| Show SMALL AMOUNT NEEDED Mr Bryan Appeals for for Legitimate Expenses Kansas City Oct 10 William J Bryan after iner an address in the public square of ot Independence Mo to where he left his train was hurried In a motor car to the Parade a park at Fifteenth street and the Paseo In this city where an enor enormous enormoUs moul crowd had bad gathered about a flag bedecked platform Mr Bryan Bran spoke for half an hour and then was conveyed In Inan Inan Inan an automobile a score of others escorting him to the Burlington station at the Hannibal bridge brides where his train had gone from Independence Mr Bryan left for forSt forSt forSt St Joseph about In his address here he ho referred to campaign funds and said Campaign Funds Our platform declares In favor of pub publicity publicity publicity as to campaign contributions and that publicity is to be before the election our national committee at Its first meet meeting meetIng meeting ing having applied that platform to the present campaign and announced that all contributions in excess of would be made public before the election the of October being set for the date on or before which all contributions received up to that time would be published after that the publication Is to be daily dally and no contribution above Is to be ac accepted accepted within three days das of the election We made an appeal for popular subscriptions subscriptions and as ns a result we have collected something over I cannot give the exact amount of it for tor my m information Is several days das old It may be as much as by this time In addition to this ve we wE received about from Denver that being heln the amount left of the given glen glenby by bv the city of Denver Demer to defray the ex expenses expenses expenses of the convention That would make the campaign fund between and The People Furnished the Money This fund has been collected largely in iii small amounts We set a limit of but so far no contribution has been re received reci received ci that approaches that limit and ana comparatively few have been received that amount to as much as 1000 The people eople each contributing a little have hare furnished the money with which we e are making this campaign But we have three weeks yet and during those three weeKs we shall hall need a considerable amount for forthe tho the legitimate purposes of the campaign We ought to have more and it ought to be easy to collect that sum from the Democrats who Indorse our platform and who are interested In Democratic suc sue success success cess A dollar apiece could be given with without without without out feeling the loss of It 10 could be given by many thousands and we have hundreds who could give to sOO Mr Mack the chairman of the national com corn committee committee Joins me rue in making this appeal to tour our cur ur Democrats throughout the tIme country countr Do not wait walt to be called caned on by tho the solid solicitors solicitors tors or members of the committee Mall Mail your checks at nt once to Herman Ridder treasurer of ot the national committee Hoff Hoffman Hoffman Hoffman man house New York Tork or to Norman E EMack EMack EMack Mack chairman of the national commit committee committee tee Auditorium Annex Chicago If we can bring our policies to the attention of ot the public and get our forces organized we shall win a splendid victory |
