The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-08
'PlRKER MEN CONTROL
Fair Test Vote Taken in the Illinois Contest Case and
 Results in His Favor.
HAS REQUIRED TVO-THlGDS
BRKAS's MINORITY REPoRz
 TWENTY VOTES SHORT.

Delegates Opposed to Parker Building
 Last Hopes on the Action of the Sub
 Committee on Platform Adopting
 Gold standard-Assert That Certain
 Southern States VIII Desert Him if
 the Plank is AdOpted-Uncertalnt as
 to Vice Presidency.
 St. Louis. July 7.-Before tomorrow night the democratic convention will have adopted platform, nominated candidates for president and vice-pres- ident, and adjourned sine die. if the programme of the leaders can be car ried out Parker adherents are now talking of securing his nomination on the first ballot. but they do not antici-. pate that more than two ballots at the outside will be necessary.
 The vote to-day on the Illinois case was fair test, and it was favorable to Parker. There were 946 votes cast, of the 1000 votes in the convention, the ffty-four of Illinois being withheld. The negative vote on MT. Bryan's mi nority report was 647, which is twenty votes short of the necessary two-thirds to nominate. It represented. with some exceptions, Parker's strength, although 1t has in it also some of the opposition including the thirty-two votes of Mass achusetts.
 At the same time there were cast on the other side eighteen votes of South Carolina, the twenty-six votes of Ken lucky and the eighteen votes of Louisi- ana, making a total of sixty-tWo votes from states that have declared for Par ker. Deducting the thirty-two votes of Massachusetts from the 647, and adding the sixty-two votes of Parker states. gives a total of 677 votes, which may be classed as Parker, with some excep- tions from the smaller states that did not vote for or against Parker on the contested case. It seems likely that these few votes will be balanced by those who voted in the affirmative to- day and are likely to vote for Parker tomorrow, but in addition to the 67z votes accounted for there are fifty four in Illinois that are ready to come to Parker when he needs them. There is a report tonight that the Illinois dele Ration, under instructions for Hearst, may feel that they are no longer oblig ed to vote for him because the Hearst men all joined in an effort to unseat them. At all events, it would seem that Illinois Is in a position to make Parker's nomination sure, even if some of the votes cast that were in the neg alive column should be cast for other candidates for president.
 Delegates opposed to Parker are building hopes on the action of the sub committee on platform in adopting a gold standard plank and asserting that some of the southern states instructed or pledged for Parker will desert him if the convention adopts the gold stand- ard plank Among the states named in this connection are South Carolina, Kentucky, Mississippi and Texas. This is the only apparent hope the opponents of Parker have tonight.
 With the end of the convention in sight, there is still a chaotic condition in regard to the vice-p presidency, and the outlook is that a large number Of candidates will be voted for and per haps several ballots taken before any one is chosen Among those whose names are connected with the second place are former Governor Francis and Governor Cookery, of Missouri, John w. Kern, of Indianas James R Will Hams, of Illinois, Senator Daniel, of Virginia, Governor Aycock, of North Carolina, and former Senator Turner, of Washington. Quite an effort has been made to concentrate on Francis and some effort for Kern. The Caroli- mas are for Aycock, and the Virginia helegation tonight secured the consent of Senator Daniel for the presentation of his name Conferences on this stlb- ject were held late in the night and will probably continue during the conven- I.l.