Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22
THE PARTY MACHINERY.
the GREAT WORK DONE BY The
REPUBLICAN, COMMITTEE.

THE GREAT WORK DONE BY THE
REPUBLICAN, COMMITTEES.
Clevsland's Ste Paling-It Must He Pro.
lection end II viii BE v~ictory-How
Free Trade Reduces Exports-Prlce OF
Cottons Undsr Free Trade.
How the Isspublicau National COMMITTEES
Does Its Work.
Isabel Warrell Ball writes an interest.
ing article for the Washington Post on
the party machinery. at the head
quarters of the Republican National
Committee in Washington. 1t is well
worth reading, as it gives much informa-
ton concerning the magnificent scope
and plan of the work being done for the
enlightenment of the voters. The per-
manent headquarters of the Nation nal
Republican Committee are located on
building at the corner of Ninth and +
streets. The general headquarters are
at the Plaza Hotel in New York City,
and branch offices are located in
Philadelphia and Chicago, but the
main business of the committee is trans
acted in Washington. The location
of the permanent headquarters of
the committee in Washington shows
the clear foresight OF Gen. Clarkson, the
chairman of the committee. Mr..
Clarkson has been an active member of
the National Republican Committee for
sixteen years, though now serving for
the first time as its chairman. The
committee occupies a suite of eight
rooms perfectly equipped for the work
in hand. The "machiDery" is such as
will be found in any tirst-class ews-
paper ottice-excepting, of course, the
type and presses.
Many hundreds of papers reach the
committee rooms daily. Every polit-
ical editorial, every comment and criti-
cism in whatever form, and every men,
ton Of prominent politicians, socially;
politically or otherwise, is clipped and
filed IN a novel scrap-filing case, the i'm
vention of Capt. I. IL. Mckee, who is
acting assistant secretary in full charge
of the Washington Office, in the illness
of Gen. Clarkson. After the clipping is
done: the papers are tied in bundles
and stacked away, while the metropoli-
tan journals from Bangor to San Fran
cisco are kept in regular newspaper
files.
In the adjoining room are four stem
ographers, four typewriting machines
and two monographs. From morning
eAA AA6A oAO hORG "
making copies for the printer, arranging
lists of names, inditing letters and adj
dressing them. The library occupies
one oom The books, which line the
wall from floor to ceiling, form one of
the most complete political reference
libraries in existence. In the next
room about a dozen people are at work
addressing wrappers and envelopes,
which are to enclose political literature
to the voters Of every section of the
United States. As there are something
over half a million names of voters inthe
hands of the committee, and a fairly rap
i'd penman can get rid of 500 addresses
a day, it will be see that the con-
sumption of postage is something enor-
nous. This room is arranged with cases
for each state. AT a glance the chief of
the department can probably give the
names of two-thirds of the voters in a
glven state. can tell the county, town,
congressional district, whether he casts
his maiden vote this year, whether he
is a Democrat, Republican, Third
literature that is being prepared for dis
triDution, there are twenty-five docu-
ments, of which 100000 copies have
been printed for distribution as SAM
pies. Three rooms of the suite are
packed with these documents. They
cover all questions at issue between the
two parties.
The principal document of the list is a
pamphlet, in five parts, termed 1.-The
Tariff Riddle" and is the work of Well
ker Given. The National Committee
has exclusive control of one large edi-
ton of this work. 1t is an incomparably
ly convincing. During the recent
4 rol1nd .,,n in COnUropa whon Torrv Gir,r ~.
son committed the Democrats and
Third-party to absolute free trade
by reading Henry Georges book,
Protection or Free Trade" in.
to the Congressional Record, the Re-
publicans submitted gracefully, aud
sending to the National Republican
Committee for campaign literature be-
gan to read it into the Record. The
Democrats stood good dose of from
Plymouth Rock to Mckinley" but
when the 'tarif riddle" was produced
and forthwith proceeded to u off all
leave to print in the Record. They
couldn't stand that bit of diamond
pointed satire.
Among the other documents is Bob
Ingersoll's "Why Am | a Republican Pr
and the great orator never gave utter
ance TO more beautiful sentiments.
.Bab," That plquant, saucy little butter
fly, has contributed a serio-comic study
on going to England to buy a wardrobe
in q free trade country, and how she
paid her passage both ways and saved
money at last by buying in America.
Other pamphlets are american Ideas
Conquered" abraham Lincoln"
Tariff Cate chism, !" Farm Implements
Abroad" Gree Traders Unveiled"
EARN Mortgages Not an Evidence of
Distress" and a dozen others.
Cleveland's star Psiinr.
Until the eloquent and fascinating
Henry Watterson dashed into the arena
as an organizer of opposition to Cleve-
lands candidacy for the Democratic
presidential nomination, the chances of
the heavy man whom the silver-tongued
Villas refers to as "Democracy's almost
divinely.appointed leader" seemed to
time to time, as for instance, While
Senator Hill was making his johnson.