THIRD PART.
1G THE VOTER.
Politicians Seem to Believe in
the Efficacy of Cam
paign Docnments.
MILLIONS BEING MAILED.
Uncle Sam Is Out $350,000 a Tear on
the Franking Privilege.
POLITICAL CLUBS COME HIGH.
Ihe Hemfcers ever Tay Dues and the
Uniforms Are Expensive.
USE OF TOETRT, BADGES AND XOYELTIES
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New Yokk, Oct. 15. A Presidental
rampaign presents many amusing if not in
structive features. 2ot the least important
imong them is the campaign document.
Some politicians think it of great value
ind others regard it as of little account.
One with whom I was talking the other day
said that he regarded the campaign docu
ment as one of the greatest if not the great
est political hnmbug of tbc time.
"The campaign document," said he,
"humbugs the reader, the writer and the
tender. The one least humbugged by it is
the reader, lor he does not read it at all,
but the writer and sender think that he
does, and in consequence are humbugged in
turn. Cut it flatters the vanity of the sup
posed reader to get it, and that is why it is
Chrit L. Magee.
tent to him. If he does not receive it he
feels that he has been slighted by his party
managers and is correspondingly offended.
In a single day more people read one of our
great dallies than give attention to the
swnpaign document in a year's time. The
newspaper is the great popular educator.
I repeat that the campaign document is the
most palpable of political humbugs."
A Good evidence of Utility.
This is perhaps an extreme view to take
of the matter, and certain it is that the
managers of the campaign do not share it, if
the lavish use they are making of documents
is to be regarded as proo They are ex
pending on the circulation of documents
more time and labor than in any other
branch of the campaign. The requests for
campaign documents are enormous and all
are promptly met. More than 1,000 people
are now employed in the preparation and
shipment of documents from this city, and a
large force is similarly engaged at "Wash
ington. The documents sent out from New Tork
and "Washington are as a rule shipped to
the State and County Committees, who in
turn distribute them to clubs and individu
als. The documents of the Republican
Wliitclav) field.
From his latest photo.
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National Committee are sent out from No.
S2 West Thirteenth street, where a force of
200 clerks has been employed for many
weeks past. Each of the fonr double floors
sf the building in which they are housed
resembles a large postoffice in foil blast.
Huge pigeon holes and great stacks of en
velope boxes line the sides of the walls.
"Vt ide folding tables occupy the center ot
jach room, and here pretty young women
by the score pack, connt and prepare for
packing the different documents to be sent
out. "When the documents are ready for
shipment they are thrown into capacious
baskets and sent to the branch postoflice
down stairs.
The Man Who Bans the Documents.
This branch cf the Republican campaign
is in charge ot Thomas McKee, of the
House of Representatives folding rooms at
Washington. McKee is a short, thick-set
Indianian, slow in speech, but quick and
nervous in his movements, and what he does
not know about the document business Is
hardly worth knowing. He has reduced
the circulation of documents to an exact
science and perfect lystem.
In so previous camosisn have m many
documents been circulated as are now being
sent ont by both of the great parties. The
campaign literature of the Republicans is
varied in its character. One set of docu
ments is known as "The Voters' Library."
It is published in Philadelphia and is in
great demand. It includes a novel of some
200 pages entitled "Better Dead Than Home
less;" "The A B C of the Tariff," a pam
phlet of CO pages; "Whoa I Spent My
Money After All," "A Farmer's Appeal to
Farmers," "Free Traders Unveiled,"
"Continued Reduction of Prices," "Farm
Mortgages Not an Evidence of Distress,"
"Abraham Lincoln," "Summary of the
Peck Report," "Farm Implements
Abroad" and "The Farmers' New Poor
Richard's Almanac," tracts of a
dozen or more paies each and
"The TariffRiddle," anotner pamphlet of
GO pages. Included in another set of docu
ments are the Aldrich report on the tarifl,
"Retail Prices and wages" "Effect ot the
Tariff on Canadian Trade," "The Volume
of Money," "The Tariff Act of 1S90," "Me
morial of Wool Manufacturers," "Compar
ison of Customs," all pamphlets ol goodly
size, and the "Speech ot Hon. Bourke
Cockran," at the Democratic National Con
vention, "Poor Richard's Almanac," "The
Nw Tariff." "Lord Salisbury's Confes
sion," 'The Speeches of Harrison and
Reid"and "The Republican Platform." The
Republican committee is also sending ont a
great nnmber of tariff" diagrams printed on
cards with labels on the back, and the
Rational Bulletin, a campaign paper intended
for the use and consumption of the editors
of country journals.
"Wliat the Democrats Are Doing.
