Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-19
SOUND MONEY LEAGUE TO RESUME
ITS CAMPAIGN WORK.
WILL SOON REACH 10000 MARK
A GREAT DEMONSTRATIONS WILL
-. THEN TAKE PLACE.
,FIambeau. Club VIII Meet Mt the
Headquarters Tonight to ReOr-
Eanixe for, the CampniEn-
Maine Citizens to Meet
at the Coates.

Tho campaign of the Sound Money
League will be actively resumed to-day and
it is practically, assured that the 10000
members which the league set out to Sc
cure will be enrolled by tonight. The
league leaders have already moved their
high water mark several thousand higher
and count on securing at least 1900 or ,15.-
900 members. When the league was first
organized one week ago tomorrow and
President Clarke announced that it would
have 10000 membership within a week or
ten days. many people thought the claim
was an extravagant one. But those who
had doubts were not we'll informed as to
the temper of the American people. and
/. the people of this community are in no
respects different from those of any other
American community When a call for
volunteers in defense of national honesty
and national honor is sounded, there will
be no lack Of recruits.
The growth of the league is simply phe
nomenal. Organized less than one week
ago, 1t already numbers between 1000 and
5000 members. For the past three days
the large clerical force has been swamped
with an avalanche of signers, who poured
in in such numbers that they could not be
classified fast enough. Huge piles Of signed
application blanks accumulated on the
clerks desks and before one pile could be
gotten out of the way ahether great bundle
would be ready.
Saturday was the biggest day Of all. and
ho fpn n
the activity will increase. Daily meetings
of the officers of the league are held and
the situation canvassed from every stand
point. Conferences are held with the off,
cials of the various sound money organiza-
tions and no detail is neglected.
The flag idea is a new one. and the
league is entitled to the credit for its
adoption here. Already many business
houses have been draped with the national
emblem, and this week will witness the
transformation of the business section of
the city into a mass of patriotic color.
Every member of the league is given a
small flag and number of business houses
have flung to the breeze huge banners
seven or eight feet wide and ten or fifteen
feet long, -.,..
The arrangements for the great demon
stration of the league will be completed in
udy VI t"O. IL laOHldS p. tSeeQ stops OIL
here on his way to Wichita, where he is
to speak Saturday of this week, the mon
ster parade will take place when he ar
rives. If he does not come, the demon
stration will be subject to other arrange
ments. kilograms have been sent to Mr.
Reed. Senator Thurston and other promi-
nent leaders requesting them to come to
| Kansas City. and replies are expected with.
in the next day or two.
Nothing like the growth of the Sound
Money League was ever known in the his
| tory, of American politics. The business
men are conducting their campaign with
unexampled activity, and are giving the
| political leaders some valuable lessons in
| organization and the details of manage
| ment. That an organization should start
| with 100 members, have 1850 the second
day. double It's membership the third day.
| double its second days membership on
| the fourth day, and on the fifth day have
| seventy-ive times as many members as on
the day of its organization, Is a record
absolutely unparalleled in the history of
| political achievements. 1t simply shows
| the intense interest manifested in the
cause Of national honesty and the patriot
ic resentment of any onslaught upon the
| national honor.
The feature of the sound money demon
| stratfon. aside from the number of men
| who will be in the parade, will be the
Fiambeau Club. This club will meet at the
| league headquarters tonight to organize
for the campaign. Captain J. S. Cannon is
captain of the club, which in past cam
| paigns has done excellent service and TAX
| en- high rank as flambeau club.
The Kansas City residents whose native
| state is Maine will have meeting at the
Coates House tonight to arrange for a
suitable reception to Thomas B. Reed on
l his arrival in the city.
1 The daily noon business mems meeting
will be held to-day from II o'clock noon
to O'Clock at headquarters. 1O2 West Ninth
| street. -t.
Letters were sent to all the ministers OF
the city requesting them to meet with the
| executive committee of the league this
| morning to discuss the advisability of hold
\: ing opera house meetings on Sundays. al
which honesty in national affairs should be
advocated. Several Bryan followers have
| raised a hue and cry over the 'attempt tc
use pulpits for political purposes
/ 1t strikes the average layman that Sun
day is pretty good day to talk honesty
and that If Bryan means honesty no objec
tion should be raised. No effort has beer
made to. enlist the pulpits or to request tn,
ministers to take part In politics. The mill
| listers were simply invited to meet with RI,