The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-17
CHAIRMAN JONES
IS VERY ANGRY
He Discovers That the New Woman Is
Running the Campaign.
KNOCKED OUT BY MRS. BRYAN
Jones Wanted the Headquarters in
Washington, and Was in No Pleas.
ant Frame Of Mind When lie Was
Ovverruled..ChicagO Has Been
Selected.

Washington. Aug 26.-In the follow
ing brief statement Chairman Jones of
the National Democratic committe ac-
knowledges the destruction of all his
plans for the opening of the Bryan and
Sewall campaign and announces the
partial organization of the committees:
The headquarters OF the national Demo-
cratic committee will be established at
Chicago, with u branch in Washington
city. A pant of the campaign commit
tee. sufficient to conduct the business of
the campaign for the present. has been
appointed. The gentlemen selected so far
are: Mr.. John X. Mclean of Ohio; ID. ~.
Campau, of Michigan; ]. d. Johnson, of
Kansas; Clark Howell, of Georgia; B. h.
Smalley, of Vermont, and Mr.. Gahan. of
Illinois. Mr.. J. l.. Norris has also been
selected as assistant treasurer of the Dem
ociatic national committee, located at
Washington. Other appointments will be
made as occasion requires. The execu-
tive committee will be appointed later.
Mr.. German was requested to accept a
place on the campaign committee. He
declined because Of the selection of Chi
cago. az he could not very well go so far
from his own state He will, as a member
of the national committee, engage active
ly In the campaign. especially in his own
and In neighboring states.
Chairman Jones was i'm no pleasant
frame of mind when he prepared this
information for the newspapers, but he
has learned one thing in his brief term
as campaign manager, and that is to
hold his tongue unless he has something
pleasant and popular to say. He does
not take the public IN his confidence
therefore to the extent Of telling them
why his plan for main headquarters
in Washington and a branch in New
York. and Senator Arthur I. German
in charge of both, has been abandoned.
The public understand, however that
it is because the Boy Orator and his
wife plainly told Chairman JOnesand his
committee that the campaign should be-
managed from Chicago, ana because the
Tillmans and the Altgelds and the
Stones and the other Democrats of that
ilk declared that no sound-money Dem
ocrats like the Maryland senator should
conduct u campaign of the people and
not of the politicians. Chairman Jones
does not deny that he has been defeated
and he and his friends are in no pleasant
state of mind.
WILL PACK HIS GRIP.
But in few days he will pack his
grip and 60 to Chicago there to re-
main in charge of the Democratic
headquarters until election day. He
fears the effect of turning the campaign
over to the elements that controlled the
Chicago convention, but he has re-
ceived his orders and must obey. Wash
ington will be used as a distributing
point for campaign literature to be
sent out under Congressional franks
And Washington will also be the
headquarters of the National Com
mitteeman from Maryland, Arthur P
German, who, it is generally thought
will be the mentor of Chairman Jones
Notwithstanding his declinatiOn to serve
as chairman. of the Executive com
mittee.
Chairman Jones is greatly disap-
pointed to be deprived of Mr.. Germans
company during the campaign. They
have long been personal and political
friends, and the Arkansas senator, ap-
preciating and acknowledging his lack
of experience in political matters, de-
pends almost altogether upon the ad-
vice and counsel of the astute polite
ian, who was chairman of the national
Democratic committee in the cam
paign that resulted in the first elec-
ton of Grover Cleveland. But Chicago
and Washington are only 800 miles
apart, and but twenty-four hours is re-
quired for the transmission of Il letter
between these two cities, and tele-
graphic communication is a matter OF
few moments only. Chairman Jones
i'm Chicago. therefore, and Committee
man German in Washington, still hope
to be able to exercise in large meas
ure a point control over the work Of
the national committee.
Mrs. Bryan was the main instru-
ment in selecting Chicago and in prac-
tically rejecting the services Of Sena-
tor German. Before the BryanS left
town yesterday Mrs. Bryan pointed
out that the fight for her husbands
election was to be In the middle west
ern states, and that Chicago was the
natural headquarters in view of this
fact. Furthermore, she recalled her
husbands speech at Chicago when he
replied to Senator Hill. 1t was i'm that
speech that Bryan declared that new
| leaders have come to the front and
| they are to have charge of this new is
sue." He said very much more in the
same strain and all this was recalled
to him yesterday. With the retire
ment of Senator German and the ap-
parent Indifference Of Senator Hill to
the Bryan ticket, it was made very
clear yesterday that Bryan's utter