The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-07-10
A CONFERENCE AT LINCOLN
DEMOCRATIC LE4a D FRS OUTLINE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN FOR 1900.
Bryan, Stevenson, TOwne and Jones Prcsent-The Amount of Stumptng to be Done by the Candidutcs--Brynm Nill Not Tour the Country as in 1896 -TDynt,s Plane,
-T0wnt's Plane,

| Lincoln, Neb., July 9.-Plans for the national democratic campaign of 1900 were outlined and practically agreed upon to-day at protracted conference between the leaders of the party, Those present at the conference were w. J.
 Bryan, Adlai E. Stevenson, Charles A. ToWne, Senator J. K. Jones, chairman
 of the national committee, and National
 Committeeman Stone of Missouri, Cam
 pau of Michigan and Johnson of Kan sas.
 The plan includes the appointment of a campaign committee as agreed upon between representatives of the demo-
 cratic, silver republican and populist parties at Kansas City. This commit
 tee will include members of all three parties and perhaps also democrats not
 members of the national committee, but
 prominent in the councils of the party.
 This committee will, 1t Is said, have charge in measure, of the practical working of the campaign and will work
 for fusion on state and congressional tickets whenever possible. The press and executive committee, 1t Is expected, will, with one or two exceptions be the same as last year. The personnel of all the committees was left in the hands of Chairman Jones.
 The question of national headquar- ters was also left In his hands. It was stated that Chicago would probably be selected Mr. Bryan said to-day that he had made no plans as to the part he +n1y. J,, lao oo tcrr a not do so until he had conferred further with the party leaders. The subject was discussed at the meeting as well as the amount of campaign work to be done by Mr. Stevenson, but this feature will not be fully decided upon until after the formal notification of their nomination has been given to MT. Bry- an and MT. Stevenson, which will not be for several weeks.
 Committeeman Johnson of Kansas, however, stated after the meeting that an understanding exists that MT, Bryan will not tour the country as he did dur ing the campaign of 1896, but will make trips from time to time to the larger centers of population, remaining in Lincoln a great deal of the time.
 MT, IOWne may not announce ms ue- cislon in regard to the vice presidency for several days, although several pop ulist leaders in the city stated to-day that he might announce his withdrawal to the populist executive committee to- morrow. Democratic leaders, however, state that the whole question has been postponed until after the middel-of-t the road state populist convention to be held atGrand Island, Neb., July 20. The attitude taken by that wing of the pop ulists and the strength developed by them will, it is said, be closely observed as a criticism In other populist states, and should no serious deflections from the regular populists on account of Mir. owne's defeat in the democratic conven- tion be noticed, a conference with the populist leaders will then be held, at which time 1t is expected MT. Towne's withdrawal will be announced.
 A number of changes are expected in the ways and means committee. True L., Norris of New Hampshire will 1t is stated, take the place of Alexander Troup on the press. and Norman E. Mack the place of Frank Campbell on the executive committee.