Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-09-02
TAMMANy FIGHTS THIS TIME.

Willis j. Abbot in the Chicago Tri
bune says the following:
The call of big Tim Sullivan a,
democratic national headquarters ant
his pledge of not merely Loyalty but
but fighting work on the part of Tam
many hall was an incident of impor
tance in this campaign.
Tammany hall is always loyal-tha
Is to say; it always gives support tc
a democratic ticket-but sometimes II
fights, raises funds, and gets out a
phenomenal vote. At other times, as
In the case of that late lamented
democrat, Mr.. William Randolph
Hearst. it makes an ostensible fight,
but fails to roll up it's ordinary plu-
rality. This year the ticket and the
platform are clearly satisfactory to
Tammany and the second great. powe,
In that organization has gone out of
his way to visit national headquar.
ters and pledge fighting campaign.
The situation there is not unlike
this in Chicago. Never were the for
lmerly discordant elements In the dem
ocratic party more closely united tha,
now. The nomination of Mr.. Kern
helped much, for his friends here are
many. The nomination of Gen. Stew
enson helped even more. The forma-
tlon of Reconsideration clubs already
begun is an indication of the activ-
ity with which the democrats of this
city will press his campaign.
There is speculation as to whether
Bryan will run ahead of Stevenson
or vice versa. But since the disas-
trous fight within the republican
ranks between Yates and Deneen
there is no speculation among dem
oorats as to the certainty of carry
Ing this state for both national and
state tickets.
And this is as it should be, be-
cause here in Illinois we have the
third largest industrial population in
the nation. In mining the number
of employees rank next to those of
Pennsylvania. In steel and iron the
number also is second in the union.
In general industrial pursuits, other
than the two mentioned, New York
only outranks the prairie state. And
when we find the national head of
the Federation of Labor and the pres
ident of the local federation in Chi
cago both declaring that every un-
ion man should vote the democratic
ticket we know that added to the
Bryan vote of 1900 will be not less
than 100000 new voters. In no great
state save Illinois is the outlook so
promising.
Financing the Campaign.
The studied attempt on the part
of certain hostile newspapers to make
1t appear that the democratic nation
al committee is in state of finan-
cial destitution is done with an OBJ
vious purpose and has little founda-
tion in fact.
The democratic party is fortunate
in one respect-it has never enjoyed
the enormous contributions given to
the republican party by trusts and
monopolfes. 1t has learned to con-
duct its campaigns economically, and
l am not sure but the campaigns in
which it has had the least money
have not been the better prosecuted.
Certainly the results of the cam
paigns of 1896 and 1900 exceeded in
the popular vote the outcome of the
1904 campaign, in which vastly more
funds were available.
Nevertheless there is no reason to
believe that there will be serious lack
of funds in this campaign. The frank
appeal of the finance committee and
of the candidates to the people and
to the democratic papers of the
country for subscriptions, either
small or large, within reasonable lin
its has already begun to produce sub
stantial results.
1t is not to be expected that the
democratic committee will have the
fund that George w. Sheldon, direc-
tor in some twenty-seven trusts,
banks, and public service corporation.
will be able to collect for it's oppo-
nents.
But every dollar subscription and
every fifty dollar subscription will
mean one vote at least, while a ten
thousand dollar subscription to the
republican campaign fund will mean
no more votes than those which the