Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-08
National Chairmen of Both
Parties Open Headquarters.
THEY FACE EACH OTHER
MEETING OF DEMOCRATS TODAY
TO OUTLINE THE WORK.
Sibley on Presidency-Bryan Demands
Gold-Trade in Nebraska-Shee-
hans Ambition.

| dispatch from New York last night
| says: The national campaign Of 1904 will
| be simultaneously inaugurated by the
| tional chairman OF the two big parties this
morning at their headquarters, just across
| Madison Square from each other. Chairman
| Cortelyou and Chairman Taggart will both
| be in command
| The democratic battle will begin with
| war council Of the new executive commit
| tee, which will meet for the first time at
| II o'clock at the Hoffman House. Besides
| the seven members of this important com
| mittee some of the biggest eastern leaders
| of the party will be present, including Sena-
| tor Arthur Pue German, David b. Hill,
| Chairman Cord Meyer of the state commit
| tee and Chairman Thomas Taggart of the
| national committee.
| This meeting is to draught the first out
| line of the campaign 1t will determine the
| question of whether there VIII be a western
| headquarters and how the fight in the west
| ern states shall be conducted
The chairman of this committee, which
| is to have the active work of the campaign
| in hand, is William f. Sheehan, and the
other members August Belmont, James
| Smith, jr. of New Jersey; John Fl. Mclean
of Ohio, James NJ. Guffey of PENNSYLVANIA,
| Senator Thomas S. Martin of Virginia Tim
| othy e Ryan of Wisconsin Vice Chairman
De Lancey Nicoll will be present
| The leaders are undecided as to making a
fight in Illinois, and upon that question de-
| course is to center all efforts In Indiana.
and Chairman Tagg 1rt will accordingly SUB
| NIT a plan for the location of the western
| Headquarters at Indianapolis. BY this step
| 1t is believed that the Indiana fight VIII he
greatly helped Many of the leaders be.
| lieve that there is splendid chance OF
| carrying Indiana, but little of carrying IL
| linos.
Western Headquarters.
If the western headquarters are located
| at indianapolis, Chairman Taggart would
| take command there, while Chairman Shee-
han of the executive committee "ouio
| direct the fight from this end
The question of another vice chairman
for the west is another which Chairman
| Taggart will ask the committee to decide.
| There is talk of selecting some man friend
| ly to the BRYAN forces of the west, like
| Senator Fred T. Dubois of Idaho, or Ma
tional Committeeman Tarpey of California
or Senator Newlands of Nevada 49,.
| Chairman Taggart said last night that
| he had selected place for the hatlonai
headquarters within short walk of the
Hoffman House. 1t provides twelve or M
teen rooms for the committee
May Announce Finance Committee
| Another important matter of which the
| committee will dispose is that of hnance
| committee. 1t is the present intention not
| to have a finance committee. but TO let the
| members of the executive committee DO the
| work. The executive committee, however,
| NAV decide otherwise in which case Chair
| man Taggart will announce the members OF
| the finance committee On this question
| Treasurer George Foster Peabody, who Is
| expected to be present, will probably exer-
| else decisive voice.
Chairman William F. Sheehan will come
down from Esopus in the morning In time TO
| attend the meeting.
Advocates Six-Year Term.
| dispatch from New York last night
saws. Representative Joseph C. Sibley of
Pennsylvania. who is candidate for re-
election this fall, was passenger by the
Cunarder Campania, which arrived from
Liverpool yesterday At the next session
of Congress Mr.. Sibley means to intro
duce a bill to lengthen the presidential
| term to six years and to prevent any man
from holding this office twice. In speak
ing Of this measure Mr.. Sibley said:
This would prevent the national busi-
ness excitement which plays such havoc
with our trade every four years. The
| knowledge that no man could be Presi-
dent but once would deter the incumbent
from doing many things which Presi-
! dents do toward the end of their first
| terms in the hope of being elected again.
| 1t would make honesty and a clean adj
| ministration the thing sought after-not
another nomination. And it would remove
the principal cause of trade convulsions.'
Silver Champion Demands Gold.
A dispatch from Louisville, KY, says:
When James Dunbar of New Albany in
| troduced William Jennings Bryan to the
| audience at the Chautauqua at Glenwood
| Park, near New Albany, he said that the
| board of directors of the Chautauqua,
thinking to please Mr. Bryan, offered to
pay him in the silver paid into the Golfers
of the association by the people who had
attended to hear him and that Mr.. Bryan
| raised an objection, saying he wanted his
pay in gold.
This rather complicated matters" said
Mr.. Dunbar, and messengers were at
once dispatched to the bank to get the
| silver changed for gold. When the mes
| sengers reached the banks they found
| that all of them had closed for the dav in
| honor of the orator from Nebraska The
| incident was finally satisfactorily closed
by the committee agreeing to forward to
MI Bryan draft for the amount payable
| In gold, drawn on a New York bank"
After Mr.. Bryan's address one man who
insisted on conversation with the ora
tor said: I've voted for We twice and I'm
| ready to"
Just vote the good old ticket right
along" said Mr.. Bryan.
Bryan's Deal for Senatorship.
A dispatch from Lincoln. Neb., last night
says: William Jennings Bryan has COM
pleted the program for the democrat tic
state convention, which win meet in This
| city next Wednesday.
In making arrangements for this gather
Ing Bryan. to whom all the details have
been intrusted, has deliberately thrown
away the meager chances the democrats
| had OF carrying the state for Parker and
Davis.
He has, in fact made a present of Ne
braska's electoral vote to Roosevelt and
Fairbanks, the consideration he secures
from the bargain, made with himself. be-
Ing added certainty of his own election TO
| the United States Senate
Recently, In conversation with a friend
| Mr. Bryan said:
Il would rather be a senator from Me-
braska than President, because l fully be-
lieve l am better equipped for the duties Of
senator than for those of President: and
that could accomplish real good as a
member Of the Senate"
1t Is to realize this ambition which has
developed fervent proportions, that MI,
Bryan has shaped all his ends of late. His
program for the state convention. as al
ready outlined, is:
Fusion with the populists on the state
and legislative tickets.
The nomination of NJ. j. HARRINGTON Of
O'Neil, a popul1st, for the governorship.
All legislative candidates, whether demo-
crat or populist to be bound by specific
pledges to vote for Bryans election to the