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ACTIVITY OF DGHOCRATS
Former Republicans Confer With
Senator James K. Jones.
The Chairman of the National Com
miftee Denies That He Has Urged
the Nomination of Comptroller
CoIer for Governor OF New York.
hr. Richardson Returns Tomorrow

! -'kT. Returns Tomorrow
! There has been great activity at the
| headquarters of the Democratic Congress
| sionaI Committee today. A stream of
| politicians has been flowing through the
| corridors of the Metropolitan Hotel and
| the chambers of the committee and eddy
| ing about the desks of Secretary Kerr and
| Assistant Secretaries Pearcey and Jesse.
Conspicuous in the crowd were Democratic
| converts. men who have heretofore always
| followed the standard of the Republican
| party and who four years ago were exert
| ing themselves to advance the political
| fortunes and ambition of President Nc
Kinley- Many OF these are men who have
changed their allegiance not because of
disappointment in the distribution Of pat
| ronage, but because of conscience and pat
riotisn. They refused 70 become parties
to the csf.ruction OF the Republic and the
| substitution of an empire.
| or course, the great mass OF the visitors
| 10 Democratic headquarters were old-line
Democrats who would vote for Bryan and
Stevenson with the steadiness OF Vete-
rams even though they knew they were
voting in a forlorn hope. These men are
| significantly cheerful and hopeful. a
/ change has come upon them recently It
was not many weeks ago that their en-
| thusiasm had a perfunctory favor in 1t.
| This is not so now They believe that Mr.
| Bryan will be elected. They receive en-
J couragement from various sources, mainly
| from the unity in their own party and the
discord in the ranks of the opposition.
/ One of them said TO a Times man this
afternoon: Just as Cons tantine saw the
] a Bryan and Stevenson banner in the sky
of the future; just as the Prophet Daniel
I foresaw the fate of a monarchy On the
: walls of BeIshazZar's banquet hall, so do
We foresee the downfall of the reigning
American dynasty IN the signs OF the
/ times"
! The Democratic Congressional Commit
tee is sending out 150. 600 campaign docu-
ments daily. and already million and
half have been sent to voters. AMI millions
more are to follow. Many new clerks have
been taken on by the committee and about
seyenty-five young men and women are at
work in the literary department. Thou
sands of letters come TO the committee
daily. a IL sFge percentage of them contain
| ing requests for documents. OF these nine
| out of ten ask for literature on the sub
| jects of imp erialisn and trusts. There Is
| little demand for other kinds OF matter.
Calls for anti-inperiaiistie documents are
! especially numerous from the States OF the
] Middle West and IL is in that section of
/ the country that heavy Democratic gains
are looked for.
Representative Jemes d. Richardson,
Chairman OF the Congressional Committee,
who was expected 10 arrive in Washington
] last evening, viii in all probability reach
this city tomorrow morning at Z O'Clock.
Mr. Richardson was called from Washing
ton 10 the bedside of his dying mother
somewhat more than a week ago. When
Secretary Kerr learned on Tuesday that
Senator Jones OF Arkansas, Chairman Of
the Democratic National Committee, would
arrive in Washington from New York yes
terday, he sent message to MIR Richard
son making announcement of this fact. 1t
was the purpose of Senator Jones 10 leave
Washington for Chicago this evening but
1t is considered probable that he Will re-
| main till tomorrow that he may confer
with Mr.. Richardson.
Senator Jones at Headquarters.
Senator Jones spent a great part Of to-
| day at committee headquarters. He au-
thorized an emphatic contradiction of all
/ the stories emanating from New York
! sources that he had an interest in induc-
/ ing Comptroller Coier to accept the noaIi-
! nation for Governor of New York on the
! Democratic ticket. Senator Jones enters
a positive denial that he said to Mr. Coler
!
Visibility OF taking the Democratic uomi-
nation for Governor this fall. Mr.. ColeF
did not say TO him that he had no desire
TO stay in politics beyond the end Of his
| term as comptroller.
! Senator Jones did rot say 20 him that IL
was one thing for few personal friends
to ask him 10 do a certain thing and quite
another for the Democrats CT the United
| States as represented by the Democratic
| National Committee to ask it.
| Senator Jcnes said to a Times man this
! afternoon: Deny it again? I have denied
| it over and over again. 1t is a strictly
| local question in New York
| Representative Livingston cf Georgia
was at headquarters today, and had c1n-
versations with Senator jones and officers
| of the Congressional Committee. TIE SEN
! ator from Arkansas assured Judge Livirgs-
| ton that in the interviews with him, in
which he had been reported as having said
that Hill and Croker we're loyaily support.
,hs ,hs me Democratic rational tieEe' YerI TX
o s'le D'Ahoefatie prospects in New Ted.
Ia no
doubt that the forces Of Hill and Croker
| would continue 10 do all that lay within
their power for the success of the ticket
| until the polls close. If there was any
personal misunderstanding between the
| two New York leaders, it would not be
permitted to interfere with their efforts to
| have tie electoral vote OF new torE cast
! for Bryan and Stevenson.
DR.. Habercom. who was Fifth Auditor
| of the Treasury under the Administration
of President Harrison. and who for long
| time occupied the position of German Sec
retary Of the Republican National Com
mittee. had a conference with Senator
| Jones
| DR.. Habercom said to a reporter for The
| Times that he would continue his literary
work in behalf of the Democratic nominees
| and later in the campaign would take the
stump and speak wherever the National
| Committee should assign him DR.. Haber
com has recently written a pamphlet in
German containing a Democratic argu-
| ment against Imperialism ana militarsm
and setting forth reasons why German
Americans should vote against Mckinley
and Roosevelt. This pamphlet has been
reprinted in a large number of German
American papers. No translation in En-
glish of il has been made
In speaking with a reporter he said
| that in his work for the Democratic cause
there was not a trace Of vindictiSeness
He had resigned from the head of the Ger
man bureau Of the Republican National
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