Evening star., 1896-11-03

men located above them. The national
democratic committee took rooms IL the
same hotel, and the work was placed under
the charge Of Representative Richardson
OF tennessee. who was to devote his atten-
fion to the literary feature of the cam
pa1gn. but he soon moved his headquarters
to Chicago. in order to be in closer touch
with other members of the national COM
mittee.
The work of the democratic congressional
committee was placed under the guidance
OF Senator Faulkner, its chairman and
Mr. Lawrence Gardner, secretary. Cen
eral Walker took hold of the work of is
suing bulletins Of the campaign from a
democratic standpoint. and has supplied
newspapers with many columns of infor-
nation regarding the prospects Of his cam
ddates.
Since the campaign opened the demo-
cratic committee here has sent out about
twelve millions of documents, and these
have gone to all parts of The United States,
generally in response to requests for lit
erature made by democratic nominees for
Congress. Because of the concentration
of the political fight in the central western
states those sections were furnished with
greater quantities of literature than any
other part of the country. More personal
requests for documents came 10 the COM
mittee from Pennsylvania and North Caro-
lima than from any other states in the
Urion. The interest manifested in the
free silver issue by people of Pennsylvania
was surprise to the committee.
The most popular of the democratic doc
uments was Towne's speech on silver and
wheat, and about two million of these
speeches were sent out The pamphlet that
was called for more than any other by in
djviduals was THE Money Of the Consti-
tution," by Chairman Faulkner, which
gave pictures Of each of the Presidents.
with quotations from their addresses on bi-
metallism. This little pamphlet had an i'm
mense circulation in North Carolina. and
also in the central western states.
Sent Out by Populists.
The populist national committee, under
the guidance of Senator Butler of North
Carolina, chairman. and Secretary Edger-
ton. did considerable work in the forward
ing of documents, sending out about 3,U90-
coo, most of which were placed in the mid
die western states. The democrats, popu-
lists and siverites gave many of their or
ders for documents Jointly, and secured the
advantage of low rates by ordering large
quantities, as many of the publications
used by them were common to the cause of
all parties contending for free silver
The popuists also sent out a document
containing extracts from Bryans speeches
IN the present campaign, this having been
distributed about three weeks ago Sen
ator Aliens speech on the anti-bond reso-
luton offered by him in the Senat. was
distributed, as were Senator Buffers
speeches on the government ownership of
railroads, on free silver and against the
bond bill. Gordon Clark's Crime Of De
moEetization,' some of Watson's speeches
while in Congress and Coins Financial
School were all distributed in considerable
quantities.
The Silver Party.
The silver party did energetic work Mr.
Stevens and Mr. Difcnderfer conducted the
campaign here. though Mr.. Stevens during
the latter part of the campaign remained in
New York city. They sent out several
millions of documents and got to work or
this part of the campaign earlier than the
other committees. Large quantities of Sen
ator Stewarts speech on the crime Of '72
were sent out and ToWnes speech received
wide distribution through them.
Only the republican congressional COM
mittee distributed literature in the District
of Columbia, which it did to the extent of
half million copies. The democratic COM
mittee was hardly able to supply requests
for pamphlets throughout the states, and
this being the case, very few of its publi-
cations remained in this city
All the committees closed up their liter
cry work week ago, when this feature of
the hottest political campaign on record
could no longer be effective.