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Show COHRAN WILL NOT BOLT New Yorker fill Stand by Parker. Tologram From Presidential Nominee, He Says, Clears Up Atmosphere. Tammnny leader Out in a Letter Recanting Statement Hade in St. Louie c 7 NEW YORK, July ll.-The Associated Associat-ed Press received the following communication commu-nication from Bourke ;Cockran, dated Indianapolis, July 10, explaining hie declination de-clination to address the national Democratic Demo-cratic convention at St. Louis; "I left St. Louis yesterday at 12:45 o'clock because, as matters then stood, I did not want to bein the convention when nominations for Vice-President wore reached. "Calls for me to make a speech, which had been made repeatedly on prior days, would very likely bo renewed at tho final session, and at tho time I could not truthfully assure the convention that Judge Parker had, In my opinion, the faintest prospect of success. Could Not Prophesy Victory. "I have made It a rule never to say on a public platform anything which I could not repeat in the witness chair. I could not prophesy victory, and I would not foretell defeat. Silence was therefore 'he only course open, and the best way to pursue it was by my absence. ab-sence. "When I reached Indianapolis I was handed a telegram from Charles F. Murphy, informing me of Judge Parker's Par-ker's message to Mr. Sheehan, and urging urg-ing me to return Immediately. Loader Was Needed. "In an Instant the whole situation was changed. The prospect which had been black with signs of disaster at once became splendid with promises of victory. For many months I had been preaching that the success of the Democratic Demo-cratic party this year Involved the continuance con-tinuance of constitutional government In this country. This view was expressed ex-pressed in the resolution submitted to the State convention last April by the Tammany members, and I think It is shared by every thoughtful man In the country. The one thing absolutely es sential to Democratlo success Is a leader. lead-er. Objections to Cleveland. iuVVil ncnv no ono Possessing anything any-thing like ability was conspicuous, except ex-cept Mr. Cleveland. To him there were weighty objections. His age is advanced. ad-vanced. Many politicians believe thero lo a widespread objection to giving any man, however wise or virtuous, more than two terms in the Presidency. Tho antagonlRins which he has provoked are numerous and bitter. Still his running qualities were co excellent that the delegates del-egates from the old city of New York urged his nomination as the only ono that furnished the slightest hope even of an exciting contest. Money Question Relegated. "To bring this about and to securo an unequivocal acknowledgment that the money question was nettled wcrr the two objects toward which the Tammany Tam-many delegation concentrated tho efforts ef-forts of their membors. Th'-: flrst of theso was wholly Impossible. To accomplish ac-complish the second wc felt that It was only necessary to have the delegates from doubtful States demand it. "At the Now York delegation on Tuesday Tues-day morning a resolution to thlo effect offered by me was suppressed by a parliamentary par-liamentary maneuver. After It had been agreed by tho leaders to eliminate all reference to the money question, -I again moved that the New York delegation dele-gation ofTer as an amendment In the convention the financial plank submitted submit-ted by Senator Hill to the committee on resolutions, but the motion was rejected by a vote of 60 to 28 of the delegates. Parker Without Record. "Under these circumstances the nomination nom-ination of Judge Parkor. who was without with-out any record on the coinage question, except that he had voted twice for Mr. Bryan, seemed to preclude the slightest hope that he would receive even as many electoral votes ns Mr. Bryan polled In 1900. But the very pusillanimity pusillan-imity of his managers, which led them to surrender their own convictions and to stifle every attempt of the New York City delegates oven to voice the opinions opin-ions of their constituents on this momentous mo-mentous question, furnished Judge Parker Par-ker with an opportunity which he has Improved decisively. What Is Revealed. "It has revealed him to tho peoplo of this country almoflt in an Instant as a graat leador, the greatest of this .generation; .genera-tion; an honest man tho most Impressive in dluplaylng thnt vlrtuo that I havo ever known either through expcrlcnco of reading; read-ing; a courageous man of such incomparable incompar-able courage that ho was willing to throw away not merely tho hope of prospect of a nomination, but an actual nomination to the Presidency rather than atoop to an evoolon or equlvosation on a matter of principle. Why He Returned. "I. who had left St. Louis before tho final adjournment as tho only way to avoid being placed In a position where I must have told tho convention that Judge Parker could not. In my opinion, escape crushing defeat, on the iccelpt of Mr. Murphy s message at once ordered a spo-clal spo-clal train and hastened back, becauso I then felt free to tell the members, if they still desired to hear from me, that on the new platform which he himself had made he would bo overwhelmingly elected. Arrived Too Late. "When my train arrived at 1 o'clock In tho morning the convention had completed Its work, but if I had been present I could not have made a single suggestion which would havo mado an Improvement on its course. Indeed, tho admirable temper displayed dis-played by the men who at llrst blush might havo considered themselves belittled belit-tled or aggrieved by tho singularly Independent Inde-pendent courso of their candidate Is ono of tho most auspicious features under which tho campaign opened." |