The document branch of the Democratic
campaign is in charge of National Commit
teeman Joseph Quincy, of Massachusetts.
Among the documents which his bureau is
sending ont are "A Menace to Liberty," an
exposition ot the provisions of the force
bill; "The Whole Truth as to President
Cleveland's Pension Vetoes," "The Farmers
and the Currency Question," "Pensions
and Pension Legislation;" the speech of
Congressman Hemphill entitled "More
Money;" "National Arbitration as a
Remedy for Labor Troubles" the tariff
message of ex-President Cleveland, the
speech of Hon. "William L. "Wilson at the
Chicago Convention, and "The National
Democratic Platform." In the point of
length and numbers it will be seen the doc
nmrnts of the Democrats fall far below
those of the Republicans, but the Demo-I
cratic managers say that their practical '
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effect is fully as great Secretary Sheerln
says that the terse, cogent tract of a few
hundred words is the campaign document
that is most often read and produces the
best results.
At the headquarters of the two par
ties in 'Washington some .300,000
docnments are being sent ont daily.
The principal documents under the frank
ing privilege are folded, wrapped and lent
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through the mails without expense to the
senders. If postage was paid on the mat
ters franked by members of Congress, it
would mean to the Government
an income of fully $350,000 a
year. Thus it will be teen that the party
has come to play a large and prominent
part in national campaigns.
Poetry Inflicted on the Country.
Another feature never absent from a
Prsidental contest is the campaign song
writer and his songs. "Where the campaign
poet hides from one campaign to anotner it
wonld be hard to say, but the opening of
each new contest again finds him bobbing
np serenely. It is only by courtesy that he
is called a poet, for his work is generally
the merest doggerel, but the increasing out
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put of his work shows that there is an ac
tive demand for his service. Many hun
dred campaign songs have been written
Since the present campaign opened and are
now being- sung nightly to admiring audi'
nceg by campaign glee clubs; but few of
them have merit and none will survive the
November election. A song very popular
with the Demoorats is entitled, f'We Are
Coming, Grover," and is sung to the air
"Wearing of the Green." The first verse
and the choral will suffice to show its qual
ity. We are coming, Grover, Grover, dear,
Five million men and more,
To put you in the White House,
As we did in 'Si;
We are coming with determined hearts,
Onr country's wrongs to right.
And we'll never leave the battlefield
As loss's a rogue's In sight.
OQOBCS.
We are marching on to Washington,
Five million men and more, .
And we'll land von in the White House,
As we did in '81;
Tot we know that yon are true as steel.
While Adlal lie's the same.
So Benny, pack your trunks, my boy,
For Dennis Is your name.
A favorite song with Republican glee
clnbs is entitled "Reciprocity-Protection."
and runs as follows:
Eeciproolty is building in the North, and
South, and West, .
New industries, and voters know this policy
is best.
They'll give the Free-Trade fallacy an ever
lasting rest,
For the plan is not businesslike.
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Recl-proct-ty Protection.
Eect-procl-ty Protection.
Hecl-proel-ty Protection.
This plan Is businesslike.
Campaign Songs of Our Fathers.
Songs of this kind stand little danger of
surviving the wear and tear ot a campaign.
In the old davs It was different. There was
spirit, fire and movement in the songs sung
in the campaigns of 40 and CO years ago.
Before me as I write lies a copy of a curious
little book which bears on its title page the
the inscription "The Log Cabin Song Book,
a Collection of Popular and Patriotic Songs,
Respectfully Dedicated to the Friends of
Harrison and Tyler." This quaint volume
contains the songs which added greatly to
the spirit and enthusiasm of the famous
"log cabin and hard cider one of their poets
celebrated it in the following rollicking
verses sung to the air of "AuldLang Syne:"
Should good old cider be despised,
And ne'er regarded more?
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Should plain I07 cabins be despised,
Our fathers built of ore?
For the true old style, my boys.
For the true old style.
Let's take a mug of elder now,
For the true old style.
We've tried your purse-proud lords Who lovti
In palaces to shine;
Bat we'll have a ploughman President
Of the Cincinnati line.
For old North Bend, my boys,
For old North Bend,
We'll take a mug of elder yet,
For old North Bend.
Then give a hand, my trnsty boys,
And here's a hand for you:
And we'll quan the good old elder yet,
For old Tippecanoe.
For old Tippecanoe, my boys.
For old Tippecanoe.
We'll take a mug of cider yet,
For old Tippecanoe. 1
The campaign song writer of 1892 is not a
worthy successor to his brother of 1840.
Furnishing the Marching Clubs.
