The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-22
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC
COMMITTEE MEETING.

COMM EE NEE iNG.
Chicago. Aug. pa meeting OF
the national committee of the Demo
cratic party and all subcommittee
will be held at Chicago, September
Sth, at which final plans for the pres
idential campaign will be adopted.
This was determined upon at meet
ing of party leaders, including Chair
man Mack at Democratic neadquar-
ters today.
Chicago, Aug. 22.-Mr. Bryan ar
rived in Chicago today to pay two
days visit to political friends and
campaign managers. He was greeted
at the station by Chairman Mack,
Col. Wetmore, of the finance COM
mittee of the campaign, and a score
of party leaders. Thousands of Dem
ocrats cheered as the party passed
out of the station.
Arriving at the Auditorium Mr..
Bryan at once plunged into series
of conferences over plans for the
fight to. be waged between now and
November, and before Bryan leaves
for Indianapolis Monday noon to at
tend the official notification of Kern
the whole scheme of warfare is ex-
pected to be mapped out in detail
One of the important questions to
be taken up is the speaking part Mr..
Bryan is to play in the campaign.
Some of the officials of the national
committee are opposed to an extern
sive tour such as he made in his pre-
vious campaigns, but it rests with
Mr.. Bryan. The money question. or
how to raise cash for the campaign,
was another subject discussed. The
plan of campaign in the East also
claims attention, and it was for the
purpose of taking up the subject that
Senator Culberson, of Texas, head
of the advisory committee, was sum-
moned to the conference by Chair
man Mack.
Speaking of the outlook and more
recent developments in the campaign
Mr. Bryan said: "The situation is
most satisfactory to me and reports
from both East and West are very
pleasing. Excellent progress is being
made. The Democrats of Minnesota
have nominated a strong man in Gov
ernor johnson, and I am glad to see
that he has accepted 1 expect that
the heads of committee bureaus will
talk to me today about their plans
which will be announced later. The
committee does not plan to have me
make as many speeches this cam
paign as in other years. 1 shall, how
ever, make a number of speeches in
the principal centers through the mid
- 49,
fixed"
1t is expected that Mr. Bryan will
start on his tour about the middle
of September and speak in Indiana.
Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky, and con-
clude in New York.
Mr.. CARRIER, member of the national
committee from Ohio, said regarding
the Ohio situation that it was planned
to make a hard fight to carry the
hot rtu
in better shape for a hard fight.
Mr.. Bryan at DesMoines.
Des Moines, Ia, Aug. 22.-Mr. Bry
an spoke to immense audiences in
both his addresses here last night,
and left before morning for Chicago.
His tariff speech, in part, was AS fol-
lows:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
men: In my notification speech 1
stated that, as the campaign progress
ed 1 would discuss the question,
Shall the People Rule" as it ap-
plies to the various issues involved
in this campaign. 1 begin with the
tariff question, because it is the most
lasting of our economic questions and
the one upon which the leading par
ties have most frequently opposed
each other. Other questions may come
and go, but questions which affect tax
alton, like Tennyson's Brook "go on
forever" AS the Government is not
a Lady Bountiful, with unlimited
means, but merely an organization
which must collect on the one hand
what it pays out on the other, the sub
iect of taxation is an ever present
one. We may discuss how much we
should collect, what methods we
should employ in collecting, and how
best to distribute, through appropria-
tions, the money collected, but we
are never far removed from the sub
iect of taxation. Iowa has been Sc
lected for the presentation of what
I desire to say upon this subject, be-
cause the Iowa Republicans were pio-
neers in the effort to secure tariff re-
vision at the hands of the Republican
party. 1 come among them to define
and defend the Democratic position
on the tariff question, because I be
leve it will commend itself to them
That the issue may be clearly stated
I shall read you the Democratic plank
on this subject, and then the Repub
lican plank:
(Here both the Republican and
Democratic tariff sections were quoted
by Mr.. Bryan, in full
Secretary Taft refers to this sub
;ect briefly in his notification speech
only briefy-but as I shall quote such
messages from his speech as are pert
inent to this discussion. it Is not nee
essary to read his remarks in full.