Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1880 — DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE.

IVlceling: of the National Executive Committee in New York. The Democratic National Executive Committee met in the city of New York on Tuesday, Aug. 10. The members present were: Chairman, W. H. Barliiim ; G. Horsey, of Maryland; A. W. Sulloway, of New Hampshire ; Edward Wilson, of Maine; B. B. Smalley, of Vermont; W. W. Armstrong, of Ohio ; W. C. Goudy, of Hlinois ; W. Scott, of Pennsylvania ; B. F. Jonas, of Louisiana; W. T. Martin, of Mississippi. The committee was in session four hours, transacting business and hearing reports. The members of the committee from the various States made reports of the campaign. Chairman Bamum gave an account of his observations in his recent trip through Illinois and Ohio. The enthusiasm for Hancock and En glish in Illinois aud Ohio, especially in the latter State, was beyond anything he anticipated. He conld not see how these States could be claimed as strongholds by the Republicans. He did not travel extensively through Indiana, but he met prominent men from all parts of the State and obtained sufficient information to satisfy him that Indiana was Democratic beyond all question. The prospects in the West were sufficiently bright to gratify every Democrat. Mr. Barnum occupied three-quar-ters of an hour in making his report. W. C. Goudy, of Illinois, made a report from that State which not only sustained the statements of Mr. Barnum, but indicated that the result of the election in Illinois might prove a surprise to the Republicans. W. W. Armstrong nißde a statement about the changes going on in Ohio, which justified, in the minds of the committee, the predictions of Senator Pendleton in reference to the result in that State. Mr. Wilson, of Maine, said that there was a very hot contest in that State. Mr, Sulloway reported the canvass in New Hampshii’e as going on well, the Democracy organizing clubs in every district. Gen. Duncan S. Walker, from Washington, reported that the Congressional Committee had advices from forty-three points in Indiana of such a character as to justify them in placing that State in the Democratic column beyond any doubt. They also found that the Democrats in Ohio were working together harmoniously and were exceedingly confident of carrying that State in October. Mr. Armstrong said that there seemed to be a lack of enthusiasm for Garfield, even in the Western Reserve of Ohio. Among the subjects considered was the Republican colonization negroes in Indiana. A letter from Mr. English, the candidate for'Vice President, states that the evidence of negro importations is increasing hourly. The Executive Committee also received many other reports upon that subject, and resolved upon the most active and stringent measures to prevent colonization. Detectives have been employed to watch the leaders in the business, all of whom are well known, and to keep track of the colonists. Arrangements arc also making to arrest any person violating the election laws in that State.