greatly Surprised at Pennsylva- nia's Coming Out So Sud-
 denly for Parker.

St. Louis, July 1.-The action of Pennsyl- vania tonight in voting to abandon their favorite son and support Judge Parker almost entirely changed the situation so far as the divided sentiment in the New York delegation was concerned. Senator Hilq was led to remark that with another small accession Judge Parker would be elected on the first ballot. William F. Sheehan who has been the active leader of the Parker forces and August Belmont deprecate this and argued that 1t would be wise to allow the other states to have the honor of naming in convention their favorite candidates.
 The news was received at the Tammany headquarters in an entirely different way Leader Murphy at first refused to believe it, saying that he had been assured late this evening that the delegation would support ex-Governor Pattison. It was only a few minutes prior to ,--e announcement of Pennsyavania's vote that State Senator Thomas F. Grady had declared that Penn sylvania would vote for her favorite son, and that Tammany had planned to aban- don the effort to concentrate the anti Parker vote and would devote itself to distributing the ballots so that Parker could not obtain a two-thrds vote prior to the seventh or eighth ballot.
 Some Other Candidates.
 'In this way" said Senator Grady, I've will be able to convince the convention that 1t had better select some other candi- date, either Cleveland, Mcclellan or Gray"
 After the announcement had been made to them of Pennsylvania decision, and they had somewhat recovered from their surprise they still gave 1t as their view that there would be enough votes held by individual states not instructed for Parker or voting for individual candi- dates to prevent Mir Parker from ob- taining noninating vote on the first five or six ballots.
 Leader Murphy himself said;
 We expected Pennsylvania to have a candidate of its own, but we are not cis heartened. There are still two or three days before the nomination., and we shall continue to do active work against MT. Parker, not because we dislike him per- sonally but we know that he cannot carry New York state
 Visit Alabama Delegation.
 Bourke Cochran and some of the leaders in Tammany went over to Alabama delegation during the evening to try and persuade them to consolidate their ten anti-Parker votes. Alabama has z votes F of whom are instructed for Parker, the others being divided on several candi- dates.
 It Is understood that MT. Cochran was met with the threat by the twelve Parker adherents that if any attempt was made to consolidate the other interests, they would adopt the unit rule and cast the whole twenty-two votes for Parker. Still another rebuff to Tammany's plans came from Virginia. Tammany, assisted by Henry C.. Davis of West Virginia, had been attempting to win the Virginia dele gation away from Parker. Senator Mar tim of Virginia telegraphed Senator Hill this evening that while en route to the convention the Virginia delegation had voted unanimously to support Judge Par ker.
 Practically the campaign of the war ring factions of New York closed for the night just after Pennsylvania's decision was announced, but Tammany threatens to renew it tomorrow. The New York delegation meets at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning for the purpose of naming mem bers of the various committees.