The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-08-01
GRIGGS HAS
LITTLE MONEY
DEMOCRATIC HEADQUARTERS
BEING RUN ON VERY
LITTLE CASH.
But it is Well Organized, and Much
Effective Work is Being Done
and Plans Being Laid
for the Future.

Washington. July S1-"Mr Bryan
should step aside and give some other
He has had ms day in court and
could not make good; therefore he
s ould step aside ana give some other
fellow a chance
This Is the substance of tne inside
conversation one hears around the
neadquarters of the democratic con
gressional committee 1t would not
be regarded g good policy for any Of
the democratic managers to pick out
the man in the party and reprimand
him for being oficious without being
effective, but at the same time there
Is a general feeling among those dem
ocrats VINO are giving tneir time and
what money they can raise, to pro
mote party success, that MI Bryan is
not doing as much to aid the demo
cratic party as he imagines.
There is no Disgusting the fact that
Mir. Bryan still has many warm friends
in the city, but experience teaches
that personal friendship does not al
ways bring party success
A distinguished democrat who Wis
tied headquarters a few days ago said
Ne was astopisned to rec the amount
Of activity displayed in working up
public sentiment in the campaign. all
though the congressional elections are
more than three months away He
said he had been up north and through
parts Of the west, and ne found the
leading newspapers giving an unusu-
al amount of space TO interesting gos-
sip and speculation from democratic
headquarters.
Little Money at Headquarters.
1t is encouraging and gratifying to
Chairman Griggs and his staff to
know that their work is veing appre-
ciated. in view of the fact that they
are running headquarters on snort ra-
tions Chairman Griggs has no big
fat campaign fund to draw upon The
subscriptions tnus far received have
+ been neither numerous nor bountiful.
There is not day in the week that
,ae army Of office seekers does not at
tack headquarters and demand en-
pioyment at campaign WORK for a
consideration There are a few vol
unteers, but the majority Of applicants
expect compensation for their ser
vices. At present Chairman Griggs
has employed a force Of men and wo-
men to fold direct and send out cam
paign documents. These people make
on an average Of 81 to $L5O per day
according to the amount of work they
do OF course the number of en-
ployees is limited because Of the slen-
der purse of the treasurer of .Ae com
mittee
Circulating information.
Senator Carmack and Secretary Ed
wards, being experienced newspaper
men, have estabnshed a system by
whicn they manage to get wide cir
culation for such information and po-
litlcal material as they have at their
disposal. They have out tleir scouts
for every prominent democrat who
comes this way. He is at once capt
ured, brought to the headquarters and
! assessed to the extent of an author
| lied interview on topics calculated
to have more or less influence or bear
ing upon the political situation. AS
Secretary Edwards piayfuny express
ed it. eve nave good interviews for
the good people; we have bad inter
views for the buns.
One of the surest indications of the
defective work being done by the
democratic committee is that the re-
publican papers are printing ,Ae in
/ terviews and endeavoring to explain
away some of the stubborn facts set
forth in the democratic bill Of partic-
uIars Wnen you can force your op-
ponent to the extremity OF making
an explanation, you generally have
him at a disadvantage. 1t is the pol
icy of Chairman Griggs to arouse
general interest in the campaign
through the newspapers, to pave the
way for the "spell-binding" period
which follows at later period. Peo
pie will read newspapers wnen tney
decline to atlena public meetings