The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-10
HOW THE WORK IS DONE.
a Glance at the Democratic National
Headquarters.
From The Neto York Times.

From The Neio York Times.
The work at the democratic national
headquarters, at 10 West Twenty ninth
street, is now perfectly organized under the
general management of Col Brice, the
chairman of the campaign committee, and
of Col. Dickinson, the secretary. In the
four rooms of the basement the campaign
documents are received and sent out This
! department is at present under the charge
| of E. p. z. Mcclure, who was trained to
the business in 1854. He has large force
of clerks under him, and never before, even
in 1876, under Mr.. Tilden, were there such
! facilities for the spread of democratic
literature through the country.
| On the ground floor is the German bu-
reau, the reception rooms and the reading
| room. On TIE first floor is Col. Brices
private room, whore he and his private sec
rotary, Capt. William McClellaud, dispose
OF an immense amount of correspondence
every day: the department of oratory,
where tue demand for speakers is attended
| TO, ana the meeting room of the executive
committee, in which lists Of speakers are kept
and their assignments. Each state committee
can have all the speakers it wants by simply
applying. The national committee deals
| mainly with the state committees, and hav-
ing awarded the speakers to them, allows
them to manage in their own Jurisdictions
| as they see fit.
On the second floor Commissioner William
S. Andrews manages the literary bureau in
| the back rooms Commissioner Andrews
invented this bureau in 1876, and it has
been continued during every campaign
since. Mr.. Tilden considered it to be one
I Of the most effective devices. Its principal
business is the. forwarding to democratic
papers an over the country of sheets con-
tanning editorials, statistical paragraphs,
chnrf hot will
assist the editor in discussing politics and
presenting the democratic side to his read
ers. 1t gives the country editor the largest
liberty of selection and saves him an i'm
mense amount of hard work. No depart
, ment of the national headquarters is more
popular than this. In another part of the
building, under Col Watterson, the pamph-
let's sent out of the document room are pre-
pared for the printer.
In front, Secretary Dickinson reigns su-
preme. He keeps a record of everything
that is done in the building All the ac-
count books of the campaign are kept here
the books of the document room. of the
oratorical department, and of the literary
bureau. About 500 letters and kilograms
are answered every day, and no mail is
allowed to accumulate. Each letter and
telegram is copied before it is sent; each
letter and telegram received is filed and in
dexed. Every dollar received or paid out
is entered. Secretary Dickinson is now
serving his fourth campaign, and he has
reduced organization to a'science At the
end Of the last campaign Stephen B. Elkins
complimented Mr.. Barnum on the way the
democratic headquarters were managed.
''They were run like clock work." said he.
"Ours was in charge of green hands, while
your men were experienced"
The country has become so vast that the
management of national campaign is an
immense and complicated business, reouir-
ing great knowledge of affairs and thor
ough training. A large force of clerks is
| busy all the time, working much harder
cipline maintained is, Of necessity, rigorous
and exacting Col. Dickinson prides him
self on keeping everything so well in hand
that Col. Brice and his fellow-members of
the campaign committee can at minutes
notice ascertain the exact condition of
affairs and learn all that has been done, to
I the smallest detail