Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-10-22
ABRYAN RENDEZVOUS
None But His Friends want
cd at Hoffman House
The New York Democratic Party Is
Going the Whole Length With
the Nan whose Nomination
Chilled Business in 1896.

New York, Oct 21.-The Hon. Elliot
F. Danforth. chairman of the execu-
tive committee of the democratic state
committee, opened the democratic
headquarters in the Hoffman house
yesterday afternoon. One of the first
visitors was a spellbinder looking for a
job. The spellbinder met the Hon.
John a. Mason, who will act as Mr..
what he wanted. I'VE haven't got
money enough to buy postage stamps,
let alone takers" said Mr.. Mason.
Then he added, Perhaps if the Hon.
Perry Belmont is made treasurer of
| the committee weII get a hundred
thousand. Come around later
Mr.. Belmont. by the way. is the only
member of the campaign committee
who was not a loyal supporter of the
Hon. William Jennings Bryan and the
Chicago platform of 1896. But he is
now a loyal Bryanite and he voted the
other night for the resolution ac-
knowledging Mr. Bryan as the nat
ural and approved leader of the demo-
cratic party of the nation
Chairman Danforth said that the
campaign was officially opened and he
called a meeting of the executive COM
mittee for this afternoon. The princi-
Pal subject to be discussed will be the
raising of funds sufficient to buy post
age stamps a;:d other things Mr.
Danforth will announce those whom he
has selected to assist him in running
the campaign. His staff will all ne
ed-in-the-wooI Bryanites.
This campaign is going to be a
Bryan campaign right from the start
There will be no place anywhere along
the line for any half-hearted support
ers OF the democratic leader. To make
absolutely certain of this, Chairman
Danforth has invited all of the county
chairmen to call on him at headquar-
ters and be advised about the policy
to be pursued. The capture of the as
sembly by the democrats, they will be
told would be the biggest kind of a
boom for the silver leader. What
speaking will be done in the campaign
will be done for Bryan as we'll as for
democratic success in the state. New
York democrats have always been un-
der suspicion so far as their loyalty to
the democratic leader is concerned,
and the effort this year is to drive this
suspicion from the minds of the
Bryan. The democratic leaders see
that the only way this can be done IS
to make every democratic vote an un-
questioned Bryan vote, and that's
what they are going to do so far as it
lies in their power. They believe that
three years of prosperity such as the
country has had since the election of
President Mckinley, and the war and !
all that has happened, has made the |
voters forget the disasters of the years
preceding the election and particularly |
the hard times and the business dis |
tress that followed the nomination of
Bryan in 1896, when millions upon |
millions of dollars We're lost, industry |
was paraIyzed, the banks refused to
pay out money, and even the savings
banks required notice before they |
would let their depositors withdraw
their deposits. Poverty, they say, is
the thing soonest forgot when prosper
ity comes and prosperity the past
three years has been so uninterrupted
that there is nc reason Why anybody
should remember the soup houses that
charity had to establish thicker than
open factories were when the country
was threatened with Organism.