New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-13
STILL AWAITING MESSAGE
Skeehan for National Chairman the
Belief at EsOpus.
fsr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE ,

/ TELEGRAPH To THE TRIBUNE
/ EsoD1s n Y July I2-It is beginning 70 A4
a source Of some wonder as TO what has become
Of the telegram to Judge Parker, which was
I formally adopted by the ST. Louis conventions
saturday night It has not vet reached EsopUS.
and Judge Parker knows its tenor only from Th-'
Associated Press bulletin. which was telephone
70 him that night, and from the newspapers oi
the next day. II may have gone astray. as did
/ tho Hearst telegram. which reached Judge Par
ker only after it had been duplicated twenty
four hours after it was filed at Chicago.
Another dispatch that has never arrived is
that sent by National Committeeman Norman F.
Mack. announcing that pursuant to a motion
made AT 1.3O a. m. Sunday. just before adjourn
nent. Senator James X Jones would call a
meeting Of the national committee within
short time. The third missing telegraph dis
patch is that of congratulatiOn from Charles r.
Murphy. which however. may never be sent
SENDS LONG LETTER TO CLEVELAND.
Chief Judge Parker to-day sent a long letter
To Grover Cleveland. acknowledging the latter's
message congratulating him on his gold dis
patch The letter addressed TO Buzzards
Bav. and was not made public here. but IL was
learned on fairly good authority that ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland had already given an intimation
of his readiness 20 deliver at least one speech
for Chief Judge Parker in the campaign
The much EeXe4 question OF q AdIAOlld4
man is still the aH-absorbing problem at Rose
uount- Ex-Iieutenant Governor William r.
Sbeehan was the only visitor OF political promi-
nence to-day. and il was generally believed that
he and the Judge discussed the matter. though
no iutination of this fact came from either.
after the conference.
At Esopus there is firm conviction that Shee-
han and not Taggart or German. any other
OF the numerous candidates for the position VIII
be named This belief is entertained despite
the fact that the friends OF the former Lieu
tenant Governor are numerous in their asser-
ton that he would not take It, They declare
that he breads the routine OF the work OF ma
tionaI chairman and the vast amount OF mere
detail work Inevitable to the position They af-
firm that he is right in his belief that he can
serve to better advantage If not hampered BY
any Office.
SHEEHAN TELLS OF CONVENTION.
So firmly convinced are the friends OF Shee-
han that they do not hesitate to say that Judge
Parker s-iu not ask him to act. realizing that
such request would be practically mandatory
in its effect None the less. in the last twenty
four hours at Esopus it has become clear that
il is on Mr.. Sheehan that the Democratic nOTni-
nee will lean. From Sheehan to-day, in a long
conference in the Rosemount library, Judge
Parker received a detailed account of the Incl
dents st. Louis.
Additional details Of the gold dispatch were
learned to-day. The message reached ex-LieJi-
tenant Governor Sheehan in ST. Louis at >; -
D. M Saturday just as he came out OF com
lrittee meeting. II handed 10 him. not by
messenger. but by official Of the telegraph
company. who told him he had been instructed
to place it in his hands When he read il. Mr.
Sheehan discovered that II was signed Alton
Parker. the middle name. or initial being entire
IL omitted. Impressed with the Importance of t,le
matter. and suspeCtins hoax. Mr.. SheeAan n
once queried fer verifcation. both by telegraph
and telephone. getting both before p. m. ST.
Louis time.
The date of the official notification has not
been even talked over. Judge Parker does not as
yet. have any intimation of the time despite
the fact that several newspaper dispatches from
here have already set u date.
GETS LETTER FROM ASSOCIATES
The judge has received letters from his asso.
ciates of the Court of Appeals. but no suggestion
or the character Of their contents has been made
at Rosemount. although the statement OF Juax,