Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-01
RUNNING FULL Time
Everybody Hard at Work at Repub-
lican Headquarters.
CAMPAIGN LITERATURE BEING SENFOUT
A Report as to Expurgation of the
Presidents Letters.
DENIED BY DEMOCRATS

With the election only five weeks away
and a hot campaign in fun swing in nearly
every district in the United States the
republican congressional committee is run
ming full time these days The headquar-
tiers OF the committee at 210 Delaware
! avenue northeast is a veritable bee hive OF
industry. A large force of clerks. and In
fact all that the committee intends to en-
ploy. is engaged in sending out the litera-
ture prepared for use In the campaign. 1t
is going out every day by wagon loads and
the demands for 1t are increasing daily.
The committee appears 10 have made q
hit with its publications, IL the extensive
ness Of the orders form any indication
Of the popularity of the documents. Let
tiers at the rate of 200 a day are pouring
into headquarters, demanding shipments
Of campaign documents. and IL would seem
from the demand that every man. woman
and child in the county had suddenly been
seized with a desire TO read.
Systematic Distributfon.
Capt. Mckee, to whom a great deal Of
credit will accrue for his efforts in the
selection and preparation Of campaign lit
erature. has charge Of the work OF dis
semination, and under his direction Il IL
proceeding with system and precision. For
several days past he has appreciated some
OF the trouble OF a dispenser of patronage
ana has been besieged by ofiice-seekers in
small way, people who wanted employ
ment In the handling of the documents.
This part Is pretty well over now and all
places are filled. The demands for the
hand book increase il becomes more
widely circulated and its contents appre-
ciated. Occasionally a democrat drops In
to buy copy for the statistics which IL
contains and which are not found in the
democratic book.
Naf
The committee is waiting very anxiousiy
for the arrival Of the English mail, which
will bring copy of the London Times con-
tanning full report Of the speech made by
Congressman Wilson at the dinner given
him in London. From the summary of Mr..
Wilson's remarks cabled to this country
there is belief that the speech will be good
campaign material for the republicans in
district.
THAT speech was virtually q species Of
treason" said Capt. Mckee TO a Star re-
gioating with his enemies over the discom-
nture OF his own people. He congratulated
our greatest enemy in trade over the con-
summation of legislation which will break
down our business and build up their owr.
trade In my opinion that comes mighty
near being treason to his own people"
Democratic Expurgatfons.
The republican committee is chucklina
over the report that the democratic con-
gressional committee since the issuance of
its hand book has seen fit TO revise the edi-
ton and to expurgate therefrom the famous
letter OF President Cleveland to Chairman
Wilson and the letter TO CONGRESSMAN
Catchings- II is well known that these two
letters contained vigorous criticisms of the
Senate tariff bill Portions of the Presi-
dents letter OF acceptance referring to the
tar11, which appeared in the first edition of
.ne hand book. have also been taken out of
the new edition No attempt is made TO
cohceal the expurgation, for the numbering
OF the pages has not been changed and the
missing pages are easily identified.
Inc republican committee considers this
a virtual disavowal of the President the
heao OF the party, as a democrat and a de-
mai by the congressional committee Of his
position on the tariff. The republicans saw
they would feel very much mortified IL they
had to deny their President and his posi-
tlon on the republican policy. The act OF
the democratic committee in expurgating
this matter is also regarded as in tie ma
ture OF an insult 10 the President and a
very cold deal for the administration DEM
ocrats.
Using the Presidents Letters
The republican committee continues 70
stand by President Cleveland's letters to
Wilson and Catchings. and will give them
publicity If the democrats will not. They
have been published as campaign docu-
ments and are being distributed in vast
Ohio ordered 10000 copies of the letters
last week, considering them the most ef-
fective kind of campaign literature lie could
use in his district The letter has been
very adroitly printed, and the prominent
features and strong expressions of the Pres
ident underlined and printed in heavy type
Cheering News From Louisiana.
The news which the committee is receiv-
Ing from Louisiana continues TO be of the
most cheering character for the republi-
cans. and Indicates that a vigorous CAM
paign will be waged on the strength Of the
sugar planters disaffection. A strong or
ganization is being perfected by the repub-
licans, and confidence and enthusiasm are
said TO be increasing. The local organiza-
ton In the state is conducting the cam
paign upon its own account and without
visible interference from the outside but
the congressional committee is kept CON-
stantly advised Of the situation
Denied mt Democratic Headquarfers,
1t is positively denied at the democratic
headquarters that the Cleveland letters
have been revised out Of the democratic
campaign book The new print OF the book.
which was ordered by the committee from
the same plates from which the other edi-
tons were printed, without alteration, is
expected TO come In this evening III"
said Secretary Gardner, 1.-THE Cleveland LET
ters or anything else is left out of the
book IL is due to the mistake of some
printer. nave not yet seen the last edi-
ton OF the book, but do know that no
authority has been given for this matter
to he left out"
Mr.. Gardner subsequently found a copy
from which the letters were omitted and
ascertained the cause. He discovered that
the sixteen pages comprising what is
known in bookmaking art as a signature"
and which i'm the original issue lad been
devoted TO Mr.. Clcveland's letter. had been
accidentally omitted from the COPY and
their place taken with one OF the sigma
lures preceding it. Pages 1913 20 Dos in
elusive, were duplicated in the book, while
pages 200 to pa, inclusive, upon which the
Cleveland letters were printed. had been
left out.
a visit to the printing Office elected tho
fact that the provoking omission had only
occurred In forty copies of the first edi-
tion Of the campaign book. The second
edition Will not be issued until next We'd