The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-16

st. Louis, Mo, Oct 15.-ChairTRan
Jones of the national Democratic. COM
mittee arrived here this evening from
New York and went to the Planters
hotel, where he will confer With Vice
Chairman Stone and other party lead
ers tomorrow. He was met by L.
Woodson, member of the national COM
mittee from Kentucky, and the two
spent some time talking over the sit
uation of the Blue Grass state. Com
mitteeman Woodson left soon after his
conference for Cairo, Ills, where he
will meet William ]. Bryan tomorrow
morning. From there he viii escort
Colonel Bryan through Kentucky on
his speech-making tour.
Later in the evening Chairman Jones
was cIoseted with Vice Chairman
Stone, Chairman Johnson of the execu-
tive committee. Sam b. Cock, aIr. Dew
lin, manager of the press bureau of the
national committee. and other promt
nent. Democrats. The time was spent
talking over the political situation and
the developments during Senator
Jones absence in Europe, and in ar
ranging the details of tomorrow con-
ference.
The Conference Today.
Among other business to be transact
ed at tomorrow conference is the
transfer to Chairman Jones of the at
fairs of the nationals committee, which
have been in the hands of Vice Chair
man Stone. 1t is believed that the
Devlin fight that has been engrOssing
the Democratic faction in Chicago, will
come up and be settled by some action
on the part of Chairman Jones and
his associates.
The matter of raising funds with
which to carry on the coming national
campaign will consume much Of the
attention of those present tomorrow.
Sam b. Cook, having that matter in
charge, has several plans to present,
and these will receive careful attention.
Senator Jones, when seen after the
conference. said:
The Democratic party will, IN my
opinion, stand on all national issues in
1900 precisely where it stood in 1895.
None of the issues for which it held out
at that time will be abandoned in 1900.
Since that time some other great
questions have arisen and are demand
ing attention from the people of the
United States. The question of i'm
perialism and of the control Of trusts
by the federal government are this
chief of these and 1 am of the opinion
that they will play a paramount part
in the campaign of 1900 Which of
these questions will be chief depends
on the people. Both are material and
both will be put to the front by the
Democratic party in 1900 BiTnetallism
is as imperatfvely an issue now as then
and it will not be abandoned by the
party
Merely An Informal Nesting.
Chairman jones, speaking of tomor-
rows conference, said: The present
conference is merely an informal mset-
ing of a few members who fill official
positions of Importance in the national
committee. to talk over what has been
done and what will be done. No
changes will be made as & result of
conference. I shall remain as l have
been before. chairman of the national
committee None of the important acts
of the committee were without my
knowledge. Governor Stone wrote I. to
me fully concerning every important
action of the committee before it was
executed. / have even, while | was out
of the country, kept in thorough touch
with the committee and have been at
it's head except that 1 was not present
to preside at its meetings. 1 asked
Governor Stone and Committeeman
johnson to meet me here.
Il shall take no part in the cam
paign in Ohio or Kentucky. Mr.. Bryan
and Governor Stone have done as much
work there as can be done by non
resident Democrats. / am going back
to my home as directly as l can and
follow the advice of my physicians to
do no active campaign work.