New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-23
Bv Samuel @, Blythe.

position or prerequisites Hc mas PlO
! tested against the selection of Judge
! Alton Is. Parker as temporary chairman
of the convention which meets next
! Tuesday.
! The situation has many resemblances
! to the situation in Chicago just before
| the convention met there. Mr.. Roose-
! veit. who also had Dictatorship visions
protested against the selection Of Sen
| ator Elhu Root as temporary chairman
! The first fight in that convention was on
Root, but in that fight Roosevelt and his
men made their greatest mistake. They
! went to Chicago denOuncing the so-called
| theft Of many delegates by the national
committee and claiming they would not
abide by any affirmative decision made
by a convention containing those dele
gates.
! Where Roosevelt Erred.
Then, after losing, they did abide by
| several decisions. Roosevelt's great
strength was to tie up the organization
| Of that convention or bolt right at the
start. He could have taken out his dele
gates and claimed TO be as much the Re-
publican party as the Taft men could be,
| for nc was just as regular as Taft while
! the convention was unorganiZed How
| ever as soon as Root was named and
| the convention was organized TAFT be-
came the regular Republican and Roose-
| welt was outside the breastworks.
Of Do Mr iptanH c
| TO fight Judge Parker. He protests vio-
| lently against the selection Of Parker by
the subcommittee OF the national COM
mittee, on the grounl that Parker is
not a progressive Democrat. Mr.. Bryan
is entirely right in that. Mr.. Parker is
as conservative a Democrat as the party
boasts. still Mr.. Parker was the Dem
ocratic candidate for President In 1904
and Mr.. Bryan supported him and
stumped for him; and Mr.. Parker was a
delegate to the convention at Denver
| four years ago that nominated Mr..
| Bryan. Moreover, Mr.. Parker was a
member of the platform committee and
helped write the platform on which Mr..
| Bryan ran. Also, Mr.. Parker spoke and
worked for Mr., Bryan during the cam
paign.
Thus, the men who selected Parker
| for temporary chairman hold that If Mr.
Parker was good enough for Bryan four
years ago and eight years ago there has
been no remarkable change in Parker
that should arouse Mr.. Bryan's present
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date to be selected by the convention is
at this time pushed into the background
by the fight against Bryan's attempt at
dictatorship. The full national commit
tee will meet on Monday to ratify the
arrangements Of the subcommittee The
most important arrangement is the
selection of Judge Parker. If Judge
Parker stands pat, and does not with
draw in the interests of a fictitious har-
mony the national committee will in all
proba bilty, ratify the choice Of the sub
committee and Judge Parker will key
note tho occasion on Tuesday.
Anti. Bryan Mon Not Oeluded.
The men who seek TO put the early
muttier on Bryan are under no decisions
They know they are in for fight, and
they spent all day Saturday, as they will
spend all day Sunday, in rounding up ma.
tional committeeman as they arrived and
pledging them to vote for Parker Also
they worked with various candidates. OF
the managers of various candidates, try.
ing TO get them TO help with national
committeeman from states where their
that BRYAN shall not only not dictate
the temporary chairman but shall not
be helped TO a position where he car
dictate the nominee.
There is no doubt that Mr.. Bryan will
do all the debating within his power
gets the chance. he has few equals and
no superiors. There are those present
IL Baltimore at this moment, and more
are coming in on every train. who say
MIR. Bryan has no desire to- see any
| Democrat other than himself President
of the United States, arguing that the
moment this convention names a man
who has an excellent chance of election
next November, as the man named will
have, Mr.. Bryan, instead of being the
whole choir, will become second bass
and must shift out of the limelight and
relnquish the centre of the stage.
| Wherefore, having no desire to see
MIR. Bryan President, these men intend
TO make a desperate struggle to put him
in what they consider his proper place,
which Is that Of a revered but former
leader Of the Democracy. They are de-
termined to show Mr.. Bryan he cannot
oppose a Democrat as regular as he is.
or. If he can oppose him, that he cannot
beat that Democrat, the name being Par
ker. who, as may be remembered, was
defeated practically by reclamation In
1904. This is the first order Of bust
ness. Until Mr.. Bryan is put into what
the Parker men think is his proper plaza,
or until he takes what he considers that
place, no other matters of moment will
occupy the attention OF the Democrats
| in Baltimore. They have a situation to
face and they intend to face 1t at the
earliest possible moment, SO they say.
But-and this is a very imposing but
Mr.. Bryan is not yet on the ground. He Is
still IN Chicago. and will not be here
until Sunday. or. mayhap, early Monday.
II has heen nottceahla at Democrattc