The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-30
PREPARING FOR 1904 !
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMIT
TEE MAKING READY FOR
NEXT CAMPAIGN
RECORDS GROWING At CHICAGO
Every One of the 100000 Voting
Precincts in the United
States to BE Or
EaniZed.

CHICAGO, June 29-(Special)-In one
respect at least the Democratic national
committee will be far better prepared
for the next campaign to elect a presi-
dent than it was last fall. The COM
mittee will have an organization in every
voting precinct Of the country and there
are about 100000 Of them
This work was hardly begun by the ma
tional committee when the Kansas City
convention was held and it was about
one-third done Nov. l, 1900. AS it pro-
crosses records are piling up at head
quarters in Chicago in books and on
cards filed away in drawers But the
mass of information has been deposited
in such a thoroughly systematic way
that the secretary, figuratively speaking,
can put his finger in a moment on any
voting precinct "organized." st. Paul
was asked for by a caller and in a few
seconds cards were laid before him,
showing who's who and what's what In
all the national Democratic precinct Or
ganizations of the city.
The completion Of this vast detail Of
the partys election machinery is ex-
pected immensely to increase its power
and responsiveness to the touch of the
controlling influence.
George P. Locke, of Wichita, says that
Kansas fusionists are in a quandary on
account of the new state ballot law and
the course decided on, as a result, by the
Democrats of the state. Mr. Locke is
chairman Of the executive committee of
the Democratic state central committee
and recently he made special trip home
to help smooth the wrinkles in the
brow of the PopuHst who has been CO.
operating with the Democrats to van
quish the Republicans of Kansas, in
particular not to mention the country at
large:
The Republican legislature Of last win
ter gave Kansas a law which prob %lts
the printing of the same ticket under
more than one caption. The list of candi-
dates bearing at it's head the word
Democratic" cannot be printed on other
slips denominated "Populist" or Flu
sion.' 1t has followed that the Demo-
Gratis Of Kansas have virtually decided
to make the one ticket, to be voted for
by all fuslonists, the 'Democra Ne
ticket The Populists are to be urged
to vote this ticket, but according to the
best obtainable information they do not
quite see their way clear to accepting
the terms They suggest a union tick
ct" and that causes wrinkle or two
in the Kansas Democrats brow.
However, the next state election In
Kansas will not take place until a year
from next fall, and by that time, Mr..
lists will be ready to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket.
Leading Democrats who have been in
Chicago recently have been talking about
Congressman De Almond. of Missouri
as the Democratic candidate for speak
er of the congress which will assem-
BILE next December. To make this force
full Missourian the house leader would
be to retire the tall, slender gentleman
from Tennessee, Mr.. Richardson, upon
whom the chief burdens of his party's
activity in the house have devolved for
the last two winters. Mr.. De Almond Is
| regarded as a very strong candidate fol
the caucus nomination, and he has some
powerful friends on the national COM
| mittee. Secretary Walsh of that com
mittee, is apt to speak in high praise
| of De Almond.
While W. J. Bryan was not the center
| OF great group Of party leaders at any
| time during his recent visit in Chica go
| and comparatively few persons called tC
see him at the hotel he was nicely cared
for by a few friends, including repre-
| sentatives of the Democratic national
committee. These men got carriage and
| took him over the boulevards, through
| the parks and to luncheon. Mr.. Bryan
rooms, but he failed because they ha6
been moved since the campaign, and tRe
story Is still told of how the bust wa
found in rubbish heap after the re-
moyal and rescued by the janitor. Rni
| Mr.. Bryan did find the Office of com
machines to stamp addresses rapidly. His
! escort on this occasion, as a good dea'
| of the time he was going about town
I-4aa his advertising agent