Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-07-20
The parker Chronology.

In 1886 and 1900 Judge Parker voted
for Bryan and free silver.
The democratic state convention
held at Albany, April is, 1904, in
struoted the New York delegates to
support Judge Parker's candidacy for
the presidency. 1t adopted unani-
mously platform which contained
ten planks, including a demand for
reasonable revision Of the tariff. On
the question of the gold standard it
was silent. The platform had Judge
Parker's approval in advance.
For two months and twenty days,
the candidate stood on that platform
and said nothing, while his friends
hustled for delegates.
On the morning of Friday, July 8,
the resolutions committee of the
democratic national convention agreed
unanimously, after sixteen hours
wrangle, on platform which omitted
all reference to the gold standard.
Dispatches received at Esopus dur
ing the day and evening contained
this information, and brought the news
that the convention had adopted the
platform as reported from the COM
mittee.
Judge Parker remained silent.
Judge Parker was nominated on the
morning of Saturday, July 9. In pre-
senting his name to the convention,
Mr.. Littleton referred to him as a man
whose "policy viii be that policy
which finds expression in the platform
of his party.
Norman e. Mack, the New York
member OF the democratic national
committee, and one of Judge Parker's
supporters at st. Louis, made state
ment over his own signature on Friday
morning, after the nomination, as fol-
lows:
"The real simple trdth of the failure to put
gold plank IN the platform Is this IL would
have resulted in minority report being pre-
scented to the convention. and II that had been
done VIC woub have been beaten and Judge
Parker would not have been nominated"
On Saturday morning, July 9, the
two leading eastern democratic news
papers, the New York Times, the New
York World, and the New York Sun,
assistant democratic, contained edi-
torials hercely denouncing the cow
ardice of the convention, demanding
that the candidate should make known
his position in regard to the gold
standard, predicting Parker's defeat,
unless this was done, and threatening
to bolt the ticket.
After reading these editorials Judge
Parker, according TO a statement given
out at Esopus, sent the dispatch to Mr..
Sheehan. 1t was then too late for the
convention to name any other candi-
date.
Four years ago at the Kansas City
convention, when Mr.. Bryan was the
candidate for nomination, the resolu-
tions committee was sharply divided
upon the question of excluding the
money plank.
"Instead of waiting until after the
platform had been adopted and the
nomination OF himself had been
made" says the Springfield Rspub-
liedn, "Mr. Bryan promptly sent word
to the convention before any action
whatever had been taken, that he
must not be considered candidate
for the nomination in case the money
question were ignored in the resolu-
ton. That was straightforward, and
it was dealing fairly with all wings
and branches of the democratic
party"
at is a manly thing" said Mr.. Bryan
in his speech at ST. Louis, after the
reading OF Judge Parker's dispatch,
''for man 10 express his opinion be-
fore the convention adjourns. 1t
would have been manlier to have ex-
pressed il before the convention met. {"