Evening journal., 1892-11-12
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ing bonfires of celebration and taking
care Of the wounded, it viii do no harm
TO tell some of the secrets of the cam-
paign. Every campaign has its secrets,
which find their way 10 the public after
the election. While the campaign is on
every avenue through which informa-
ton could possibly leak out concerning
the inside affairs of the two great camps
Is closely guarded. Despite all the pre-
cautions taken by both the Republican
and the Democratic campaign COM
mittees in New York it is a remarkable
fact that each committee knew all the
time Just about what the other was do
ing. In running from one camp to the
other / found that whatever Mr. Whit
ney and his associates of the Democratic
committee were doing was known with
in few hours 10 Chairman Carter, Mr.
Manley or Mr.. Clarkson at Republican
headquarters. Il was rule which
worked both ways. Every night before
putting his weary head upon his pillow
General Manager Whitney knew just
what the Republicans had done during
the day, how much money they had re-
ceiyed, what they had done with it and
how much they still had left in bank.
How these secrets were carried do
not know. and probably not more than
four or five persons in all the world have
any adequate notion. Ny belief is that
each committee had a spy in the camp
of its rivnl. possibly some man Of high
standing who was being paid a very
large bribe for his treachery. Yet whom
you come to look over the names of men
in the two committees who We're on
confidential terms with the managers,
you can't find any one of whom You
would suspect such baseness. There
is no other way, however, in which
the secrets of the committees could
have been carried so quickly and so
promptly from one headquarters to
the other. Some years ago prominent
Republican campaigner was actually
caught selling the secrets of his com-
mittee TO Samuel J. Tilden. He was
suspected, and his associates hired de-
tective to shadow him. Ee was traced
to Mr. Iilden's house in Gramercy park,
where he remained more than an hour.
After that he was debarred from the
secret councils Of his committee. Yet he
was never exposed, and today holds q
prominent place under the government
and is looked up TO as a great party
leader.
One thing which strikes the acute OBJ
server very forcibly is shat the manage
ment of these national campaigns has
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side which has the most money, the
most oarnestness and energy, the smart
est operators, wins. This is the theory
Of the politicians. The campaign man
ayers have little faith in the intelligence
Of the people or Of the influence which
discussion and thought about the ques-
tions Of the day may have upon the re-
suit To state the case more accurately,
the professional politicians believe that
the issues Of a campaign are generally o
stando1-that is, their effect balances.
What one side gains on the tariff the
other RECEIVERS ON some other question.
If theissues cause a loss 10 one party In
o certain locality, in some other locality
the other party viii be the gamer. The
law Of average applies even to the mat
ter of desertions from party fealty, of
which there have been an uhcommonly
large number in this campaign. After
ali these things have offset each other
there remains a margin of votes which
is to be manipulated and controlled only
by fine work, by organization, by use of
money and other influences of a more
practical nature than the views which
man holds upon the leading questions
of the day.
Here is where the professional cam
paignor steps i'm. Here is where he find.
use for enormous sums of money III
watching the progress of this campaign
! found the managers on both side.
placing more confidence in check foi
$4,000, signed with a name which mad,
it good at the paying teller's window
than IN such letter as that of Judg,
Gresham, in which he announced his In
fcntion 20 vote for Cleveland, or such
letter MS that which George Ticknor Cur
It's wrote taking himself out Of the Dom
ocratic ranks and putting him in sympa
thy with the Republicans. OF cours
the campaign managers welcome al
such letters, from big men and little
Just "a they welcome everything whicl
makes votes for their side, even IN On
most trivial of ways. But as hetwec
letter Of this nature and check fo
$4,000 / believe they would all chous
the check every time.
This Is humiliating. It IS q disgrac
70 the American people that none
should be such powerful factor in tn
manipulation Of our popular election
But it is the plain blunt truth, and thei
IS noneod of Disgusting it. To test th
matter l asked prominent campaig
managers in both camps what would I
tae effect il one party had an the best
Il on the issues. in the popular opinion
in the current OF public feeling and d.
other side had all the money. Inyali
bly, the answer was. with smile whiC
seemed to bear with it somewhat of col
tempt for the simplicity of the man wl
could ask such foolish question: 'Wl
money would win hands down. III
other fellows wouldn't be IN it."
While there is some truth in this.
every man who has occasion to wat,
the conduct Of a great campaign know
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