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WEEKLY 2-TIMES-A-WEEK 81 A YFsAS
CHICAGO A HAPPY CHOICE.
THE COMMITTEEMAN SEEM COM
PARATIYELY WELL SATISFIED.

Chairman Harrity to Appoint n Spe-
ciaI Committee With Autoeratic
Powers to Complete All the Ar
rangcmcnts for the Convention.
The Defeat of ~. Louis Due TO the
Fact That IL Was the Choice of the
SIlVerites.
Washington, Jan. 1.-THE special COM
mittee TO whom will be entrusted all mat
ters relating to the national democratic
convention will not be announced by
Chairman Harity until next week. It
will consist. OF seven persons. Of whom
himself and Mr.. Sheerin of Indiana, the
secretary of the national committee, will
be two. Ben r. Cable Of Illinois. the IL
linois member OF the national commit
tee, will also be selected. but upon the
remaining four Mr.. Harrity has not de-
cided.
This committee will have autocratic
power. IL will have charge of all the de-
tails connected with the convention. a
responsibility which IN previous years has
been divided With the local committee.
1t is not unlikely that the cooperation
Of the Chicago local committee may~be
invited on this occasion. but II will be
be regarded as mere auxiliary, and
without any official authority.
The members Of the Chicago delega-
ton, who were so successful in carrying
on the convention hOnors yesterday, are
giving unstinted praise TO their national
committeeman. Mr.. Gable. While the
Chicago contingent, In their Individual
ana collective capacity, did effective work,
the principle credit Of securing the con-
vention Is given by them TO Mr. Cable
Although an uncOmprOmising advocate OF
sound money, he is widely popular among
the free silver men, and this popularity
he eXerted to the utmost Yesterday In
Chicago's favor. Mr.. Cable stated to-day
that Chicago would treat the convention
visitors with entire fairness: that the
hotel rates would not be increased be-
yond the ordinary price, and that Chicago
would in every way show her apprecia-
tion OF the courtesy which the national
committee had extended to her In proper
~ entertaining all who attended II. Speak,
ing OF presidential possibilities, he re-
piled that Illinois had a candidate in the
person of Col William r. Morrison of tho
lnterstate commerce commission, and that
the state was practically a unit for him.
Gov Francis and other leading members
Of the Missouri delegation confess their
regret to-day at falling to secure tha
convention, but comfort themselves with
the reflection that they disappointed the
expectations Of the clever politicians in
developing so great a strength.
The disappointment of Mr. Prather, the
member OF the national committee from
MISSOURI, expressed itself to-day In a rath-
er amusing manner He was asked II he
would leave for St. Louis with others OF
| his friends who start west this afternoon.
/ He replied with great candor that he
would not He said he was going by a diff
i ferent route and that he preferred to be
aiohei thnt ne was not IN 2 mogu Ior
/ talking. He was asked to explain why St.
Louis failed to bear off the prize. He re-
/ piled that one OF the objections was based
on the fact that ST. Louis already had the
| republican convention, and that many of
! the Oldest delegates regarded II as un-
necessary to give Missouri both conven-
| tions. He thought too that the f1nan-
| cial question had not been without its
| effect, inasmuch as a number of sound
| money democrats objected to St. Louis
/ because the silver men were so nearly
unanimous In its favor.
The special committee of which Mr.. Har-
| rity will be chairman, will decide upon the
| building at Chicago which will be used
| for convention purposes. Tattersallss
which stands at the corner of Eighteenth
| and State streets, is centrally located, but
| IL is thought that the Coliseum, a COM
modius structure. which will be devoted
| to the same uses In Chicago that Madison
| Square Garden Is in New York, will be
for the convention If 1t be desirable to
| hold IL there. 1t is believed that the Coli
| iseum viii be selected provided the work.
| upon It Is finished in time.
Most Of the members of the COMMITTEES
returned to their homes to-day. All ac-
| cept the selection of Chicago in good hu-
| NOR. The free coinage men laugh at the
| suggestion that there is any significance.
as far as the currency question is con-
/ cerned In the selection or Chicago.
| Speaking for them, Clark Howell, the
committeeman from Georgia, says.
| such claim is preposterous. Chicago
was chosen, simply because a majority
| Of the members OF the committee thought
/ as between Chicago and ST. Louis, the
| former was the most desirable place for
| the convention. The silver question did
not enter into the choice between the two
cities, as has been claimed Several ar
dent free coinage members voted for Chi
| cago, among them being Mr. Sewell OF
Maine. Mr.. Donaldson Of South Carolina
| and myself. on the other hand, several
| of the gold men voted for st. Louis, whose
| campaign was managed by ex-1IOV. Fran
| els of Missouri, Col Prather, the COM
| mitteeman from that state, and others
| who are conspicuous advocates of the
single gold standard. The currency ques-
| ton will no doubt figure in the conven-
| ton, but It did not in the selection of the
| place"