Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-30
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Several Sessions ef the Demo-
cratic Committee.
THREE MAIN SUBJECTS
WILL FIGHT PHILIPPINE POLICY,
TARIFF AND TRUSTS.
The Personnel of Both Congressional
THREE MAIN SUBJECTS
The Personnel of Both Congressional
Committees Given-slxir1nish-
ing for Advantage.

The executive coIamittee of the demo-
cratic congressional scomMittee continued
Its deliberations srday,-reconvening at
clock, at which Hssion a .forther plan
of procedure for the carnpaign was out
lined. That meeting waa followed by a
conference of about Hfteerl members of the
full committee, beginning at o'clock,
which only resulted An reimbursement of
gress. -
The executive congaanittessat it's meeting
concluded that it Would lie. wise in the
coming campaign te lay particular stress
upon two subjects--tariff and trusts It
was thought to be desirablEf to have a dec
laration from party caucus upon these
subjects. To that end a subcommittee of
seven members, whose names for the pres
ent are withheld, was appointed to draw
up the form and substancsspf the 7declara-
ton, to be hereafter submitted to a caucus
of democrats of the 1Houses---
That statement OF views, If adopted by
the caucus, would in no sense supplant the
party platform framed at Kansas City. The
congressional committee nor the caucus of
democratic representatives IN Congress has
no right to alter one word saf a democra tic
platform. The party in congress may,
however, declare its opinions0n what should
NC tiC iiioSI piofIfHGnCt IeaJureS or con-
gressional campaigH. and that is what will
be done In this case, provided of course,
that the democrats can agree.
Three Main Subjects. !
1t is apparent from events thus far that
the campaign will be waged by the demo.
Gratis on three main subjects. the Philip.
pines, the tariff and trusts. The younger
democratic senators are sayery much en-
amored of heir Phsiippines issue = the
cruelties attendant upon the suppression of
authority. ,
Many OF their party associates in the
House, however, are not inclined 70 make
that issue the keystone az the campaign.
Being little cfoser-te the people, they are
not SO sure that the nass OF the citizens
can be wrought up on that subject, espe-
cially as the republicans are insisting right
along that the democraf.e program in the
Senate constitutes an attack ON the army
while the army Is in the field. The repub-
licans are certain that the disposition of the
country will be to sustain the army, to de-
mand punishment for Individual cases of
cruelty and mfsmana cement, but not to
enter into wholesale deI1unciation of Ameri-
can troops who sare fightfnE in distant
land.
So, some of the demo4ratic leaders think
tnere is more capital to be gained out of
the two subjects which Just now are touch
ing the home people very closely. Excess
siVe tariff rates Ought to be attacked, they
think. Even there the long, headed repub-
fican managers have anticipated them, as
witnessed in the efforts of the chairman of
the republican congressional committee TO
get action by his own party against unnec-
essary tariff dutieR
The beef trust and the coal trust win
probably be n held up .bystfe democrats TO
execration- The sfxecaitiFe branch of the
government has already moved against the
beef trust, and Ht 1T Isl possible to take the
wind out Of the tAemoeratfc sails It viii be