Show DEMOCRATIC ORATORS I A LARGE PARTY WILL MAKE A I TOUR OF THE WEST It Will Be headed llj Lawrence Gardner Secretary of the Democratic Demo-cratic C Congressional Committee AVill Aiit Salt Lake Washington June 22George Has said secretary of the Democratic society of Washington state has been in Washington two or three weeks making final arrangements for a tour by Democratic stump orators through the northwestern states this autumn The party will consist of twelve to fourteen persons and be under the individual in-dividual direction of Lawrence Gardner I Gard-ner secretary of the Democratic congressional I con-gressional committee who will leave Washington on the 26th of July and traverse the entire route in advance of the party for their reception and I entertainment It is arranged that the party will leave Washington about August 4 1 reaching Buffalo on the 27th then through the great lakes I to Duluth where the initial meeting will be held and from there the party will proceed westward through North and South Dakota then on to Montana Mon-tana holding the first meeting in that state at Butte thence south into Yellowstone Yel-lowstone Park returning from which place they will spend a week in Montana Mon-tana anti from there go through Idaho to Washington where speeches will be made at the annual meeting of the Democratic society of Washington The party will then proceed south through Oregon then on through Idaho to Salt Lake city then west to San Francisco and from this point their homeward journey will begin passing through New Mexico Nevada Colorado Utah Nebraska and then to St Louis and home It is expected this trip will consume about six weeks Mr Hazard has been over the ground and made all the preliminary arrangements and he represents that the party will receive a more hearty reception than the party which went out in 1891 In a number of the states the party will divide so several meetings meet-ings can be held on the same evening at different points It is estimated there ill be about ISO meetings held during the journey When asked how it was possible for eastern orators to make a tour through the northwest at the present time with silver excitement excite-ment running so high Hazard answered an-swered This is a party going out to preach Democracy pure and simple and unification of opposition to the Republican party I I |