The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-18
CONSPIRAT0RS CONFERRED
MEETING OF FREE SILYER MAN-
 AGERS AT THE CAPITAL.

AGERS AT THE CAP.T.AL.
 Bland Discusses the Outlook, BelittIcs Re- publican Strength and Offers His ser- vices to rho Cause of Western Minors Other Democrats sanguine and Hopeful -Bryan Speaks at Buffalo and Eric-- After September 1 He Will Use His Voice in tho Great Battleground of the May be in Chicago.
 Washington, Aug. 17.-For three hours this afternoon Senator Jones. chairman of the democratic committee. was closeted with several prominent 1 democrats, discussing the subject Of | ways and means and the best nethods | of conducting the campaign Those l present were MT. Johnson of Kansas, i the newly appointed member Of the | campaign committee from, that state:I i Senator Bacon of Georgia, ChairInau I Faulkner of the congressional comnait- | tee, Dan McConville of Ohio, Major T. Q. Towles of Missouri secretary of the Bimetallic league; Hon. R. r. Bland of Missouri, Representative Richardson of | Tennessee. Representative Livingstone of Georgia and Secretary Gardiner of i the League of Democratic Clubs. i If any specific plans were agreed up- on the conferees kepl them to them selves, for when the meeting was ad-, journed every gentleman present re- ferred all inquiries to Chairman Jones. who skilfully parried all questions. | Senator Bacon has just returned from q trip to the Pacific coast and report 1 ed to the committee that he found tho whole coast and the country from the Pacific to the Mississippi ablazc with enthusiasm for the democratic ticket and the free coinage platform, MT. Bland gave the committee one ef his talks and laughed at the claims of the republicans that they would carry his state The ticket, he said, was good for majority of at least 5O000 to 60,000 in Missouri Every western state in like manner, he said, was loyal to the cause of free silver and they would cast their votes that way, including H. linois and Indiana.
 l After the conference MT. Bland was asked if he could say anything about 1 the rumors that the headquarters would be taken to Chicago against the l protest of the chairman and other members of the committee, because of the persistency of Mrs. Bryan. MT. l Bland raised his hands deprecatingly I and stated that he had nothing to say l on the subject, not even denying that he knew anything about it.
 To the committee Mir Bland stated his belief in the triumphant election of
 Mr. Bryan He offered his services to the chairman in an unreserved man. ner, and it is not unlikely that Silver l Dick" will be heard from as the cam paign progresses.
 Representative Livingstone was net l less imbued with the hope of success He is on his way home from New York where he attended the ratification meeting. He said he was confident that the democrats would carry New | York, New Jersey and Delaware Sil- yer sentiment was, he asserted, almost as rampant in the heart of New York as in the west and south.
 Chairman Jones leaves for Chicago tomorrow night or Wednesday for the purpose of arranging for the headquar- | Governor Stone a place on the carn- paign committee, but the governor had declined it. The campaign com-i mittee will not find its work child'a play, said Senator Jones. The mem- bers are expected to be about head-H Iquarters and actively engaged. Messrs. 1 Mclean of Ohio, Smalley of Vermonts and Howell of Georgia, will be station-i ed in Washington and the other mem- bers at Chicago. They have full charge and will take hold at an early day. It has been settled there will be no headquarters of any kind in New York. If Treasurer St. John finds it irnpossi-. ble to go to Chicago he will remain in New York, but his office there will be the only thing approaching head- quarters in the metropolis. While the headquarters of the committee are to be located in Chicago 1t is the general impression that the real headquarters will be here. The naming of Chicago was, as one member put i. to-day. merely catering to sentiment. Enc main work will be done from this cify.
 Although no official program has been arranged. it is unofficially announced
 
 falo and Erie on the 18th and ash he will go direct to Lincoln and remain until after the first week in September. He will probably go to St. Louis be- | tween the 7th and 10th of that month, where he will speak. Thence he goes to Louisville. From that point his tentative itinerary includes Atlanta, portions of North Carolina, Richmond, and Baltimore. He will arrive in the latter city between the 18th and 20th of l September, where he will be formally notified of his nomination by the sil- yer party.
 i After October 1 he will confine him- self to the middle west, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin and 1 Minnesota.
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