The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-06-26

called on to explain constantly the
meaning of "forty-eight'.
The first act of the Committee was
to issue "Call" to Americans. This
proclamation will live in history along
with similar documents which have
expressed the feeling and thought OF
our people in times of crises. The
daily papers, almost without eXcep-
ton, refused to publish it.
Met with this solid wall of opposi-
ton on the part Of the press, which
is supposed to serve the public with
out bias or prejudice, someone
thought of the only great institution
which the people own-the postal sys-
TEN. We secured mailing lists and
began to send out circular letters.
Responses came by return mail,
often accompanied by checks and lists
Of new names to be circulated. rms
developed into a system. We estab-
lished almost an unchanging percent
age Of returns. We found that a
hundred circular letters mailed would
bring a percentage of answers.
All the essential machinery of a
new political party has been created
by mail, and the character of our
membership is Of the highest order.
| We have the best and the bravest OF
the colleges, the churches, the profess
siona, and fthe farm and the work
shop. We have also the finest type
of the modern woman, who is soon
i to become a power in the political
world. We not only have members
but we have leadership in thousands
! of communities.
Our opponents will find that fol.
i lowing the convention its nominees
will be placed on the ballot in jig
] time, for we have made a careful
digest of the election laws and are
ready to go on the ballot under Z
dozen different party names shoulc
/ that be necessary. With such mem
bership, the financial problem is in
large measure solved.
Up in the great northwest the Non
Partisan League has amazed the coun
| try with its organization and financ
ing. The League has a membership
of 100000 farmers, who each pay
$18 in dues. This amounts to the
stupendous sum of SO 100000, pref
ty healthy campaign chest The op
position poke much fun at the League
farmers, calling them 1913 cuckers"
On Tuesday, June 18th, CRANE
cause they are fully convinced this i:
the only way to freedom. They are
learning that the fellow who pays
the campaign expenses takes it ou
Of the public after election, and tht
only way for the farmer to get his
is to pay his own campaign expenses
There's fly in that $500 oint
ment. The League uses organizer!
and automobiles and that costs mo
ney-lots of it, and it's slow even i
it is sure. 1t will take the League
at the present rate of progress, TWEEN
ty-five years to cover all the states
Postage stamps cost two cents eacl
and your Uncle Samuel takes a papel
organizer on the fastest trains anC
delivers him to the mail box. Not 81
bad when you come to think of it
and anyway it has worked.
There are millions of people il
America who are praying for some
one or something to lead them on
/ of the wilderness. There are othai
millions so full of suppressed wratf
that they are aching for a chance tt
swat the twin organizations that have
jointly ruled and despoiled this coun
try since the days when profiteer'
found the war the golden road to af
fluence. There are millions of PEG
pie in this country who have two set!
of opinions-one that they talk anc
another that they think. Thinking i:
the only thing that's free. People
are looking for a ballot box to gee
even with the delegates who nominal
ed Harding and Coolidge, and they
are not looking toward San Francisco
Since the Republican convention
people are hunting up our member
ship blank, which they laid up on thu
clock shelf for future consideration
and sending it in, saying, I'VE art
with you row. 1t seems that the
johnson campaign made a lot OF PEG
pie think that something different
might happen in the Republican con
Vention.
People are coming to Chicago OF
/ July 10th to nominate ticket oil
their own. Those who can't come
and of course that means literally
thousands who wish they could
are gong to be there in spirit.