| Show I GAHAN POUTING NOW Will Have Nothlng to Do Wih the Algeld Clan t THEY ARE IOTIEMOCRATS I 4 so SAYS TME ILLINOIS NATION I A COMTTEEM + He Follows In the Footsteps of Mayor May-or Carter larson and Declines An Invitation to Attend the FreeS Free-S ver Demonstration In Chicago Tomorrow Night I Chicago July lSTe fight between the regular Democratic organization of Cook county and the state ofIlnois represented br Mayor Harrison and National Committeeman Gahan on the one side and the Altgeld wing of the Democracy hleh supported exGo ernorAltgeid as an independent andl aale lor mayor at the last election on the other reached an acute stage today and threatens to Involve the national cmmittee In spite of the strenuous attempts being made to keep loal quarrels out or the proceedings at next Thursdays meeting of the national i committee In this city Thomas Gaha national committeeman from Illinois in an open letter today to the leaders of the Altgeld element of the party explains ex-plains his reasons for declining to attend I at-tend the Auditorium meeting of Thursday day night and appeals t his colleagues of the national committee to refrain from attending the Algeld meeting Interest i added to the occasion by the r port of Goenor lslds friends I tat Bran some days ago accepted the invitation to address the meeting Time letter of National Committeeman Ga an follows Chicago July IS IS99The Committee Commit-tee on Arrangements Auditorium Meeting of July 20 GenUemenI am just in receipt of your letter of July Ii tendering me box 31 for the Auditorium meeting of July 20 Why He Will ot Attend The published statements of the chairman of your committee has made i manifest that this invitation is not tendered In god faith and not one which any believer In the integrity of I Democratic organizations could be ex peeled to accept and ordinarily a mere declination of the box tendered me would sufce but since I am informed by the daily press that a large number num-ber of invitations hae been sent b3 your committee to members of the national na-tional committee I feel It my duty as a Democratic national committeeman from the state of Illinois to give you and the public the reasons which malte It impossible that I could accept this invitation without stultifying the Dem I ocrtc part of the state of Illinois and committing an injustice to the DemocratIc party of Chicago The membership of your committee on arrangements In whose behalf this invitation Is tendered me shows that it personnel Is entirely 1 composed of gentlemen who In April last opposed the regular Democratic candidate for mayor and other charter offices of the city of Chicago and did all in their power to bring about the defeat of the regular Democratic ticket and the election elec-tion of the regular Republcan ticket at that election Strange as if may ap peat to those from abroad an oam1 nation of the members of the other committees arranging the proposed meeting at the Auditorium shows that ever member of the several auxan commitees likewise opposed the regular regu-lar Democratic ticket and its nominees in the Chicago election of last April and likewise sought to defeat the regular regu-lar Democratic ticket and elect the He publican ticket at that election Says They Are Traitors I am a believer in the rule of majority ma-jority and when the Democratic party ceases to believe in the rule of majorities majori-ties it will cease to be the party of the people The primaries and the convention conven-tion of lat spring were held under a law the principles of which were ap proved anti the passage of which was II publicly recommended br your factional leader Notwithstanding this and re pUdiatng in advance the work of that I convention and will of the majority you sounded the battle cry of Anthing I to beat the regular Democratic nomi ace and maintained a guerrilla war I against the Democratic part and its regular organizatIon until you wee rebuked re-buked at the polls by such an overwhelming I over-whelming defeat as to effectively silence si-lence your pretensions of party organization organi-zation until you saw in this demonstration I demon-stration of July 20 an opportunity to I temporal galvanize the lifeless seeds of paty sedition which you there so zealousl3 sowed I would be recreant to my trust a I the representative of the linois Democracy Dem-ocracy on the national committee l I did not frankly review thee fact which are wihin the m mor of all and whih should be brought to the attention atten-tion of the entire Democratic national commitee as the reason why the national na-tional committeeman of 1nols cannot attend demorstration atend your demol traton In the three ear that I has ben my honor to represent the Democracy of Illinois on the national committee I have considered it my duty to labor for I part harmony in the state of Illinois and for the conciliation of all clements in order that we might in 190 redeem Illinois to Democracy by sepdlns tWe tfour votes to the electorl college for William T Bryan and sharIng in the trIumph of that platform of principles for which the Democratic national com mite so faithfully labored against overwhelming odds in the dark das of luG Not In GoodFaih I I saw In your proposed meeting or In the membership of your several commIttees a single indication to a hope of party unity U you had held out for a moment the hand oC god fellowship fel-lowship if you h for a momentln your 3 everatons of Democracy Indl catC that you would have accepted the olive branch on any condition short of a surrender of party organization and party principles to the lxhim and caprices cap-rices and exactions of a hopel ss minority mi-nority I would have been the first to make a overture In the belief that the first duty of a commiteeman is to hflr monlze the elements of his party But your acton and your declarations declara-tions and the public annoutcement of our present intentlon5 have your Intentons proven that you are not an element of the Democratic part that its constituent principles cannot survive In your atmosphere at-mosphere and that to accept your dictation dic-tation is to surrender that fundamental doctrIne which finds In the rule of a majority the success of the DemicraUe party partylor these reasons and for the fUrther fUr-ther reason that a sense of duty must make it impossible f9r any local Democrat Demo-crat of Illinois who belIeves in party organizations and the rule of majorities majorI-ties to attend a pubHe meeting under your auspices I must respectfully de cine your invitation Very truly yours THOMAS GAH dDemocratc National Committeeman from Ilnois The Harrison acton have determined deter-mined to entertain members of the na tona committee on their own account with the avpwe infenton of keeping them away front the Algeld meeting on Thursday nlght A committee has been appointed to rrage a dinner to be foloed by a carriage ride or an ccuron O the Hike J |
