Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-06-24

MAJORITY PLEDGED TO JUDGE
Danger of Nominating Bryan for the
Fourth Time-Ex-Gov Montague
Among Vice-Presidential Timber.

Baltimore, Nd, June 24.-The Ma
tional Committee can back down, re-
verse it's subcommittee, and choose
someone else other than Judge Park
er for temporary chairman, or accept
defeat on the floor of the Democratic
National Committee.
That message sent directly by Will
liam Jennings Bryan to Leader Chas.
F. Murphy, Of Tammany Hall, sum-
med ND the Democratic situation to-
day just prior to the assembling of
the committee.
That body was scheduled to meet
behind closed doors, to receive the re-
port of the sixteen members Of the
subcommittee that selected Parker.
There was no doubt that the majority
of the members were pledged to Par
ker. Murphy realized this.
Murphy consulted with his advls-
ers until late in the night. He re-
sumed his conference early today.
Many of his closest advisers ad-
vised his shat his position was unten-
able. They told him frankly to his
face that if he persisted in his pres
ent position and insisted on putting
Judge Parker over he would open the
way for the most dramatic speech
BRYAN ever delivered on the floor of
the convention, and would absolutely
assure the nomination of the Nebras-
kan for the fourth time.
Murphy was fatty told by some OF
The conservative leaders that he would
force his majority in the committee,
when it assembled this afternoon to
request Judge Parker to decline the
invitation to become the temporary
chairman and elect Senator O'Gorman
of New York to the position he would
be playing wise politics. They also
told him that, if in the last analysis,
the Clark managers attempt to aid
the reactionary forces on the floor IN
order to make Parker's election in the
convention possible, Bryan will take
the floor and split the Clark strength,
and Immediately emphasize his con-
troll of the convention.
There is a general belief that the
platform will be framed along pro-
gressive lines and will in many res
poets duplicate the declaration of four
years ago. 1t will, however, be much
shorter.
There will be a big fight, however,
on the initiative, referendum and re-
call, and on the question of women's
suffrage.
With the necessity confronting
them of lining up 729 delegates to
nominate, the managers of the varl-
Gus presidential booms showed an
activity in Juggling figures today that
would nave done credit to the cashier
of ten cent circus. Each of the
leading candidates was shown by hg-
ures issued from his respective head
quarters to be in the lead. But the
figures when analyzed, all showed be-
yond the question of doubt that
there was no chance of. any candl-
date securing the two-thirds vote
needed to nominate, unless there was
a stampede. And the danger OF q
stampede was believed today to be re-
mote.
Vice Presidential booms sprouteo
in the pre-convention warmth today
Most of the boosting was done by the
friends of the candidates, most OF
those mentioned either being too coy
to speak of it, or else determined tc
land first place or none.
One of the booms that blossomec
today was that of ex-Gov. J. A. Mon
tapue. of Virginia.