The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-26

But the matter sent out by mail,
freighE and express was not all the mat
ter furnished for publication.
Real Missionary Work.
There was 3 regular system of press
bulletins and information for daily
newspapers sent by telegraph during
the entire campaign. affecting nearly
all the daily newspapers in the country.
The bureau Of publicity kept CORE
spondents at work preparing news for
papers which were in sympathy with
the Repu blican cause, but could not
afford to keep correspondents at head
quarters, and this news was sent to
them by telegraph every day, SO that
they were almost as we'll served as the
big daily papers which kept CORE
spondents on the ground.
In addition to furnishing news to pa
pers which could not afford to pay for
it the Republican committee subseri bed
for papers to be sent gratis to people
with whom it wanted to do little mis-
sionary work
How does the educational record Of
this campaign compare with that of its
predecessors asked Mr.. Heath.
1T beats them all, - he said. more
documents were issued in this campaign
than during the entire history of the
Republican party. The posters and IL
lustratiOns were in greater number and
variety than ever before. There were
about 8, 500, 600 buttons issued. and it
Is believed that twice that number could
have been put out by state and county
committees and clubs. .
Mr.. Heath's Career.
just as soon as the campaign work
could be closed Mr.. Heath started on
vacation trip, accompanied by his wife.
For more than year he had devoted
himself to the interests of Mr.. McKin-
ley, and he was glad to get away for a
time to rest.
Mr.. Heath's name has been associated
with the position of private secretary
to the president. am sure every news
paper man who has any work to do at
Washington would be glad to see him
in the White House, because he is a
practical newspaper man as we'll as q
genial. popular fellow.
He has covered a good deal Of ground
in his brief career. He was born p Hoo
sier. He was a local reporter here and
afterward a Washington correspondent.
Meantime he invested in Dakota real
estate and became interested III the de-
velopment of that territory and its ad-
mission to statehood. Finally he became
an OhiOan by reason of acquiring a con
trolling interest in the Cincinnati Com
mercial Gazette, which he sold a year
ago He has large business interests in
Muncie, Ind, and is director in a bank
at Hamilton, 0. He is almost burdened
with friends. I know few men who
have go many. A little incident of the
Harrison administration may give a
olew to the reason.
Mr.. Heath was Washington CORE
spondent of the Indianapolis Journal.
which was President Harrison's home
paper and his particular organ. He was
supposed to have a great deal Of inhu-
ence with the administration So he
was much sought by applicants for
office. One day he received a letter
from man in the west saying a mutual
friend had suggested that he might help
the writer to get a local appointment.
Mr.. Heath called on the head Of the
bureau having the matter in charge and
got the appointment for the man. Not
long afterward he got letter from a
man in another part of the country. a
stranger, VINO SAID ne was a friend OF
applicant No. 1, and he wanted an
Office. Mr. Heath had got place for
his friend. Would be be SO kind as to
recommend the writer for
Mr. Heath referred the letter without
Endorsement to one of the departments
and was surprised to learn a few days
later that the man had been appointed.
Within a month came another letter
from another part Of the country. The
writer apologized for writing to a
stranger, but said his friend. applicant
No 2, had said Mr.. Heath was very
successful in getting appointments and
would be so kind
Mr.. Heath would not, He wrote to
the farof stranger that he had gone out
of the business of getting things. even
for his friends.
But that was not quite true. Mr.
Heath would go a mile out Of his road
to do a kindness for one of his friends
any day. That is why a great many Of
them would like 80 see him in the
White House. The hope is entirely self
ish, and it is shared by almost all the
newspaper men of Washington.
The Late George Y. Conn.
Readers of these letters will remem-
Der George 7. Coffin, who died here re
GENTLY as the artist of the American