The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-07-18
AM INCIDENT IN A RECENT NEW
YORK CAMPAIGN is
RECALLED.
Letter Written by Parker IN 1897 is
Acknowledgements Demo-
cratic Nominees.

Wesley Games OF IenHe99ee' 'uuSo
parker's telegram to the national dem
ocrat convention last Saturday relative
not the first time that the democratic
nominee for president has made a stand
as to his views on the money question.
During the campaign when he was
candidate for judge of the New York
court of appeals and the question was
raised as to his party record, he said:
Il will write a letter for publication,
on one condition. stating | voted for
Bryan, but it must be published in the
press. because the gold committee
meets soon to indOrse me for the judge
ship nomination. l want the commit
tee to know beforehand how l voted in
1896. won't sail under false colors."
In speaking of the incident Congress-
man Gaines said:
The letter was then and there writ
ten to Elliott DanfOrth, who was
among the inquisitors. He gave the
letter, as he told me, to the New York
Press. This Judge Parker also told
me. Mr. Danforth in Washington re-
Gently told me he had this letter in
his possession. This is its text. omit
ting the address, the date September
2, 1897:
My Dear Danforth: 1t was entire
ly right for you to bring to my atten-
ton a question which the sincere
friends of Mr.. Bryan are pressing up
on you. l can frankly and sincerely
say to you that l voted for the last ma
tional nominee of the democratic party,
as | have voted for all the regular dem
ocratic nominees since | had a vote
The gold committee next day met
and indorsed Judge Parker. To me
Judge Parker said, as | recall: Sew
eral members of this committee met
me afterwards ana asked why l didn't
wait until they had Endorsed me before
wanted them to know the fact before
they acted.
Judge Parker's telegram to Mr..
Sheehan was prompted by the same
manly, frank spirit which impeled the
Elliott Danforth letter.
Always Party Man.
Parker we all know, was and is a
gold man-but always a party man.
The original St. Louis platform was
silent on this question. Many sup
ported, and will support, Parker be-
cause he is and has been and will be
a gold man. Others have supported
him, knowing that the money question
is not party issue in this campaign,
full as it is of other vital issues.
His gold supporters might suspect
Parker of wavering in his gold views
of our platform. To remove this sus-
picion, to show that he had nothing to
do with framing the platform on this
point, to make himself fully known to
all men, and particularly to the con-
Vention before its deliberations were
finished, he felt it his duty to send the
telegram to Sheehan.
1t stamps him manly, honest. frank
and open, a man who would rather
maintain his good name and preserve
his own peace of conscience than be
president of the United States. how
ever alluring the party honor and how
ever tempting the political opportunity.
I believe we have a ticket that will
win. Former Senator Davis is a
southern man. He is a self-made man
at the head of large affairs. When
number of Judge Parker's friends.
looking for southern man for the sec
ond place on the ticket. it was not un-
natural that such a man as Henry G.
Davis should be thought of His NOM
NATION assures the return of West Vir-
sinia to the democratic column of
states, along with the gain of most of
the congressional districts"
l think the force of the nominations
will grow from day to day in popular
lty. | think likewise of the platform
Judge Parker will soon be we'll known
by the masses who read and think. and
am we'll satisfied. most favorablv. A
pam. earnest man, honest, manly.
patriotic, his life and party record can
not fail highly to commend him every
where.
The more he is seen and known the
more he must grow in popular esteem
he is robust, very much alive red