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Show IiOCAIi DEJIUCIIATS i tftct to Consider Applications for led- ' rral Appointments. A (Jultl hireling. A large number of the members of the Totlltoilal Dsmocrstlo com-mlttes com-mlttes waa aean on the streets of the capital todsy an 1 tho queatlon was aoon asked what brought tbem hither. At 11 o'clock they were aecn ! to one by one drop Into the quattera formerly occupied by the Ilepubllcata ' In the Waiatoh block, durlrjg the lit ateJ Territorial campalgu of November but u the netting waa id eiecu-," eiecu-," tlve one, newapaper iepreentatlvia I were excluded. The uuellug waa i- lengthy and Ttry quiet one, r u tdeitrlana ; pacing the apacloua i oorrldora of the building could not hear lound above oidlnary converts conver-ts eatlon, j,. It waa learned, however, from an ..'i authorltatlTe aouicetbat Chairman U. .(1 (), Itloharda prrilded and that Judge V.. A. Hinllh acted as eecretary. It waa alao aacerlalned that the 1 urpoao of the mealing waa to consider application! of whlih a good many havo been re-lelved re-lelved by the chairman tor the appointment ap-pointment lo federal otllcia. A Nro 8 reporter approiobed severs! V HS'nbera after tbe aetalon hid beeu ejnoluded but none ol them cared lo tuiuuilt themselves luither than that the committee refuted to tako any action eniloralng the apKilutmant of 1 any perion. It la aald the concaniua . I of opinion waa that eaoli candidate muat rely aolely upon tbe Inlluence and strength be can tecum Inde-pendent Inde-pendent of the oommlttee. I Thirty-seven member out of forty. . flyeoftbe territorial committee were 8 In attendance. Itcaldea theie Colonel Jj- H. A. Merrill, of lite Democratlo Jjt national commlllee, and Judge 11,1'. Jy lletidenou, prtaldtnt of tbe Dime-J, Dime-J, cratlo aooletlee, were present. |