The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
ASK CONTRIBUTIONS ID CAMPAIGN FUND Local WilsOn-Marshall Club
 Is Hard at Work ADDRESS TO VOTERS
Citizens of Birmingham Urged to Make Whatever Contribution Is Desired and Send It to Chair
 man R. B. Smyer

The finance committee of the Wilson, Marshall club of Birmingham has start ed an active campaign for raising funds to aid in the coming presidential cam paign. Although Alabama undoubtedly will go solid for the democratic ticket, money will be needed to carry on the campaign in the doubtful states and the local organization will endeavor to hand over neat sum to the national com mittee.
 The local Wilson Marshall club has a membership of about 1000 men. At a meeting of the finance committee to appeal to the members of the organ ization for aid, and for the next 10 days the members of the committee will make an active personal canvass for contributions The following address has beeen issued to the members of the club by the finance committee.
 Address Issued
 ITO the Members of the Wilson-Mar-
 shall Club of Birmingham.
 "The national democratic campaign committee is calling upon all demo- cratic voters for contributions to aid in the election of our presidential ticket. There will likely be boiled over 15,000,o00 votes in the November elec- tion, and if our ticket is to receive the vote that 1t should receive and is en- titled to receive, it will be necessary to place before the voters facts and arguments appealing to their sense of duty and demanding their votes To do this a large sum of money will be re- quired by this committee. Not one cent will be used by our committed. other than for legitimate campaign expenses and 1t is the policy of the committee to secure this fund from the masses of democratic voters by popular contri- buttons, as we have no special interests that our committee could call on, even if so disposed. And large sums from any one source that would invite criti- cism or that would seemingly put our party under obligation to the contribu- tors will not be asked or accepted.
 4000 Members
 "The Wilson-Marshall club of Birming- ham, under the energetic leadership or It's president, Harry Jones, and his mem bership committed now has about 1000 members, one of the largest in the coun- try. As the vote of this city. county and state, is certain for Wilson and Mar shall, the only material aid this club can give towards the election of our ticket is In securing campaign contributions and forwarding them to our national campaign committee, to be used in closely contested states, where beneficial results may be IL. Al. f-a-. l.. and constituents of Oscar Underwood and while we were at the time disappointed in not securing his nomination at Balti- more we are rot sore and as an evi- dence of our loyalty to and enthusiasm for our ticket liberal campaign fund will be expected from our large club, and if we fail in securing it, a reflec- ton will be cast upon our democratic enthusiasm, and upon our city. the home of MT. Underwood.
 We know that every member of our club is anxious for the election of our ticket and our finance committee earn estly urges each and every member to make such contribution to this fund as they may feel able to make and to for ward it to the chairman of the finance committee and in making this ~contribu- ton, each contributor is assured that his name with the amount contributed by him will be forwarded to our national campaign committee for it's use and as a permanent record. Respectfully,
 R. B. Smyer. chairman; Solon Jacobs, T. S, Smith, NJ. V. Henry, Dr. w. c. Gewin, Henry B. Gray, F. l.. McArthur, Otto Marx. J. B. Gibson, John l.. Parker, Oscar Turner, Borden Burr. w. R. Stew art, J. D. Hanby, Horace c. Wilkerson, T. O. Smith, Walter L.. Sessions, c. Exum, P. J. MoGeever. H. H. Mcdowell, w. w. Crawford. Eugene F. Enslen, George B. Ward, Leo K. Steiner. Frank s. White, Jr., William Porter, w. K. Terry, W. P. G. Harding, John s. Frye, finance committee.