Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-25
For a Running Mate to Judge.
Parker.
ILLINOIS MAN WANTED
MO MATTER WHO 70 NOMINATED
By DEMOCRATS.
Deals With Two Hen in Progress
Fear Of Bryan's Balking-The
Independent Vote.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

NEW YORK, April 22, 1904.
Judge Parker's hackers want running
mate for him out west. That is. II he runs.
But If the unexpected should happen and
some one else be nominated the eastern
democrats would still look to the west for
the vice presidential candidate.
At one time the thought was Of Indiana
That has passed. Now 1t Is Illinois They
haven't got the prairie state away from
Bryan and Hearst yet but they feel sure
that they will. The Cleveland group IL
dickering with former Mayor John P. Hop
kins. He was one Of the bright young
men that Cleveland liked. The other fac
ton Is trading with present Mayor Carter
Harrison, on whom Tammany looks with
friendly eye. Mr. Hill is understood to be
laying basis for trade with both.
A thousand miles away, with the knowl-
edge that Hopkins and Harrison are In a
savage fight for the control Of the state ma
chinery, it does not seem that either OF
them will be able to pick out candidate
for Vice President and make good when the
time for delivery Of the goods comes. But
they may patch up their troubles. That
Is the opinion Of the eastern democrats
If they don't the Bryan-Hearst faction Will
keep control.
I asked one Of the New York democrats
who is pretty well posted and who has
Cleveland Ieanings. though he gets along
with Hill, whether they really hoped to 90
anything in Illinois Sure" he replied.
I'VE always had a chance there when we
were not running popslist candidate eia, on
good, big fellow for Vice President we1l
make you republicans hustle"
Some One With National Reputation.
He didn't know himself who the big fell
low would be, but intimated that they
wanted some one who already has ma
tional reputation and who would be likely
to draw a good deal Of attention. asked
him if he was thinking of Adlai E. Steven
son. MT Stevenson always enjoyed popu-
larity in his home state, and when ne was
on the ticket with Cleveland he strength
ened 1t. He supported Bryan, and Is there
fore regular.
My informants said they were not think
ing of Stevenson, and even limited that
the eastern influences which will put up
the money for the campaign would not
have him because of the way he had kept
in with Bryan. Yet one of Judge Par
kers elements of availability is his action
in keeping regular and not boltlng Bryan
in 1896 or 1900. But the influences In Chi
cago which are in the arrangement Tor
Parker do not seem to want second Par
ker on the ticket with the Judge.
There is some concern here among tne
movement to It's present standing, over
Bryan's Intentions you know Bryan
pretty WE'LL said one of them. NOW. 90
you think he is actually going to bolt!
But as 1t wasn't my business to guess Mr.:
Bryans intentions, the question was passed
on with the suggestion that his Chicago
speech probably would give the key to his
purposes.
national democracy only is possible with
Bryan cast out, and that II he bolts ana
fights the ticket that will be the best means
of getting back the conservative democrats.
In other words, Bryan's bolt Woulo purge
the party of populism
That might be so in the east, but When
they come down to the business or looking
for votes the Parker managers are not 50
SIRE that they would be happier with Bry-
an sloshing around the country and telling
his friends to vote for third ticket Whiie
trying to get the support OF the conserVa.
tive voters the Parker leaders would accept
Rryan's help in any state where it might
be likely to turn in an electoral vote: NO
body forgets how complacently Mr. CieVe-
land Endorsed the deal which was mace In
1899 by Senator German with the popullsts
of the Dakotas and other western states.
The Albany Platform.
The undercurrent of dissatisfaction with
the Parker platform adopted at Albany
continues. Yet, viewed from the Parker
standpoint, I should say that it was the
right kind Of platform for that KIND OF
candidate Negati ton Is the keynote OF the
It's value is shown now when EFFORTS are
making to rally opposing forces SO that
one-third of the convention may be held OH.
.They can't find anything in the judge TO
fight" said one of his lieutenants. II tney
could they might hold us up for a while,
but he hasn't made an enemy ana ne won I
make an enemy. The Tammany folks only
say they think they might want some one
else, but they can't find thing 10 oDJec.
to in the judge. SO it's pretty hard to tight
him"
ment. If the judge had developed any IN
dividuality. or If he had onendea some o th e.
neg might be found on which to hang the
shibboleth of the opposition But there ID
nothing. When they try to strike at MIN
the supporters of other candidates are MT
ting at vacancy. 49,.
;,stinct appears to be wrong. Mr. Hearst s
journals. which. with all their faults: 40
rot lack force, probably would find fault
bv the Hill combination. On the other
hand the papers which helped TO locate
Judge Parker and after deal OF haro LABOR
finally satisfied the public That he was not
a myth, are in the position OF aoclors .ah,
ing their own medicine. 1t Is milk ana
water, but a milk and water diet sometimes
has to be resorted to in order to bring the
ma tient along. Judge Parker mas peen
brought along by virtue OF his lack OF posi-
tive Qualities and he can't be turned Into
candidate with red blood all in a moment.
This is not the view held in the news
paper offices in New York Yet among .he
active. shrewd politicians who gauge the
democratic party pretty well have notlceo
that IT is the opinion. The first day or two
when the protest went up against the plat
form of negation some of them were DIS
trustfyl of their own wisdom. 1t has taken
less than a week to remove that distrust.
Now all of them are pretty well agreed
that the platform was just the kind for the
candidate and the occasion, and they are
not inclined to bother much with the sub
iect until a week or ten days before the
81 Jouis convention meets. Then they say
there will be time enough to see how they
can meet the situation.
The Independent Vote.
When they are asked how they expect to
get the independent vote. which they claim
ia coming to them and which usually wants
something positive, they reply that the In
dependent drift is simply with them and
will be patient enough. haven't seen this
independent drift towards the democrats,
but that is perhaps a partisan blindness.
The point about the Albany platform Is
| that 1t is really serving the purpose for
which 1t was intended in getting the demo-
| Gratis together.
No attention is paid to the statement
tO IA In