Jersey Governor and his family left Princeton for Sea Girt, a delightful
place along the Atlantic seaboard, where the state of New Jersey had
provided for its governor an executive mansion, a charming cottage, a
replica of General Washington's headquarters at Morristown. With us to
these headquarters, to keep vigil as it were over the New Jersey Governor,
went a galaxy of newspaper men, representing the leading papers of the
country.

The first, and indeed the most important, situation the candidate was
called upon to handle at Sea Girt as a preliminary to the Convention was
his reply to the now famous Bryan-Parker telegrams, which played so
important a part in the deliberations and indeed in the character of the
whole Convention--It will be recalled that Mr. Bryan, who was in
attendance at the Republican Convention at Chicago as a special
correspondent, had telegraphed an identic telegram to each of the
Democratic candidates, Messrs. Clark, Underwood, Wilson, and Harmon, as
follows:

Chicago, June, 1912.

In the interest of harmony, I suggest to the sub-committee of the
Democratic National Committee the advisability of recommending as
temporary chairman some progressive acceptable to the leading
progressive candidates for the Presidential nomination. I take it for
granted that no committeeman interested in Democratic success would
desire to offend the members of a convention overwhelmingly
progressive by naming a reactionary to sound the keynote of the
campaign.

Eight members of the sub-committee, however, have, over the protest of