Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11

ator were social in the sense that they
were never acrimonious But they were
very insistent TheiH net result, as 1t is
viewed here, by machine leaders whose in
terest makes them watchful and well ad-
vised Is that there is to be a reorganzas
ton of the ways and meas committee,
which is none the less sure because 1t
may be for a short time delayed. Some
of them expect 1t the week after the chair
man sails for Europe for the good of his
health. Others rest satisfied with the as
surance that it is certainly coming.
The Bryan Campaign.
An anxious figure in all this conspiring
OF the machine for the reorganization of
the ways and means committee is Sam
Cook of Missouri, treasurer of the Doodle
fund for the publication of politics Cook
appears to have been dazed at the ex-
tent of the Harrison overflow and the ex-
tent of the Altgeld elimination. He heard,
before the first midnight after the election,
that the ways and means committee would
be either abolished or reorganiZed by the
friends of Bryan and Harrison. After the
election scant courtesy was paid Cook by
some of the machinists, who regard him
a dead one" and, in the first fush
of victory, were not averse to telling him
so. He has maintained a splendid isolation
since the result of the election put Alt
geld, who is here regarded as Cook
sponsor much as Stone. out of the larger
calculations of things. In the county CEN
trail committee rooms, whittier he some
times comes, Cook is known as the gefs
tleman from Missouri
That "the gentleman from Missouri is
thoroughly alarmed at the prospect OF
reorganization which will leave him out
of all connection with the new ways ana
means committee, is written in his air
manner and walk of life. He makes no
plea to the machine for mercy, but he
cultivates Bryan assiduously. Bryans
first visit here for months, just few Gays
after the election, notable for two
things. 1t was the first time he had ever
come to Chicago since his nomination in
1896 without finding Altgeld at the depot.
But there, in lieu of Atgeld, was Sam
Cook, bobbing about in small sea or
people over whose heads he looked out
over the tracks and caught the first view
of the anointed. Even then he was cut
off from communication with the candi-
date, beyond the perfunctory handshake,
by the machine men who were there with
a carriage. And during all of Bryan's stay
in the city the fact of Cooks inability to
maintain long communication with his ear
was marked.
The gentleman from Missouri" is doubt
less as well assured as others here that
there has been a change in the Bryan meth
cd. Events in the east and west nave
conspired to make Bryan confident and
aggressive. In every state he has selected
the men upon whom he can rely for lead
erShip in the line of his interest, and neith-
er Stone nor Cook is chosen in Missouri
The antitrust dinner at st. Louis is a peace
offering to Bryan. 1t is mediation FOR
men who feel themselves out of line with
party opinion and want to reinstate them
selves. At least it is SO regarded here.
At that function there is to be a pressure
brought upon Bryan to prevent the reor-
ganization of the ways and means commit
tee, which would involve the going of Stone