The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-06-16
TELEGRAPHIC
TIE DEMOURATIC COMMIT.
TEE.
Aa OrganIzatIOH Arranged for
Defeat.

Washington, 14-There seems TO be q
great deal of democratic dissatisfaction
with their congressional campaign com
mittee, and the opinion Is openly ex.
pressed by prominent democrats in thE
House that as campaign committee it il
not only useless but positively harmfu
to the interests OF the party. The com
mittee itself is 8 sadly complicated affair
and its methods appear " be as badly
mixed Gs its organization. 1t was frs
arranged with Gen. Rosecrsns, as chair
man, but it was very soon found thai
RosecrAns was years behind in the man.
agement of political campaign. One
Of his plans is said to have been to offset
| the contributions made 70 the republic
cans treasury from government en-
pl0yees by popular lOc. democratic
| subscription, sort Of betty and the
baby" fund. His management of the
campaign was efectually settled from
the date of this proposition.
1t was, however, q delicate mat
ter 10 supercede him without
giving offense to bis friends, and his
making a breech in the party ranks, as
there is a large clsss in the democratic
party whose ideal ss a party leader is
mbodied IN Rosecrsus. This difficulty
WAS gotten ever by the creation of q
board of control, which should practi-
cSlly manage the campaign, and at the
head of this board was placed Roswell z.
Flower, Of New York, the man who de-
feated young Astor for Congress, and
who, on coming here worked himself
into prominence by 8 series of dinners to
his fellow congressman. Then a new
branch of the committee was formed to
include certain wealthy outsiders, and
contrary to the usual custom, a member
of the House was made secretary of the
con mittee. Dissatisfaction with the Or
ganization methods Of the committee has
been growing ever since, and the demo-
cratic failure in Oregon, which is (unrea-
sonsbly enough) laid at the door Of the
committee, has helped to stimulate the
growth Of this dissatisfaction. AS "a in.
stance of the ill-sdTised methods Of the
committee, 8 prominent democrat mem
Der, to-day, cited the fact that the first
campaign document issued by the COM
mittee was the speech Of an independent,
Speer, OF Georgia, 8 man who, though
elected by the aid Of democratic votes,
will not enter the party caucus, and is
found voting against the party IS often
as with it. Southern democrats are
very muSh annoyed at this pro-
ceeding. They say that Speer will go
among democratic voters 10 his
district and use the fact of the pubiics.
ton of this speech IS an endorsement Of
his democracy by the democratic COM
nittee. While the first fight was in Ore
gon, Roseers ne, chairman Of the COM
mittee, was busily occupied with a
sprsined ankle, and his own canvass for
a denomination, and Chairman Flower
of the board IF control WAS somewhere
between Chicago and New York. and
after the fight IN Oregon Senator Slater,
Of that state, made q statement here to
the effect that the democrats had received
no aid from abroad, except few docu-
ments on the Chinese question, which he
said was not an issue. 1t is understood
that the campaign is to be made by DEM
Ocratic managers with documents and
each state delegation is TO be allowed to
choose the particular Fort of documents
to be circulated in tina state from which
it halls. The usefulness of the committee
will be handicapped by the poor estims-
ion in which it is held by democratic