The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-07-19
THE MPAl6N.
Gov. George w. Peck Gives Mis-
Ideas rs to How 1t Shall be
Conducted.

tiers 70 prominent democrats in the
country asking their views upon the
best plan of conducting the coming
campaign. Gov. Peck. Of Wisconsin
responds as follows: my limited
experience in politics hardly gives me
the right to express mys.lf upon q
subject that puzzles the brains Of old
campaignerr; but l have some ide.,
about campaign that need not 'ss
anything. and IL they are not good
they need not be ad"p:ed by any.
body"
Ny idea 10 that candidates and
leaders ought to be known personally
BY the people, not only to voters but
the women and children. The public
speaker Who i, advertised to speak ..
. given place too often arrives just
before he is to speuk; he is huri ed
to the grand stand in q carriage. with
the best team in town, which causes
the speakers hair to stand for fear
the team vi run away. He appears
before bis audience suddenly, speaks
bis piece, gels in . persplratiOn, puts
on an overc0at, il hurried t. the car
rage. and il there 10 no train to get
out Of town he 10 driven to the resi-
deDce Of some prominent citizen aud
10 dead in the world. From the time
he enters the town till be gets out Of
it be has not spoken to ten men.
Though the most genial and COM
panionable Of men, he has not smiled
once, except perhaps At some politics.
chestnut, and the people who would
like to grasp bis hand and see what
kind of man he 10 60 home with the
impression that they have halfway
listened to the repetition Of something
hey have read before in the papers.
from the lips Of something that looked
mighty like . man whom they would
be glad to know personally.
That 10 ab ut the way political ora
tory alone 10 looked upon by the aver.
age voter. They get wind where they
want flesh and blood. My idea would
be to have speeches shorter and per-
sonal intercourse with the people
longer.
The issu.s Of the poll ical party are
we'll stated in its platform and they
ere constantly being agiIaled by the
newspapers, % the people are unusual
" we'll posted BY reading. I have
the greatest faith in the education of
the people through the newspapers.
Many democrats in every locality ere
% we'll posted upon the tariff and the
silver question as the orators. though
they cannot express themselves SO we'll.
They admire . man who can SPEAK
we'll "o6 hand" SIS they say. but they
want to introduce him to their wives,
their children and their neighbors.
l appreciate the importance OF the
political speech, bus when the speech
i accompanied by good-fellowship and
kindly interest on the part OF the
speaker towards the hearers the speech
10 more apt to enter the system, q it
were, Of tbs listener and give him
something pleasant to talk about.
So l would ssy, let the political
meeting be not only an oratorical con.
test but . picnic. When democrats
hsve . meeting in any locality let it
be . holiday for the voters and their
families. Give the wives . chance to
show their interest in the cause by
providing . picnic dinner, while boys
and girls help to make the meeting .
'uccess. Those boys and girls who can
90 home from . political meeting
proud Of their father and his politics
md able to say they met the distin.
yuished speakers personally, besides
to the epeeches, look forward
With pleasure to the next campaign.
Political parties too often look only
% the present.. They are after the
7oter who votes at the present cleo.
ion, and they often act like the man
Who prefers to buy q team already
broken than to take the trouble to
'aise pair Of colts; but the man who
rains q pair of colts has more pleas.
ire out Of them than the man who |
'uys a team ready made. Who is
ooklng after the boys that are going |
o vote next time? The seventeen.
ear old boy to-day who cannot vote at
his November election will be voter
n 1896. There ought TO be Tam
many society in every locality to look
fter the boys who are to be such a
actor of few years hence. Our oppc-
ents, the republicans, have looked
fter the rising generation better than
re have. They commence at the
radle end try to instil into the minis
/ children the idea that democrats
re very bad people. Many children
narrow minds grow nm with that