Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-10-04

lowance of IS day. Some OF the
campaign speakers receive salaries
as high as $3.50 week, while others
are content with SIS a week and their
expenses. The average cost of these
| speakers to the committee is SllN a
week, and they are on the stump eight
| weeks.
While the national committee os
each party thus will have $500 speak
ers out, the various state committees
will have ten times as many more on
the stump. The salaries of speakers
engaged by the state committees NAV
be less than those paid by the ma
tional managers, but the state CON-
mlttees have to pay the rental of all
the buildings in which campaign meet
ings are held. This item adds tire.
mendously to the total.
One of the most expensive items in
the campaign next to the speakers is
that of printing and stationery. For
this each national committee spends
at least 100000. The number and
size of the documents sent out have
increased with each campaign until
this year it is expected that the Nc
kinley and the Bryan managers each
will send out no less than 100 900 900
documents Before the Garfield-Hand
cock campaign was half over the re-
publicans and democrats had sent ont
| more than 100000 documents, and
this style of campaigning has become
more popular with each presidential
contest. The bulk of this matter is
sent by express to the chairmen of the
various state committees for distribu-
ton. A great deal of it goes free, be-
ing ranked from Washington
Speeches delivered in congress by re-
publicans and democrats constitute 4
large part of the campaign matter.
nd republicans nd democrts alike take
advantage of this opportunity to get
TO the. voters speeches favorable to
their side in the contest. Each ma
tional committee sends out 100000
buttons and 100000 Autographs. all
of which are distributed through the
state chairmen of the two parties.
The Chairmen at Work.
To follow the movements of Senator
Hanna or Senator Jones for twenty
four hours is to get an insight into
what is probably the greatest problem
of organization ever known. Shrewd,
far-seeing men who organize trusts, or
other great enterprises have com
paratively simple tasks with which to
cope. These two great generals of the
campaign of 1900 are organizing as
thought they expected never to do
anything else but elect presidents. If
they were organizing 100-year pTesi-
Dental clubs they could not be more
thorough and systematic.
The national chairman maps out the
work and divides great responsibilities
among his immediate assistants. They
in turn divide their work so that
dozen or twenty or hundred men will
look after the details. These men in
turn assign important tasks TO hun
dreds of party workers under them.
After the campaign is we'll under way
the minor workes report TO their
superiors, as a lieutenant in the army
reports to his captain. The captain in
turn reports to his major, the major
to his colonel and the colonel TO his
general, Senator Hanna or Senator
Jones, as the case my be. When sit
uatlon arises down the line that
threatens trouble Senator Hanna or
Senator Jones hears of it and de-
' ises some plan for averting the dan
ger He then directs his subordinates
to see that the plan is tried and re-
qaires full explanations for failure.
While the national chairmer are
very busy devising plans for sue
cess, they also find time to raise the
bulk of the campaign funds. Iaey
delegate to others the task of select
| ing and sending out literature, en-
gaging and assigning speakers, re-
ceiving callers and answering cor
respondence and studying reports on
conditions in the various states.
Speakers are told the subjects
on which they may talk and they ole
directed as to how they shall handle
these subjects. II it is found that a
certain line of argument is received
with disfavor in a certain state the
speakers in that state are warned TO
shift their arguments in accordance
with new instructions.
The Speakers Coached.
If a discussion OF the money ques-
tion promises more votes in given
state than a discussion of Imperialism
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