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Show . GORMAN'S POSITION. ST. LOUIS, July 5. Tho nearest approach ap-proach to a definite statement frbm Senator Sen-ator Gorman as to his altitude before the convention was made tonight by his intimate inti-mate friend, former Senator Davis 6t West Virginia. It camo after a. day of constant pressure upon Senator Davis from his own delegation to secure ; definition defi-nition of Mr. Gorman's attitude and was very brief. Ho simply said. "It 13 understood un-derstood that Mr. Gorman docs not desire that his name should bo presented to tho convention." He added tho opinion that In all probability prob-ability tho vote of the State would be divided, on tho first ballot between Senator Sena-tor Cockrell. Mr. Iloarst and others. He did noU Include Mr. Parker, but some of the members of the delegation say that a number of them will not voto for Judgo Parker. |