The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-10

AUGUST BELMONT.
had become we'll understood Neither
party and no great political manager is
responsible for the discovery of this new
method of campaigning. Much of the
credit, if it be a credit, is due TO Governor
Tilden. He, as campaign manager, has
revealed what SO few managers of cam
paigns have been able to do--such creative
capacity has enabled him to revolutionize
prevailing methods. He saw that there
must be enthusiasm, something for the
public to grasp, an ideal or an issue upon
which a campaign could be conducted
with just as much enthusiasm as charac-
terized the famous campaign of 1910.
That, however, was to be the spectacu-
lar, the appealing and the demonstrative
part of the campaign, which in the days
that had gone was practically all that
there was to campaigning.
But Mr.. Tilden showed that the time
had come when something else was neces-
sary, and that was a work which was to
be done in secret not because it was dis
honorable, but because it was strategic. 1t
involved the reaching of every voter, so
as to bring him. in sense, in personal
contact with the campaign management.
1t entailed the making of lists in every
school district. 1t required correspond
ence calling for great corps OF secretaries.
1t set the printing presses to work for
twentv-four hours day, seven days
week. In other words, it made necessary
the creation of an organization SO extern
sive that it reached the humblest farm
house in every community.
That sort of work required money and
great deal OF it. In the campaign of 1868,
when it was said that $3.50. 600 had been
raised in New York state, every penny of
which had been expended legitimately by
the organization, the size of this sum
caused general comment. Yet so great
has the science of campaigning developed
and SO prodigious are the calls upon
national committees now that such sum
as this would be regarded as mere Incl
dent of subscription sufficient to carry
on campaign. The expense of national
committees and their allies, the state COM
mites, reach into the millions. 1t is
hard to get an accurate estimate, but the
secretary of one of the national campaign
committees told the writer that he should
say in round numbers that between 81
600, 900 and 5000, 900 had been spent by
the two committees and by the subordinate
associates in single national campaign.
To the eye of a casual spectator this in
crease in expense is made manifest espe-
cially in New York city. dozen years
ago few rooms and a parlor in one CT the
New York hotels were amply sufficient for
a national committees accommodation.
The growth of organization and the ex-
tensive and subtle ramitications of cam
paign work now require great houses.
One of the national committees contem-
plate taking house in New York which
is large enough to do business as a hotel.
New York has become the political center,
or at least the headquarters of the national
campaign committees of both parties, and
managers in one of the parties who are
also hnanclers are now seriously consider
ing as business investment the erection
of large buildings, built with special ref
10 he npp6S of
tees. to be rented permanently to these or
CARNATIONS.
The writer was informed that during a
presidential campaign within the last ten
years the bills for printing alone, includ-
ing the work OF preparing copy for the
printers and the expense of mailing, all of
which We're included under the general
head printing, amounted to nearly $780,
OO0 and it was the opinion of Mr.. Tilden
and has been the recently expressed opin-
ion of Senator Hill that the silent mes
sengers which came through the mails to
the voters had far more influence in de-
termining the doubtful than stump
speeches or political professions, and that
is also the opinion of the ablest of the Re-
publican managers. Senator Hill, who is
one of the shrewdest organizers, has said
that public meetings convert few voters,
mainly for the reason that when Repub-
lcan speaks he is listened to for the most
case when the Democracy hold meetings.
The chief value of these public demon
STATIONS and of the stump is that it main
tains the party in good discipline. or, as
the senator expresses 1t, 1t steadies the
ranks. In the close states in the North,
however, those which determine national
elections, it is the doubtful voter who de-
cides the battle. and these men are reached
through the mails and by personal ap-
proach.
What makes Marshall Jewell so power
full politician, and so powerful among
politicians?" was question once asked
by Democratic politician of Republican
senator.
He is the most charming and exquisite
beggar IN this country" was the reply.
And the meaning contained in these
words was this, that Jewell was able to
obtain greater subscriptions than any
other man of his party, and to get money
out of men who had seemed as deaf to
other appeals as miser could be. He has
been known to start out in behalf of
pleading campaign committees who saw
bankruptcy threatening them, and after
a week of genteel begging to return with
fat pocketb book ana a joviai countenance.
He had q most inslnuating and winning
method of approach. He was rarely re-
pulsed, and he usually left q counting
room leaving a sense of favor bestowed by
him in calling upon the banker or mer-
chant. rather than a sense of favor given
with the writing OF a check. 1t was a.
most impossible 10 resist him.
Merchants have said that ne had some
thing of hypnotic influence which
enabled him TO compel them TO sign their
names 10 checks before they knew really
what they were doing. He was the ablest
collector OF campaign funds this country
mas ever seen. and il he had been as able a
dispenser OF them he would have been far
and away the most brilliant political gem
erai of his generation. William b. Bar
mum had this same capacity, though not
to so great degree as Jewell, but he was
an ADLER tactician than Jewell. August
Belmont was a skiilful collector of money,
but he was not always skillfui as a polit-
cal manager. Governor Tilden never at
tempted to collect much money himself,
but he had powerful friends who easily
raised campaign funds for him.
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