The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-23

Democratic headquarters here and the
statements given out at Chicago By Sena-
tor James x. Jones of Arkansas, Chair
man of the Democratic National Committee
is accepted as fair presentation of tho
facts.
The Norris and the anti-Norris elements
Of the District Democracy Will cpen cam
paign headquarters at the Metropolitan
Hotel today. The anti-Norris men have
engaged the main paTlor which ad-
joins on the west the suite OF rooms oc-
cupied by the Democratic Congressional
Committee. J. A. Collins. chairman of the
Holmead Central Committee, will be in
charge there. assisted by Charles W. Slat-
err Dr. Reisel. and others. Contributions
for the national campaign fund will be re-
ceived The headquarters Of the anti-Nor-
ris committee viii also be the headquar-
ters of the Bryan and Stevenson Club OF
the District, which although recently or
ganiZed, already has membership of $50.
1t is announced that the organization of
colored Democratic clubs is progressing
satisfactorily. a colored political leader
who called at Democratic headquarters
said yesterday that there would be a large
number of colored voters who would cast
their ballots for Bryan and Stevenson in
New York. New Jersey, Indiana, Mary
land West Virginia, and other States
which have been classified as doubtful.
This man said:
Many members of my race will vote for
Mr.. Bryan in New York. The reason for
! this is that Tammany has given to col
ored Democrats more substantial recog-
milton than colored Republicans have re-
ceived during the Administration Of Presi-
dent Mckinley. 1t is pretty generally
known to the colored voters in thv5e States
where they read, that when the Democrats
were in control of Congress more colored
laborers were appointed to positions at
the Capitol than when the Republican par
ty had control Only menial positions, and
very few of these. have been given 10 col
ored Republicans during the present Ad-
m1nistration. Our people understand that
the Republicans in Congress defeated the
bills TO pension aged ex-slayes and to re-
fund certain moneys withheld by the
Quartermaster's and Commissary De-
partments since the civil war. Ny people
begin to understand that the Republican
party is the creature of trusts which hear
upon the la5oring classes. The Republican
party has used the blacks Of the South as
political vassals, and this is largely tho
cause of the race troubles in that section"
Among the prominent colored Democrats
in Washington are John Duke, L. c. Moore.
Travis Gascoe. George Fisher. c. c.
Curtis. Henry Brown, Charles Stephenson,
Douglass Moore, C. Charles. and R. Ii.
Tourney.
The Democratic Congressional and Ma
tional Committees. through the German
bureau continue TO put forth Efforts to
bring the German vote into line and the
reports from all sections of the country. it
is said. indicate that high percentage OF
Gerrnan-Americaps will vote for Bryan and
Stevenson. II required months of work on
the part Of many clerks to prepare the
mailing lists. The names were not only
gathered by the German bureau but they
were classified and a particular character
of literature has been sent and still goes
TO each of the classes into which the Ger
man-Americars have been sub-divided- One
of the classes comprehends all he Ger.
man-American Democrats who rosed for
Palmer and Buckner in 1896 and ii is said
that another class comprehends those who
have kindred serving compulsory terms in
the German Army. II is said that the plan
OF specializing the German American vote
has been practiced in other campaigns by
the Republican managers. but is not being
followed by the Republican management In
the pending campaign.
Early this year the Republicans selected
a well-known German editor TO act as
chief of their German literature bureau.
a staff of assistants was chosen, and work
was mapped ou; on a scale perhaps never
attempted before. Suddenly this whole
plan was abandoned. The German literary
enterprise was merged in the general lit
erary bureau at Chicago, which Perry
Heath is to care sor during the campaign.
German Democratic workingmen's clubs
are being organized in many cities. 1t has
been said that the first three clubs organ
lied for the campaign of 1900 were Ger
man Democratic. and it is significant that
they were organized in Cleveland, Ohio.