Talking the other day with Treasurer
fiobertS. fiooievelL
Roosevelt, of the Democratic National
Committee, lie told me that the equipment
of marching clubs had grown in a lew years
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to be one of the largest items la the hill of
campaign expenses. Competition, arising
from an increasing demand, has brought
the price ot campaign uniforms to a sur
prisingly low figure, and it is the great
number of them Used that makes their cost
one of the principal items in the expenses
of a campaign. The cheap uniforms, made
out of enameled cloth, cost as low m 48
bents apiece withadiscountby the quantity.
The bitter cla-s of unilorms cost from $2 to
1S apiece. This year the manufacturers
offer hundreds of styles to select from,
knights fully equipped in imitation armor,
touaves, sailors, soldiers, pioueers and the
like. ,
The bulk of the campaign equipments goes
to the rural districts. When a camnaign
club is formed in a country village it is said
that those requested to become members
generally ask what is to be worn, and the
club furnishing the best uniforms gets the
largest membership. Proportionate to the
number of voters more money h uied dur
ing a campaign in the country than in the
cities, and, as before stated, a great part of
the funds goes to the campaign clubs.
Members of the latter never expect to pay
any duet and the expense falls on the party
management, A style of uniform popular
with campaign clubs consists of a shirt
made of red, white and blue canton flannel,
with a shield of colored oil cloth on the
breast, oh which may be inscribed the name
of the club and the party candidates. These
are popular, probably because they are
cheap and no coat is required with them.
Campaign Buttons Mult Be Bought.
There is one thing the party managers do
not have to pay for and that is the cam
paign button or badge, which no patriotic
oitizen is expected to be without. Or these
the street vender, through which channel
they pass from the manufacturer to the
wearer, oilers this year a great variety.
One favorite badge is of oxidized silver,
with the portrait of President Harrison in
relief and having the inscription around
the edge "Harrison and Beid, 1893." The
same badge is made with Cleveland's pict
ure in place of that of Harrison and the
inscription, ' "Cleveland and Stevenson.
1892.'' The buttons are made of nearly all
known metals and some of them are taste
fully covered with silk, The inscriptions,
mottoes and pictures they bear cover the
widest possible range.
Then there are badges for the coat-and
necktie and breastpins for women fond of
giving evidence of their political predelic
tions. A bright Chicago man is the in
ventor of a novel campaign implement, the
sale of which is fast making him rich. I -
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carried in the hip pocket The flask fits on
the end of the cane, and with a wiek attach
ment the whole devise can be used as a
torch at night The whistle will make the
cane come in handr when the time arrives
to celebrate the result of the election. All
in all it is a great scheme.
Magee on Documents and Clubs.
Chancing to meet Christopher L. Magee,
one of the shrewdest and brainiest politi-
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cisns the Republican party possesses, I
asked him if he thought that campaign
documents and campaign clubs justified in
results the expenditures they entailed upon
the party management. His reply was an
interesting one.
"Directly," said he, "no; indirectly, yes.
They help to preserve party discipline and
to create party enthusiasm, "and these, after
all is said and done, are the things that win
our elections." Rotus R. Wilson.
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Ohio Valley Manufacturer.
The curious phenomenon of a Greek cross
in fire, the arms radiating from an arc light
as a center, has often been noticed by sci
entific people, and the numerous attempts
at explanation serve but to show how little
is really known about the science of optics,
even in spite of the extensive researches!
and developments of the present century.
The singular appearance is not seen
save when the light is viewed through a
pane of glass or wire-screen such as may be
found in the front of any street car, and the
absence of the peculiar rectangular radia
tion under other circumstances suggests
that it is in some way connected with the
polarization of light, for when an electrio
light is looked at without any intervening
medium save the air the rays dart off in
every direction. The pane of glass mustt
therefore, as scientific people have sug
gested, serve the purpose of detaining some
of the rays and Intensifying others, for the
Greek cross of light is much brighter than
the rays of the lamp when seen other
wise. TOTAL ABSTINENCE NOTES.
Now is the tlmo forrallief.
The Father llathew anniversary was gen
erally celebrated by the societies.
The Literary Committee Is preparing a
new citcular on the children's pledge cards.
St. Mart's of Mercy will celebrate its
fifth anniversary in December Its wooden
wedding as it were. ,
The National Secretary has sent one the
blank for his annual report. Secretaries
should report promptly.
The Father Mathew will accept associate
members in their reading circle without
the pledge requirements.
The Father Mathew Association has ar
ranged an elaborate Columbian programme
lor its next meeting, Ootober 25.
A ccTEMrottABT says, Judging from the
Scottdale resolutions, all the members of the
C.T. A. V. or Pittstrar should bo Prohi
bitionists. Now that the societies have had all op
portunity to Judge the merit of the temper
ance leaflets an increased subscription 1
looked for.
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