Arizona republican., 1900-07-20
MIR. WHITES MISSION
In ,VeW York EndsaVOring to
 SOIidify the "Aunties"
May Introduce the Influence of the Church That Lost Income Tax Plank - Bryan Will Make it an Issue Anyhow.

New York, July 19.-Hon. stephen M. White, formerly democratic senator from California, is in the city. Mir. White was prominent at the Kansas City convention and is recognized as one of MT. Bryan's most intimate ad- visers. Before coming east he stopped at Lincoln and was in conference with Mir. Bryan for some time. It is under stood that the purpose of Senator Whites visit to New York is to meet the leaders of the anti-imperialist movement in that city. These gentle men propose holding a convention of their own, at which they will nominate a ticket and adopt a platform. MT. White hopes to persuade them to in dorse the democratic ticket, or, failing in this, to make no nomination, but to indorse the anti-imperislist plank of the democratic platform.
 MT. White is a prominent member of the Roman Catholic church and it is intimated that he will appear before the anti-imperialists party in a repre- sentative character, The democrats be- lieve that there is a strong Roman Catholic sentiment against the policy
 
 in the Philippines. and they hope to take advantage of this to gain votes among the Roman Catholics in New York and in New Jersey.
 The democratic leaders have evident ly determined that the income tax plank of the Chicago platform of 1896 shall be reincorporated into the crazy quilt adopted at Kansas City. In the .,f tl,o hoir man Jones and other prominent demo- crats discovered to their amaZement that the platform as adopted did not repeat the income tax plank. A hasty effort to remedy the omission was lost in the general confusion that attended final adjournment. But it is authori tatively announced that MT. Bryan when he accepts the nomination at In dianapolis next month, will include the income tax plank as one of the fun damental features of the platform.
 Hon. Samuel E. Morse, tke editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel. who was one of the delegates -at-large from his state and who represented it on the commit tee on resolutions, explains in a signed editorial that the platform as adopted actually contained the income tax plank.
 He denounces the idea that the plank was purpOsely omitted out of difference for Senator Hill as preposterous. He gives the following explanation:
 When Senator Tillman had nearly finished reading the platform, some of the Indiana delegates said to me that nothing had been read about the in come tax. I replied that the platform as agreed upon by the committee on resolutions, of which I was a member, contained a declaration for the tax, and to oversight either by Senator Till man in reading it or by the copyists who had transcribed the document. I went to the Illinois delegation and asked Mayor Carter Harrison of Chi Cago, who was the Illinois member of the committee, if he had noted the omission. He said he had not. I was about to go to the platform to call at tention to the matter when Mayor Hac- rison called me to him. and said that MT. Willis Abbott told him the income tax declaration had been read by Sena- tor Tillman. Unless MT. Abbotts ears deceived him it was so read, and the omission occurred by accident in the copies furnished to the press.
 'I have no doubt that MT. Bryan will define his position and that of his party on this subject in his letter of accept ance. Mir. Bryan has long been an ad- vocate of the income tax and the demo- cratic party of the country is united in favor of it."