The Prescott daily news., 1912-06-22
DETERMINED NOT TO ACCEPT NEW YORKER AS
 CHAIRMAN.
TO FIGHT PARKER LATEST
Believed He Will Enter Race for Democratic Presidential Nominal tion if That Will Unite the
 Progressive Elements.

Baltimore, June 22.-Alton B. Park. CT will not be the temporary chairman of the Democratic convention until William J. Bryan and his followers are, tiguratively, dead in the last ditch.
 It is freely predicted, not only that the nomination of Parker will be bit terly contested when the national con- ventiOn meets as a body on Monday to consider the recommendations of it's subcommittee, but that should the Parker element prevail in the whole committee the fight will be carried to the floor of the convention. Bryan has declared that he will not submit to the selection of Parker, whom he regards as reactonary and the picked representative of the reaction ary ring of the Democratic party, and if it should become evident that there Is not enough cohesion in the divers elements opposed to Parker to center on some one man, Bryan, it is be- lieved, will offer himself as a candi- date upon whom all the progressives may unite.
 There is another ground for opposi. ton to Parker-the fact that in the vote of the subcommittee of 16 there were eight votes for Parker and eight against him, scattered among four can- didates. Chairman Mack ruled that plurality was sufficient and there was no opposition raised to the ruling be. cause none of the anti-Parker ele- ments was ready to force the issue in Bryan's absence. But when the Ne braskan arrives here Monday morning there will be an immediate caucus of all the anti-Parker committeeman and plans will be laid for upsetting Macks ruling on the floor of the convention, if not in the committee itself
 Lineup in Committee.
 . The lineup for and against Parker was:
 For Parker-Chairma Mack of New York, Clark of Georgia, R. M. Johnston of Texas, Edwin O. Wood of Michigan, Roger C. Sullivan of Hi nois, Thomas Taggart of Indiana, Thomas H. Browne of Vermont and J. Fred c. Talbott of Maryland.
 Against Parker-Urey Woodson of Kentucky, F. L. Hall of Nebraska and Martin J. Wade of Iowa, all for Ollie James of Kentucky for chairman; Jo- sephus Daniels of North Carolina, Robert k. Wing of Louisiana and John E. Osborne of Wyoming, all for Rob- ert Henry of Texas for chairman; John T. McGraw of West Virginia for Senator O'Gorman of New York; Rob- ert s. Hudspeth of New Jersey for Senator Kern of Indiana.
 In the Parker contingent, Mack is for Charles F. Murphy's candidate for the presidential nomination, whoever that may be eventually; Howell is for Underwood; Johnston, who was beat en by Henry in the Texas primaries when the Lone Star delegates were in- structed for Wilson, is for Harmon; Sullivan is instructed for Clark, but is believed to be for Harmon; Taggart is for Marshall, it is thought, until Murphy selects a candidate; Browne is claimed by the Harmon people, and Talbott, who campaigned for Wilson and was instructed for Clark, is open ly in favor of Harmon.
 The alignment of the Parker eight is therefore as follows: Harmon, 5 {; Underwood. l, and Murphy's candi- date, ?.
 Strategy of Opposition.
 There was considerable strategy in the division of the opposition to Park CT, and the Wilson people believe they put the Clark managers in hole. The Wilson men declined to come to any agreement with the Clark faction ex- cept upon their own terms, that a Wilson man be named against Parker, and the Clark managers were just as obdurate.