Arizona republican., 1904-07-06

tion who were compelled to submit 5o the will of Bryan in the last two con- ventions who are taking undisguise4 satisfaction in the fact that today they are able to dictate terms.
 All day long the anti-Parker men have tried to offer a candidate who
 woud Unite third of the delegates so as to have a &allying point when the complimentary ballots had been cast for favorite sons. The impossibiity of uniting nas been made manifest, the most jealous opponents of Parker con- cede his probable nomination not later that the second ballot.
 The Parker opposition was disturbed but not routed, by the action of the Pennsylvania delegation last night. The sixty-eight votes of that state have been for weeks placed in the Parker CO., lumn and are part of the 500 odd votes that have been claimed for him. They were not instructed, however, and if they could have been secured for any other candidate it would have been a
 serious blow to the Parker interests.
 Criticism of the actions of the Penn sylvania delegates are free and harsh among some of the anti-Parker men,
 but others say that the proposition made by one of the Pennsylvania lead
 CTS is quite fair. It is stated that after
 the action of the Pennsylvania delega-
 ton last night, members of the dele
 gation held a conference with some of
 the anti-Parker leaders and said that
 Pennsylvania notwithstanding the en-
 dorsement of Parker would give sixty
 eight votes to any eastern candidate
 with the exception of Hearst, upon
 whom the opposition would concentrate enough pledged votes which together
 with the 6S votes of Pennsylvania would make two votes more than one- third of the convention.
 The cohesion of the anti-Parker men Is apparently impossible. Hearst can not transfer his delegates and his sup po-ters cannot promise the instructed and pledged Hearst men for any man after Hearst is out of the running. Massachusetts will give no pledge of her delegates beyond Olney. The samfe is true of Wall of Wisconsin, Harmon of Ohio and Cockren of Missouri, all though it is supposed that Missouri win go to German should there be an op- portunity. The German men in West Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia prefer Parker to an uncer- tainty and are chafing under the re- strain. imposed upon them by the venerable Henry G. Davis, who clings
 to the hope that something may turn up favorable to German.
 Not the least of the efforts of the aati-Parker men has been directs d toward preventing a stampede by del l egadOns, whether bound by instruc- tiOns or oth erwise. l. is the rank and file that is pressing for wagon seats and while the anti-Parker leaders | speak disparagingly of men who are so
 anxious to be on the whining side they are aware that these delegates cannot be held together very long in the face of the compact Parker fcFcss.
 with an almost solid south lined up for l him, with New York and Pennsylvania for him, as well as votes in many other sections. It is very difficult to coa- ! vince the average delegate how Parker | can be defeated under these cond tions and he is anxious to participate in the | nomination of a successful candidate The making of the party platform 1 will he one of the most interesting con- | tests. It is certain that many persons disappointed in their ability to air | their share of authority in ticket mak- ing will take up platform discussion and advance ideas so widely diverging
 as those presented in dozens of state ! convention platforms offertI- for the
 consideration of the national conven. | tior.