Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-12

which he has provoked are numerous
and bitter. Still his running qualities
were so excellent that the delegates
from the old city of New York urged
his nomination us the only one that
furnished the slightest hope even of an
exciting contest. To bring this about
and to secure an unequivOcal acknowl-
edSment that the money question was
settled were the two objections to
which the Tammany delegation con-
fined the efforts of its members. 1t APP
pearel quite early that the first of
these was wholly impossible. To ac-
cOmplish the second we felt it was on
ly necessary that the delegates from
all the doubtful states should demand
it firmly as condition absolutely nee
eSSary to success. At the meeting of
the New York delegation on Tuesday
morning Il resolution to this effect off
cred by me was suppressed by 4 par
liamentary Vancouver. After it had
been agreed by the leaders to eliminate.
all reference to the, money question l
again moved that the New York dele
cation offer as an amendment in the
convention the financial plank submit
ted by Senator Hill to the committee
on resolutions but the motion was re-
jected by q vote of so to IS of the dele
gates.
Under the circumstances the nomi-
nation of Judge Parker, who was with
out any record on the coinage question
except that he had voted twice for Mr..
Bryan. seemed to preclude the slightest
hope that he would receive even as
many electoral votes as Mr. Bryan
polled in 1900. But this very pusilla-
nimty of his managers which led them
to surrender their convictions and to
stifle every attempt of the New York
City delegates even to voice the opn-
ions of their constituents on this mo-
mentus question furnished Judge Par
ker with an opportunity which he has
improved decislvely. 1t has revealed
him to the people Of this country almost
in an instant as great 1eader-the
greatest of this generations; an honest
man-the most impressive in displaying
that virtue that I have ever known
either through experience or reading; a
courageous lnan-Of such incompara-
BILE courage that he was willing to
throw away mot merely the hope or
prospect of a norqinatiOn, but an actual
nomination for the Presidency rather
than stoop to an evasion or equivoca-
ton on Il matter of principle.
H. who left st. Louis before the final
adjournment as the only way to avoid
being placed in Il position where | must
have told the convention that Judge
Parker could not, in my opinion. es-
cape crushing defeat, on the receipt OF
Mr.. Murphy's message, at once or
dered special train and FASTENED
back, because | then felt free to tell
the members if they still desired to
hear from me, that on the new platform
which he himself had made he would
be overwhelmingly elected.
when my train arrived at in the
morning, the convention had completed
its work, but if | had been present
could not have made a single suggestion
which would have been an Improvement
on it's course. Indeed the admirable
temper displayed by the men who at
first blushed might have considered
themselves belittled or aggrieved by the
singularIy Independent course of their
candidate is one of the most suspicious
features under which the campaign
oucnS.