| Show DEMOCRATS AT OUTS OUT S breach among illinois lea lead d ers is widening ONE committeeman HEARD he writes fr a letter to the altgeld crowd C row d in which he hauls thorn over the coals in a merciless IT mannor manner national committee Is almost certain to become involved in a quarrel despite strenuous efforts effort I 1 made to keep local quarrels out of the meeting on thursday chicago july IS the fight between the regular democratic organization of cook county and this the state ot of 1111 represented by mayor harrlson harrison and national committeeman callan on tho the one side and the altfeld Alt eld wing wine of 0 the iho democracy which supported ex cx gov altgeld ris a 1 an independent candidate for or mayor lt at the last election on oft the other reached an acuto acute stage today and threatens to involve the nat national lonal committee in spite of the strenuous efforts boang made to keep local quarrels out of the proceedings OI al next thuds days meeting of 0 the national committee in this city lion thomas gahan callan national earn com irom from illinois in an open letter today to the leaders 0 of the altgeld element of 0 the party explains his reasons for declining to attend tile the au dito ilum meeting gr of 0 thursday arvig night h t and indirectly appeals to his collean colleagues UPS of the iho national committee to ill refrain aln front from attending the altgeld meeting interest Is added to the occasion caslon oc by tho the report at 0 gov Alter elds friends that bryan some days ago accepted the invitation vi Ll to address the meeting tile the letter of national committee man gahan gaban follows chicago ill july IS the tom cittee of arrangements auditorium meeting of july 2011 gentlemen I 1 arn am just in receipt of your loiter letter of july tendering rno me box boc 31 tor for the auditorium meeting of july the published statements of the chair nit n of your committee has made it danl test rest that this invitation la Is not to tendered in good falth faith and not one which any believer in the iho integrity of the demo claric organization could bo be expected to accept and ordinarily a more mere declination cli nation of the box tendered me would suffice but since I 1 am informed by the th dally daily press that a large number of in v nations have been sent hy by your committee committe mitte a to lo ine members I 1 bribers of the national committee m t I 1 ee I 1 feel it my duty duly as a democratic national nat lonAl committeeman from tho the S tato of illinois to give you and the public the seasons which make makit it impossible that I 1 should accept this invitation vi without stultifying the democratic party of oc the state of illinois find and committing an injustice to tile the democratic party of chiaro the ot of your committee on arian cements ments in antho whose behalf I 1 this his invitation Is tendered me shows ili that a t in its personnel tills this committee Is ell entirely con composed 1 posed of gentlemen who he in april last ast opposed tile the regular democratic candidate for maior anti ami other charter of the city of chicago and ill did all lit in their power to bring about the defeat of the regular democratic ciekot and the election 0 of the regular republican publican JIe ticket at that election I 1 strang as a it may appear to thi po from broad abroad an all examination of toa tile the members of oc the other committees al ranging the proposed meeting at the auditorium shows hous that every member of the several auxiliary committees I likewise opposed the reEr ular democratic ticket ond and its bomin es in the chicago election of last april and likewise sought to defeat the iha regular democratic ticket and elect the can ticket at that election 1 I am a believer in the rule of majority und and v u hen the democratic party I 1 ease to believe in the rulo rule of oc majorities it will ill cease to be the party of tile the tha primaries marics find the convention ot of last spring were sere hold held undo r a law the principles of elch were a approved and the passarp of ji bieh wan sag publicly kly le commended by your factional irader notwithstanding this and re p Ud latIng in tEd advance vance the work of th that at convention and will of nf the majority 0 o raty you sounded the battle cry of to beat the hie regular democratic n nominee mince and maintained IL a guerrilla war against tile the democratic party arty p and its regular organization until aou ou were rebuked tit at tho the polls by buch an all defeat as to ta effectively silence your pretensions of 0 party until you saw in this demonstration of 0 july alli on an opportunity port unity to temporarily galvanize the lifeless seeds needs of party sedition 1 nelch aich you there so bo zealously flowed I 1 would be recreant to my trust OB as the rop rep ot of the illinois democracy on the national committee it if I 1 did not frankly deview these facts which are tile the memory ot of all ond end which 11 hould be brought to tho attention ot of th he entire democratic nalon il commit t tec as the lesson why shy the notional national of illinois cannot attend your demonstration in tile the three years that it ft has been my h honor 13 nor to represent the democracy of illinois on the national committee I 1 have considered it my duty to labor rot for pirly party harmony in I 1 the he state slate ot of illinois and for the conciliation of all el element e ments in order that wo we inight in 1009 1900 redeem illinois to democracy by sending twenty four votes to tile the el electoral c t 0 rot college tor for william J bryan and sharing in tile the triumph of that plat torm form of principles tor for which 4 mitt the democratic national Commit committee Let so faithfully labored l against overwhelming odde odda in elie dark dai of 0 1656 if I 1 taw law in your proposed meeting or in the member shift of your fj overal committees a ain RIO irlo indication to hope for party unity it you bad held out tor for a the ilia hand ot of good fell ship it 1 you had for a 11 moment sri in sour asseveration or of democracy indicated that you would have accepted the olive branch on any condition bhart sh art of a surrender eur render of patty parly organization and party principles to the whim shim and ca prices and exactions of 0 a hopeless ho pelosa minority I 1 would have been the first to make on overture in the belief all that the first duty ot at S a com coin to la to harmonize the elements of tile hj party hut but your action and your declinations declaration find and the public announcement of your present inton bione tione have proven that you are not an element ot of th democratic party that its ita constituent principles cannot bur vive in your atmosphere find and that t to accept your dictation la ia to surrender dur render that fundamental doctrine which finds in tile the rule of 0 0 a majority the tha success of the party tor 11 or these the reasons find and tor for the further rea that a sense 0 of duty must moko tc it impossible for any local democrat of 0 illinois who aho bellewes bel belles leies e in party parly organization anil and the rulo rule ot of majorities to attend A public meeting under your auspices I 1 roust must respectfully tie de C line allne your invitation very truly youra THOMAS galian democratic national committeeman from illinois I 1 tho the harrlson harrison faction action have determined to lo entertain members bembera of tile the national committee on art their oi own n account with tho the avowed intention 0 it keeping them away from the alts ld id 0 meeting on thursday night A committee has haj i been appointed to ar artaria A dinner to bo be fall followed 0 w ad by a c so ride or an 0 n on tho the la lake k a fun for everybody moving lovin ff pictures Pic lures free every evening at Sal Salta laIr fr |
