The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-04-06
THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
THE BEST KIND OF LITER AZURE
FOR THE CAMPAIGN
No Change in the Status of the Tariff
Bills--The Bank Failure.. Pay of 18th
Glass II. MS to be Increased.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRoNICLE.l

No Change in the Status of the Tariff
BilIs--The Bank Failure--Pay of 4tI
Class +. MS to be Increased.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRONICLE
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 2, 1885,
Messrs. Busbee, Heartt, Graves, Rogers
and Womble spent Saturday in this city or
business connected with the wrecked banl
of your city. They had consultations with
Comptroller Trenholm, Solicitor Genera
jerks and Secretary Bayard, and succeed
ed in securing the necessary extraditior
papers from the State Department, for the
surrender Of Cross aud White The frs,
four gentlemen mentioned, left Saturday
night with these pal ers while Mr. Womblt
returned to Raleigh. District Attorney
Busbee is confident the charge of forgery
will be clearly established and expects t;
he in Raleigh with the prisoners as early
as Thursday-Or certainly during the
week. This unfortunate incident brings
closely home to US he necessity of more
comprehensive eXtradition treaty. The
Canadian cities offer too luxurious home
to the army of defaulting Bank Presidents
and Cashiers. The existing treaty ought
to be enlarged so as to embrace defaulterS
as well as forgers,
hope no maudlin sentiment will miti-
gate the sentence of these men Cross and
of the most desel wing women in the world,
one to whom both owed debt of graft
tude which they could never have fully re-
paid. They ought to be punished to the
fullest extent of the law. A telegram re-
ceived here late Saturday night indicates
that both Cross and White are anxious to
return, since their arrest in Canada. Per
haps their anxiety is based on hope for
some sentiment in their favor in a com
munity where they so long served the
devil in the livery of their Maker Great
sympathy is expressed for Mrs. Williams,
though | ind the failure of the Bank did
not create much surprise at the Treasury
Department nor in the inner financial cir
cles here. 1t has probably been badly
managed for some time past, doubtless
during the Presidency of Cross.
The tariff question will not be settled
until long after the National Convention
meets The status Of the fight is just as
it was when last wrote. A slight breeze
was raised IN the Ways and Means com
mittee because one or two of the more uu-
scrupulous of the newspaper men surrep-
ttiously got hold Of the repoct of the ma
lority of he committee and published it.
But this Is not the first time these willy
representatives of the press have stolen
important public documents. and it Will
not te the last. The minority report viii!
be published Monday Mr. Mills is sick
This accounts for the delay. Mr.. Randall
is resorting to his former tactics, and is
paying little attention apparently, to the
appropriation bills So far, only one, the
Military Academy appropriation bill, has
been sent to the Senate.
mittees have not yet taken any definite
steps towards organization for campaigl
work, | am going to call your attention to
great waste of money. One is the publ
cation OF the "Campaign Book This
bulky and unspeakably stupi volume is
the product of a variety of politicians,
dead beats, and ''bummerS," all of whom
are paid good salaries for alleged services,
This campaign book is ready for distribu-
ton in, say. August and September, after
the voters have fully made up heir minds
as to the color of the ticket they intend to
vote After it is distributed. i is never
read, and | am glad to record this fact
1t is to the everlasting credit of the yeo
manry of our country that they have bet
ter taste than to waste time on such stuff
The campaign book therefore finds its way
to the waste basket, and finally ignites un-
der pile of lightwood splinters, the very
best place for it, in spite of the money it
costs. This custom will, | trust, become
obsolete from this campaign The tre-
mendous power of the pre- has rendered
invalid the pamphlet and long speech AS
political agencies. This Sc tence brings
me to another effete political method. 1t
is this: A willy Congressman wants to
boom" himself So he either makes a
speech-or has one printed in the Record
especially suited to his own constituency.
Then he gets the committee to order thou
sands of these illusions to be printed and
circulated as ''campaign documen 5 " His
wish is complied with, mainly out of good
nature and fellow feeling. Printing
these speeches costs money. Distributing
them costs more money. The flunkey who
generally directs them is paid a good salary
for his work. Then the mails are choked
up with the huge bundles and the farmers
to whom the most of these "documents'
are sent send them to start the kitchen
fire with! 1t would be cheaper to send out
bundles of dry pine just as seeds are sent
from the Agricultural Department.. A
clever newspaper man of this city writing
on the same subject says:
''NOw the campaign committee that wants
to influence voters must go to work before
the minds of the voters a. made up-the
earlier the better, and most of the work
should be done before the nominations
To reach the minds Of the people in this
rapid age there Is but one avenue the
press. The literary bureau is the organi
zation by which alone can this be effected
Campaign literature to be intiu ntlal
should be in the shape of newsy neHspa
per letters, consisting of interviews anC
anecdotes as well as OF facts and argu
ments, and should be distributed on the
syndicate system to journals scattered al
over the land. This will require funds, ,o
course, and in that respect is little i'm
provement on the old plan, but if vel
| worked it will be effective, while the ole
one will not. The worst thing about it il
| that it will require brains and plenty o.
them. Any fool can address a speech
good enough to kindle farmers fire or tt
| fill an Office waste basket. Only men Will
brains can write newspaper letters which
will be eagerly read and remembered.
The post Office bill now before the Hous,
will not only increase the pay of all fourtl
class postmasters, but it will grant th'
third class postmasters an allowance o
fuel, rent, &c. There is no doubt abou
the passage of this bill.
Senator Evarts reported bill on Sat
urday appropriating $40, 900 for the pur
chase from Miss Virginia Lewis Taylor o
sword of Washington. Miss Taylor i