The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-08-25

By the middle OF this week hcaIuuar-
terS will be established for the aSsucia-
tInn at Broadway and Forty-second
street. Rooms IMPLY large enough to
ESuit the needs OF the organization have
been rented. and they will be furnished
and paid for by the national committee.
All the literature and the regular cam
paiGn ammunition which mems clubs
received. well equipped from the same
source.
The association Is thoroughly organ
lied. and from It's headquarters 1t In
tends to begin ut once n definite and
well-laid plan OF action against the
enemy.
In the tenamsnt house district. where
the free silver hcresy already has crcpt
In, the women propose to wage an active
battle. Not only will little political
tracts. carefully edited and setting forth
In the simplest language the Vital qucs-
tons of the campaign, be scattered
broadcast. but missionaries from head
quarters will go among the women. rea-
soninE personally with them against the
false doctrine which they have listened
to for months. These women OF the ten
cmnts are In many cases the purse-fold-
err OF the family. and to n great extent
they control the votes of their husbands
and brothers.
II Is through them that the association
aims m reach tn. actual voter.
II control thray votes In this vary
Imminent" declared n stout woman
with a fat, round smile, and an Er!n-Go-
bragh accent. and nivver n wan OF en-
will vote for that cruzy free silver fake,
not from this minnit." One OF the mis-
sionarics had employed the argument
that converted the ~Janitor upon the stout
woman, who was also a d0uDter, and
with the same satisfactory result. Thou
Enuds OF people In the tenementS have
relatives whom they are either support
Ing In the old country or are sending
money to bring them here, and to cx>
plain TO them that with n debascd cur
rCncy their little pound which they send
religiOusly and regularly across the sen
will only be worth half u pound when
1t gets there h the most convincing and
clinchinE argument that can be used,
WorI. tn Factory Districts.
Mrs. Clarence Burns, who has devoted
years OF her life In aiding the poor In
the East Side, and Is thoroughly con-
| yersant with the Sums. has charge OF
the tenement house bureau OF the cam
paIgn, and with her are associated sew
eral experienced women.
Next 10 the tenements the women
managers consider the factory districts
the most fertile field for sowing the seed
of honest government. The scheme there
is 10 make MONDAY addresses to the
employees. Several women have offered
to speak to the men and womon ut their
MONDAY meal. and II Is not often that
an employer Is found who refuse to per-
nit them to talk to the men. In the fac
tory districts the tariff az well AZ the
currency question ID treated, the assOci-
alton believing that tina Issue IL vitnlly
important to the factory hands as Is the
other md should not bn subordinatch To
II. Mrs. Florence KIrkwOOd Is at the
head OF this branch of the work, and
she nlGO has a number 0f able assistants.
For the women OF Murray I'm. as dis
tipgulshna from tlosc Of Cherry Hin. nm
equally comprehensive plan has been
perfected. Among the better educated
clnSSe pamphlets explaining the silver
| question and the most important plnnkn
| OF the two platforms will be circulated
freely, nnd an earnest effort made tn
convince these women Of the vital I'm.
pOrtancc OF keeping their husbands and
| brothers IN town on election day, or Mt
| least keeping them here long enough for
them 10 cast their ballots,
In recent years II has become the pro.
per thing amyng fashionable people 10
hurry away from town az fast nR they
can on election day. Dinners and par.