The age-herald., 1899-07-21
MEET ING AT CHICAGO
 OF DEMOCRATS
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 chair then announced that it would be in order to consider the question of admitting the new member from Massachusetts. Con- mitteeman Corcoran, a gold democrat of that state having protested against his removal to make room for George Fred Williams. The matter was settled in fa- vor of the latter, who retained the seat.
 Report on Devlin Matter
 MT. Stone then announced that the con- mittee of three appointed to investigate the charges made by the Harrison faction of Illinois against P. J. Devlin, editor of the Press Bureau of the national commit tee, was ready to report. The committee reported as follows:
 After reciting at length the occurrences leading up to the complaint of the Harri- son faction against MT. Devlin the report continues:
 finds that MT. Devlin holds his position by appointment from the chairman of the na- tional committed; that he receives no salary but has an allowance made to him for ex- penses covering office rent and assistance, which varies from $75 to $175 ger month; that his duties, so far as your sub-commit- tee can ascertain, are to furnish to the ready print house of the United States weekly such matter as is deemed desirable in the interests of our party to have ap- pear in the ready print furnished to demo- cratic weekly papers through these estab- lishments. So far as we can ascertain Mir Deylin seems to be man specially quail fled for the discharge of this duty. He is personally ardent democrat and de- voted to the principles of our party. He is a man of large experience in this special line of business, having editorial super vision of the publications of one of the larg- est ready print houses In the United States During our investigation of the incident complained of by MT. Gahan and the Illinois committee we have had numerous confer ences with MT. Devln. He tells us that his authority from Senator Jones was gen. eral in it's character, and no special direc- tions were given him, and he understood that he was to exercise his discretion large ly in the line of work committed to his charge. He insists that the daily papers which published the articles complained of are mistaken when they aver that he stated that his article had the indorsement of either Senator Jones or of the national committee. He admits that one in au- thority in the national committee was con- suited in any manner prior to the publica- tion of the article, and Senator Jones, in a late letter to the chairman of your sub committed, ayers that he never saw the article until 1t was referred to him in the course of this investigation by the chair man of your subcommittee. MT. Devln' explains the incident by stating that he wrote the article complained of intending to send 1t out through the press bureau as alleged, but that before it's publication he concluded not to do so; that in his absence and without his knowledge it was set up with other matter in the publication for that week and before he discovered 1t a number of copies had been printed; that upon discovery of the error he caused the entire issue, as the thought, to be destroy ed and reprinted the issue eliminating this article; that copy, which in some day es- e.II s..&- 41.@ newspaper man and that the publications in the Chicago dailies were the result. Since this investigation has been in progress, however, the members of Tour sub-commit- tee have received Mir Devlin's office copies of the democratic press Bulletin which is