Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-13 | Page 1 | That Telegram

THAT TELEGRAM. Inside. Pacts About Message Parker Sent to Convention. """VVSlirNGTOtf, D. C., July 12. Going tho rounds lu Washington today was a story alleged to reveal tho Inside facts about the u-legrain with which Judge Parker sot tho Democratic ojnventlon in turmoil. , , According to this story, August Belmont and William F. Shechan, realizing that' a atal mistake hud been made in allowing the omission of the gold plank - from the party platform, agreed that Judge Parker .should counteract the baneful effect upon the bufilnes-s Interests. This resulted in the drafting of a telegram tele-gram which. It fs said, vas sent-to Ksopus and elicited the telegram reported to have been sent by Judge Parker to Senator Car-mack, Car-mack, llatly declining to run upon the platform without a sound money plank. Senator Carmack denied receiving such a telegram, hut the Washington version that he did thl because Mr. Belmont and Mr. Shechan at oneo declared that Judge Parker had overdone the thing and Immediately Imme-diately sent him another message outlining outlin-ing the message from Judge Parker which was read to tho convention and which merely announced his gold standard views and bis willingness to decline the nomination nomina-tion If theso views were unacceptable to tlio majority. The ilrst telegram. It Is stated, was sent to Senator Carmack to divert the suspicion suspi-cion that it was part of a scheme on the part of the New York delegates. Senator Carmack, taken entirely, by surprise. It 1b supposed, disclosed lis contents to some one before Mr Belmont and Mr. Sheohan, learning how dangerous their work really was, hastened to suppiess it and arranged the second message.