The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-31
BRYAN MAKES THEM TIRED.
DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN WORKERS
COMPLAIN.

They Fail to See Where He Is Doing
Anything to Aid the Party-Chair-
man Griggs and His Committee
Are Doing Good Work, but Are
Troubled With Lack of Funds-NO
Trust Contributions Fill Their COf-
fers-The Campaign Interviews
Are Proving Effective.
Washington, July 30.-"Mr. Bryan
should go way back and sit down. He
has had his day in court, and could
not make good, therefore, he should
step aside and give some other fellow
a chance"
This is the substance of the inside
conversation one hears around the
headquarters of the Democratic Con-
gressional Committee. 1t would not be
regarded as good politics for any of
the Democratic managers to pick out
one man in the party and reprimand
him for being officious without being
effective, but at the same time, there
is a general feeling among those Dem
ocrats who are giving their time and
what money they can raise to pro-
mote party success, that Mr.. Bryan
is not doing as much to aid the Demo-
cratic party as he imagines.
There is no Disgusting the fact that
Mr.. Bryan still has many warm friends
in the party, but experience teaches
that personal friendship does not al
| ways bring party success. A distin-
| guished Democrat who visited head
| quarters few days ago, said he was
| astonished to see the amount of en-
| ergy and activity displayed in working
| up public interest in the campaign al
| though the congressional elections are
| more than three months away. He
said he had been up North and
through part of the West, and he
found the leading newspapers giving
an unusual amount of space to inter-
esting gossip and speculation from
Democratic headquarters.
1t is encouraging and gratifying to
Chairman Griggs and his staff, to
know that their work is being ap-
preciated in view of the fact that
they are running headquarters on
short rations. Chairman Griggs had
no big fat campaign fund to draw up
on. The subscriptions thus far received
have been neither numerous nor boun-
tiful. 1t has not, perhaps, occurred to
Mr.. Bryan to divert the proceeds from
one of his lectures or one of his mag
azine articles into the campaign fund.
However, it may not occur to Mr..
Bryan and others that funds are need
ed to defray the legitimate expenses
of a political contest.
Many Spielers Want Work.
There is not a day in the week
that the army of office-seekers does
not attack headquarters and demand
employment at campaign work, for a
consideration. There are a few VOL
unteers, but the majority of applicants
expect compensa ton for their services.
At present Chairman Griggs had en-
p'oyed a force of men and women, to
fold, direct and send out campaign
documents. These people make on an
average of from one dollar to dollar
and half per day, according to the
amount of work they do. OF course
the number of employees is limited be-
cause of the slender purse of the
treasurer of the committee.
Senator Carmack and Secretary Ed
wards, being experienced newspaper
men, have established system by
which they manage to get wide cir
culation for such information and polit-
ical material as they have at their
disposal. They have out their scouts
for every prominent Democrat who
comes this way. He Is at once cap
tured, brought to headquarters and as
sessed to the extent of an authorized
interview on topics calculated to have
more or less influence or bearing upon
the political situation. AS Secretary
Edwards playfully expressed it: I'VE
have good interviews for the good peo-
Pile; we have bad interviews for the
bad people, and we have bum inter-
views for the bums.'
One of the surest indications of the
effective work being done by the DEM
ocratfc Committee is that the Republic
can papers are printing the interviews
and endeavoring to explain away some
Of the stubborn facts set forth in the
Democratic bill of particulars When
you can force your opponent to the ex-
tremity of making an explanation you
generally have him at a disadvantage.
1t is the policy of Chairman Griggs
to arouse general interest in the cam
paign through the newspapers, to pave
the way for the spell binding" period
which follows at a later period. Peo-
pie will read newspapers, when they
decline to attend public meetings.