The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-24
SK|RMISH FIRE OF BATTLE BEGINS MT. Bryan Approves Plans for
 Campaign HE IS IN EXCELLENT TRIM Is in Fine Health and Says He Never Entered a Campaign With More
 Hope of Vlotory-CIubs
 Organized.
HE IS IN EXCELLENT TRIM

Chicago, August 23.-Now that vii liam J. Bryan has set his seal of ap i proval upon the plans made by tho l democratic national committee to bring l about his election, the democratic cam. l paign may be said today to be in tha I period of transition on which practical l organization is completed and the 1 skirmish fire of the battle has begun | There will be a meeting of the na- l tional committee and ub-committees l with MT. Bryan on September to 1 consider whether the line of action | taken is proving effective. Politics was eschewed at headquarters toda / and MT. Bryan, with his brother and a few friends attended church, but to the national committeeman and friends who 1 spoke to him of the hard struggle that Chairman Mack and the campaign man. agers had outlined, he replied: T realize the task ah cad of me and what it(means. I am not minimizing | the demands that know will be made upon me, but I feel that I can do what l ID SAPOSbCo OA iAC lOi ny nCdilil lS llllc | and I never entered fight with more hope of victory. It is the peoples fight and to battle for them gives added courage and strength in the trying hours of a campaign"
 Up to Bryan and People. Political developments in the last "A hours, since MT. Bryan's arrival, show that the managers of the democratic campaign have put the fight into the hands of MT. Bryan and to the people. { Mr Bryan has already made two l speech es-his address of notification l and the tariff speech at Des Moines- and this week will find him making l several speeches in the middle west 1 where Chairman Mack has decided to make the main fight of the campaign. New York is to be invaded and in all 1 probability New Jersey, Delaware ] Maryland and West Virginia, and in 1 these states as well as in Indiana, Ohio Illinois and Iowa the democratic can didate will make his principal strug- | gle for victory.
 After MT. Bryan has chosen each of
 
 the several blanks of the party plat form as the theme of extended speech l he will then in those speeches to be made iater in the campaign, elucidate upon these various subjects in greater detail Chairman Mack has informed Mr. Bryan that the committee does not l intend to call upon him to make as l SnaaahaG ao in ntI aia1 l but 1t Is known that the demands for MT. Bryan's services have become in- sistent from many quarters and thera Is strong probability that before the end of the next month MT. Bryan speaking plans may undergo many 1 changes.
 1 Acting on the advice of Mir. Bryan the national committee are inclinine their efforts to enlist the aid of the l people to effect democratic success al l the polls and to do this most effec. lively, Chairman Mack is seeking tc have democratic clubs organized 1T every voting precinct in the United States. Upon these democratic clubs both MT. Bryan and the national com. mittee are depending for their greates aid and strength.
 Clubs Organized.
 Most of the clubs have been organ. ized under the direction of state an, county chairmen, their work as out lined by MT. Bryan will be to spread the doctrines of the party. Campaign managers have long since discovered 1 that much of the literature sent out l. | either lost or Is not efficiently placed The precinct clubs will see that thi literature is placed in proper hands ant in this way the committee hopes tha every voter may be reached.
 On election day the precinct club, will be called upon to get out the vot :, and lastly, to see that it is fairl, | counted.
 Such is the general plan of the dem | ocratic national campaign, and whil, here and there minor changes will b, made. the national committeeman wht are here with MT. Bryan today say tha 1t will insure MT. Bryans election.
 It was announced at h headQuarters to day that Thomas H. Tibbles, who rar with Thomas Watson as vice presiden tial candidate on the populist ticket 1T 1904, has written to the committee tha he was urging all his friends in tn, populist party to support MT. Bryar | this year.
 The head of the newly organized manufacturers bureau will be P. c Burns of Chicago. MT. Burns is promi nently identified with the business in terests of this city. His appointment was decided upon late last night.
 John w. Clifton of Nash vile, Tenn. who is the vice chairman of the com mittee on organization. has arrived here to take up the work of assisting in the formation of democratic club: throughout the country.