The morning times., 1896-05-31
Warriors Bold With Spurs Of Gold Go to the Political
Campaign Fight in White Duck Trousers
WHAT IT COSTS TO COSTUME A POLITICAL CLUB
OIcOth Capes for IS Cents, Fur Shakes for Is, and
Gun, Spiked With Flag, for 30 Cents.
$500 BUYS THE MOST EXPENSIVE SUIT, WITH HELMET AID GUN

/ low waistcOat and a blue or black coat
+ A Napoleon cDc6a ie hat II worn well down
/ over the brow. This is one OF the most
\ expensive uniforms, COstingu less than S4.
me whitney uniform, sInguIariy enough,
/ embraces silk hat. Many clubs have this
/ SILK hat or OllClOth, polished to look like
/ the silkies5 or tiles. With this goes long
| tdlleI coat, pair OF white duck trousers
and a transparency announcing the Rame
| or the man who VIII be IN the White House
the next four years.
By PRACTICAL means such as this votes are
easily captured. The wCrkingman reasons
quickly enough that campaign that gives
him work before election will keep him
employed afterward; and employment with
the very poor is the keynt te for Judging
the political situation Cf the country
Campaign guns are not OF the sort that
can be fired Off They are OF pine stained
10 lock like the weapons Of battle In the
end is stuck flag like a bayOnet. Others
nave transparency mounted on the end.
The gun is hight, out of regard FOR the car
rier's arm, aud 70 one end is fixed hook,
upon which the COLI red lantern can be hung.
COST OF A CLUB.
The cost OF getting up campaign club Is
So small that it is practically nothing. A
collection Will inaugurate the movement.
A ten-cent cap, ten-cent double swim ging
torch and Il fifteen-cent oiIcloth cape sea
the ball rolling gayly.
Very fine felt coats and capes are made
for dress parade of the clubs that 20 out
afternoons. a coat and cape together cost
as high as So. But IL is possible 70 hire
them, so 'all that glItJers is not gold'' in
every case where you see elegance in
the ranks OF campaign club. The club may
DC ecOnOmiZing to print circulars and may
be spending next 10 nothing in uniforms.
hCET r-sar1
by tie mounted clubs, and the horses are
brave in flags
y very neat little circular was carried
by hand last week To the rooms of all the
city campaign clubs. II read Ike this;
Frank Work, cleaner in general to cam
paign clubs and To the b Clubin particu-
lar. soHcits your patronage. Army boota
cleaned and oiled, five cents: oiled daily,
three cents; white duck leggins cleaned
with pipe-clay weekly, seven cents; buck
skin trousers cleaned with oatmeal, eight
cents; white cloth trousers cleaned with
magncsia, ten cents, all other things strictly
in proportion Everything cleaned dry.
Can't shrink"
There S this about a marching campaigp
club. II is not dependent upon political
headquarters or upon Individual patronage
II springs up by itself, is self-SuppOrtiz-l
and carries on It's independent political
side show in the most admirably indie
pendent manner.
There are thousands OF these clubs form
ing now. The members select uniforms
ORDER IL for the club. try IL on, fill torches
and get ready to brave the pavements for
q nights march A band must go along,
and this band must be uniformed in the
same general tone as the club, but gayer.
The band wears white Shd kos. costing fully
81 each; and their flags float from theiR
Instruments or are fastened on the gold
epaulets that all baUdmen must wear.
White duck trousers, cleaned for them daily,
are part of the musicians uniform, and
though only twelve mon q so march in the
band. their CostumIn= is more expensive
than that Of the who'e club Of over 100
men But the music IS as necessary as tAa
transparency