Evening star., 1896-10-07
DEMAND FOR REED
His Letter to the Republican Commit
tee Chairman.
Can COMPLY With BUTFEW REQUESTS
Reports of Hard Work Being Done
in Missouri.
NEWS FROM OTHER STATES

The demand which has been made upon
the republican committee from ali sections
| OF the country for the services of Speaker
| Reed in this campaign is described at re-
| publican headquarters as enormous. In re-
| ply to letter, Mr.. Reed writes as follows
| in his characteristic vein:
Dear Mr.. Babcock: 1 am very glad that
you have some of the letters which might
| unfortunately come to me, for / am very
| much disturbed by them. The country be-
| ing rather large, and being only one, it is
| impossible to comply with 10 per cent Of the
requests that are made. If some of tl.e
people whom 1 have to refuse knew how
| hated to do it. l should have their com
passion instead of less tender feeling
| Coz lgressman George w. Smith writes
| from Cairo. ILL.,: The silver craze has
| been very strong. but we will carry this
| district by very large majority. From re-
| ports L have received from other portions
| OF the state, l think our party is gaming
! and we hope to carry it by a sound ma
| jority."
| A. Ed. Robinson, secretary of the fifth
| congressional district republican committee
| oil Michigan. who is managing the CAM
| p&isn of Representative William Alden
| Smth, says Things are surely coming
| our way, and the interest is growing. Just
polled one Of the large furniture factories
| as follows: Mckinley, 40: Bryan ~; 20
tai, $50. And we are still after them.'
Hard Work Being Done in Missouri.
II. +. Wagner, president Of the Monarch
Rubber Company, of st. Louis, Mo-, writes
| to Vice Chairman Apsley follows: We
| are writing you today to advise you how
| the political situation appears to the whole
sale merchants here in St. Louis We are
all working earnestly for sound money and
| Mckinley, and believe that with a little
eXertion on the part Of the St. Louis peo-
| pie and the national committee We can
carry the state for Mckinley. The senti-
| ment here is changing rapidly, and l notice
| 1t right here in our own house. Men who
| have Joined the Bryan silver clubs are
| rendering their designations and joining the
Scund money clubs In cOnneC ton with
| sc ind money clubs, l beg to advise you OF
THIS fact, that in a wholesale district among
| business men and commercial travellers We
| nave organized what We call the CONNER
| cial Travellers Sound Money Club Of St
Louis.
| Our membership total is about lSu,
members, little over GDO of whom have
| always been democrats, but who intend in
! this election to vote for Mckinley. We
| are getting up an excursion here of our
club to go to Canton, on October ., and We
expect to call on Mr.. Mckinley on the fol-
| lowing day, October 10, returning here Sun
| day, the llth. All the subscriptions for the
campaign expenses of our club have been
| sG.s scribed by the business men and busi-
A'Ss' A'dS0S mere III Jul CITY, anu All our
members, as 1 have before stated, are busi-
ness men. We want the privilege if We
IAN get 1t, of entertaining Thomas B. Reed
| or Maine, in our city, either on October IL
or October "a. We will provide the Audi
| tcrfum, and arrange matters in good shape
| for his entertainment. We want him here
| as the guest of the Sound Money Club of
| st. Louis. We all working hard and
| putting in much time as we can possibly
sIiare from our business
s.-.- Also in North Carolina
]. B. Fortune, chairman Of the republi-
can executive committee of Cleveland
county, North Carolina, writing to republi-
| Can headquarters here, says: "Republicans
are working in North Carolina as they
| never worked before. We feel confident of
| giving the electoral vote of the state 20 Nc
! kinley."
William j. Price, who is taking an active
part in the Ohio campaign, writes under
recent date, from Nenedocia: The outlook
| Is far more encouraging here than it was a
month ago; by this time it is safe to say
| that We are going to hold our own and
make gains besides. l do not think that
| any republican votes are going to Bryan
| and l know of many prohibitionsts and
democrats who will vote for Mckinley and
sound money
Representative T. E. Burton writes a
very encouraging letter to republican head
quarters from Cleveland, Ohio, and saws
! the present situation in his district is
| highly favorable to the cause of sound
| money.