The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-11-21
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS,
The Meeting Of the National Ex-
ecutive Committee in Chicago.
SLOGANS FOB NEXT CAMPAIGN.

While Free silver Is In the Platform to
Stay, 1t IL Proposed to Make Strong
ANTITRUST FiRht-National Conven-
tion May Meet in April.
Chicago, Nov. 21.-The Democratic
national executive committee, with
National Chairman ]. X. Jones In the
chair, spent most of yesterday In q
room in the Sherman House discussing
matters pertaining to organization,
ways and means and the admlnistra-
tive affairs of the organization. The
committee will meet again today, and
It is expected will get through with the
business on hand before night. Moth
ing was said about meeting Of the
national committee, but 1t is believed
the committee will be called to meet
in Washington on Feb. %.
The committeeman were extremely
uncommunicative as to what was done
at the meeting. Secretary Charles
Walsh said the committee had trans
acted no business of interest or i'm
portance, but only considered admin
istrative affairs. After the meeting
had adjourned, however, some Of tho
committeeman continued the discus
sion of the probable situation next
year. They disclosed the TACT that a
considerable part of the committees
time had been devoted to discussing
the probable effect of high prices on
the campaign OF 1900.
1t is the purpose Of some of the COM
mitteemen to organize bureau of in
formation and education, whose duty
1t shall be to gather accurate and
definite information relating to trusts,
cost Of manufacturing, selling prices to
jobbers and middlemen, selling prices
to consumers, wages paid and cost OF
raw material. They believe they will
be able to show that the present high
prices are the result Of trusts and COM
bines,. and that workingmen have been
given but small proportion Of the in
crease In selling values. This idea
has assumed such tangible form that
1t Is predicted that W. H. t"Coin")
Harvey will be placed at the head OF
the bureau. but none of the commit
teemen would admit this.
All the committeeman said free COIN
age was in the platform to stay, but
none Of them said it would be the
dominant issue. Congressman Will
lam Sulzer, Of New York, appeared be-
fore the committee. He said trusts
would be the issue in the east. James
F. Minturn. of New Jersey, told the
committee practically the same thing.
Mr. Minturn said the New Jersey DEM
ocratic committee did not have the
confidence of the Chicago platform
Democrats and that some of the mem
bers had voted the Republican ticket.
He wanted w. ]. Bryan to visit New
Jersey and help straighten things out.
Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota.
and Charles A. Towne, of Duluth, both
of them silver Republicans, told the
committee that free silver was still |
a live issue in their states.
There was strong feeling among
the committeeman present in favor of |
holding the national convention in
April or May preferably the latter |
month. It was not within the prov
lnce of the executive committee to take
any action regarding the convention, |
but it was freely admitted that the Of
Fers of all expenses paid and bonus
If $50 900 to the campaign fund, which
had been made by Kansas City and
were leading to very IA
1orable consideration of both cities.
Congressman Sulzer, of New York,
to put some strong propo-
,itions under his ambition to be the
minority leader of the house in the
next session Of congress. He received
Of aid from Illinois and other
western states, and number of south
I'm votes were promised him. When
lie left for New York he claimed So
'otes, Is short of the number neces-
airy to give him the place.
1t was announced at the conclusion
f the meeting that gathering of free
liver Republicans will be held in Chi
ago on or about Dec. 7.
Ex-Governor John P. Altgeld called
n Senator Jones during the day. and
net with warm reception. Mayor
harrison did not call on Senator Jones.