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Show a m DEMOCRATIC CLUB. The Effect of Thorough Organization iu Parts of the West. Xeiv York, Aug. 11. Chairman Wilson, Wil-son, at the meeting ot the Democratic ' club committee to-day, gave an account of his tour to the far Northwest. He stated that the direct result of the establishment es-tablishment of clubs in Utah was the election of the Democratic ticket and the almost entire absorption of the Mormon vote. The finest and most complete organization in anv state was in the new state of Washington. Indeed In-deed ttjis in the Northwest the work of proselytizing what will be most actively act-ively carried on through means of the club org-inizutioii. It .'has been decided to organize a niisMonary ltinerancv composed of fifteen of the leading I.Vui-j I.Vui-j ocratic orators connected with the nat-i nat-i ional association. The party will leave j the citv ot" Washington on ' September : 1:2th. They will make a complete circuit : of the Northwe.-it, stopping one day at j Chicago. From there they wiil .o"dj. i rect to Helena. Mont., and there orgari-! orgari-! ize a league of I'emocratie societies tor i that, state. They will reach Spokane Fall- in time for the state convention ! of clubs. Among the speakers will be several candidates for the speakership. : Congressman IJynum of New York has already been settled on as one of the partv, also Senator McKcnna of West Virginia and Chaunivx F. I'd. u-!;, president presi-dent of the nati- r. t .is.-ociatioii. The committee has ape. .inted enrr'sp.uitleuts in every coimtv in the Tinted States. Each county will be 4:issessed the sum of 10 for the sii'.port of the order and the propagation m' Democratic doctrine through the club organization. Oues-t Oues-t ions ot" party policy were warmly discussed, dis-cussed, but the silver question came in for a heated debate among the members. mem-bers. The committee are soi-t-lv divided on this point, but it was decided that the tarn.T would be made the leading feature in the South and West. |