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Show - - , . : . : - , : : . . : . . : ' : - i . , . . . . - i . ... i t - ! '. :t ::t : : 1 : I -lty ; . -,. : , . i j . . '.' t," wl.:a Le y i. .'.-i j.-......:.t ul;, L.:t a very patriot;?, patri-ot;?, sincere a: i n.-..:.:'u altLo;:;;h perhap rais- t.:.;::,- c:.;.. I..; -a,- t-'l.: ill , l. J tL? fi-L-r ;:ir.ri cf IuLer asd i. iicllr.cl to lelieve that I..- vc-Id i .:.v'aa tlir-i.:,? i-J u.'.-ratic Presi-dent. Presi-dent. Eryau is in doubt, however, as to whether Talker's election V.culJ re. alt in the tcire cf the Democratic party machinery by the "platGcrafs'," whom; he f-aytf, Llr. Hill represents. It therefore lapxars that if Parker 6'verralea Hill and invites Lrvari-at the proper time having the needful au-' au-' thority to become the candidate for VicesPresi-dent, VicesPresi-dent, the matter might be arranged. Some very . careful, painstaking and withal well-informed Dem-: Dem-: ocrats of the old school are of the opinion that if a satisfactory agreement is not reached between Judge Parker and Mr. Bryan, the Jndge should Hot become a candidate" until tLey hive told the Judge jast how hey feel about if. ' . . ' Ah Interesting Dcnccrctic Situation. It is not surprising that Judged Alton C Tarker, who is being groomed as the iJemocratic nominee for President, has. crossed his .wires with those Democratic statesmenyof the East who are termed "reotganircrs" and that a wild disagreement has been the consequence. Judge Parker is playing for big stakes and in trying to harmonize the many discording dis-cording factions in his party he is apt to mix op a few wires. The situation in the Tarker cftmp is a complicated but intensely interesting one. Not all of Judge Parker's close political friends ate in sympathy sym-pathy with the plans and opinions of David B. Hill, ' Grover Cleveland and Arthur Pue Gorman, who want to reorganize the Democratic party-with William Wil-liam Jennings Bryan left out. It is. upon a question ques-tion of the treatment to be accorded to Mr. Bryaii that the disagreement has arisen. Judge Parker's ' friends, who are not on very ood terms with Mr. . Hill, desire to have Mr. Parker get immediately Into frifcndly relationship with Mr Bryan, and permit vthat state of affairs to come unmistakably before 1 the public. These friends of the Judge go so far as to say making it clear, of course, that they are in no sense ' empowered to commit the Judge to any candidacy for President that Judge Parker would prefer to have Mr. Bryan for his running mate than to have any other living Democrat providing, of course, that the Judge beconles later on a candidate. It Is the opinion of Mr. Hill and his associates that Mr. Bryan should be sat upon, if not ejected, from the next national convention; This much is defl. nittiy kndwn about JuJe Parker and Mr. Bryan: ParLer declined to approve the Palmer and Buck-ner Buck-ner movement of 1896. He objected to it as bad politics, holding that it would bfe better for those Dei-: ocrats who would not vote for Bryan to vote for YTillLa -ZlzZlzi:?, InctccJ cf, Clilz tU D:-.:criay with a third ticket Ilis own conduct |