New-York tribune., 1896-08-25
DOCUMENTS BY THE MILLION
THE DEMAND INCREASING DAY 81 DAi
PEOPLE ARE MAKING A SERIOUS EFFORT TO GET
AT THE ROOT or THE MONEY CUES
TION BEFORE VOTING.
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AT THE ROOT or THE MONEY QUEs-
TIoN BEFORE VOTING.
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Washington Aug Aft the Republican Congress
sionaI Committee continues to distribute caHp"s"
documents at the present rate untii octopei '"'
total will far exceed the total number oil egai voters
I'm the United States For several weeks documents
had been going out at an average rate OF aoou'
10000 a week Last week the average rose W
alout 100 COO and this average will be maintained
as long as the dem and continues, and Increased IL
need be The demand Is not only unprecedented
but II is urgent and evidently genuine. In sohe
former Presidential campaigns documents were
dead stock" hard for the committees TO get ria o.
and when sent and distributed among voters seldom
read Not so this year. AS commercial Traveller
whose route covers twenty States. from Maryland
as far West as Nebraska and the Dakotas, SAID TO-
day:
"l,vervbody is discussing the money question and
the tariff one hears nothing else talked about In
railway cars hotels barber shops. restaurants In
the streets and in fact every place wherever TWO
more men meet. All my customers are uetP'y
Interested. and every man of them wants my opih-
ion as to how the things going Another thing
have noticed: Whenever men get into a warm dis
cussion of the money question early every one IS
armed with campaign tract of some description
or a copy Of a speech which he produces to back up
his opinions 1t is truly a campaign Of education
one such as | never saw before. and nave oeeh
on the road for nearly thirty years
What this commercial traveller said Is strongly
corroborated by Chairman Babcock and other ofl-
cers at the Republican headquarters Mr.. BaococK
to-day said: The older the campaign grows the
more amazing me is the demand Tor h'era're
There has never been campaign IN the hiStoiE vi
the country to compare with It, Despite the DIE
quantity of literature are sending ont ana me
foro ~ over 9f0 nersons We have employed. we are
unable 10 supply the demand. This letter VIII give
vou an idea OF the situation
The letter was from the State Committee ot d
large State and It was almost an imperative ue-
mand for political documents II also con'aileu Il
complaint that the committee had been unable 10
get what IT had sent for and what 1t needed Inc
demand was for 10000 copies of Three Evenings
on silver" 5000 more of McClearys speech ana
IoVO Of Secretary Cersles speech 10 the worms % -
mon of Chicago The shipments are entreiy 10
State committees ana to Congressional candidates
The latter get about as much as the s arc
Chairman Babcock says that Few small oru'lS "!c -.
filled as the committee has no time 10 attend 10
them IT is barely able to keep up with '"e e"o'
Chairman Babcock said that he ,1 felt more G a5 EGn
cent than ever that free coinage wonid De Aisu n,
Every line Of the matter is being read by voters, r
careful readers, he said than the laborns peo,i pii
OF the country. You can walk INTO my 81 viii viii
antce that YOU will lind seven or eight copies opP Tl
leading daily papers lying around as wei as poi.,- i
neonIe marvelled al the idea that all classes or
people in this country read and keep postea Ot Oh
Of our own people that there should be such eager
desire for information the questions or the DAY
Chairman Babcock said that reports OF an en- en-
couraging nature continue TO be received by rt the
committee from every part OF the Union lhes
come from Utah and North Carolina me Same d.
from the West. MY Information from Utah Is that
the tariff is going 10 cut big hgure OUT 'here'
The people of that State are protecuonlstSS. $780,,
At the headquarters Of the Democratic congress
Committee and of the National committees OF the ne
Democratic Popust- Frce Silver combination, all OF
which are und r one roof the demand for cam
paign literature is also greater than the commit
tees can supply. but they are by no means so Wen wen
equipped with material az the Republican com
mittee is and their distributing forces are by no
means so efficient or well organized. There Is also
a sad lack of editorial supervision. and many OF
the documents have heavy and unatractVe ap-
nearance which is i'm striking contrast 70 the
bright ncwsy and attractive appearance OF most
OF the Repnbcan campagn literature.