The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-06
Last Nights Dispatches.
THE NEW YORK DEHocaATic CAM
VASS.

New York. Oct. 5.-The admirabl.
organization and management of the
Democratic campaign in this state il
exciting much attention. The amount o
work that is being accomplished is some
thing astonishing. William A. Fowler, OF
the state committee, said to-day: I'VE
have sixty county committees, each OF
which has charge of the campaign work in
| its respective county. There are tive
thousand election districts in the state.
We have one mau 10 each election district
with whom we are in constant correspou-
dence- Again, we baye forty Thousand
names of men in the school districts, or
ten in each, and We have altogether one
hundred and twenty thousand men with
whom We can communicate as we desire
either directly or through the county or
election district organizations. Through
these correspondents we take a thorough
canvass. and we obtain
THE NAME OF EVERY DOUBTFUL VOTER.
To these doubtful voters We have good
Democratic newspapers mailed weekly,
and we send our documents to them daily.
This sending of documents involves much
labor and expense The work is most
systematically doue. We are sending
into the interior of the state four hundred
thousand documents daily. People who
are apt at criticising the labor of cam
paign committee have very little idea of
the work performed. Now, before these
documents can be sent they must be writ
ten and prepared and printed. | take it
that any publishing house that is dispatch
ing four hundred thousand copies of
printed material daily would be credited
with doing a pretty large business; and
yet this is the work that we have organ
lied in few weeks, and which is progress
sing without a hitch in It's machinery,
There are one thousand
HANCOCK AND ENGLISH CLUBS
in the state outside of New York and
Brooklyn, where they are SO thick you can
not count them, This is far greater
number than ever before. While the
committee was perfecting it's plan of orga-
nization. the .people, without waiting for
the politicians or political machinery, went
on and organized the clubs. The first
thing we knew of 1t was the sudden de-
mand for speakers from all parts of the
state tor these club meetings. This com
nittee has from New York organized five
hundred meetings; but this does not in
clude local meetings organized with
out reference to knowledge on the part
OF the committee. suppose thai, Outside
of New York and Brooklyn, there are held
nightly one hundred meetings. We have
Just arranged with Col John W. Forney,
Senators Bayard and Herman. Speaker
Randall and Gen. b. T. Butler, to make a
tour of the state. Let me add right here
that the demand for documents and speak
ers is something unprecedented in all of
my political experience. Il is far ahead
of anything I ever knew"
1t may be confidently affirmed that the
national committee have 10
expectation of winning
THE BATTLE IN INDIANA
Within two days past, members of that
committee have admitted as much ia un-
mistakeable language, and it may be add |
ed on good authority that Marshall Jewell
himself does not think his party has the
ghost of chance to win in the Hoosier
slate. Mr.. Jewell said this afternoon ID
the presence of the Times correspondent:
The fight is going to be in New York |
state, and it is here that the Republican |
party will win or lose in November.