Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1908 — CANVASS TO BE MADE [ARTICLE]

CANVASS TO BE MADE

Bryan Approves of an Elaborate Scheme* to Discover the Public Sentiment. HE WILL SPEAK AT DES MOINES Mack Names the Members of the Fi* nance and Speaker Committees. Haft Talks to the Virginia Lawyers and Goes Into a Test of Luck —ldaho Democrat* In a Split.

Lincoln, Neb., An*. 7.—As the result of a visit to Wm. J. Bryan of Senator “Bob” Taylor, of Tennessee, who Is here to deliver a Cbautanqua lecture, the national committee of the Democratic party, with the concurrence of Bryan, will soon enter upon a most elaborate plan for ascertaining the sentiment of the country toward their standard bearers. This plan contemplates the formation otf a national Democratic club, with state and county subsidiaries, whose duty It will be to report to the central organization data favorable or unfavorable to the national ticket. It Is proposed also that these clubs shall poll the voters of the United States, and to every section where the feeling is adverse to the Democratic candidates send literature and speakers. Bryan to Speak at (Mi Moines. Aside from this the most important announcement from Falrview was the derision of Bryan to make an extended speech on the tariff question at Des Moines, la.. Aug. 21, and to spend the three following days In Chicago In consultation with Chairman Mack and other of the party leaders over the plan of campaign. Bryan gave out for publication bis reply to a circular letter sent to business men of the country by James W. Van Cleave, president of the Manufacturers’ association, urging them to go to the polls in November and “bury Bryan and Bryanlsm for ever.” Bryan accuses Van Cleave of having a narrow idea of what constitutes a business man, and enters into an elaborate defense of his policies. Names Two Important Committees. Buffalo, Aug.. 7. —Chairman Norman E. Mnek, of the Democratic national committee, has announced the appointment of a finance committee for the campaign with Moses C. VVetmore, of St. Louis, ns chairman and John E. Osborne, of Wyoming, as vice chairman; and a speakers' committee, with John H. Atwood, of Kansas, as chairman. and Champ Clark, of Missouri, as vice chairman. The finance committee is made up of twenty-nine members and the speakers’ committee Is composed of twenty-seven members. Announcement was also made by Chairman Mack that Senator Culberson. of Texas, lias been appointed to succeed David R. Francis, of Missouri, as chairman the advisory committee . Among tlie inentbers of the committee are I). ,T. CampaU, of Michigan; W. R. O’Brien, of Indiana; M. F. Dunlap, of Illinois- E. C. Wall, of Wisconsin. On the speaker*’ committee are Henry Warren, of Indiann; B. R. Tillman, of South Carolina and John J. Lentz, of Ohio. The chairman of the two committees will probably have headqunr tors at Chicago, to which city Mack started last night.

TAFT TALKS TO VIRGINIANS I I ——— Two Embarrassments Removed—Test of the Rabbit's Foot. Hot Springs, Vn.. Aug. 7.—There was un reservation in the southern hospitality a coord ed to William 11. Taft by the Virginia State Bar association here on the occasion of the address of the Republican candidate on the law’s delay. His presence and Introductory pleasantries were applauded by an and clue representative of the social life of the Old Dominion, and the burden of his speech met the expressed approval of. the lawyers present, the >• tli of his speech being that to the law’s delay and uncertainties was to be attributed tlie national disgrace of lynch law. At the banquet which brought to a close the twentieth annual session of the association. Taft responded to the the toast “The President." Taft prefaced his forty-minute speeeli on the law’s delay by expressing two embarrassments he felt in apiiearlng before a Virginia audience. The first he made clear by this anecdote: “As I was en terlng the hall here today I was Introduced to a very charming daughter of Virginia, a mnrrled lady, of whom I in qtilred on hearing her name, which wn« • Virginia name, whether she was a relative of g friend of my own from Virginia who bore the same name, j ‘Ob DO,’ she replied, 'my poor husband Is a Yankee.’ The story seemed to remove the first embarrassment. The other was Taft's diffidence in discussing before the bar of Virginia a technical question, '‘because you know,’’ he said, “eight yfrars ago I ceased to be a Judge and became a mere politician.*' That the question may be finally detertnined whether a rabbit's foot is a more sure talisman than g horseshoe John W. Frazier, of Philadelphia, has

sent Taft a gold mounted rabbit foot In doing so Frasier contributed this bit of history regarding campaign trophies. “Toward the close of the t presidential campaign of 1904 Grover | Cleveland sent to Alton B. Parker the lucky horseshoe that had been seat to Mr. Cleveland daring the campaign of 18S4 with a letter expressive of the hope that It would prove as lucky for Parker lu 1904 as It had to Cleveland in 1884 and 1892. That letter and horseshoe led me to send to President Roosevelt a lucky rabbit’s foot for the purpose of counteracting the influence of the Cleveland horseshoe. “As the president may not care to part with that lucky rabbit foot—once part of a rabbit shot on the 7th day of the week, and the seventh day of the month of the year, at full moon, In a country church yard, by a colored clergyman—desiring, It may be, to carry it with him to the Jungles otf Africa, I herewith present you with a foot from the same rabbit mounted with the luckiest of gold from Alaska.” At the Bar association banquet. In responding to the toast “The President of the United States” Taft said that it might be appropriate for him to respond to that toast—“ Not because of any relation I bear to that office, but because I was summoned to the Whits House when the Invitation was extended and directed [laughter] to corns here and do what I could —If need be use the big stick —to uphold the administration.”

Today Judge Taft, with Mrs. Taft, end others was driven by Tate Sterrett, proprietor of the famous Passlfen farm, to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., to attend the Green Brim county horse show. Idaho Democrats Split. Wallace, Ida., Aug. 7.—The Democratic state convention split In twain and both the Dubois and antl-Dubols factions organized separate conventions The split in the convention ea<me when the convention failed to sustain a protest of the antl-Dubols faction against the seating of the Dubois delegates from Bear Lake, Oneida and Fremont counties. The antl-Dubols faction left the hall. The Dubois faction then formed n permanent organization by the election of A. L. Freehafer, of Washington county, permanent chairman. The anti-Dubois faction calls itself “regular” and made Judge Slackslager chairman.

New England Democrats Get Busy. New Haven, Conn., Aug. 7.—Alexan" der Troup, prpldeut of the New Eng land Democratic Progressive League, has issued a call for the vice presidents and members of the executive committee of the league to meet at the Quincy House. Boston, Aug. 11, “to take into consideration the political sitation in New England and devise ways and means for propaganda work.” Gompers’ Action Indorsed. Elmira, N. Y.. Aug. 7—At a largely attended meeting of the Trades and Labor Assembly of this city a resolution was passed unanimously indorsing the action taken by President Gompers In regard to the political situation. nnd urging all to vote for “candidates and platform known to be friendly to labor interests,”