Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-26
STIR IN POLITICS HERE
Torches Lighted; Tocsin
Sounding; Orators Spelling.
BILL-JIM PARADE TONIGHT
Local Republican Headquarters to Be
Opened Afterward.
DEMOCRATS ALSO MIGHTY BUSY
Big Meeting at Mount Rainier Under
Auspices Of Bryan-Kern-Smith
Campaign Club.
DEMOCRATS ALSO MIGHTY BUSY

Marking time to the tap of the drum
of national politics. the District politicians
are marshaling for the fray next No.
vember.
Mass meetings and parades are being
carried out. and others planned. Govern
ment employees who have votes In their
home states are being sought out and
urged to participate in the battle of the
ballots and other lines of activity are
being prosecuted.
There will be a flavor of old times
when Washingtonians had vote. in the
torchlight parade tonight of the Dis
trict Taft and Sherman Club. when the
club will march over the principal streets
of Washington 300 strong headed by a
band and carrying flaming torches. The
parade will recall the away-Dack demon
STATIONS here when the local voters
elected a mayor and common council
burned bonfires and Iaraded with torch
lights.
To Open Headquarters.
Members of the marching club will
wear their new uniforms tonight At the
conclusion of the parade the club will
proceed to the Citizens National Bank
Building. 615 18th street. to participate
In the mass meeting which will mark
the opening of the headquarters of the
District Of Columbia republicans.
There will be addresses by Secretary
Straus. United States Treasurer Charles
Butler of South Carolina Henry NJ.
Camp. president of the League of Re
publican State Clubs, will open the meet
ing and act as temporary chairman.
The West Virginia State Republican
Club met in the bank building last night
and obtained information about registra-
ton laws in their state.
meeting of the Pennsylvania republi-
cans will be held Tuesday night. Mon
day. October 8, the District Taft and
Sherman Club will hold a meeting at
which many prominent speakers will
make addresses.
Lincoln Republicans Meet.
The Lincoln National Republican
League held an executive meeting last
resolution indorsing Taft and Sherman
plans were discussed for the torchlight
parade planned for October I5
1t was decided to divide the cIty into
districts and appoint a marshal for each
district who shall be member of the
executive committee. The marshals and
their assistants are to constitute the gen
eral committee A meeting will be held
Wednesday night, when final plans Will
be made for the parade.
1t Is planned to have both white and
colored speakers address the 5000 colored
men who. it is hoped. will be in line
Where the speeches will be made has not
been decided upon.
Henry NJ. Camp, who Is in charge Of
the republican headquarters, and Gus A.
Schuldt. secretary Of the League of Inter-
state Republican Clubs. have returned
from Cincinnati.
Harry F. Ashton, formerly superin-
tendent of supplies at the government
printing office. is now connected with re-
publican headquarters in this city and is
working for the success Of the party
Twenty-Five Reasons Why"
H. A. Clarke, chairman of the Repub-
lican Interstate League, has prepared a
booklet entitled TWENTY-FIVE Reasons
Why Taft and Sherman Should Win. and
Twenty-Five Why Bryan and Kern Should
Lose" which will be used as campaign
literature.
There is also much activity in the ranks
of the local democrats and several meet
ings will be called next week.
The democrats Of Mount Rainier, on the