Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-08
Mr.. Cla,kson Pays a Tribute to the
Campaign Committee.
HE Is MORE THAN SATISFIED
Says Mr.. Babcock Will Present a
Republican House.
B U NESS MET HOD

Mr.. ]. s. Clarkson of the republican ma
tional committee passed through Washing
ton today, returning from the meeting Of
the national committee. In New York. In
an interview respecting the rumor last week
that party leaders were dissatisfied with
Chairman Babcock'S conduct of the con-
gressional committee, Mr.. Clarilson said:
1.-The meeting of our committee was, in
fact, one in regard to work next year more
than this year. or to lay out it's own work
to be carried on after the November cleo
ton. By party custom, the entire interests
of the party are always cared for in the
year midway between presidential elections
by the congressional committee. This year,
therefore. Chairman Babcock and his col
leagues have the entire right of way in
party management and conrol. l have hap
pened to know a great deal about the cam
paign they have made, es l was in Wash
inSton several months during the start of
1t when it was being organized. 1 can say
of 1t that II has been the most clearheaded
and systematic campaign, beginning early,
taking up every detail. covering every
neighborhood in the country and developing
fully the moral and intellectual strength of
the party on the strength of its politics. that
has been organized in the history Of the
party.
The most of our campaigns begin too late.
and therefore have to go by jumping stages
and cavalry charges and mere headlong
energy, and by throwing masses Of power
against the weak points OF the enemy, in
stead of depending on our own strength,
the justice of our cause, and making and
keeping Cur line strong at every point.
Chairman Babcock started early, and, aided
by his colleagues, and Secretaries Olds and
Mckee. put his organization on the bed
rock. and with such system and detail as
to develop the strength of the republican
party and its policies and principles in
every voting neighborhood of the northern
states. No voter has been left unpossessed
of the facts Of the republican party's record.
and of the wisdom and beneficence of Its
theories and principles as applied to every
home in the land. Mr.. Babcock realizes
that present-day politics Is Il question af-
fecting the comfort of every home and the
material condition of every citizen.
He has made his campaign one to reach
every home and every voter, and to show
them by comparison what the republican
party has done to benefit them. and what
the democratic party is doing TO injure
them. He believes. and he is right in the
belief, That the republican party can gain
more voters by convincing them than by
buying them. He leaves the buying to the
democratic party. and depends on convinc-
ing the voters as being at once the most
honest and the most successful method of
gaining to the republican party a majority
rms sort of campaign he has made in
the most splendid manner, and so far from
the national committee, or any member of
1t, doubting the wisdom or the success Of
his campaigning, directly the contrary is
true.
He was invited to our conference last
thursday. because more than any other
man In the party he knew the situation Of
the country at large because the commit
tee knew that on the high lines 1 have in
dicated, and with no more money than
enough to print and circulate large auan-
titles of effective literature, he is making
a successful and winning campaign for his
party. Indeed" concluded Mr.. Ciarkson
MIR. Babcock has shown such peculiar
skill and ability in managing complete
and thorough campaign with so little
money that 1 hope we are to have more
Babcotks hereafter in the executive man
agement of our party.
I'm giving this estimate of him I know I
am speaking for every member of the ma
tCral committee. He Is going to present
the republican party with the splendid gifts
of a republican majority In the House and
the next Senate and to the nation the
great gift Of deliverance from any further
baneful legislation on the part of the demo-
cratic party"