Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-27
BEGINNING CAMPAIGN WORK
Opening the Headquarters of the Nation
at Committee.
| New York Sun, July 23d. !

Opening the Headquarters of the Nation
at Committee.
New York Sun, July 3d.
The Democratic National committee OPEN
ed its new headquarters at 1873 Fifth avenue
yesterday. On the first floor of the house
are four large rooms. They are to be used
as reception rooms for visitors and for the
public business of the committee. The com
mittee's consultation rooms are on the second
floor. The third and fourth floors will be
used as working and sleeping rooms for the
committees clerks. The house is nicely
furnished. Telegraph instruments, tele-
phones and an American district telegraph
call have been put in the rooms on the par
lor floor, and other fixtures are to be added
which will facilitate the transaction of the
business of the campaign.
The executive committee of the national
committee will meet this morning.
Clerks will be appointed at this meeting
and assigned to duty, and other details for
the work of the campaign will be arranged.
Rooms are to be opened in another part
of the city in few days for the use of the
| clerk, who will be occupied during the
campaign in folding and mailing documents.
The correspondence of the executive COM
mittee is already very large. Letters and
| kilograms have been received from all parts
of tina country. They all give encouraging
| accounts of the good condition of the De-
mocracy.
A telegram from Dubuque, Iowa, reads:
DUBUQUE, Iowa, Jnly 20-The Hancock and
English boom is the wonder of this part of the
State. Twelve clubs already formed. Mem
| bership large. and increasing nightly. Ii we
can't carry Iowa we will at least show to
| the country that Hancock is an immense ia
vorite right here in the banner State of Re-
publicanism. Yours very truly,
j. s. WILLIAMS.
Several kilograms were received from
California. One from Sacramento says
Keep New York in line, and look on. for
California in the list of Democratic States in
November. We expect TO carry the State
| against Garfield, who is very unpopular.
| F. =. IDDINas.
| Similar messages were received from Indi-
| ana, Illinois and Ohio. Letters from the
country counties in New York State say that
Hancock and English clubs are being formed
in every assembly district. Some of the
writer's say that men who were soldiers in
the Union army in the wpr of the rebellion,
and have always voted the Republican ticket,
have joined Hancock clubs.
1t is expected that Gen. Hancock will
visit the national committees headquarters
frequently during the campaign.
The executive committee Of the Democrat
ic State committee has begun its work. Its
headquarters will be at the st. James hotel
until more commodious rooms have been Sc
cured. Mr.. Daniel s. Lamont, the commit
tees chief clerk, who is in charge of the
rooms says that the nominations of the
Cincinnati convention are entirely satisfac-
tory to the party in every part of the STATE,
and that in every county the work of the
campaign is we'll under way. The executive
committee will not hold another formal
meeting until the 9Th of August. The ad-
visory committee will be in session daily,
and will transact much of the business
usually done by the full executive commit
tee. The members of the advisory COM
mlttee are Gen. Lester B. Faulkner, chair
man Of the State committee, Daniel Man
ming of Albany, William A. Fowler of
Brooklyn, William E. Smith of Clinton
county, and Hubert o. Thompson of New
York.