Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-29
LEADERS STIRRED UP
Taking Steps to Check the
Hearst Boom.
TO SECURE HARMONY
NOT PERSONALLY HOSTILE TO
HIS CANDIDACY.
Parker Organization Recently Formed
in Georgia-Attitude Of Sen
ator German Explained.
TO SECURE HARMONY

Awakening to the fact that Mr.. Hearst is
making material progress in securing In
structed delegates to the democratic nation
al convention, democrats in Congress who
are leaders of their party in their respective
states are taking steps to check the Hearst
boom. This action is not altogether In hos
tiity to Mr.. Hearst, but is to prevent Mr..
Hearst from Defeating the object and aim
of democrats; namely, to get together at st.
Louis and confer upon candidate and plat
form which will win.
1t is realized among democrats in Con-
-gress that Mr.. Hearst by his present course
is manifesting no such desire, but that his
only aim is to obtain his own nomination.
There are many democrats in Congress who
will not object to Mr.. Hearsts nomination
IL it shall appear that he is the man best
fitted to make the race, but these men are
strongly opposed to prejudging the case in
favor of Mr.. Hearst by the means MIR.
Hearst is adopting to insure his nomination
in advance of the convention.
Georgia Takes the Lead.
Georgia will take the lead in attempts to
shut off the Hearst BOOM A meeting of
Georgia democrats from all over the state
was held in Atlanta last week. presided
over by ex-Secretary Hoke Smith and
Colonel EstiIl Of Savannah, at which a
Parker organization was formed. 1t is said
that the movement for Judge Parker while
sir cere in his behalf, does not necessarily
bind these gentlemen to his chariot, but
is undertaken to stop the grabbing up of
delegates by the Hearst organization. 1t
was realized several weeks ago, it is said,
that fair field and no favor would not be
assured the other presidential candidates in
the south if the Hearst movement was per-
mitted to go unchecked. 1t was decided
that the best method to prevent Mr..
Hearst from getting majority of the dele
gates in advance was to effect organiza-
tons of some other candidates and insist
upon the state delegation going to st. Louis
uninstructed.
1t is said by leading democrats in Con-
gress that these tactics will be followed in
other states, and that. indeed, word has
gone out from Washington from democratic
senators and representatives who are adj
mittedly factors in democratic politics in
their sections, advising their friends not to
permit the party to be captured by any
candidate, but to hold the lists open for
any champion who may desire to enter
hereafter.
Senator Germans Attitude.
A dispatch from Augusta. Ga, published
in New York paper today, quoted Senator
Bacon as having written to Editor Cabaniss
of the Augusta Chronicle that Senator Cor
man had told him that he was not candi
date for the presidency. and that the Geor
gia people should go ahead with the Parker
organization. This dispatch was shown to
Senator Bacon this afternoon by a Star re-
porter, and Senator Bacon said:
1.-The Augusta dispatch of March IS. to
the New York Sun, giving a statement
from Mr.. H H. Cabaniss of the substance
of letter received by him is correct. In
order, however to fully understand the
meaning of what 1 wrote relative to the ut
terance of Senator German, it is proper
to state that our conversation related ex-
clusively to conditions in the state of
Georgia and what he said was limited to
what, in his opinion. was the proper course
for conservative democrats in Georgia to
pursue, having those conditions in view.
at had no reference to the general at
titude of Senator German as to his per-
scnal preference among those spoken of in
connection with the democratic nominal
ten"
Situation Unaltered.
This is all Senator Bacon would say. 1t
leaves the situation regarding Senator Cor
mans possible candidacy just where his
friends understood it has been all along
namely, that Senator German, of course
would accept the democratic nomination if
it should come to him the voice of his
party. but that Senator German is not en-
gagged in scrambling for delegates and is
not encouraging his friends to inaugurate
campaign to that end.
1t is considered probable that Senator
Bacon's letter will attract considerable at
tenton in the south and will serve to slim
ulate the efforts of democrats who desire
full and free conference at st. Louis over
the relative merits of all candidate ties, to see
that the delegates sent are not all to be in
structed for one man.