Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1899-12-01
FRIDAY, 1, 1889.

THE CITY OF DEVILS LAKE.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1889.
DEMOCRATIC
Prominent Democrats through
out North Dakota, and we presume
throughout the United States also,
have received duringthe past week
two remarkable documents. One
is from The National Rural, Of
Chicago, which purports to be a
farm journal and family magazine,
which brazenly makes the follow
ing contemplate proposition:
Dear Sir: Can you imagine a more effective
VOTE-MAKER than the regular weekly visits
to every Republican home in your county of a
live, up-to-date, long established farm and fam
lily paper, the best of its class, that devotes
several pages each week, including editorials,
to an earnest, intelligent, although non-partisan
advocacy of bimetallism and in opposition to
trusts, Imperialism and militarism, taking for
its basis the welfare of the American Farmer7
And would you not be glad to lend your hearty
cooperation in a movement to secure a wide
circulation among this class of such a paper,
especially if it can be done with no expense
whatever to your committee7 Please note here
with the earnest words of party leaders, with
their endorsement of the National Rural and
its unique but perfectly practicable plan for
gaining circulation among the class in ques-
ton. Also their earnestness in urging IMME-
date and thorough effort to accomplish this
desired end.
As an experienced campaign worker you will
appreciate that the time to do this work is
NOW, we'll in advance of the campaign, before
minds are closed to the truth by this excitement
and appeals to party prejudice incident to the
campaign, also while during the long winter
evenings the farmers have time to read and
think. You will also appreciate that voters
can be reached with the truth and influenced
through the medium of a non-partizan farm
paper who could not be persuaded to read a
paper committed to the above principles along
party lines.
The Rural will make a fat rate of so cents a
year mot quite the actual cost of paper and
presswork) for all subscriptions sent by your
committee or club, if a thorough canvass of
both Democrats and Republicans is made un-
der your authority and direction. Remember,
however, that the canvasser should avoid all
partisan appearance, going to Democrats and
Republicans alike, taking ISL subscriptions
from Democratic and Populist farmers and
party work ers wherever possible, with the un-
Outstanding that so cents of the amount will be
placed in the committees treasury to pay for
the canvass, and going to the Republicans and
offering them the 5Gcent clubbing rate, with
the statement that he is getting up a club in
order to get a premium.
We believe that in every county where the
opponents of McKinleyism and Plutocracy are
awake and in earnest, enough friends can be
found willing to give $1.OO a year for the Rural
ito pay for a thorough canvass to the county,
and to send the paper to all those Republican
farmers whom the canvasser could not secure
lat the fifty cent clubbing rate.
Please select one or two or three good can.
Vassers, men or women, and put them to work.
We will furnish sample copies, receipt books,
.etc. Inform all your committee men and party
workers of the movement 80 they'll give it
cordial support and cooperation. Instruct
'canyassers to visit every farmer and keep record
,of result with each to report to you.
Now we know that if this were campaign time
you would give very earnest attention to any
plan to largely circulate the Rural in your
county, and yet how infinitely more import.
ant to do it now, when:-
First, the paper will be read regularly for
many weeks before partisan suspicion or pref
.udice is aroused by the opening of the cam
.paign. Second, an intelligent and thorough
circulation can be secured, and third, you can
use a plan that will distribute the:.burden of
expense so it will not be felt, as is seldom the
case during the campaign and a plan that in
sures the respectful consideration of the publ
cation by its readers because practically every
one of them will have paid for it and will look
upon himself as a regular subscriber.
Hoping to have your early reply on enclosed
blank. Yours truly,
ALLEN w. CLARK.
Manager Subscription Department.
The Democratic Ways and
Means committee, composed OF
John R. Mclean, Ohio. chairman:
Urey Woodson, Kentucky; Adai1
Wilson, Colorado; j. j. Dryer.
California; Frank Campbell, New
YORK; Benz. y. Iillman, South
California; J.G. johnson, Kansas.
and S. B. Cook, of Chicago, gen.
eral manager, fully endorse this
monumental confidence scheme
as the accompanying letter will
show:
Dear Sir: TIL Importance of securing the
widest possible circulation for papers which
are fearlessly and ably representing the princi
pies for which the Democratic party is con.
tending, cannot be overestimated. 1t is of tn,
greatest Importance that during the COMING
winter months literature of this character
should be placed in the hands of the larges
possible number of voters. We believe no bet
ter medium can be found for this kind of cam
paign work than the National Rural, of Chicago
Although until the campaign of '96 of Repnb