| Show QUEERED GAME ran into a friend fiend of judge e powers CALLED FOR A SHOWDOWN SHOW DOWN col bell of 0 st louis met the collector and when he round found that iiams had no utah passport he advised the to send their money direct to st john at new york plan alan for a system of 0 collection controlled by local friends of silver col nicholas AL bell of 0 st louis a democrat of national prominence was in ili the city for a few hours yesterday on oil his way to the coast ire he will return in time to address tho the democratic I 1 state convention at provo in ad addition to his other achievements col bell enjoys the responsibility of having queered queerer tle collection business of 0 S B M T glasscock co at ouray colo when col dell reached that town a few ew days ago glasscock ond and his assistants si J W hamm john T calne caine and will lett of 0 this city were doing a buil business ness having secured subscriptions to the amount of 0 1000 the subscribers were wondering however whether the tha credentials of 0 the soliciting party were regular some of 0 them applied to col bell for or advice the colonel met J IV iiams he says and in substance had the following conversation with him mr hamm who Is the chairman of your state committee judge powers do you know him very well indeed he lei Is one ot of my dearest friends nave have you a letter from him andors ing you I 1 no ile sir who Is the member of the democratic national committee from utah mr hamra hamm A IV mccune do you know him yes tea sir quite well have you a letter from him no I 1 have not then I 1 shall advise the subscribers to your fund not to turn over the m money to you col bell gave the subscribers that advice and the cash was sent bent to the national committee mr glasscock it appears from col bells information Is not colle collecting c ling funds tor for the democratic national committe but tor for the national organization of 0 democratic clubs JUDGE IDEA regarding the collection of comp campaign funds judge rowers powers yesterday gave out it ft statement for or publication in ili a conversation tills this morning with will col nicholas bell of st louis one of 0 the most prominent democrats of the united states and a man mail well known knoon from ocean to ocean said judge powers lie ho said bald to 0 o me that lie he thought the fi lends friends of sliver silver in this state minued take under consideration the manner in funds ore are being collected for or the silver cause and nirra arrange iwo for a more moie perfect system ile he said that dial this was important in view of the manner in which collections are being made ile he referred to the fact that there are agents hero here of two or at three different organizations and that instead of concentrating cent rating money in tile hands of treasurer st john it was wag being its buted in it a way that gale fae the national committee very mile little assistance and at the same time utah was wan not receiving credit tor for what she la Is doing lie he said that in colorado all the moneys are turned over to lion hon D IT 11 moffat and credited to the particular fund that the contributor desires to aid and a representative Is sent to tile the national licad headquarters quarters giving it credit to the state the suggestion was wag that all further contributions lie be n until there was some arrangement by which we would bo be certain that the funds went to the proper place to be devoted to the best interests of 0 the silver cause WANTS HOME collections 1 I quite heartily agree with nith col bell and I 1 have written to chairman jones ot 0 the national committee and chairman faulkner of 0 the committee sugg elating some differ different ent plan or nf collecting funda lit in utah lie he agreed upon let us have our own onn C committee 0 li 1 m i atee representing the different elements le n i en ts and factions that composo compose tile the silver liver forces let us ua have our own col peters who we know and who we can thoroughly trust let us have one of 0 our own bankers as our tr faurer who will forward the funds to TV surer st john who nho now noir represents the democratic national populist and S silver liver committees as aa their treasurer I 1 suggest that no further contributions be paid over until such an arrangement Is made |
