Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-23
GREAT WAR TO
BE WAGED FOR
NEW YORK VOTE
DEMOCRATS PLAN TO WIN
EMPIRE STATE
BRYAN WILL MAKE A MOST DE-
TERMINED EFFORT
National Committeeman Hold Meeting
Decide on Lecture Tour of the
Middle West-Kern COM
ing to Coast

BY Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Aug. 22.-William
]. Bryan will make a de-
~ ternined effort to place New
York state in the Democratic
column.
Plans to this end were care
fully laid today at three-hours'
conference of Mr.. Bryan, Nation
al Chairman Mack, heads of the
various bureaus of the national
committee and members of the
executive committee, at Demo-
cratic headquarters shortly after
Mr.. Bryan's arrival here from
Des Moines.
Mr.. Bryan will speak in Network city
Syracuse and Rochester between Sep
TENDER 16 and 20, and early in October
will again speak in New York city and
in Buffalo.
Reports received by Chairman Mack
give strong hope to Mr.. Bryan and
members of the national committee that
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Mr. Bryan will speak in the principal
centers of the state.
Chairman Culberson, chairman of the
advisory committee, who has been
spending the summer in Maryland, in
formed Mr.. Bryan and the committee
men that West Virginia and Maryland
would in all probability be found in the
Democratic ranks.
Tour of the Middle West
1t was the opinion of those taking
active part in the committees delibera-
lions that the most effective campaign
for Mr., Bryan would be to make
speeches in all the middle west states.
speaking only in the principal centers'
and then to carry the fight through
( West Virginia, MARYLAND, Delaware
New Jersey and New York state.
Much of the time, it was suggested,
Mr.. Bryan would spend on these trips
in conference with the national COM
mitteemen and state leaders, and in
this way give valuable aid and direction
in the various state campaigns.
After a consideration of these ten
tative suggestions, and an approval of
the reports made by the heads OF the
bureaus it was decided to call meet
ing of the full committee with the vari-
Gus subcommittee september at III
a. M in this city.
1t further developed that Mr.. Bryan
will make a fight in the middle west.
while John w. Kern, vice presidential
candidate, will likely be called on to
make an extended tour of the Pacific
coast states.
Reports Asked For
After the conference had been called
shortly before noon, Chairman Mack
directed that the heads of the various
committee bureaus submit reports OF
their plans and the progress made In
their bureaus.
told of the situation in their states, and
it was generally agreed that the out
look for the Democratic national ticket
was most promising
Former National Chairman Thomas
Taggart declared Indiana would surely
go for Bryan, and that the Republicans
were using money to divide the labor
vote.
Governor Haskell of Oklahoma. treas
urer of the national committee, de-
clared Oklahoma would give Mr.. Bryan
$4,000 plurality, and that the state
would contribute $4,000 to the cam
paign fund, of which $27 900 has already
been raised.
Political conditions in the middle west
were taken up at headquarters.
Within the next two weeks the dates
for Mr.. Bryan's speaking tour probably
will be fixed by the national committee.
A constant stream of callers swept
into headquarters today to greet Mr..
Bryan and tonight several local Demo
cratic clubs serenaded hir, at his hotel
Addresses Big Throng
Standing in carriage in the middle
of Congress street, between the Audi
forum and Annex hotels, and before
crowd that completely choked the
thoroughfare, for nearly half an hour
tonight Mr.. Bryan outlined the uses 'tc
which Democratic clubs can be put in
the present campaign. He was re-
peatedly interrupted by applause an6
shouts of Good! Good"
He spoke of the work of the club
bureau and said it was the intention tc
organize in every precinct in the United
States Democratic club.
Mr.. Bryan made further plea foi
popular subscriptions, and estimated
the Democratic national ticket this year
would muster 100000 votes. If each
of those voters would subscribe rs cents
he said, an ample campaign fund would
be secured.
I'VE have no way of coercing the peo-
pie. even If we wanted to-" he declared
amid shouts of applause.
I'VE have" he continued, mo idea
of promising governmental favors In
return. Inasmuch as we expect to give
special privileges to none, there are
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