Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-14
CONDUCTING CAMPAIGNS.
Mr.. Cables Active Work at
Chicago.
How the Illinois M ember OF the De mo-
cratic National Committee Has
Put New Life Into Things.

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Congressman Ben T. Cable is attract
ing much attention throughout the coun-
try bv bis energy and generalship in con-
Quoting the campaign from the western
headquarters at Chicago. The News
Record speaks highly of Mr.. Cables
methods, and saws that under his inspira-
ton and work democratic national,
state and county headquarters are now in
vigorous operation. So far as appear
xnces go the democrats are doing more
active WORK than the republicans. Con-
gresham Gable works 10 hours a day at
the rooms in the Unity building. The
different national bureaus are in full
blast. and the offices are filed with
bright looking clerks"
The News Record also saws:
Word was received at the democratic
national headquarters yesterday that
Grover Cleveland would make q western
campaign trip toward the end o Z Septem-
Der. He will deliver one speec b at least
in Chicago The assurance IS given that
Mr.. Cleveland will be accompanied by
Adlai E. Stevenson and Mr.. Whitney.
The speechmaking tour of the candidates
it is said, will take in the western states
under the control of Mr.. Cables sub.
committee.
The Herald says:
The large apartments in the Unity
building are being filled with desks and
clerks. and enormous masses of tariff lit
erature are being poured into the mails.
But Cable is in consultation all day with
oh NJ OF and
| who come to see him. and the work is
being reduced to system of minutest
detail that penetrates every county
through the medium Of the reg ular dem
ocratic organizations in all the seven
| states in Mr.. Cables charge-Illinois,
Iowa, Michigan. Wisconsin, Minnesota
| and the Dako' as.
Mr. Cable will announce his finance
| committee and his advisory committee
this week. He is at present selecting the
| men VINO are to be members of those
bodies from local democrats. The selec-
tions will not be made from all the states
| in his territory. but will be confined to
| Illinois, most Of them being Chicago
| men. The principal fight is TO be made
| in Illinois and Wisconsin. and Mr.. Wall
| is in Milwaukee looking after that state.
w. J. Nize has been appointed chief
| secretary OF the subcommittee of the
| democratic national campaign commit
| tee, which has the western campaign in
hand. Every democrat in Illinois knows
Mr.. Mize. He was for many years sec
rotary OF the democratic state central
| committee, and. since Theodore Nelson
came up from Decatur to fill that posif1
ton. has been secretary Of the tariff re-
| form league. Mr.. Mize was appointed
by Ben Cable after q consultation with
Mr.. Dickinson and Mr.. Wall, his associ-
| ates.
| MI. Gable said yesterday that his ad-
vices from New York conveyed the assur-
ance that at no other time was that state
more surely democratic. He thought
that the talk about GOODNESS between
| David Bennett Hill and Grover Cleve-
land was exaggerated for campaign effect.
The big room ON the ninth floor Of the
| Unity building in which Mr.. Cable has
| his office. is bound to become Of historic
interest. Every day meetings are held
and plans outlined which do much
towards shaping the political future of
the country. Naturally most of the
transactions are secret. only the faintest
inklings ever reaching the public. Mr..
| Cables share is of no small importance
Every day from o O'Clock in the morning
until late in the afternoon the bright
| young democratic manager is either in
| earnest conversation with the chairmen
| and officials of state central committees
or is sending out communications on
campaign matters to distant parts Of the
country. When the appointment OF Mr..
| Cable was first made there were some
| who predicted failure. These predic>
tions have come to naught, and Mr.
Gable is steadily gaining in the good
opinion of the tried and trustv poll
ticisns who daily do business at head
| quarters.
| Everything in the Office indicates that
| a practical business man is engaged in
| politics. The desks are piled high with
| documents arranged In regular order :.
Several typists actually at work fill the
air with the click of the machines. which
| is music to the visitors who come pre-
pared to see the evidences of lively
| political battle