The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-11-21

Stay, II X Proposed to Make a strong
Antitrust Plight National Conven-
tion May Meet IN April.
Chicago. Nov. 21.-The Democratic
national executive committee. with
National Chairman j. X. Jones IN the
chair, spent most of yesterday In a
room in the Sherman House discussing
matters pertaining to organization
ways and means and the administra-
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 a meeting of the
national committee. but It is believed
the committee will be called to meet
in Washington on Feb. %.
The committeeman were extremely
uncommunicatiye 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 fact that a
considerable part of the committee s
time had been devoted to discussing
the probable effect of high prices on
the campaign of 1900.
II Is the purpose of some of the COM
mitteemen to organize a bureau Of in
formation and education, whose duty
Il shall be to gather accurate and
dehnite information relating to trusts
cost of manufacturing, selling prices ia
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 a small proportion of the in
crease in selling values. This Idea
has assumed such tangible form that
# is predicted that w. H. C'Coin'D
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 trust:
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 th'
confidence of the Chicago platform
Democrats and that some of the mem
bers had voted the Republican ticket
He wanted w. J. Bryan to visit New
Jersey and help straighten things out
| Senator Pettigrew, of South Dakota
| and Charles A. Towne, of Duluth, botl
| of them silver Republicans, told thu
committee that free silver was still
a live issue in their states.
There was a strong feeling amoni
the committeeman present in favor o
| holding the national convention IL
| April or May, preferably the latte
month. It was not within the prov
ince of the executive committee to taxi
any action regarding the convention
but It was freely admitted that the Of
fers of all expenses paid and a bonu
of $50,000 to the campaign fund, whicl
| had been made by Kansas City ant
Milwaukee, were leading to very ia
vorable consideration Of both cities.
Congressman Sulzer, of New York
managed to put some strong propo
sitions under his ambition to be tn
minority leader of the house in tn
next session of congress. He receive
promises of aid from Illinois and othe
western states, and number of south
ern votes were promised him. Whe
he left for New York he claimed
votes, Is short of the number neces
sary to give him the place.
It was announced at the conclusio
of the meeting that a gathering of fire
silver Republicans will be held in CHI
cago on or about Dec. Z.
Ex-Governor John P. Altgeld calle
on Senator Jones during the day, an
met with a warm reception. Mayo