The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-07-12
GOLD STANDARD To
THEIR LIKING
Bourke Cochran Declares the
Party Is Safe from
Disaster

Press today received the following COM
munication from Bourke Cochran. da'e
indianapolis, July 10th. explaining his
declination to address at st. Louis:
II left ST. Louis yesterday at 12:45
o'clock because as matters stood. did
not want to be in the convention when
nominations for vice president were
reached.
Calls for me to make speech, which
had been made repeatedly on prior days
would very likely be made at the final
session. and at the time / could not
truthfully assure the convention .het
Judge Parker had in my opinior ne
faintest y. ospect of success. I have
made II rule never to say on a public
platform anything which I could not re-
peat I'm the witness chair. could not
prophesy victory and / would not fore
tell defeat.
PARKER'S GOLD MESSAGE.
when I reached Indianapolis I wac
handed telegram from Charles f. Mur
ply. informing me of Judge Parker's
message to Mr. sheehan and urging me
TO return Immediately.
I'm an instant the whole situation was
charged. The prospect which had been
black with signs OF disaster at once be
came splendid with promises of victory.
For many months had been preaching
that the success OF the Democratic part,
this year involved the continuance o.
constitutional government in this coun.
try. This view was expressed in the reso
luton submitted to the state conven-
tion last April by the Tammany members
and think IT is shared by every
thoughtful man In the country. The one
thing absolutely essential to Democratic
success is leader.
BRAINS WERE SCARCE
'Tin now. no one possessing anything
like ability was conspicuous except Mr..
Cleveland. To him there were weight,
ticians believe there Is a widespread OBJ
lection to giving any man. however wise
or virtuous. more than two terms I'm the
presidency The antagonisms which he
has provoked are numerous and bitte~.
Still his running qualities were so ex-
cellent that the delegates from the ola
city of New York urged his nomination
as the only one that furnished the slight
est hope even of an exciting contest To
bring this about and to secure an un-
equivocal Acknowledgement that the
money question was settled, We're the
two objects to which the Tammany dele
CATION confined the efforts of Its mem
bers
1t appeared quite early that the first of
these was wholly impossible To accom-
plish the second we felt II was only
necessary that the delegates from all the
doubtful states should demand It formal
~ as a condition absolutely necessary to
success At the meeting OF the New
York delegation on Tuesday morning a
resolution to this effect offered by me
was suppressed by a parliamentary
maneuver After It had been agreed by
the leaders to eliminate all reference to
the money question. again moved that
the New York delegation offer as an
amendment in the convention the finan-
cial plank submitted by Senator Hin to
the committee on resolutions but the mo-
tion was rejected by vote of SO to % OF
the delegates.
ination 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 pusillanimity or MS
managers which led them to surrender
their own convictions and to sti5e every
attempt of the New York City delegates
even to voice the opinions OF their con-
stituents on this momentous question
furnished Judge Parker with an oppor-
tunity which he has improved decisively.
St. Petersburg. July 1.-THE system