Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-11

His Arduous Duties ss the Hesdqusrsers os
the National Republican Committee.

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the National Republican COMMITTEES
srsciai pi.rssch % The Evening star
New IoRK, Aus. H. There 10 probably
not harder worked man In New York
today than Chairman Garter Of the re-
publican committee. Between the heat, the
anxiety and the constant pulling and haul
ing Of politicians he looks tagged out n this
sortof weather 20 continue until the election
no living man could stand what he viii have
TO undergo IN the next twelve weeks. He
rises early and Is st the committee room.
shortly after O'Clock. sometimes ear
lier. But he Is none too soon for the duties of
the day. When he arrives he finds q line Of
callers waiting 60 receive him. Tom Cava-
naugh. who acts ss q sort OF grand usher az
committee ON reception. IL ALWAYS in the big
reception room St the front watching like .
spider from his den 90 pounce upon these
gentry they enter. No better man could
what delicate duty. Tom is the grand buffer
against which this stream OF callers first col-
hdes- He knows most OF them by sight and takes
care 20 know all OF them and their business before
he ushers them 10 the next turn of the winding
lane which Is 20 lead them 20 the sanctum
sanctorum where Chairman Carter alta IL
their business is such that they can be switched
OF this side Of Mr.. Carter. Cavanaugh does the
switching act gracefully and gently that the
switched really are not aware OF what has hap
u
IN the Office Of Sergeant-at-Arms Swords; some
times he runs them on 20 Secretary McComas;
sometimes they find their way upstairs 20 Gen.
Clarkson's room OF 60 some Of the consultation
rooms s;ill further back in the big building.
Meantime Mr.. Carter is busy. He has had
enough experience in public life 20 know the
advantage of a small room He knows tina, n
the room Is very small and there are no chairs
save the one he occupies the callers are not
likely TO stay so long. So he-cute fellow that
he is-selected the very smallest room in the
house for his Office. Ii is a little narrow hall
room just over the entrance 10 the building
His big desk occupies pretty large share OF IT,
and IL more than three people arc TO consult
him at one time they must get their heads very
close together. Those who filter through Cava-
naugh, Swords, McComas. Clarkson eft al. are
gwen seats in the room adjoining his Office and
are led in by Private Secretary Edwards one at
time and let out again at the doorway leading
into the hall.
What a record one Of Mr.. Casters phono-
graphs would make il il could have a location
IN quiet corner Of that little room! All day
long the grind goes on. BY O'Clock Chairman
Carter. thoroughly exhausted, dons his hat and
slips quietly out for a lunch. IL he manages TO
get away without being tackled by two or three
of the waiting crowd Of politicians he does well.
by or half-psst he is back again and manages
TO get at the important features of his corre-
spondence. Often he Is at his work until well
into the evening, and when he does go out il s
almost always to keep an engagement with
some prominent politician in a quiet hotel room
where the consultation and talk Of the cam
paign goes on far into the night. Whether he
sleeps at all, and, If so, when, is an unsolved
mystery.
Although the work is being pushed at the na-
tional committee rooms there N a good deal OF
anxiety as TO the attitude of certain people who
have not vet been ''placated." This list of un-
placated people includes such distinguished men
as Senator Quay, eN-tiov. Foraker, ex-senator
Platt, Senator Cameron and number of others
of greater or less distinction. These gentle
men are managing TO keep themselves
beautifully in the background up TO the present
time. But the machine runs right along without
them In fact the situation reminds one a good
deal Of that at the Homestead work, when the
big mills were quietly filed up with non-union
workmen and the wheels started running, while
the strikers stood back ON their dignity outside
until they were forced 20 acknowledge defeat.
Whether they will come in now and accept the
scale remains to be seen. IL il whispered that
President Harrison will quietly drop in here
some day pretty soon and have a consultation
with the leaders who are still on the outside, fx
up a scale 10 suit them and start the mill TO
running again on full time aud with the CO.
operation of the old hands.
At the democratic headquarters there are less
signs of activity, thou Ia It is probable that .
few days more will brighten things up amaz-
ingly. Senator Gorman is TO be here in day
or two. also Senator Ransom and other mem-
bers of the executive committee and their
presence and advice will. undoubtedly, warm
things up there. II il whispered that ex-secae-
tary Whitney has agreed on the part OF the anti
snappers that no city and county tickets in op-
position 20 Tammany shall he put into the field
by the Cleveland wing of the democracy and
that this will be the price paid for the active
support of the Hill-Tanmany people.