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JANUARY 17, 1908
The Commoner.
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Working for the "Million Army
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Have you enlisted in . The Commoner's
"army of a million?" If not, then do so at an
early day in order that you may lose no oppor
tunity to advance the cause of democracy in the
great contest of 1908.
A million earnest men are needed to tako
hold and help in this great campaign. If you
will be one, prevail upon as many others as
you can to enlist.
Cut out, sign and return the certificate
printed on this page for your own membership.
Or if you do not care to mutilate your copy of
The Commoner send in a request asking for a
number of blank certificates and they will bo
forwarded to you, thus enabling you to give
your acquaintances an opportunity to join in
the work of building up the "army of a million
plan" and enabling them also to secure The
Commoner from now until November 1908 for
only sixty cents.
Extracts from letters received at The Com
moner office follows:
N. P. Lea, South Hill, Va. Please send mo
by return mail twenty-five or thirty coupons, as
I want to get you up a good many subscribers
for a new year's gift and will also send in my
renewal Oien. I have taken your valuable paper
ever since tt was published and have been presi
dent of two clubs in two campaigns that Mr.
Bryan ran and I am now contending for the
same principles. It would be my great deliglxt
to see you preside over this great nation. The
trust has about finished up my business.
John A. Dodds, Sandoval, 111. Please find
enclosed money order for $1.80 for Commoner
for E. B. Parnell, Wm. Hathaway and John A.
Dodds. Send some more membership certifi
cates. Hoping success to true democracy.
George W. Nulton, McClure, Ohio. I en
close $1.20 and two membership cards to The
Commoner. Please send more of the cards and
I will try to get more recruits for the army.
R. L. Bohannon, Yankee Hill., Cal. I here
with renew my own subscription and send you
one other. Find enclosed money order for $1.20
to pay for same. Please send a few more cer
tificates. G. O. Keck, Kansas City, Mo. If you will
Bend more blanks I will have them signed and
forwarded to you.
W. J. Scates, Knoxville, Tenn. I send you
herewith money order enclosed $3.60 for six
subscriptions to The Commoner. This makes
120 to The Commoner army. Send me more
certificates. A merry Christmas and successful
new year to Mr. W. J. Bryan and The Com
moner army. A friend to the finish.
James K. Cowan, LaRose, 111. Enclosed
you will find $1.G0 and two membership cards
as renewal to Commoner for myself and W. V.
Morrow. Please send me a few more member
ship cards as there are other subscribers that
wish to renew soon, and I want to get as many
new ones as I can. I want to be with the army
to march with Wm. J. Bryan to victory in No
vember, 1908.
W. H. Knemeyer, Walterville, Wash. En
closed herewith find money order of $2.40 for
which please send The Commoner to the fol
lowing parties and addresses. I had no mem
bership certificates for them to sign; and also to
me which membership certificate I have signed.
E. A. Lewallan, LaGrange, Ind. Please
send me ten or fifteen of those membership cer
tificates as those you sent me are all gone. You
can depend on me doing all in my power for the
success .of those principles which are for all of
the people. Yours for success.
T. M. Gable, Lansing, Kan. Please send
me twenty-five blanks for subscribers. I will
do my best to have them filled out and send you
the money with the subscriptions. If you have
them please send me a few sample copies for dis
tribution. I have been a reader of The Commoner
for several years and think it the best demo
cratic paper in the United States. Hoping for
success in 1908.
J. E. Moran, LaCross, Okla. Please find
enclosed $1.80 as follows: Two certificates, $1.20
and ray own GO cents. I have given one of those
certificates to a friend so it left me short, but
you can send mo some more of them. I will try
to get some more subscribers for you. Yours
for a democratic victory in 1908.
A. M. Dalrymple, Salem, Ore. Enclosed
herewith find money order for $1.20 to pay sub
scription to The Commoner for the two gentle
men named in the certificates enclosed herein
under the million army plan. They are both
new subscribers. Please send me twelve more
certificates and I'll do my best to fill them. "The
times are out of joint oh cursed Bpltc!" But
then, I guess The Commoner will set them right.
With apologies to Shakespeare. Yours for a
two million army.
Dr. M. Brown, Dalton, Ivy. Find enclosed
money order for $2.40 for four subscribers with
certificates. Send more certificates; will try to
help swell the army to the required number.
Joe McCarvillo, Moreland, la. Enclosed
find $1.80 to pay for three new subscribers
whoso names I send you. Please send me about
a dozen more blanks.
B. B. Fichtner, Confluence, Pa. Enclosed
find money order for GO cents and one member
ship certificate. Please send me a dozen or
more certificates and I will make an effort to
place them.
J. E. Diller, Shipshewana, Ind. Please find
enclosed money order for $3 for which you will
please send The Commoner to said names to
the close of the campaign of 1908. They are
all in a hurry for it, or I would have sent for
the certificates. As soon as this reaches you
please send me one dozen certificates.
William P. Field, Guthrie, Okla. Send me
one hundred certificate blanks so I can enlist in
the army.
J. E. Downing, Dayton, Ohio. I send you
names of seven more subscribers, which you
will add to my last club list of recent date, rais
ing it to nineteen for my December work. 1 am
pleased to read in your last issue of The Com
moner, the good suggestions from so many
willing workers who are readily volunteering
their services, gratuitously, to further swell the
approaching and unchecked tidal wave of sound,
sane and safe Bryan democracy through and in
the widest circulation of this great and wise
promulgator of truth, to add knowledge, strength
and blessings to the homes of the millions now
seeking relief from the oppressions of present
republican predatory pelf plunderers of forced
high prosperity, with low wage and unprece
dented high, prices of living.
