Show I I 8 BOURKE URK COCK COCKRAN A RISES 1 tS T TO EXPLAIN Sets Forth ills His Reasons for Not Speaking Before Democratic Convention Con cn lIon HE PARKERS PRAISES Ills Is Telegram D Shows Him to be a n Great Leader the time Greatest of or This Generation New York July Jul 11 Tho Associated AI Press today received the tho following communication from corn Bourke Cockron Cockran dated Indianapolis July Jul 10 explaining his imIs hil declination naton to address the tho Democratic convention nt at t St SI Louis LouisI I left lel St Louis nt lit 1245 1 45 because ns 18 mutters matters then stood I Idid IdIll dIll did not lol want to be In Iii II tho tIme convention when thien nominations for tor vice Ice president ont were wele reached Calls C III for tal me rne to 10 Ink o speech which had been made Indo reputedly t lf on op prior days dl would w 41 at Qt atthe It the timi je ib t at ht i tW tin I could not assure the t conven convention thou tion that Judge Parker had In II my amy opinion the time faintest prospect pro pet of ot SUe suc success cogs cess I have hn 1 1111 It I n 11 l tithe rule 1110 never neol to say any 1 on oti Oi a 1 public iming which I 1 could not lot repeat repent In II the tIme witness chair I could not nol prophesy victory and Ald I would not foretell defeat Silence wan therefore the only course open and sence the tho host best way 11 va to pursue It Jt I by h my 1 Iii ab absence n absence When I I wan WIN handed n a telegram from Charles F Murphy Murph Informing mo mile of or Judge Par hers kers message to Mr Ir antI ing me inc Ile to 10 return Immediately In Iii an n tho time whole situation was wan changed Time The ThC prospect which hind boon been black with wih signs RI nA of at disaster at ot once became bel lo splendid with promises of ot victory Ictor lor many months I had hat been boen preaching that the the success of ot the tho Democratic party this year Involved time the continuance of or govern government ment In this thin country This view Thil was expressed 1 In the tIme resolution r submitted to the state convention last AprIl by h the tho Tammany and I 1 think It Is In shared by h every c thoughtful thou I oman man In Inthe the tue th country countr Time The Th ono tIming thing thinA absolutely essential to tn Democratic success Is n mm lender homier I INter UntIl now on ono OlO possessing any n thIng thinA like hIke ability was WIl conspicuous ex ox except Mr Cle eland To him there were wore weighty objections Ills His ego ago Is ad ml advanced 11 mm politicians there them themIs therl Is Ii a it widespread objection to giving 1111 any In man luau 1 however wise or vIrtuous more than two to terms onus lerlA In tIme the presidency The fhe I which he ho has uris provoked lire uro numerous anti and bitter Still his run mu running ning qualities wove were so 10 excellent time the delegated from rena tIme the Ihl old city cl of or New Now NewYork NewYork York urged his hla at its I time the only one that furnished tho the slightest hope oven oen of ot nn aim 11 contest To ro bring thus this about aunt Ind to 10 secure an nn unequivocal acknowledgement that the money Inne ques question f thou tion tol waK settled seU 1 wore it 1 ore oro tho the two objects I towards which the tIme Tammany ll IIla I delegation concentrated tho time ef ot efforts forts forte of ot o their The Tho flint first of ot thuds thew it an wholly Impossible Tn Tim accomplish the tho hue second we WE felt relt that thit It I only nn necessary to have h e time the dele dolc delegated gates gated from trum doubtful states sl lel demand It I At the tho New Nem York delegation on aim Tiles haY day n nt resolution to this effect offered by I me was suppressed by h a 1 par parliamentary maneuver After A fer fter It had hlll been agreed by h the tle lenders leaders to eliminate nil alt ni reference to tn the 1114 til money mo o I again Allin mined that time the Now New I York Yori ort delegation el offer after ns as II an aim amendment nt In the time conven convention COlwel tion time the plank by ti ton Hill Bill 11 to time the committee on en re rel rose J but bill bil time the motion moton was IM i ejected b by a n vote ole of 60 0 O to 15 28 of the lie delegates PAmm NOMINATION r these circumstances tho the nom nomination lon of at Judge Parker who was with without out mit In record on omi the time coinage question except ee that lie hue h had hlll voted olet twice for tor Mr r rI I rn I seemed to preclude the tho slight slightest est eat hope hop that thaI he ht would woul receive eon m n ninny electoral votes otel ns as Mr polled In lit HO 1900 Hut this very vey ery pu ll manity of tiC his lili hl managers which led them to 10 surrender their own convictions and to 10 stub eVer every attempt of the tIme New YOk delegates 1 even elen to voice olce the tIm opinions of ot their constituents on 01 this momentous Ion Judge Parker with question furnished wih an aim decisively ni opportunity which he has Imas his A VIRY IRY 1 It 1 linn hiA revealed him to th time the people of ot this country almost In nn an n Instant ns as I a great lender the tIme greatest of ot this gene gen generation el nn all honest man manthe the most mol Im Ito Impressive In In displaying that hint virtue that thal I 1 have hn over ever known either through ex cx experience or reading a I courageous mon men manof that of f Incomparable courage ho he was al willing to throw away not taste mere merely merl ly hy the time Imps hope of ot prospect of ot a nomination but an mum actual nomination to time the I dency dene rother than stoop stool to nn un evasion or tile ule equivocation on n a matter of at I 1 who left lett lit fit Louis before the final adjournment a I as the only way Wi to avoid being bel placed In tn a 1 position where I 1 ni must ballet 1111 have told the thc convention that Judge Parker could not In my toy opinion escape crushing defeat on the time receipt of ot Mr Ir Murphys message nt lit once or ordered dered a I special 11 train and Id hastened hOlt back to toll toil the time mem because I 1 then cit frit free tree tel hors horn If It they the still desired to ta hoar front from fromme me mime I that on omm the tho HII new platform which he himself had made he would be over oer overwhelmingly elected When my m train trin arrived nt at 4 In the morning the tho convention lied had corn com completed c Its In work but hut If It I had been pros pres present ant ent I 1 could not have made a 0 single sug suggestion which would have hae minnIe made lade nn an n Im Improvement provement on Its It course Indeed time the temper displayed by the men omen who ho at nt first blush might have dered themselves frt belittled or aggrieved og leel by the singularly independent course or their candidate Is IK one of ot the tho most mOlt auspicious features under tinder which the tIme campaign opens |