Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-22
CAMPAIGN WORK.
Printed Matter Against the Eioquenoe O,
 oral Speech
Special Correspondence.l


 Oral Speech
 Special Correspondencel
 NEW YORK, Oct. I6.-The enormous in- crease in the use of printed matter in po- litical campaigns has caused some of the politicians who have shown grV at skill in tho management of canvasses to be of opinion that the time is near at hand when campaign literature will practically sup plant tho stump. In fact, in two cam paigns recently ended tho battle was main- ly fought, so far as appeals to the public were concerned, with literature sent to the voters. In Vermont no speeches, with one to two exceptions, werc made, and yet public fntcrSt was so stimulated that a very largo vote was boiled. In Maine the prominence of ex-Spcakcr Reed and the desire to hear Mckinley caused these two distinguished public men to appear upon the stump, but the battle as a whole was conducted by the agency of the printing press, supplemented, of course, by the proper work of organization.
 In New York state, where n very cxcit- ing political battle Is to be fought, the amount of campaign literature to be sent out by either party will bc enormous. It will consist of speeches, letters of Presi- dent Cleveland, carefully prepared state mcnts made by those who arc skillful in arranging campaign material, and it is expected that every voter in the state will have laid before him large quantity of documents of this sort.
 Nevertheless, while the use of campaign literature has been very greatly increased in the past few years it Is not likely ever to supplant wholly tho spoken word. Tho printed argument may convince, but the platform speech will sometimes persuade when logic fails to convince. Campaign speaking, however, of today is not exactly what it was before the voters were fur. | nishod with SD much literature. Thero are today comparatively fewer men who arc distinguished as stump speakers than there were 20 years ago. Before the war, and, in fact, for a little while after, it was by means of the stump that ambitious | men mounted to places of political prefer mcnt. Therefore stump speaking was n most carefully studied and cultivated art. | Such men as Tom COrwin gave as deep thought to the peculiar methods necessary | to make stump speech that would sue | ccssfuIly appeal ns Wendell Phillips did to | the preparation of his adtlrCSScs. Both of these men, in fact, prrparI themselves | in n manner almost identical. Neither ever used notes, and. with one or two cx- | captions there does not exist n speech of | Phillips in his own manuscript. Yet | when he was upon the public strccts or | travelling he was constantly thinking of I NHt bN WHICH l4t tbultl lh'FSNk14t sAil | audience and was even formulating his addresses. Coryyin studied his crowds and his methods with as patient care aS did | Phillips and he therefore gained th" mp utatiOn, ut least in the west, uf bcing the most pleasing stump speaker of his grncr | ation.
 Mir. ConkIing gained his first fame as a l stump speaker. He was only n little past | 2l when hc delivered his first addr,'sS, but he then, as he always did, carefully prpar- cd 1t and committed il to memory. He also. when he had n numlrr"f spCCchcs to make in a Cumpaigu. prCiapVI variations | from the first sP,CCh, sO that it would not appear that he WAS limited to n single ad- ! dress. The late senator \yc, who was | one of the mu~i delightful, witty and Slic- | CCasful uf stump SpakCrS, also bestowed | gr,,at study upuu that art, and it Was his skill upon the stump which at last brought him to the United States senate. Gcrrit | Smith, famous years aEso as unc uf the an | tislavcIy leaders, Was wund, rtul speaker upon the stump, nnd hC had a voice which in power, melody and delicious information has been cunpIrSd even tn that "f Glad | stone and d. a mon perfect organ Uf spCcCh | than that uf Phillips.
 1 In these later years other influences than the stump have made it possible for men to succeed in politics. sn that the number of those who have wide distinction and who are capable of drawing immense throngs to hear them seems to bc growing | smaller each syar.
 ThCrc is gr,at demand from all parts of the country for the prCscnCc of Mir. Reed, and that is not wholly due to curiosity to sec him. He has won wide fame as a most adroit and captivating stump speak cr, and that hr has the natural power of n true orator Is indicated ny the fact that he sometimes does not pp'pUrc his speech Cs, relying UpOn thC inspiration of the mo. mCnt. and that sumCtimCS when hc has prCpar,d one he nhandnns it when he takes the platform, some new thought being sug- gcstCd tO him ns he stands facing his au- dicncc, and then thcrc follows n speech which charms his audience. That was the case n few years ago in Boston.
 Bourke Cochran is almost as widely sought as is Mir. Reed, and that Is because of his brilliant midnight speech at the Chicago convention. It has bcCn called a speech which said more md accomplished less than any address delivered under sim liar circumstances, although that was also said of Mir. Evalts speech at tho Chicago convention of 1860, in which he placed Governor Srwartl in nomination for the presidency. Mir. Cochran $ speech in Chi cagu in IS!E:. il Is generally believed, was inspired ny the mighty excitement of the moment. That is not exactly true, since Tor n day or two he had made practically the same appeal to certain delegations whom he desired to persuade.
 Colonel Fellows of New York is stump speaker much sought, and he has the ma tive gifts of true orator of that kind. He never proparcs his speeches and fire luently mounts the platform without any Idea of what he is to say. Mckinley, oi course, is n speaker who commands the greatest crowds wherever he goes, and his record is probably unique in one respect, and that is in the number of speeches de Iivered upon consecutive days in n single canvass, an intellectual and physical ef fort which he has made in three recent .anyasscs probably without equal. The only apparent effect upon him was n slight l nuskincss in his voice toward the close ol he campaign. E. J. EDWARDS Too Great Sacrifice.