M. L. Williams, Chicago Junction, O. En
closed pleaso find certificate and money order
for 60 cents for which please send me The Com
moner as per your offer. If you will send a few
sample copies I think I can get a number of sub
scribers; would be glad to assist in this way.
II. Reemsnyder, Hayes City, Kan. Enclosed
find draft for $6.60 for eleven subscribers to The
Commoner. This panic is the biggest joke on
the republican party that has happened for a
long time. They did their best to hold it off
for another year. The farmer is the one that
is going to get it in the neck. He will have
to foot the bill for Roosevelt's standpattism.
Send me some certificates.
George Smith, Lexington, Okla. Enclosed
find money order for $1.80 for which 'please
send The Commoner to the names on the three
certificates enclosed with letter. The Commoner
is doing a work that all true democrats should
feel proud of and do all in their power to aid
in the good work. We certainly Lave the best
opportunity to win that we have had for many
years, and ought not let up until crowned by
victory. In all the history of money panics this
IX TICK HANDS OF J5VKHY VOTKK
.T. W. Walker, Atchi.son, Knn., writes:
"Kudosed find check for Jj!J for five Hiib
script Ions to The Commoner for J i08. J
have made It a practice for tln pat frw
years to send vour miner to four lennliM.
cans every Now Year's day. I want to be 3
one of your one million army democratic
subscribers and If every democrat in the
country would do likewise our army would
number five million Instead of one million.
I wish It were possible to put your paper
in the hands of every voter during the last
three months of the campaign this coming
year, say August, September and October,
regardless of his party affiliations lit for
mer years. I realize to do this would re
quire twice the work and money and
mean probably thirteen million papers
weekly for three months. I would be will
ing to bear my share of this project, and I
know there are millions of democrats that
feel the necessity for a united and deter
mined effort to bring about a victory for
the people."
is the only one that has come when there was
plenty of everything In the land to make the
people prosperous, or one In which the people
who havo money In the banks have to pay a
premium of three per cent to got their own
money out of the banks, but such Is the case
during the winding up of this great republican
prosperity. Send me a few more certificates and
I will secure more members and will send my
own name. With success to The Commoner.
Ralph E. Roberts, Rockport, Ind. Will you
please send me five hundred of the one million
membership certificates, and oblige.
W. A. Macintosh, Dubuque, la. Enclosed
find money order to pay for five subscriptions.
I think the army idea Is fine and will mean suc
cess to democracy. Would suggest that a dem
ocratic club be formed in every election dis
trict. Please send me some more certificates.
Each of the following persons have sent in
five yearly subscriptions to The Commoner: E.
B. Gill,' Dallas, Mo.; John You man, Lafayette,
Colo.; Kenton Core, Greenup, 111.; P. L. Swartz,
.Toplin, Mo.; II. F. Fay, Baird, Texas; L. C.
Stewart, Willow Hill, ill.; George N. Parker,
Roblndon, HI.; C. B. HIgglns, Greensboro, N. C;
Chas. Bisi, Conejo, Cal.; A. Salisbury, Water
town, N. Y.; A. Hull, Newark, 111.; Herman Mar
tin, Tacoma, Wash.; J. H. Powell, Blanchard,
Okla.; F. M. O'Dell, Ophelia, W. Va.; J. H.
Blackwell, Illg,glnsville, Mo.; W. B. Fleming,
Gary, W. Va.; F. M. McKee, Williamsburg, Ky.;
Albert White, Mars Hill, Me.; D. D. Jacobs, La
fayette, Ind.; G. W. Huffman, Pennville, O.;
Edwin II. Wlnans, Rochester, N. Y.; A. L. Whip
ple, Lisbon, N. D.; Dr. Geo. Hillenbrand, Chi
cago, 111.; C. C. Miller, Middleborough, Ky.; E.
P. Berryman, Hartford, Ky.; Joseph Malay,
Williamsport, O.; John Long, Haines, Ore.; J.
C. Comire, Yelm, Wash.; W. R. Freeland, Valley
Falls, Kan.; Jno. E. Warren, Conetove, N. C;
C. L. V. Bovey, Delaware, O.; M. A. Verhalen,
Knox City, Texas; D. A. Russell, Dallas, Texas;
David Lehmanu, Ilalstead, Kan.; Lorenze
Friedrlck, Shlvely, Ky.; Lars Brown, Orcas,
Wash,; J. E. Dillon, Shipshewanee, Ind. i
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Here is Your Opportunity to Help
The Com
moner will be
sent from now
until Novem
ber, 1908, to
every one who
will sign and
send Coupon
accompanied
by Sixtt cents.
ONE MILLION MEMBERSHIP CERTIFICATE
Oe Commoner Army for w
HEADQUARTERS LINCOLN, NEB.
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T bereby enlist in the Commoner Army and pledge my
assistance in bringing success to Democratic aims.
'Enclose foe to cover the expense of sending '1 he Commoner to my address
until the close of the iqo8 campaign.
Name
Past-OJJice
State ,
NoTr.-Membenihlp certificate wm be coantersljrnod with Mr. Bryan's printed alffna
ture and numbered In tho order they are received at The Commoner offlce; and they will
be returned at the close of tho campaign to the member who ulcned them. If requested.