The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-15

| tions will mention that the Republican
committee will pay one printer something
like $4,000 for work for this campaign.
S3O,OOO of this going for million copies of
one document. The Democrats will spend
| fully as much.
Each of the committees has about 100 men
| ut work mailing and shipping documents.
Perhaps one-half of the total output goes
| by mail, the remainder to the clubs and to
state and local committees. State COM
mittees you know, don't as n rule print
documents unless it is something of local
| nature. They depend for their literature
| upon the national organization.
The more important of these documents
| are translated into ten or twelve languages.
Tins IS u polySlot country, and the cam
| paiSn of education must be poly.lot The
| bill for translations alone will run up into
| the thousands of dollars-twice as much
as II would he If there WIS more confidence
i'll human nature. Every translation is
practically made twice One man makes
the draft, and before it is sent to the printer
another reviscs it, You see, the committee
doesn't intend to be imposed upon by the
first translator.
Suppose that worthy were mean enough
to sell out to the rival committee and to
doctor" the document-that is, to put
something in il which would anger the
Germans if it were Il German document, or
the Swcdcs were it Scandinavian. He
could do it with few strokes of his pen.
and his employers wouldn't know the diff
ference. The consequences would be an
palling.
a series of pictures shows how the
tariff robs everybody in America md an
other series shows how it has made cv-
erybody rich or prosperous He might
not know any more about the tariff ques-
ton than when he started, but he would
be sure to know heap more about nrt
should have mentioned that early in
the campaign the literary bureau has II
very delicate and important job to turn
out. This is the Campaign book" 4
campaign book is sort of ritual of the
principles of the party and elaboration OF
the platform adopted ut the national con-
vention, fortified with facts and figures
galore. Its chief use is as inspiration for
the orators who later in the year are to
thrill audiences from one end of the country
to the other, and the purpose of the cam
palEn book is to secure harmony of utter
ance. 1t doesn't always succeed, which is
pity, for the editors of the campaign book
do work so hard, spending anxious DAYS
and nights trying to ascertain what their
party does stand for anyway, and what
Will be orthodox and what won't. The in
geniiity which they display in handling
certain questions in such way as to give
satisfaction in all parts of the country
though the party in one section is aflirma.
tive on those questions and in another
negative deserves greater appreciation
than is bestowed by the ungrateful SMELL
binders. From what am saying | don't
want you to conclude that think all poll
tics is humhug, for don't think that. But
| am willing to 20 on oath and affirm that
Il good deal Of it is.
Munn,r,.rs of
have learned what some other managing
editors have not yet lcnrncd-that the pie
ture is a great educator. For the first
time illustrations are playin. i'm important
part i'll campaign work. Each of the liter
airy shops has in its employ three or four
cnrtnonists, illustrating pamphlets and
documents with the pictures which are
supposed to speak louder than words"
If you will send to either of the committees
they will furnish you with pictorial his
tory of the tariff issue, aud if were going
10 make study of nS dry n subject rs the
tariff am sure l should want to do it pic
torially. After one had gone through it, it
Is COOL deal like running II big newspaper
handling the SpellbndcrS resembles the
theatrical business. First the Attractions
the orators-must be engaged. Then they
must be coached in their parts by means
of the c;,mpnign books Finally their
dates have to be arranged, transportation
provided, entertainment looked to- With
hundreds of speakers on the road, count
less details to watch no end of cranky per
SONS To smooth down and an awful lot of
bills TO pay, the lot of the chairman of the
committee on speakers is not IL happy one
1t wouldn't be so troublesome if the at
fractions would remain assigned, but they
won't.
Campaign orators change their minds,
fall ill, get drunk, have rows with other
people, or find some other cause or preteXt
for changing programme. And then the
poor imprcsario of spellbindcrs must 20
TO work and rearrange his scheme. tele-
graph to men who can't be reached and
endcavor to appcasc local committees who
never heard the definition of the word.
Campaign speeches cost the committees
pretty large sums. Many of the orators
particularly those who enjoy or have
enjoyed or hope to enjoy public oflcc-and
precious few of them fail TO come under
one or other of these catcgcries--Sncak
without pay, excepting Of course their cX
penses. Others want fifty, seventy five or
hundred dollars Il speecli-''mcrely to
repay me for the loss of time from my
business, you know" 1t is serious
question with experienced campaign man
ayers in which depart of their busi.
ness they waste the more money-in ctlu-
cation by means of the printing press or i'll
rousinS enthusiasm with eloqucnce
The men who are charged with the duty
OF raising money with which to pay all
these bills are the ones TO he piticd after
all. 1t Is surprising that the managers are
able to find enough funds to keep going
with. Yet they do. Where it. all comes
from is more than | know, hut am told
that in both committees about one. half Of
all that is spent comes from IL dozen or fif
tepn rirl, mon I bavn hna r,l IF G,,a ,Noo