New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-11
JrDGE PARKER WAITING.
NO WORD FROJl ST. LOUIS.
StW officially in the DARK on Con-
ucntiOn's Action.
fny TELEGRAPH TO THE rR1BUsE-l

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determined. marked the attitude Of Chief Judge
Parker to-day. and not n syllable Of significance
Was TO be gathered from the few words ne
uttered to the reporters. Having broken his
silence by the sensational dispatch, he once
more reiapsed into his customary quietude NOT
even on the subject of his running mate ex-
Senator Davis, would he speak. He admitted re-
csivirg q number OF new congratu!atory teIe-
graph dispatches, and said that some Of them
commended his gold declaration, but he refused
20 give them oUt.
some o. them," he said. "are apparently
written on the basis of the fraudulent Carmack
dispatch, which did rot write, and 90 not pe-
uaye ought to give them"
Bat far more interesting than the dispatches
rao.,~ed are those still missing. No word of
generalization has come from ex-President
cleveland, W. J. Bryan, ". T. Hearst or Charles
= Murphy No little comment was excited by
,ra absence Of a word of congratulation from
these influential members Of the party
rrba s,u story Of the sending Of the momen-
-. +o1Arranh dispatch came out here to-day.
A. Tba Tribune announced this morning. the
,,.,,.s NJ the omission o. the god plank by the
convention did rot reach Judge Parker untii
ofrer that OF :he nomination THIS news came
IN the morning newspapers. obviously eX-
Senator Hi ard ex-IAeutena1t Governor Shee-
han kept the news as far away as possible
<.r..ao,rc tna effect uron !heir candidate. II
z-a3 fully 10 O'Clock when Judge Parker had
emil, digested the news and editorial announce
,,erte and comment. and then ne look brief
horseback ride alone, to think The question over
7,o,,n+Iv On his return he f7rote out the dis
patch.
The precautions taken in sending Judge
Ta-ker's message, botn 20 keep Il secret and 10
verify its authenticity before 1t was delivered,
constitute a remarkable chapter in the story
of this extraordinary political incident. Judge
Parker's coachman took the original mes
sage 10 the West Shore station At Esopus at
II 30 Yesterday and delivered it TO the Western
Union operator there with impressive caution
as to secrecy. The message was addressed to
William F. Sheehsn at the jefferson Hotel, st.
Louis. Very soon after it had been sent the su-
perintendent Of the Western Union Telegraph
Company in New-York called up the Esopus
operator and required him personally To verify
the original telegram by visit 10 Judge Parker
himself, The delivery Of the message in st.
Louis it appears, was being delayed until the
authenticity of the dispatch could he proved be
yond question The operator called up Judge
Parker's house on the telephone and insisted
upon talking with the judge himself Cwhose
voice he recognized). and told him of the stua-
tion. At Judge ParkeT's request the operator
read the message 10 the judge, and upon the lat
ter's assurance that it was all right, st. Louis
received word 10 deliver it to Mr.. sheehan.
SUPPRESSED EXCITEMENT APPARENT
With the sending of this dispatch the calm
and tranquil air Of Rosemount was entirely ban
ished. Instead Of this, suppressed excitement
was apparent. Satisfied that he would be nomi-
mated, the judge had retired early on the even
iHg Of the nomination, but until long after >
O'Clock this morning re sat beside the telephone
listening 10 the news If the effect Of his bomb
she'll As told in to-dar's Tribune JohnkI3. Nc
Donald, the representative Of August Belmont
arrived late in the afternoon and he and judge
Ierker began a long and ernest conference.
The arrival o9 the villagers and the celebration
o. he Eson1s reighbors failed 20 divert the
candidate from his anxious watch Together
"ith Mr Mcdonald ne sat uutil after O'Clock.
then Went 70 bed, weary but satisfied The tele.
graph cispatch of the convention was repeated
Ger TIE telephone br The Associated Press. but
re message did not come. In fact, it has not
>et reached Roscmount.
The pac!dity with which the Judge has.
awaited The action OF the convention on the
domination and the agitation that followed The
s~dd@n and unexpected developments IN the
monetary plank made 81 evident that for many
"eeAs me judge has been thoroughly satisfied
;hat he Houl1 be nominated. and that the
firaase calm that astonished all who saw him
vas III reality merely well founded conclusion
mat re had arrived at after weighing the stu
alton with judicial calInness. This broke down
'aSt nighJ and even the villagers noted the air
OF suppressed excitement that marked the non
eo2-Iittal speech with which he received their
congratulations.
The ed Of this address was followed by
. fPfe Yrr
- the same time all operators in the railroad
station we've stopped In sending press dispatches
70 take two hundred dispatches addressed 20 the
candidate. Moreover. the fact chat on an occasion
ita1ght with The greatest possible consequence
the chief judge turned not 20 ex-senator Iill,
his chief supporter. but To ex-Lieutenant Gov
srnor Sheehan, is believed here to indicate that
the controlling force iE the canvass in this State
VIII not be David T. Hiil.
JUDGE PARKER GOES TO CHURCH
Cf the days happenings az Esopus it may be
said that they were absolutely identical with
the customary routine. that the morning
swim omitted. Judge Parker attended SER
vice this morning ct the Mission Church Of the
Holy Cross, in Kingston. he vas accompanied
By Mrs. Parker and Mrs. Howard Osterhoudt OF
Juca. who IS visiting Mrs Parker. The Rev.
Charles Mercer Hall, Judge Pa~ker's son-in-law.
attended the 81. Louis convention, and In his alb
sence The Rev. Edward ]. Cooper rector of the
Church OF g. John the Divine. at Hasbrouck
Heights, -. j.. conducted the services. His text
was from Corinthians, xiii. /: Though l speak
with the tongues OF men and Of angels, and have
not charity, 1 am become az sounding brass or
unkiing cymbal.' Nothing in the rector's ser
mon was Of political significance, although the
silence IF the Democratic candidate received
apparent conInendation in the following SEN
fence: IT is not the eloquence I'm life that speaks