Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-07-15
Tells What the Democratic Congress
sional Committee Will Do.
THE PROSPECTS IN WEST VIRGINIA
Campaign Literature Being Got
Ready for Circulation.
THE REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE

| dulkner OF west Virginia, char
man of the democratic congressional com
| mittee, is I'm the city for the day looking
over the business of the committee now in
hand. He Will return 10 his home at Mar
tisburg tomorrow, but will come oack
next week and take off his coat prepara-
! tory to the season of hard work before
| him. Mr.. Lawrence Gardner. secretary of
4 the committee, will leave for New York
| ms evening TO hold a conference with
| Senator Jones Of Arkansas, the chairman
cf tho rational democratic committee, upon
the work of the coming campaign and lis
division between ;he two committees.
| Province of the Committee.
| he province Of this committee" said
Senator Faulkner TO Star reporter today,
| VIII be TO aid the election OF every can
| didate for Congress upon the regular demo-
| cratic ticket We have nothing whatever
TO do with the nominations for Congress.
and will take no part in the contests for
Eolnii lion. After the candidates al. 81.
| lected, however, Il viii be our bus. ness and
we wlil see to 1t that all the aid poss .ble
! is given in the election of those candidates
we VIII take ii for granted that the demo
| Gratis OF each street know what They are
| about, aud we will not question Their se!,c-
| ton. 1t VIII make no difference TO u wha;
The platform may be upon which he can
dldates are selected
Then, if a gold democrat is nominated
ior Congress and wants gold campaign
| literature you Will furnish it TO hlm?"
| Senator Faulkner was asked
II ne asks for such literature and We
| nave IT, he Will get IL. As 1 said before. VIC
want TO see the regular democratic nom
lftee5 Tor Congress elected. ana every effort
| OF this committee Will be bent IA thar ,3i
reCtion."
West Virginia Prospects
Senator Faulkner is IN thorough SYM
| pathy with the Chicago platform and t;,k
ei. He thinks that free silver will win. and
| ne lis especially hopeful about his own
state, West N!rg- MA, of Uhich he has
more detailed information at this stage of
| the proceedings. He thinks that silver viii
| retrieve the state to the democrats and un-
| seat the republican rule Row existing
Speaklng upon West Virginia politics, Sem
| ator Faulkner said:
Il think West Virginia will. he carried
by free silver. believe that the sentiment
throughout the state is overw helmingly In
favor OF it. In my own county | know
| personally OF republican votes that VIC will
get with oUr platform. / think the same
condition exists in ether counties in the
state.
The fourth congressional district. living
along the Ohio river, the one that was rep
Resented by Mr.. Capehart i'm the last dem
ocratic Congress, is almost unanimously
| Tor silver. That district is hordered on the
| west by the Ohio river, is largely agr.!cui-
tural and The silver sentiment IS very
| strong there. Ia the third district there
/ Is also prcponderance of opinion in favor
| of silver coinage. The district formerly
| represented 10y Postmaster General William
l.. Wilson is largely of the same mind 1
think that the first district Will also return
| majority for silver
| we viii held our state convention Au-
! gust l., and VIII nominate a state ticket
upon a silver basis throughout. All the
Candidates who are running for nomination
! before this convention have already de-
ciared themselves as silver men. Every
| one of the Congres smen nominated upon a
delnocI auc ticket viii be for silver"
Getting Out Campaign Literature.
The democratic congressional committee
has commenced the work of getting out its
campaign literature. This Will consist
| largely of speeches made in Congress-
which under the law are frankable. and the
matter can be sent through the mails with
| out expense 10 the committee under the
| frank of congressman. The bulk of the
| campaign literature is upon the subject OF
| free silver. Senator Faulkner says that
| the committee is receiving very Few in
| quirieS for literature upon the subicc; of
| the tariff. Everybody wants 10 know about
silver. what 1t means. and what its effect
| VIII be. There seems to be general
| awakening of the people upon this subject
| he says. and from every congr. ssianal dis
| tr.ct come inquiries for information.
| The committee may not get ont cam
! raiSn handbook this year. as ii is the
/
to be performed by the national con nit
| tee. popular feature of he literature
| disseminated by the congressional commit
| tee will be the leaflets upon different sub
| JectS, silver, income tax, tariff etc. In
| these leaflets all possible information will
| be given upon the subject treated. If il
relates to free silver coinage. extracts from
| half-a-doZen authorities will l,e quoted:
1 statistics will he presented from different
sources and the subject handled in The
most comprehensive manner possible. so
| TO give the reader all the Information he
| may desire upon that point.
| Some Speeches Selected
Some of the speeches already selected for
dissemination are the silver speeches of
| Senator Daniel, Senator Jones of Arkansas
Senator Cockrell. Representative Terry Of
Arkansas and the speeches of Mr. BRYAN
| himself.
Mr. Bryan's speech upon the income tax.
Scott Wilkes notable speech in the same
| lire and Representative McMillin's famous
effort will he reproduced. The committee
VIII also send out Mr.. McMiu.n's speech on
| what this Congress failed to do delivered
| at the last session.
| The committee viii also circulate tho
| speech made by Representative Fitzgerald
OF Massachusetts in The House upon the
| sectarian question and the Narouetta
| statue 1t viii be remembered that i'm this
talk MIR. Fitzgerald made q. few remarks
upon The attitude of the Wisconsin delcga-
4
| 1t was considered at the time a 'crind'
| upon the republican delegation from Mis-
| consin, of whom Chairman Babcock of The
| republican congressional committee was n
| member. and the speech is being utilized TO
| the great satisfaction of the democrats
The Gold Members
| Some gossip has been occasioned i'm poliii-
| cal circles upon the guandary i'm which il
| is supposed the congressional committee
| finds itself at this time relative to the gold
| membership Of the committee. The ques-
| ton has been frequently asked what the
| committee will do with those members who
| are avowedly favorable to the administra-
| tion and TO gold the two features distinctly
| repudiated by the democratic convention.
| For instance, there are Pigott of Connect
| cut. Hurley of Maine. Cornish of New Jer-
| Sey, Amos Cummings of New York. Smalley
| of Connecticut. Senator Brice of Ohio. Sen
| ator Gray of Delaware, Senator Murphy of
| New York, Senator Smith of New Jersey
| and Senator Mitchell OF Wisconsin men,
| bers of the committee, who are supposed to
| be advocates of the gold standard and in
| many instances decidedly favorable to the
| administration. The question has been
asked how could they consistently take part