The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-15

His Campaign Oratory Into Wall Street
which is Only a Stones Throw From
Madison Square Garden-He Casts Dig
/ nifty to the Wind and Says He VIII Maxi
Speeches to Get Votes and After Tina
He VIII Try to be Disnified - Othel
Bryan Gossip
Chicago, July 4.-By a decision Of
the Democratic national committee tn:
campaign for free silver and the Chi
cago ticket will be opened in New York
| City on July q in Madison Square Gar
den, where William Jennings Bryan
candidate for president. and Arthur
Sewall, nominee for vice president, Wi
be notified formally Of their nomination
The occasion will be made a grea'
my's country. not many stones throw
from Wall Street, the great bugbear o.
| the free silver men, and il is hoped the
mass meeting will be bigger and more
enthusiastic than that held there foul
years ago, with Cleveland and Steven
son as the center of attraction.
| The idea of opening the campaign IN
New York and at so early a date was
| Mr. Bryan's own He is ambitious tC
carry New York and some of the New
| England states in spite of the threat
ened detection Of the sound money Dem
| ocrats, as one Of his enthusiastic ed-
mirers on the committee puts it, he pro-
poses "to carry the war into Africa"
The new national committee, which
! met at headquarters in the Paine:
| House in the afternoon, and adjourned
| TO hold second meeting at 9 o'clock on
| Saturday night. organized at that hour
| by the election of Senator James K
Jones Of Arkansas as chairman. Sen
ator Jones was authorized to name the
secretary Of the committee Of nine mem
| bers, whose names will be announced by
| him when the committee meets again
in New York. July 81.
Another important feature of the COM
| mittee's work was the evident determl-
nation Of the members to have their
permanent headquarters in Chicago.
Though formal action was delayed I'M
til later meeting of the committee, the
proposal of Governor Stone of Missouri
to select Chicago as the scene of the
committees labor met with nothing but
favorable comment.
Mr.. Bryan was an important factor
at both sessions of the committee and
also at the meeting of the notifica ton
committee, held in the interim. He
made several speeches, asked questions,
and asked advice, and in every way
showed his desire to take an active part
in the campaign. He objected early in
the proceedings to the suggestion, re-
peated by several members of the COM
r'ittee that his opinion or advice should
dictate its decision. When for the Sec
ond or third time members of the COM
mittee had proposed taking some action
in Difference to the wishes of our can
didate," Mr.. Bryan emphatically said:
mo, don't do anything in Difference to
my wishes. l am a young man and
have not had much experience in poll
tics. The members of the committee are
many of them older men and have had
longer experience. 1 do not want any
suggestions of mine to be acted upon IL
they run counter to their judgment"
What the candidate most insisted up
on, and in his wishes the committee
seemed to concide, was that the cam.
psign should be opened in the east He
has sublime confidence that the as
VI Ills luClCOilC SlOluCllCc Will
demolish the defences of the money
power of the Democrats of the east,
sound money or any other kind of
money. will fall into line for free silver
in answer to his slogan and carry New
York and the New England states for
the Democratic ticket.
Mr.. Bryan hardly expects any state in
the Union to go Republican next fall
and the members of the committee did
their best to become inoculated with his
confidence.
AT the night session of the commit.
tee, over which ex-Chairman William
F. Harrity presided temporarily, Sena-
tor Benjamin r. Tillman. the fiery pitch
fork ora tor of South Carolina, emitted
several sparks in a dispute over the
methods of selecting the chairman and
executive committee.
The cards had been arranged for the
election of Senator Jones as chairman,
although he was not a member of the
committee, and he sat outside the COM
mittee room during the fore part of the
session waiting with due Senatorial dig
nifty to be notified OF his election and
called to take the reins of power. He
had to wait longer than he expected on
account of Senator Tillman, who Sc
cured the floor as soon as the commit
tee was called to order
Tihman remarked energetically:
This committee cannot get TO work
any too soon. / don't believe in post
poning the selection of the executive
committee, as has been suggested. We
ought 10 go right 10 work here, and not
leave this room until the committee has
been named. l move we proceed to the
election of the executive committee"
There were a lumber OF criticisms of
this proposition. Governor Stone OF
Missouri asked if il would not be wiser
to choose a chairman first, and give him
say about the choice of his co-workers
ON the campaign committee.
Trey Woodson. the new member of
the committee from Kentucky, suggest
ed that there were so many new men
on the committee who were not per-
sonally acquainted with each other IL
would be better 10 leave the selection
Of the executive committee to som one
man who knew the qualifications of
the various members.
How would you select the members
OF the executive committee ?" asked an
other committeeman OF Senator TIL
man.
" ny eject llfeIn r4SnI mere Dy pal
lot, was the reply.
After further parley. in which the
rasping voice of the Senator from South
Carolina frequently waited few sound
waves over the transom, II. II. Clayton
OF Alabama got up and nominated Sen
atOr Jones for chairman.
IL seemed 10 strike Senator TilInan
as peculiarly obnoxious for any one TO
0-,rl1Se ,.-s, motion whfla a,-,.5.- no,
ton OF his own had the floor. and he
said with hot sarcasm: Il have no per-