Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-24
Progressives Informally
Declare for Ollie
James as Keynoter;
Will Not Stand for
New York Judge.
BY ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.

BY ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.
BALTIMORE. June 24-This is true
talk For which reason it should be
put in print and win regard. It
Glanced that I was present where
roundly twenty men were gathered to-
yether All of them we're Democrats,
all Of them progressive" all of them
Of leadership sizes.
The meeting was causal; it hadn't
been called" The men were various
" from Colorado from Kentucky from
the Dakotas. from New York from
Georgia. from Arizona. rrom Alabama,
from Nebraska. from Oregon, from
every angle of the party, from every
tcorner of the country. Most of them
were delegates who will sit in tomor-
rows convention Many of them hold
high Offices in the nation or their sew
eral states.
| While the meeting was chance soWn,
the one subject considered was poll
tics-the coming convention-Democ-
racy-chsnces in November. Most of
all. Parker for temporary chairman was
considered Bryan's objections to Park
er were by some regretted, by others
! resented by few denounced and by a
few approved. In each instance the
argument was the same. The Bryan
o. ections were regretted or denounced
for the reason not that any one present
believed the choice of Parker a good
opt-for none debut that in making
his objections Bryan assumed a lead
ership of party which none present was
rtady to consider. Bryan among the
twt nty present had friends, but no fol-
lowers
Talk Turns to Parker.
Having delivered themselves con-
corning Bryan and his evident efforts
to trouble the waters for peanut and
personal ends. the gathered twenty took
up Parker and that temporary chair
manship. Let me tell the tale in ques-
ton and answer fashion. Some one
would put the query and others would
reply to it.
who suggested Parker? Mack, OF
New York.
Who was Mack? Was he acting for
himself or others or both? Mack rep
resented New York state on the Demo
cratic national committee. This was
by consent and preference of Murphy
and Tammany Hall. Wanting the ia
vor Of Murphy and Tammany Mack
as national committeeman wouldn't
last as long as a pint of whisky at g
barn raising. The Parker suggestion
coming through Mack was really made
by Murphy and Tammany Hall.
why should Murphy want Parker
Here a dozen spoke al once Murphy
I'in the sense personal didn't care a
splinter for Parker. While Murphy told
Mack what to do, those behind Murphy
told him what to do.
And who were those behind Murphy
Those men who made up the Murphy
mind and settled the Murphy prefer
ences. and through Murphy, and next
through Mack, in the selection Of Park
! err purposed striking the keynote OF
Democracy in the coming campaign.
How the Talk Ran.
Wall Street controls Murphy just as
it controls Barnes. Wall Street wantec
Root as chairman over the Repubi'
cans. Wall Street wants Parker as
chairman over the Democrats. There
is absolutely no real difference between
Root and Parker. Both are very able
! lawyers Both are the servants Of BIG
Business
Mack had put It upon the ground of q
rightful compliment to Parker. In re-
tort 1t was pointed out that this was nc
time for compliments. The place was
important It could be used to accom-
plish evil or good The gavel Of the
coming convention ought not to he
disposed of in mere spirit of hattery
Mack had also put his Parker recon-
mendation upon the argument thai
Parker had once been the partys can
didate for president As against this, II
was set up that so too, had Bryan beer
the party's candidate for president
Threcfold Reason For Bryan.
II to have been nominated and beat
en- as the Democratic candidate for the
white house were to be received as 4
reason why Parker should he made
temporary chairman. then there was
threefold the reason for elevating By-
nm ia the place, since he had been three
Ettmes named and beaten as the party;
white house candidate.
It was asked too, why this eagerness
to compliment Parker had slept through
1905 Why. since he SO much relishec
these nattering attentions, hadn't Park
or's name been offered in Denver wher
Bryan was last nominated?
Going back to Wall Street WHY
should wan Street want Parker ~
one could precisely say not being deer
in Wall Streets motives. As to on,
thing, however au agreed Whatever
Wall Street wants il will always get
either from Mr Parker or from Mr
Root
Possibly Wall Street is only seekina
to give mankind an object lesson. an,
show how broadly complete is its con
troi-how absolutely prejudiced it i,