New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-16
DISGUISED WITH PARKER.
Banta Says He Cannot Support
Nomination Made By T7ckery.

.T c.nro, s,,n,ort n nomination made by trick
cry said Theodore NJ. Banta, proniiiele oIe'e-
land Democrat OF Brooklyn, yesterday III 'ie
of interview simplifying his statement tiat tue
gold telegram Of Parker was a trick Which ne
made at the Brooklyn Democratic Cluo on thurs-
day as announced in The Tribune yesterday MI
Banta will not vote for Parker. he says ne Is uis-
gusted with the Democratic nominee for President
and believes his action in sending the soio teesia
after he had been nominated was despcaoie.
Banta, who IL cashier OF the New-hoih Li.e
Insurance Company. has always taken pronli-
nent part in the Brooklyn Democratic Ciub' ana Is
a personal friend Of Edward M Shepard It's
founder He thinks It might be a good thins IL
the Democratic party get good whipping ths
year The Prohibition ticket Is 10 get MS VOTE IL
he votes all. He never voted the HepuDncah
ticket in his life. Mr.. Banta says:
II cannot support nomination MADE Dy uichefS'
I am disguised with Judge Parker. whom had
hoped support a platform silent on the money
question Not only did he not show courage IN
sending his telegram. but he displayed the calcu-
lating cunning of David B. HILL 1t is the same
sort of politics which We have had SO long IN TINS
State In the Democratic organization Parker was
In the Maynard campaign, and not only dio not de-
nounce Hill and Maynard but actually supported
them I have never voted for anybody who was
concerned in that affair.
IT think Judge Parker's action despicaole he
waited until the convention was about to adjourn
before telegraphing. To whom did he send his dis
patch? To the chairman of the convention so that
IL might have been placed before IL at once? NO;
to his friends sheehan and HILL SO that it might be
held up until the nomination was beyond recall,
until the convention helpless Tilman ana
others frankly said the Saturday evening SEES
sion.
In view of this action. the act OF Mr.. Bryan IN
1900 in announcing before a nomination was mace
that If the platform was silent on silver ne was
not n candidate was distinctly courageous. Parker
waited until nomination was within his grasp
and then. in calculating way. decided that ne
would gain more from Wall Street by making TINS
announcement than he would lose elsewhere Hill S
hand was I'm that you can rely it. and no doubt
the whole thing concerted beforehand Ihere-
fore say the convention WAS imposed upon Dy d
rker-HiI trick.
az am a Gold Democrat. but I would have been
willing to support a candidate on a platform that
was silent sound money. 1 could do TINS De-
cause I know that Mr.. Bryan, IL he himself were
elected President. could not change the existing
standard. I expected to support Parker even as a
colorIess man. whom I supposed to be incapable
OF such trckery but I despise him now. / have
never voted for a Republican. and. in fact for only
who was ever elected PRESIDENT MI
Cleveland.
Mr. Cleveland would never have done this thing.
nor would Bryan. Everybody would nave kho"il
their position beforehand. There is no excuse ior
Judge Parker II he didn't know what tho plat
form was to be II was his business 10 learn The
newspapers on Friday evening printed the pat
form and the fact that the gold plank was Ter,
out What did Judge Parker do? Did he SIT down
then and there and tell the convention that II must
not nominate him such platform? Not a
word of it. He waited. and then sent the telegram
10 Sheehan TO be used at the right moment-n9t'
observe to the chairman of the convention; the
proper authority. IL play for wan street
and Wall Streets cash. But even in his dispatch
he does indicate his position but merely states
an incoDtrovertlble fact Notice that.
Mr. Lawson says that in 1886 a hurry can was
sent out by the Republicans for $4,000 IL strikes
ma that this was hurry call in advance by
Parker's managers. with the purpose of corrupt
I'm he
Senator McCarren says. after visiting Parker;
that hts candidates action is just what he would
hava done under the circumstances. OF course IL
was: that Ia his style of politics. haven noticed
that Parker has denounced Hill for his fake sur
render
II am suspicious. also that they should have
nominated an old Ike Senator Davis for
Vice President. Evidently IL was done for the
hundreds OF thousands or millions or dollars ne
would have been able to contribute. They tell
me that six Vice-Presidents have died In ofhce
all OF them men much younger than Davis, the
octogenarian They want his money for this
campaign. that Is evident"