Birmingham state herald., 1896-08-04
CLOSETED WITH OFFICERS Senator Jones Getting ACquaint-
 ed With the Work. POLITICAL CLANS AT WORK Sound Money Men Organizing for COnVen- ton-Committeeme Fred-IllinoiS for
 SiIyer-0ther Political News.

Washington, Aug. 3.-Senator Jones, chairman of the national committee, was closeted with the officers of the demo- cratic congressional campaign committee most of the day, it having been his first opportunity of getting acquainted with the work that has thus far been done by that committee and the plans 1t has mapped out for the future. Among his callers at headquarters were Senator Cor man of Maryland and Ex-Clerk of the House Kerr of Pennsylvania. Both these gentlemen were full of confidence, MT. German maintaining that Maryland would be true to it's old love when the vote was counted, and Mr. Kerr predlct- ing some very marked gains in the demo- cratic representation in congress lrom the Keystone state.
 Senator Jones was quoted this morning in a newspaper as saying that the popu- lists in the south would Ego with the ne groes, where they belong.
 ''It is not fair to me to make sucn d statement" said the senator. T nave said that the populist party is divided into two factions. One of these IS actu- ated by patriotic motives, and nave gone to that party because they believed that the democratic party would not give them the relief they demanded When they see that the democratic party stands ready to give them free coinage they Wlii return to 1t and support It's tlcket anu its principles The other faction, mucn the smaller of the two, is made up or men moved by hopes of personal az vancement, and they would naturaliy ar filiate with the republicans. l do not pc lieve that the populist ticket in the soulh- ern states will initiate against the elec- tion of Bryan and Sewall, and all the con ditions now point to an overwneimlhs victory at the coming election
 committee representing the local cen tral committee, the various state orsdhi zations and the clubs of the District or Columbia called upon MT. Jones this aft ernoon to persuade him to arrange TOT MT Bryan to deliver speech here No conclusion in the matter was reched anu will not be until after MT. Bryan nas been notified in New York, on the l2th instant, and arrangements have been made for his subsequent movements.
 MT Kerr ex-clerk of the house of rep resentatives will be given charge or the campaign in Pennsylvania, owing to the retirement of MT. Harrty, who Is not in sympathy with either the ticket or the platform
 This afternoon MT. Jones reiterated the statement that he would not decide upon the location for the national headquar- ters, nor the name of the members Of the executive committee until he reached New York and MT. Bryan had been form ally notified
 Representative Pearson of North Car olina at republican headquarters report ed very satisfactory conditions or things in his state. The populists he said were not in humor to receive much criticism from the democrats, and the statement accredited to Chairman Jones in some of the morning papers that the southern populists would Ego to the negroes where they belonged, was the kind of talk MT. Pearson said that was needed to cause them to come out openly and vote with the republicans.