The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-18

| amount of business of utmost importance
which would have dragged but for such
| precaution.
OF course. everyone cannot rush into Mr..
Harrity's Office, occupy his sofas, 81: on
ms table and foul the air with tobacco
smoke, rs used to be the habit in political
isa;t.iuarters; put everyone VINO mas
iegitlmate business and makes it known to
MI. Harrity's messenger or secretary is
sure OF an early interview, and this freedom
gives the Democratic headquarters q little
more the atmosphere of unrestraint than
Is the case in the building where Mr.. Carter
rules.
The business of both chairmen is and
engaged in constant conferences with
leaders of their party. Scarcely a moment
OF the day when they are in town passes
In which some one or two or three or more
OF the greater politicians are not cioseted
with them. These conferences are mainly
edge of the situation in various localities.
Both the chairmen were wholly unfa-
miliar with the politics of New York
state. Mr.. Carter had been very sell
dom in New York during his whole life,
and his acquaintance with the local
leaders was comparatively slight. Mr..
Harritv had larger acquaintance in
New York, but it was social rather
than political. Each of the chairmen has
found difficulties which are greatly alike.
There has been friction developed in each
party which these chairmen regard it as
their first duty to overcome. The Repub-
iicans have SO far progressed that Mr.. Car
ter has been able to summon the executive
committee, which is that subdivision of
the national committee with which he will
be surrounded and who will act as his
stan, and during the week beginning on
the 18th Of August this committee has
been in session daily. This is an indica-
ton that the executive work of the cam
paign has begun, and the effect of these
meetings will probably be made apparent
verv soon.
The Democratic national committee has
as an auxiliary organization one that is
somewhat similar to this Republican ex-
ecutiye committee. But there have been
no formal meetings of it yet, and the in
tention is to appoint an advisory COM
mittee consisting of one prominent Demo
crat from each of the states.
The two national chairmen are
physically and in many of their char
acteristics as widely apart as are the
two states from which they come Mr..
Carter interests greatly the local poll
chairman of Republican COMMITTEES
who ever came from the region west of
the Ohio, and he is the youngest man
ever chosen for so importans q post.
He is of the simplest tastes and habits.
He cheerfully makes a lunch with a
sandwich and glass of luilk. He is re-
Tor his reserve is not confined to chance
callers, but even to those whose intimacy
he seeks. 1t is said of him that in all his
consultations no man has yet discovered
what his plan of campaign is. He ques-
tions closely, listens attentively, but keeps
his own counsel. He is grim, determined,
quiet and suggests perfect self-reliance
local politicians say that those are quail
ties which are yet to be developed in the
management of the campaign.
Mr.. Harrity has impressed those brought
in contact with him with q charm of man.
ner something like that which distin-
cuisines William G. Whitney. Yet there
is no hint of palaver or demagogy in it.
He is affable, courteous, and is. moreover.
extremely graceful and many regard
him as handsome man. These manner
isms may be due to long association with
social refinements. something which Mr..
Carter has never had the inclination, nor
perhaps .r the opportunity to indulge
man of wonderful intellectual re-
sources, and in a consultation with DEM
Ocratic leaders he is said to be quick, i'm
cisive and intuitive in his Judgments He
is not SO secretive a. Mr.. Carter, but the
politicians are inclined to think that
it is due to the fact that he
has had longer experience in Eastern
politics; he can be secretive when it is
necessary. Ex-Mayor Grace, Of New York,
himself a politician of the highest order
who has shared in some of the consulta-
tions, declares that he has seen and heard
enough to satisfy him that Mr.. Harrity is
o political strategist of the first rank.
The SuhOPdinAtQ Orpa N alton IL, tho fuo
headquarters is very similar; the staff in
either headquarters is. to great extent,
under the control of the two secretaries
Mr.. McComas in the Republican and Col.
Smalley in the Democratic. These are di-
vided into bureaus of correspondence,
literary bureaus which control tine selec-
ton and dissemination of printed matter,
and the mailing force. Each of these
bureaus has been assigned rooms, and 1T
is some indication of the immense amount
of printed matter which the committees
expect to send broadcast that the apart
ments allotted to this bureau take up more
than one-third of either house. The mail
ing quarters are in the basement, and an
immense amount of mail matter is to be
handled there, requiring the services of a
large number of clerks. The clerical
force, both paid and voluntary, will num-
Der over fifty men. Thus it is easy to see
that these party headquarters have been
organized after the manner of some of the
offices of the greater corporations in New
York and engaged as many subordinates
and clerks as some of the greater financial
establishments here. The actual expense
of conducting the headquarters in each
case will amount to s., 0OO or S.. 600 a week.
not including the charges for printing,
which form one of the greater items Of
campaign expenses.
1t is the opinion of some of the local pol
iticians in New York that no ADLER staff of
advisers has ever been associated with
chairmen in national campaigns. Mr..
Carter will have with him constantly Sec
rotary McComas, Treasurer Bliss, General
GARRISON, Samuel Fessenden and often
Mr.. Manley, of Maine, and William Suther-
land. of New York. Those who will be
constantly in council chamber with Mr..
Harrity are William C. Whitney, Col.
Smalley, of Vermont: Secretary Sheerin,
Robert v. Roosevelt, who is treasurer;
Senator Brice and occasionally Senator
German and Lieu. Gov. Sheehan of New
York.
The treasurers of the national com it
tees are two New York merchants who
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