The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-02
MEETS WITH SUCCESS
D0llar-a-M0nth Plan Works Out
Well.
CANVASS OF INDIANA
ORGANIZATION THERE UNDER
MIR. CLARK'S DIRECTION.
representative of the Ways and
Means Committee, of the Demo-
cratic National Committee, Says
the Outlook For q Satisfactory
Campaign Fund In 1900 Is Good.
dndianapolis sentinel.l


large popular subscription for the Demo-
cratic national campaign fund is meeting
with a success that is entirely satisfac-
| tory to the organization and very graft
flying TO all those Democrats who have
already begun 10 buckle on the armor for
the fight of 1900.
This movement, which is being stimuli
taneously pushed in every state and terri
tory of the union, has been put to the
test in Indiana by Allen w. Clark, al
ready identified with the ways and means
committee as manager of its newspaper
department, and in the last three weeks
Mr. Clark has presented the plan in sew
eral sections of the Sta.e, TO city ana rural
communities, to state and local leaders
and to. merchants, artisans and farmers
within the ranks. Last night at the
Grand hotel which he is making his head
quarters while in the state, he was asked
the result of his efforts.
IF the other states of the nation do as
well as [ now feel satisfied Indiana Will
do" said Mr. Clark, "a new era in
American politics is dawning. An era in
which will be seen on the one side the
trusts. monopolieS and great corporations
furnishing the SinewS OF war with Whlcn
to maintain a money system, which IS
their chief weapon in the spoliat1on or the
people; and on the other the masses, the
sincere. intelligent and self-respecting
citizenry-earneSt in their conviction that
our fight is for the people, knowing the
heavy expense of modern and successful
though legitimate campaigning, ana with
a manly and patriotic desire TO bear their
own share OF the burden-who will go
down into their own pockets, as they may
feet able, and finance their own cam,
paigns.
This will eternally end, SO far as the
Democratic party is concerned, the
whose gold the rights and interests of the
people have been bartered away so open
~ by the party of Mark Hanna in recent
ole aeCrer
OF opportunists going up and down the
country with the wall that this or that
demand of the people must not be heark-
ened to by Democratic conventions, else
the Golfers of the east continue closed to
US, as they have been ever since the
declaration of the time-honored position
of the party against the aggreSSionS of
the capitalist class became a promise OF
specific performance instead of a gen.
crafty not always unmis taxable.
ION the other hand, If this movement
offering a practicable and easy plan for
financing the campaigns of the people by
the people themselves should fail for any
scented throughout the country it might
make history a great deal faster than
anybody would like TO predict. Such a
failure would demonstrate TO the nation
and to the world at large that here, under
republican form of government pluto
cracy had become supreme. Political
parties could no longer make issues of
the questions between the masses and the
classes. The only issues would be the
offices, or the struggles between opposing
combinations of capital, each intent on its
own exploitation of the country, and poll
teal managers would supinely bow to
Wall street and say: Pay our bills, write
the platforms, name the candidates and
dictate the administration politics. And
after such a virtual and deliberate alb
dication of the people who can say where
the arrogance of the plutocracy would
end?
THERE'S A REAWAKENING.
grimly determined TO die lighting in the
last ditch, there is very manifest among
the large majority of our people * re-
awakening of the courage and enthusi-
asn which dominated the conventions of
80, a revival of the spirit actuating our
forefathers in '16, or, if you please, that
following the winter at Valley Forge.
They are inspired by conviction and
courage akin to that of those days and
theirs is a heroism in some respects even
more remarkable. for it is without the
glamour of war and to the multitude
their sacrifices seem so prosaic. An in
stance: A brakeman, on low wages and
with a family to support, approached me
on the train one day last week and said.
I want to sign one of those subscription
blanks and pay a dollar a month toward
the silver campaign fund. L earnestly
believe in the movement and want to pay
my part toward its success. Farmers,
country merchants and struggling pro-
fessional men talk to me in the same way.
Surely such contributions, even small,
blessed to infinitely more good than the
large sums paid by the several hundred
trusts for their projection while plumber
ing the people, and when success crowns
our efforts we shall have an administra-
ton under obligations only and solely to
the people"
the politicians or the people not identified
with politics were the most liberal sub
L notice no difference" he replied. ''Of
course we go to the politicians first, be
cause the people would likely look on the
movement with distrust if their local
but the leaders give it their unanimous
approval. partly because of their own
knowledge of its Importance and neces-
sity and partly also, because it is eStab-
fishing q system that will secure a more
equitable distribution of the burden OF
campaign expenses. The people them
selves are rallying to its support because
sire for silver restoration and because
this plan offers them an easy method to
give substantial assistance. Besides, this
plan appeals to their Self-reSpect; 10 UNI
due pressure or special solicitation is
made on any one, and there are none of
the sandba gging methods which so often
characterize campaign nnancfering.
Have you heard any talk OF modifying
the money plank for the 1900 campaign?
"Oh yes, a little, but it is like Mchln-
lev Observation-Disclosures in the next coun-
ty' And if any of the politicians have
ANYTHING like that up their sleeves and
intend to play it, they'll ind the Indiana
and good deal less patient than 1t has
been in the past. If anybody doubts this
he has only to visit a half dozen counties
to get his eyes open.