New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-21
MURPHY TR|UMPHS
At BALTIMORE
ry.Iudue Parker, His Candidate
for Presiding Officer, Gets
Eight Of Sixteen Votes
.. in Committee.
~wE HANDED ONE TO BRYAN"
Wilson Man, However, Fears
Nebraskan Will Get Back at
Them - Tammany Boss
Has Advantage in First
DAVIS Contest.

Days Contest.
n stan Correspondent Of Ths Tribune.l
baltimore. June 20.-The fight over the
..nnorary craftsmanship which cropped
-, IN the special committee on the Dem
o,o+ic National Convention arrange
r.nts here brought out even in this pre-
,,-,inarv round the strength and domino
.,or which Charles F. Murphy. Of Tam
MANY Hall and New York, seems bound
% exercise over the coming convention.
ostensibly It was lineup between
.ta radicals and the conservatives, be-
.veen the Harmon Underwood crowd
and the Wilson Clark crowd, but back
=, 4 all were the shadows Of two men,
neither present but each exercising Ions
distance control-Bryan from Chicago
and Murphy from New York.
The technical advantage tonight
sAer1ed TO lie with the Tammany boss "
ue backed Parker. even to the extent
NJ communicating with Taggart, Of In
diana. who is on the subcommittee
which staged the first round to the eff
fec- that Alton r. Parker must be the
temporary chairman and that no COM
n,or1ise should be allowed. Parker got
eight of the sixteen votes in the sub
committee. The other eight were scat
tered about in this order: Henry, of
Texas 3: James. of Kentucky, 8; Kern.
oi Indiana, /, and O'Gorman, of New
York /.
ON thu opposite side was Bryan.
BRYAN also communicated with Balti-
. more. choosing Josephus Daniels, OF
North Carolina, as the recipient OF
long distance telephone message. in
which the former Presidential nominee
urged upon Daniels the argument that
1T would be criminal to allow Parker
fo become temporary chairman
In spite Of Bryans opposition, how
ever. Parker received eight votes, on the
recording of which Norman Z. Mack,
chairman Of the subcommittee. calmly
announced that It was the Sense OF the
committee" that it would report Judge
Parker as its suggestion for the tenn
porsry Craftsmanship. The eight oppOn-
ents of Parker on the committee did
not protest against this ruling. although
they talked about ii afterward and said
that il was doubtful whether the ma
tional committee would accept a report
from the subcommittee in which the
name suggested got the backing Of only
half the subcommittee.
Reactionaries Support Parker.
All agreed. however, that the question
of temporary craftsmanship was closed
now until the subcommittee reports to
the national committee next Monday
morning The lineup of the committee
men on the Parker or anti-Parker ques-
ton shows that the votes recorded for
the New Yorker came from the reac-
tionaries and from the men who are for
either Harmon or Underwood. Howell,
of Georgia: Johnston, Of Texas; Wood,
If Michigan; Sullivan, Of Illinois; Tag
cart, Of Indiana: Browne, Of Vermont
Talbot, Of Maryland, and Mack Of New
York. furnished the eight Parker votes.
on the anti-Parker side the Clark
crowd united on ollie James, OF Ken
lucky. while the Wilson people scattered
their votes around promiscuously but
with 2 gtudied care that would land them
I'm 2 position which would not offend the
absent Murphy. Of New York.
The Wilson Clark Bryan men made
WY faces on this aligning Of Judge
Parker on the Progressive side, but
owing 10 their careful jockeying for POSI-
ton failed to unite in any way so as 10
give any one Of their favorites anything
spproaching a vote even with that which
fell 10 Parker.
MAY Carry Fight to Convention.
They have two chances to undo the
work Of to-day, however, and 1t Is being
freely prophesied tonight that they will
take advantage Of each in turn should
II be necessary. Next Monday morning
the matter will come before the national
committee for ratification, and if the
lineup there again favors Parker the
radicals viii carry It TO the floor or the
convention. There. at least, they have
no doubt that they can defeat him.
because all Of them are agreed upon just
one point. and that is that the Progress
sive combination, If it can be combined
on any proposition can outYote the con-
servative faction.
The comment most frequently heard on
F tho vote. as il became known around the
hotel Hobbies afterward, was that the
Wilson people on the committee-Huds-
peth, Of New Jersey; Daniels, OF North
Carolina: McGraw, If West Virginia;
Osborn. Of Wyoming, and Ewing, OF
Louisiana, had forced the Clark crowd
into the position Of defyi.C Tvs
wishes regarding Parker.
As an example Of how carefully the
Wilson people placed their votes, there
vas McGraw voting for O'Gorman. Ihe
New York Senator who is admittedly a
close friend OF Bryan. was placating the
Nebrssksn Hudspeth, OF New jersey
voting for Kern, Of Indiana, was likewise
aspiring for the appreciation Of Bryan
and though the Wilson men declared that
their votes had heen cast entirely on the
initiative Of each one of them, 1t was
put down as a well executed political
trick which held them aloof from the
position OF having offended any one from
In or around the mouth OF the Hudson
River who carries ninety gilt edged
votes IN his pocket.
Wilson Men Refuse Alliance.
The Clark men on the subcommittee
after frantic telephoning TO Washington
a