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Show BRYAN OBJECTS TO PARKER Nebratkan Keep Wires Hot Between Chicago And Baltimore, 8tatlng j , Hit Views. 1 Baltimore, June 19. Opposition de- I veloped unexpectedly tonight to tho I, naming o( Alton D. Parker of New t.. york for temporary chairman of the W Democratic national convention. l" While a majority of tho arrangements I committee that tomorrow will select temporary officers of the contention were favorable to the selection of Judge Parker, It became known tonight to-night that friends of William J. Bryan Bry-an had come out against Judge Parker's Par-ker's selection and that a new choice might have to be made. The statement wns made by those opposed to Judge Parker's selection that he was a conservative and that as this was a VogrMslve convention, a progressive should be named for temporary chnlrrnan to rnafce a keynote key-note speech. Bryan Uses Th Wire. William J. Ilryan wns said to have communicated by telephone from Chicago Chi-cago late thin afternoon and presented his view. Leaders of the movement to nominate Speaker Clark for president presi-dent planned to hold a meeting ln( Washington tonight to determine whether they would present a candidal candi-dal t)r temporary chairman to ttfe arrangements committee. The Wll-son Wll-son 'leaders were uncertain ukolhcr Ubcy would urge the selection of i 'temporary chairman known to look with favor upon Wilson for president. A member of the arrangements committee com-mittee said that while majority of the committee was In favor or Judc. "Parker. It could not be tMtclltonlght what the outcome would be. There were reports that the temporary chairman chair-man ship might bo brought 'before the convention for settlement. Favors Underwood. Clark Howell, national commlttee-man commlttee-man from Georgia and the oldest mem- Lber of the national commlttco In point of service, reached here today and was soon engaged In 'the numerous conferences. Mr. Uowell, who has Just been re-elected a member of the national na-tional committee for the next four years, believes Oscar W. Underwood la tho logical candidate for president. "If Oscar Underwood camo from any state north of the Ohio river,' said Mr. Howell "lliowrould be nominated nomin-ated unanimously. The floor leadership leader-ship of Underwood has dono more than anything else to bring tho Democratic Demo-cratic party together. The time has come when the, logical man for the presidential nomination should be selected se-lected no matter what part of the country ho comes 'from. Tho day of , sectionalism hns passed." j It was generally reported tonight 1 that William J. Ilryan would bo chair- i man of tho committee on resolutions. I Lieutenant Nlcholl of Ohio, direct- i Ing head of the Harmon campaign to- f day Issued a statement declaring that ifchould Harmon fall to get the nomination nomi-nation he would support the choice of the convention. Murphy For Gaynor. New York, Juno J9. Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, Is by no means hostile to tho move re-1 re-1 cently launched to favor tho candi dacy of William Gnynqr for tho Dem-. Dem-. ocratlc presidential nomination, Judg- 'fi? from his comment today when the movement wns brought to his attention. atten-tion. "That Is tho kind of man we want a man who can get independent strength as well as the support of tho regular organization." said Mr. Murphy. "Such support would not affect the t attitude of the Democratic organlza-' organlza-' Hon." Novel Plan Proposed. Baltimore, June 19. Preliminary to tho meeting tomorrow of the arrangement arrange-ment committee to select the temporary tempo-rary officers of the Democratic national nation-al convention, there was further discussion dis-cussion today of the proposition to havo the candidate who received the second highest number of votes on the final ballot accept the nomination of vice president. National Committeeman Commit-teeman Daniels of North Carolina Is strongly urging this proposition to his fellow committeemen. "Of course, all the presidential candidates can-didates say they would not accept second place on the ticket, but what else could they say at this time?" said Committeeman Daniels who add-ed add-ed that the makeup of the ticket from the geographical standpoint, would be satisfactorily brought about by the adoption of tho proposition. Tho headquarters of the various presidential candidates were In full swing today and the rival camps Issued Is-sued hourly claims cf victory. Secretary Woodson said nil of the contests received so far were quite minor in character. "AH In all I don't believe there will be more than forty seats contested," said Secretary Woodson, "and these represent perhaps halt a dozen delegations. dele-gations. No one of them Is serious." Lieutenant Governor Taylor Elly-son Elly-son of Virginia, the national committeeman commit-teeman from that state, ,says the several sev-eral candidates In the field will receive re-ceive part of tho vote cast. ' "Virginia will be satisfied with any good candidate," said Mr. Ellyson. "Our state has no candidate of Its own." |