Show THE POLITICAL general lack of is the prominent feature will be an awakening arm the apathetic by the time election 9 ralls around club organization the most prominent feature about the present campaign opened a day or two ago in the political arena ie the general lack of interest in the workings of the parties or the boeson there is a most oppressive condition 0 apathy and that la in relation to the campaign as well cm to the candidates there are no people who aro interested sufficiently to talk politics there are no people who have any particular candidate tor any office and there are no people who are openly and avowed candidates tor any office it 1 a condition which haa not obtained tor years and the explanation is not forthcoming it 1 lees than two months until the day of election and yet the political leaders are all protesting against opening tho campaign at thie early date they that it will coet too much money that there Is not money enough to be had to pay tor a six or seven weeks campaign they counsel the putting ott of the holding of the primaries and conventions conven tiona until about two weeks before the election they say that it there is a short campaign there will be a greater intercept In tor the time the campaign Is on and that the business men will not have their business arrangements arrange menta broken into tor the longer me meanwhile abo democratic city committee held a meeting last night and considered the matter of postponing the primaries and convention what they did Is not as yet known but the likelihood is that the democratic parly will not enter into the campaign until late there is considerable talk regarding the action of the insurgents in returning to the mother party and some of the straight democrats are making the assertion that they will not vote for anybody but a democrat and then they qualify the statement and ot course it a man is on the democratic ticket I 1 will vote for him in preference to a republican all of which goes to show that the straights want to see democrats or those with democratic strings on them in office one prominent straight democrat said that he was willing to soe tho operation cooperation co tried in the city and that if it work well it could be dropped hereafter and before it grew to a with the national meanwhile the republicans are organizing gan izing and closely too and are getting into trim for the fight they are organizing precinct clubs and they are in shape to do battle with the strongest antagonist which may appear last night they organized a club in the seventeenth precinct at the residence of mrs H S emerson there was a good attendance and the following officers were elected A J warner president mrs S II 11 hobson vice president H A adms secretary A A steed treasurer mrs wm turner auditor |