Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1908 — DEMOCRATIC CLUBS AND SONGS. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC CLUBS AND SONGS.

The organization of Democratic clubs is proceeding at a tremendous rate throughout the state. There are Bryan and Kern clubs, Marshall clubs, Business Men’s clubs. Traveling Men’s clubs, 30-Cent clubs. Early Voters clubs, Young Men’s clubs—and just plain Democratic clubs. Every man in every one of them has enlisted for the campaign. Never in any previous campaign for a generation has there been such unity and enthusiasm. It means work, votes and victory. And besides, it should not be forgotten that there are glee clubs, whose duty it is to add to the pleasures of the campaign and swell the general enthusiasm. Fred T. Loftin of Indianapolis has issued a Democratic campaign song book, down to date, and so has Vincent P. Kirk of Plymouth, and nobody need lack for good Democratic music. Let the welkin ring.

Forty Labor Journals for Bryan. According to the Chicago RecordHerald, support for Bryan and the Democratic platform was voted by the editors of forty trade union journals, who met in that city. Every part of the country was represented at the gathering, and according to the program adopted, the labor journals will at onee begin to urge their readers to support Bryan. It was declared that organized labor would register 1.000,000 votes next November for the Democratic candidate. The fact that Hanly, Watson and other Republican leaders have no confidence in each other’s good faith or political honesty is the real cause for the calling of the costly extra session of the legislature. After watching the maneuvers of Watson on the stump and Durbin In his gum shoes, Hanly became convinced that the Republican plan, as mapped out by the party managers. was, as the Indianapolis Sun expresses it. to “go through the campaign with a bucket of water on t c shoulder and a keg of booze on the other.” He is now trying to smoke them out. It is the first time in the history of the state that a party factional quarrel has led to calling a special session of the legislature at a cost of 1100,000 to the taxpayers.