Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-22
CAMPAIGN LITERATURE.
Both Committees Have Finished Send
ing Out Documents.

The two campaign committees have practi-
cally finished their work of sending out docu-
ments. They are now on hand only to answer
letters and meet such eleventh hour demands
as may be made upon them for information.
Each committee has sent out enough docu-
ments to paper the land over. and il the co.
0OO. 900 people who make up this nation are not
educated on the tariff, the pension. the silver
and the federal election question by the LIST Of
November it wont be the fault of the commit
tees. The republican committee have sent out
more documents than the national committee
distributed during the last presidential election.
They have sent out more than 10 600, 600 docu-
ments for
THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE PUBLIC.
One thing that has puzzled them consider
ably is to explain to the satisfaction of every
one that the public have no reason to complain
about the increase of prices of things the people
have to buy, which followed promptly upon the
enactment of the tariff law, but they have sent
out some good documents on this subject On
this same point the democrats are getting some
comfort out of the fact that the advertisements
OF merchants in papers all over the country
call attention to pending increase of prices to
induce prompt purchase of stock on hand
1t is claimed that the republican campaign
committee has not received n cent from any
government employe for use in the campaign,
though number Of offers of money have been
made to them. They started out with the de-
termination to avoid all criticism on the score
OF violating the civil service law and when
clerks have offered to contribute they have re-
fused to accept the gift but have offered to sell
documents to the would be contributor at cur
rent rates. Usually, it is claimed the clerks
hndlng that they were not compelled to con-
tribute thought better of their generosity and
failed to buy the books.
THE LITERATURE DISTRIBUTED
was by no means confined to the tariff problem:
a large proportion of the documents relate to
pensions. silver and the federal election ques-
itionA not forgetting the revolution of parlia-
mentary methods. The method has been to
send documents everywhere possible and then
to let the candidates fight it out for them
selves with the aid Of the local committees.
But there have been some exceptions to this,
notably IN Mr.. McKinleys district where the
power OF the committee is concentrated to
secure the reelection of the author Of the tariff
bill In spite OF the democratic gerrymander
They are putting forth almost as much effort
there as they might if Mr.. Mckinley were their
candidate for President and his election de-
pended on carrying that one district.
lie trouble between Gov. Campbell and the
democrats In Hamilton county is causing some
OF the democrats considerable uneasiness lest it
affect the congressional election, but those who
are most familiar with Ohio politics of a demo-
cratic hue declare that it will not figure in the
campaign and that the democrats will elect
fourteen members from the state. They say
that the democratic candidate will be elected
over Mckinley by not less than 1900 majority,
which Is less than the normal democratic ma
Iorlty IN the district as now constituted.