The herald., 1894-10-22

never was any suggestion OF the pay
ment Of money by the committee for
the letter. Mr.. Mccarthy never 60
much aH limited that he wanted pay for
it. 1t was not disposed Of except that
Mr. Mccarthy, who is good Democrat.
thought the committee should know
what jobbery was being attempted. and
came to US with the letter. That is all
there was to it,"
HE'S THE WONDER OF THE AGE.
The second portion OF the letter shows
Colonel Burma to be phenomenon
among interviewers. He says: "It is
true that did spend nearly the en- tire
dav OF October 9th outside of the com :
mittee rooms. l visited on that
day forty or fifty of the most prominent
business men OF this city, most of them
wholesale merchants. 1 discovered that
their buainess interests were in deplor-
able condition, that they were fully as
anxious for Republican victory this
fall as the Republican state central COM
mittee is."
Surely October 9th was Colonel Burns
"busy day." He showed himself a
wonder in his day and generation. He
interviewed forty or fifty men, mostly
Wholesale merchants. He ascertained
the condition of their business. He
sounded them as to their political feel
ings. Casually he must have said
"howdy do'' and good day."
1t is hardly too much to say that Col
onel Burns spent at last Is minutes
with each merchant. With 80 mer-
chants that means 750 minutes, or 121s
hours. 1t didn't take the colonel any
time to 60 from one place OF business to
| ua ,,xak hia actvQl
body around. 1t is also safe to say that
| he didn't waste any time on meals.
And he didn't put in the entire day at
nearly the entire day." he says.
THAT WAS JUST TO WARM UP ON.
But Colonel Burns did more than in
terview these 40 or 30 prominent busi-
ness men, mostly Wholesale merchants.
That was just a warming.up gallop, as
they say out Mt the track. For he goes
on:
81 also on that day met and consulted
with the leading men OF various fac
tories, foundries. labor organizations
and independent club organizations.
These are the parties controlling large
interests and blocks of votes to whom l
referred in my letter"
When Colonel Burns goes out OF poli-
tics for the same reason he entered--to
purify them-he will have open to him,
at a special salary, the position of inter-
viewer on any of the great newspapers
of this land. No such record OF inter
viewing has ever been known-40 or 30
wholesale merchants and no end of fac
tory owners, foundrymen, leaders of
labor organizations and the organizers
OF independent clubs
Apart from the Wholesale merchants.
he must have put in at least twelve and
q half hours more with the other ''lead-
ing men," thus performing the miracle
OF getting twenty-five hours into "nearly
an entire day." In fact October 9th
seems to have been about the entirest
day yet turned off since the occasion of
"Let there be lightW Singularly
enough, nobody else ''got on to' che
possibilities OF this indiarubber day.
But Colonel Burns did it all with ease.
No one saw him on that day rushing
about the business districts like red
headed right-ot-way, his coattails fly
ing out behind, the perspiration pour
ing from him until he was mistaken for
a sprinkling cart, his breath coming in
gasps and giving other slight evidences
of being in q hurry. He merely foated
around like "the devil on two sticks"
and worked his miracles off hand.
NO TINE TO SEE HERRIN.
Sineularly enough he must have found
all those merchants, etc., right at their
places OF business, for he couldn't have
wasted much time waitingsand watching.
Some of them must have been there at
rather unusual hours-say o'clock in
the morning-but this was merely part
OF the Burns miracle.
When a newspaper desires to obtain
interviews with 40 or 81 business men
in one day, or ''naarly ansentire day." it
sends out about 10 men who have put in
their best years learning how and when
to find such people. Newspaper expert
ence has been that it ia fairly good
days work for one man to secure four or
five such interviews during the business
hours. especially when the condision of
the merchants business and political
opinions are to be inquired into. Only
about one merchant in three ia to be
found at his place of business at any
given time. AS to factory-owners,
foundrymen, labor organization leaders
and the like, they are scattered to tho
four cornern of the city, and ordinary
interviewers cannot take the wings Of
the morning." as Colonel Burns did
Really. with the prodigies of inter-
viewing performed by Colonel Burns on
that day, or NEARLY an entire day." it is
small wonder he didn't have time to
GET down to Fourth and Townsend
streets to ses Mr. Herrin. Perhaps he
doesn't know the way down there. II
not, there's Mr. Estee-guide, philoso.
pher and friend. He knows the way
like street map. He might pilot the
quick moving colonel down that way
some time. just to gee how Mr.. Hunting
ton and Mr.. Herrin feel about "blocks
OF votes" and to ascertain whether
their "business ia in deplorable condi-
tion," and whether they are fully as
anxious for Republican victory this
fall as the Republican state central COM
mittee."
But Colonel Burns must have been
busy indeed on his 25-hour day. if he
didn't find time to drop in on his friend
W. w. Stow, who 10 a wholesale mer-
chant in 'blocks of votes" and controls
Large interests" which are "anxious
for a Republican victory this fall" Mr..
Stow can be found almost any morning
up to noon in his office OF the Crocker
building, which Is in remarkably easy
reach from the etate central commit tee
rooms in an adjoining structure. But,
perhaps, that was also Mr.. Slows busy
day. Perhaps he was out at the chill
dren's playground in the park playing
with blocks-blocke OF votes.
But Colonel Burns having worked off
/ he nxla nd hat Shnr