The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15
DEMOCRATIC CLUBS
 GET 4 GOOD START Purpose Is to Control the
 Democratic Party
 FAVORS INSURGENT Wants to Nominate Progressive"
Wants to Nominate Progressive" Candidate for Presidency-Will Organize Everywhere and
 Begin Raising the Funds
By RopERIcK CLIFFORD

The Federation of Democratic Precinct clubs of the United States of America made an early start in the 1912 cam paign Funds are being solicited in various parts of the United States and the working of the organization is be- ing tried out.
 Recently it was announced that the republican organization would issue a call for the national republican com nlittee to convene in Washington on December 12. The regular democrats have not been far behind the republi- cans in starting their end of the great political contest, for they have an- nounced that the regular democratic national committee shortly will be con- vened for the purpose of selecting a place of meeting for the national con- yenton.
 Not so with the federation It got down to a bushes basis about week ago and the work of collecting funds to finance the various clubs, which will soon be organized in every state, coun- ty and city in the United States, has begun.
 In the articles of incorporation of the Federation of Democratic clubs of the United States of America the purpose is announced of controlling the demo- cratic party and nominating pro gressive" democrat for the presidency. Various documents bearing the indorse- lnent of Senator Robert L. owen of Oklahoma, Senator George E. Cham terlain of Oregon and George II. Shib- ley. president of the Peoples Rule league of Washington D. C., principal organizers of the precinct clubs. ac- company the papers of incorporation.
 All democrats throughout the union will be called upon for contributions to the campangn that the clubs are to make in 1912. and for the purpose of giving authenticity to the movement all documents that are rapidly being sent out by the clubs centraL committee in Washington, bear the indorsement of Sem ators owens and Chamberlain. These two great progressive democrats are officers of the Peoples Rule league of America. and as this association has for its oo- ject the same purpose as the Feder ton of clubs, the hope of the incorpor tors is that one great movement will be in- augurated with the sole idea of the cleo ton to the presidency of a progressive democrat. notwithstanding any action taken by the regular national democratic convention.
 Each of the 100000 voting precincts throughout the country will have it's dem- ocratc club. These clubs will be or , ganized into something like 25,000 county lfederations, 1000 city federations, 4s state federations and one national federation. The purpose is to group the clubs and make a fighting unit, concentrated on one sole object. the election of a progress sive for President
 The entire cost of maintaining the clubs. organizing the movement and push ing 1t will be paid with membership dues. These dues are 9 cents per year per member which will be collected by the treasurer of each club and forwarded when applicatio is made to affiliate with thet national federation It is not ex- pected that the national federation will refuse any offers of held by the donation of larger contributions. On the contrary 1t asks aid from all those who are able to give it. Aside from these special donations. how ever, the leaders Of the new movement do not anticipate any trouble at all in collecting sufficient funds to run the fed eration in business like manner and make it's influence felt at the polls in the presidential election.
 They claim that large sums of money can be collected by popular subscrip- Zion and site the financing of the Lin eoln memorial farm in Kentucky when lo0,000 was raised by 25 cent sub Bcriptions; the democratic national cam- paign of i90S the democratic congress tional campaign of 1910 the raising of about one-third of s1,000,000 annually by the Anti-Saloon league and the raising of s60,00o annually in monthly dues of 25 cents by the socialist party IS evidence.
 fnit al Df movement in each state will be sl per voting precinct. The incorporators point out that if only one fourth of the precincts contribute si each the en- tire cost will have been repaid at once, and the way will have been opened for . steady development of the movement II is proposed that sums that are sub- scribed to advance the establishment of the movement will be repaid from the membership dues as they come in.
 The ma anifcstly fair thing" say the incorporators, 'wlll be that the men in each state who sign the address to the democrats of the state and who are to write to their friends in the precincts, should be- the ones to loan the necessary funds Prominent dem Iocrats in a state who refuse to take part on this basis should not expect to be among the signers
 The men who are in office should ex- pect to pay larger proportion than the others and the more important the office the larger should be the proportion.
 Under the bylaws Of the federation at least 10 per cent of the contributions paid into the state treasuries, not including any portion of the loans to the state branch. are to be transmitted to the na- tionaltreasury for the national work. This is calculated to provide the necessary funds for maintaining a national office for collecting the news of the movement throughout the country and passing it or to the demqcratis newspapers, using tho l cent a po,fT',l mail rates.
 As significant of their propa ganda, it is stated the federation can prevent the special interests from getting control of the organization by using the recall on their presiding officers. It is provided among other things in the bylaws that a precinct club shall have a constitu. ton containing a. clause providing foi the recall of any officer upon petition of any five members of the club.
 Those who already have become inter- ested in the movement predict origin future for the federation, and are unani
 nous in saying that it will exert wid Influence in the coming election.
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