Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-23
Still Uncertainty at Demo
cratic Headquarters.
TWO QUESTIONS STATED
THAT OF THE PHILIPPINES AND
OF THE TRUSTS.
Senator Carmack and Representative
Livingston at Odds as to Which is
the More Important.

Who's who In democracy, and why?' Is
the question which is most assiduously be-
ing applied to the issues Of the democratic
party-not the personnel-at the present
time by those gentlemen who constitute the
web and woof of the political organization
which has Its foundation on the planks Of
the Kansas City platform.
Shall the Philippine question be para
mounted or shall the regulation or ex-
termination of truths constitute the foun-
dation Of the argument which shall be pre-
scented to the Americans who shall cast
their votes for men to fill the seats Of the
House of Representatives in the Fifty
eighth Cengress7
This question has been answered abso-
luteiy many times-one way or the other
by every democratic statesman who has
come to town. A careful count of the an
swers would seem to indicate that trusts"
had the pole" and was now in the stretch
a good length ahead of the philippine
atrocity mount. However, those who are
advocating the Philippines as a reason for
voting for democratic congressman seem
to have made their calling and election
sure on this question and are determined
to paramount it, the other members of
their party to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
Mr.. Livingston's Interview.
The last time the bell was rung, how
ever. 1t was by Representative Livingston
OF Georgia, who saw nothing but the trust
target ahead of him and fired straight
What Mr.. Livingston had to say was print
ed in The Star yesterday, and was copied
largely in the morning papers Of the coun-
try. What is being said by democrats in
Washington on what the Georgian said yes
terday is another and very different story.
nave been registered at democratic con-
gressiona headquarters are too vigorous to
print. In one or two instances it was neces-
sary for the headquarters to explain that
1T had nothing to do with what Mr.. Liv-
ingston had said; that he alone was re-
sponsible for the utterances.'
Mr. Livingston, however, has been as
signed a. Territory to cover with oratory,
and the advance notice of what he will
crate about, 1t Is said, may result in call
ing Of the clan for the purpose Of an under
standing las to what shall and what shall
not be said on the stump.
Many of the democratic spellbinders
quietly admit that Mr.. Livingston's view of
the situation is the only practical politics.
In sight nThey say that there Is no doubt
that the Philippines clan Is dead right"
but which Is the best for results. to be alb
solutely raghtsand unpopular or TO be part
ly right and get votes.
The pinnacle Of Philippine paramountcy
Is undoubtedly reached in Senator Carmack
with thaI distribution of campaign reading
matter. ION the other hand 1t is a conspieu-
Gus coincidence that the press clipping bu-
reau ofhthe ocongressionai commit e has
found little II anything to clip. from the
editorial columns Of the American papers
on the question of the Philippines. = while
its editorial sheet for distribution is filed
with eaustfc comment on the workings of
the modern trust and combination
No Light Shed by Mr.. Bryan.
No light was shed on this interesting
question of ascendency Of issues by. Mr..
William Jennings Bryan. who spent an hour
between trains In the city Monday on his
way TO crate at Boston tomorrow night
Mr.. Bryan spent his hour at the home of
Mr.. Cotter T. Bride, ana although his COM
Ing was not known to the public, it is said
that he was seen by several hundred men,
bers of prominence in his party
Mr.. Bryan, it is said carefully refrained
from saying anything which would indicate
the state of his mind regarding the i'm
portant question of whether trusts
should be the lead-off and the peroration Of
democratic speech, with couple of Phil.
ippine atrocity paragraphs sandWiched In
between somewhere, or vice versa
The state Of mind of those who make I'D
the democratic campaign organiza ton
would indicate that the people who read
democratic literatur will get an abundance
Of education on the Philippine archipelago
while those people who shall be attracted
by the red fire of a democratic rally will
hear the spoken word on trusts.
Chairman Griggs Of the democratic con-
gressional committee is still in New York.
although he Is expected at headquarters in
this city some time today. He has been in
conference with Messrs Cable and Nixon
principally on the financial end Of the
coming campaign. Indications already
given by Mr.. Griggs indicate that he has a
leaning toward the belief that the trust
proposition Is In reality the leaven which
will work wonders in the lump"
Whether Mr.. Grfggs will consider that
the divergence of views on this question is
serious enough to warrant the calling of a
meeting of his committee or the executive
branch of the committee will doubtless be
developed in the near future. In the mean
time each paramounter will stick to his
text, and the scales containing these two
issues will rise and fall according to the
mental status of the last man to talk.