The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-05
EUST BE BOsE BY THE PEOPLE
THE WORK OF THE PEOPLE,
HENCE THE NECESSITY OF
DEMOCRATIC CLUBS
HEARST CHOSEN PRESIDENT
After His Speech Mt Indianapolis
MIR. Bryan Addressed an Au-
dience at Lebanon in
the Evening.

T INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. 4.-The
forenoon session of the national associa--
Sion Of Democratic clubs was not called
to order until 1880 o'clock. Governor Nc
MILAN of Tennessee presided. The report
of the committee on permanent organiza-
tion was submitted to the convention. 1t
recommended the following officers be
selected:
w. r. Hearst, president.
Max F. Ihmsen, secretary.
Marcus DAILY treasurer.
President w. R. Hearst did not arrive
this morning and it is possible he will not
be able to attend
The convention took the report of the
committee on permanent organization, as
soon as the session began and, an ami
mated discussion followed the recon-
mendation of the committee to increase
the membership of the executive commit
tee. 1t was unanimously decided not to
increase the membership.
The balance of the report of the COM
nittee on permanent organization was
adopted.
HEARD MRS. vALEsCH.
Brief addresses were made by Mrs. Eva
Macdonald Valesch, of Washington, d.
c., formerly of st. Paul, Mimi; Mrs
Mary B. Walker, of Chicago, president Of
the National Woman's Bryan League,
and M. L. Lockwood, of Pennsylvania,
president of the national antitrust
league. At the conclusion Of Mr.. Lock-
woods address, the convention took re-
cess until 2 o'clock
bon
probably 5000 being present, but as the
!. hour approached for the advent of Mr..
I Bryan at 4 o'clock the aisles were filled
eead the hall thronged to a degree of al
most suffocation. After Adlai E. Steven
son had concluded James R. Sovereign,
eX-grandmaster of the Knights of Labor,
spoke, dealing with the workingman from
special standpoint. He said labor was the
feundation of liberty in all the world.
Mr.. Sovereign was followed by ]. Milton
Turner, minister to Liberia under Grants
administration, who spoke briefly.
AS Bishop Turner concluded Mr.. Bryan
appeared upon the, platform. His arrival
served to instin into the meeting a de-
gree of enthusiasm which had not mark
ed the proceedings of the convention. He
= reached the city a few minutes before
o'clock, but did not arrive at the hall
until a quarter past 4 o'clock He was
escorted through the streets by a number
of-marching clubs, and he was welcomed
at every turn by throngs of people AS
soon as the Democratic national candi-
I date appeared on the platform there was
wild shout of greeting and this soon
developed into a demonstration which
continued for about six minutes until in
deed there was a call for a cessation
from Mr.. Bryan himself. The speech was
literally applauded throughout, and when
It was concluded there was a rush to the
stage on the part of those in the audi
ence. He, however, avoided this demon
stration and soon found his way back to
his hotel. Mr.. Bryan spoke as follows:
MR.. BRYAN's ADDRESS.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
I am here not because [ am needed (ap-
pIause and Iaughter5, hut because I want
TO be- Not because you need me, but
because L am glad to meet you. 1t is
not necessary that l should speak to you
Tor you have already listened to enough
to convince any who are not convinced,
and one follows me tonight who will
convince any who may still be without
! the fold. You have heard this afternoon
my distinguished colleague on the ticket
who disputes the saying of Nestor when
: he he complained 42il that the gods did not give
al thlngS TO a man at the same time;
that the Gods withheld the vigor of
youth when they gave the wisdom of age
think You will agree with me that NV
colleague is able to combine both the
Yigor Of youth with the wisdom of age.
But appreciate the work done, and
beng done and to be done by this asso-
citation of Democratic clubs. and l appre-
ciate the energy, the enthusiasm and the
ability displayed by Mr. Hearst, the presi-
dent Of this association. l believe in
these clubs We need them. We need
clubs far more than the Republicans
need clubs. In fact, my friends, the
work of Democracy, being work for
the people, must be done by the people
Machinery is not sufficient when we have
but machinery alone to win a Democratic
nght. We need these clubs to aid in the
: work and to supplement the efforts OF our
national, state and local organization
We need the clubs to help US collect
money to carry on our campaign. The
Republican party can get its money from
the corporations which plunder the peo-
pie between campaigns in return for the
money contributed during the campaign
We cannot go to a trust and ask it to
help u.s. because we don't expect to be
helped We know that every speech
makes 1t easier for their party to raise
campaign fund; you understand that.
Mg 9ngS gSff9 i { thsse 81 GIgMfS M & eR gs collect
= The Republican party does ss7 not rt collect
money for its national campaign from
one Republican out of a hundred, and
when the election is over 80 out of leo
Republicans have nothing to say about
the running of the government.
- GET OUT THE VOTE.
We expect that the administration viii
be conducted in behalf of the great mass
of the American people, and we have the
right to call upon them to help with their
money, as well as with their votes, to
.win this fight. which is their fight, and
not our fight.
We need the clubs to help get the votes
out on election day. Out in our state we
some times arrange to have volunteers
who will go out and when they find a
man who thinks he Is too busy huskine
corn to spare the time to vote, the vol
unteer husks in his place until he goes
and votes. We need these clubs to help
get the vote out, and then we need these
clubs to help get the vote counted and
to prevent fraud after 1t IS cast glory
tn the work done thus far. The meeting
of these delegates here IS an indication
Of the interest taken IN this work and
/ beg you to spend every possible mo-
ment between now and election in secur-
4 ing victory for those principles which
you believe IN. and for this cause you
have so seriously eSpoused.
The republican party is not prepared
to meet the Issue of this campaign. The
Republicans party is today dodging run
ming from nearly every issue in the CAM
paign. When they started out they said