The morning times., 1896-06-21

curiously enough IL has long been an un-
written law that the headquarters of.
bot! should be on Fifth avenue, and that
private dwelling houses should be their
habitations. IL has not always been easy
10 fiud such house cant, and in 1892
the Republicans, WHO set out to lease
place for headquarters rather late, came
near rot finding one at all. They were
finally obliged TO take up with one some
where ietwe Fortieth and Fiftieth streets,
which was altogether too far up town to
suit good many. The Democrats got
a place much further down town, aud tie
fact that the two places were literally
miles apart made it mighty disagreeable
for the reporters and correspondents who
had to cover both.
The first thing to be done after pr-
vate house has been leased for campaign
headquarters. is to make its interior lcOs
as little like a dwelling house as possible
by putting up wire lattices and iron-harred
doors in every conceivable place. Then the
outside of the building is decorated with
flags; after that il is made clear to the
popuiace that whoever will may make him
self free of the front room on the "parlor
floor" Then "biger man"than the chair
man is placed in charge OF this floor. his
duties also being to act as dcorkeeper for
the upper floors, So as to prevent any one,
under any pretext. not personally known TO
him. from visiting the rooms occupied by
the chairman or members of the colnittee.
None but the truly elect can get by this man.
and it is a pathetic thing in campaign
times to watch the victims OF this stony
eyed creature. as they sit and sit the live
long day in the vain hope that bye and bye
they will be admitted to the regions above.
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Campaign headquarters are always in
charge of a campaign or executive com-
mittee, the members of which, with the ex-
ception OF the chairman, are chosen from
among themselves by the meniters Of the
national committee. The chairman is &C.
lected by the Presidential candidate him
self and OF course is always a. man in
whom the candidate places implicit con-
fidence, both as to his loyalty and his po-
litical wisdom. 1t has been an open prCro-
sition for a lcng time that Mr.. Hanna is
such a man in the eyes Of Major Mckinley
as the Hon. Tom Carter was in Harriscn's
eyes. and Mr.. Harrity was in cieveiand's
eyes in 1892. The place is one Of honor
from the politicians standpoint. but it is
also one the duties of which are complicate:s
enough utterly to disjcint and upset the
intellectuals of most men. A man OF only
only ordinary executive ability would go
crazy in a single day over the intricacies
of the job.
The executive chairman is by all odds
the hardest worked OF all those who oc-
cupy headquarters during the campaign.
He feels that the burden of the contest
in on his shoulders. He is in a constant
state of fear lest soine acts have been
committed either by himself, or some Of
his subordinates that will '.Burcbardize''
the campaign. The number OF letters he
is Obliged to answer daily is greater, prob
ably, than those which come to any other
mortal in existence. no matter Of how ex-
alted station. His callers are numbered
literally by the thousands. He Is physical
ly impossible for him TO see them all, and
IL is equally impossible always to de-
eide wisely as who shall be refused an
audience. His every action Is watched
By critics and fault finders. and he knows