The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-15
National Campaign Outlook Favor
able TO Democrats.
RAISING CAMPAIGN FUND
NO SUCH EMBARRASSMENT as
IN go.
Views of C. B. Pash, Who Is Con-
nected With the National Com
mittee-Illinois Democrats Are
All For Silver-Second Precinct
Club Organized.

c. B. Pash of Chicago is stopping for
a day or two in Salt Lake City en-
route to Montana Mr.. Pash is with
the Democratic national committee, and
speaks in a very sanguine manner of
the condition OF the party in the mid
dies west and especially in Illinois. He
states that party lines are closely
drawn in that state, and that the few
Democrats who left the regular Dem
ocratic organization in 1896 have re-
turned to the party or have gone over
70 the Republicans He adds that
while the Republicans in Illinois are
fattering themselves with the hope
that the division in the Democratic
party is such that no compromise viii
be made, the real fact is that there is
net any division among the Democrats
so far as the principles Of the party
are concerned. Both factions in the
state of Illinois are in favor of free
silver, and that they are getting To-
gether on a basis on which the party
viii be united, there is little question,
while the Republicans have not only
on their hands difficulties in common
with the balance of the country, but
have a certain prominent gentleman
on their hands. who is at present gov
ernor of the state and who Will not al
low the newspaper trust headed by H.
II. Kohlsaat, 10 run the state while he
is governor.
The meeting OF the Democratic ma
tional committee at Chicago two weeks
ago, developed the fact that there was
q virtual unanlmity of opinion regard
ing the issues of 1900 A vote taken
by the committee resulted in an over
whelming majority favorable to the re-
affirmation of the issues declared in the
1896 platform, and it was conceded that
these would again be the issues in 1900
with few additions, presumably in
Guiding a very strong anti-expansIOn
plank and one voicing more forcibly
the antitrust feeling in this country.
Raising Campaign Fund.
Congratulations were INDUCED in re-
gardlnS the great work accomplished
by the ways and means committee,
which is a subcommittee of the Demo
cratic national committee, in their eff
Tort to accumulate fund for the sup
port of the principles declared for in
ISOO. This committee commenced work
oct l. 1898, to raise a fund of s. O00. 600
contributions are coming in RAPIDLY
from all sections of the country and
more especially the east, which prom
lSes that the fund for 1900 will be in
size commensurate with the issues of
that year.
1t is a well known fact, Mr.. Pasn
says, that the declaration of free silver
IN 1886 was somewhat in advance of
and entirely unexpected by the rank
and file of the party, and that there
was no time left in which to raise suf
hclent funds from the people to prop
eriy present their cause at the polls:
but in the struggle for 1900. it is entire
ny dlfferent. as two years previous to
the election, viii have been devoted 20
the collection of funds to meet the ex-
penses of the campaign, and the Dem
ocratlc party with the declaration Cor
Tree SILVER and a clear cut declaration
against trusts, with will enter the
camp with funds sufficient for all ic-
Sitinate expenses and with The peo-
PIES vote behind them. It is nor onlv
probable but well nigh certain. thar
the election viii go for the Democratic
party, with William j. Bryan as its
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