The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-21
DEMOCRATS WILL
COPY REPUBLICANS
Bitter Fight Will Be Made
on Parker for Temper
ary Chairman.

Baltimore. June 21.-That the dem.
ocratir national committee will ratify
the election of Judge Alton r. Parker
of New York as temporary chairman
OF the democratic national convention
was the statement made today by the
national committeeman who led the
successful fight in the arrangements
committee yesterday to name the for
mer democratic presidential candidate
from New York.
W. ]. Bryan will he here sunday to
lead the fight against Parker. In the
meantime friends of Bryan say they
will canvass the national committee
as they arrive to ascertain if the
choice Of ths arrange ments committee
can he set aside in the full committee
Both sides agreeS that the fight will
be carried to a conclusion and that it
Will come a few minutes after Nation-
al Chairman Mack has called the con-
vention To order next Tuesday. The
adherents of Parker here state that
the national committee has already
been canvassed by them and that 1t
will oppose BRYAN as II did last Win
Ter when an attempt was made to lln-
seat q. NJ. Guffey OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Members of the national committee
following Bryan say the issue is sim
ply progressiveiSm against conserva-
tlsnl and the report of the first vote of
the convention will show that the
progressive ism arc in control. 1t was
learned today that tho New York dele
cation purposes To take no small in
terest in the making Of the party plat
FORM hut until the arrival of the New
York leader. Mcdonald. the commit
teemen here are not prepared TO say
what planks the New York delegation
desires incorporated in the platform.
The ARRANGEMENTS committee met
again TODAY t" consider the minor de-
fli isl,
ton.
No one could be found TODAY among
the various democratic campaign man
ayers who WAS ready To treat seriously
the suggestion that any N: the leading
democratic prosressNes would be will
ing to accept second place on a pos
sihe third ticket headed by Theodore
RooSeelt.
The Wilson men smiled when they
read 4 Chicago dispatch which said
the New Jersey governor, on account
of his progressive tendencies. was be-
ing considered by the Roosevelt forces
in this connection. one of Wilson's
national campaign managers remark-
ed: The governor will accept only
one nomination and that is the DEM
ocratic candidacy for president. He
has let il be known emphatically that
he will not be candidate for vice
president on the democratic ticket:
therefore II is absurd to suppose he
would accept such a nomination un-
der any other auspices"
Walker Wawick of New jersey. ona
of the lieutenantS in charge of tho
Wilson national headquarters. said
that the Wilson forces had received
no overtures along these lines from
the Roosevelt leaders nor did they
expect to receive any.
Some of the Wilson delegates from
New jersey expressed dissa tisfaction
with the action of their national COM
mittee man. Robert S. Hudspeth in
voting for Senator Kern of Indiana in
the division of the committee on con-
vention arrangements Yesterday OH
the question Of the temporary chair
manship. They believed he should
have sided with the representatives Of
North Carolina. Louisiana and Wyom-
ing in favor of Congressman Henry
of Texas. The New Jersey delegates
are almost all here and today they
held a meeting. Those who professed
to understand Mr. Hudspeths reasons
declared he had strengthened teh Will
son cause by friendly act toward the
Indiana delegation for whose votes the
Wilson. Clark and Harmon men are
laying in case the Hoosiers decide
after the first ballot or sooner to quit
Governor Marshall.