The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-01
NOTES OF THE CAMPAIGN.
The Big Club Convention.-prepar

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| The Big Club Conyention.-Prepar
| tions on vast scale have been made at
| indianapolis for the entertainment of the
National Association of Democratic Clubs
I which meets there Wednesday in annual
convention. An attendance of $4,000 is
/ promised, and it is expected that every
| State in the Union will send a large rep
| resentation. The railroads have Lot been
| as liberal in the matter of rates as they
| were expected to be. nor as they would
| have been had the affair been Republic
| can meeting. declare those who are man
| aging it. Both Messrs. Bryan and Stew
enson will be present either Wednesday
oil Thursday and each will make speech.
President William r. Hearst will preside,
and will be ably assisted by two members
of his editorial staff-Max F. Ihmsen as
secretary and Special Commissioner James
Creelman, as a sort of general factotum.
1t is believed that the meeting will de-
wise a plan of campaign work that will
be especially effective in the close states,
and that this plan will be put Into exc
cution as soon as the delegates return to
their homes. This part of the cCnven-
TONS work Will necessarily Re yelled in
more or less secrecy and 1t is thought
that only the pyrotechnic features of the
1t is said that President Hearst uncom-
plainingly has borne nearly all the ex-
pense of the work of organization thus far
done by the association. and 1t is Sug-
gested- that 1t will be eminently proper
for the convention to adopt some scheme
to relieve him of this heavy burden. At
the same time it is believed that the
president of the association is so pleased
with the honor and so interested in the
To- 1 al ,D
bills If the thousands of enthusiastic
young Democrats who meet and applaud
him at indianapolis should fail in their
plain duty to themselves, their PARTY, and
their gallant young leader. If they fail
to do this, II is thought Chairman Jones
will provide from the treasury of the Ma
tional Committee the money needed to
carry out President Hearsts plans OF
campaign work.
Patriotism Pestered.-There are sew
eral thousand Republican patriots in
this city today everyone of whom is
mad enough with the railroads to under
take to butt the first locomotive ne sees
off the track and then. if this punish
ment is not sufficient to bring the reads
to terms. he will join any movement
having for its object the lynching of
the general passenger agents wherever
found. These patriots want to get home
to vote, but they. object to paying out
to the railroad corporations their hard
earned money for the privilege. They
held an indignation meeting the other
night, and will continue to meet and
protest until the railroads come down
in their rates. The reads want to charge
them one and e-third fare for the round
trip home, and. while they are opposed
TO paying anything, still if they can ~
no better they may consent to one
rate fare At their meeting the other
evening they were assured by an official
of the National Congressional Campaign
Committee that their grievance was just
and that they could depend upon the
party managers doing everything in their
power to get them a lower rate home.
The railroads. however, remain OBJ
durate. and when the patriots meet TO
protest again this week they Lay call
upon Mr.. Hanna to right their wrongs.
Indeed, it is said that a petition already
has been forwarded to Mr.. Hanna setting
forth the facts in the case, and they are
only awaiting his action upon it before
holding smother meeting. Some CT them
complain that the assessment tor cam
paign purposes this year has been SO
heavy that they really are unable to pay
the rate demanded by the railroads. If
Mr.. Hanna does not bring the roads TO
terms he will be asked either to refund,
pro rata, some of the cash paid into his
treasury by the aggrieved patriots OF
to excuse such of them from going home
to vote as do not feel that they
can stand the expense. They are con-
WINGED that Mr.. Hanna can make the
railroads transport them free IL he
wants to. and some of them are so
brash as to assert that il he does not
do this they will refuse to vote. Tn,
one-r rate fare has been the rule with
the railroads heretofore. but 1t is stated
that the roads have been called en- by
Mr.. Hanna for such big campaign con-
tributions this year that they do not feel
that II is incumbent upon them to haul
voters for MIR. Hanna at an actual loss