Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-19
HOW A CAMPAIGN
is NOW MANAGED
The Immense Amour: of Detail Pre-
liminary to the Great Presi-
deutial Elections.

The ordinary citizen who has little
knowledge Of political affairs has only
the vaguest kind Of an idea as to the
detail in the machinery Of the manage
ment of q presidential campaign. Fol
some reason it has come to be supposed
that a presidential election is a sponta-
neous outburst Of favor on the part of
the people. and it is not improbable that
this description nigh. have been applied
to elections half a century or SO ago.
OF late years there has been q great
change in things political, until today,
when the machinery that must be put in
motion before a campaign can be carried
out is as complicated and as exact in every
detail as if the work to be done was that
Of a great railroad system.
1t was not many years g when
money was not as necessary in the con-
duct of a campaign as it is today. Ger
requisite, but beyond that nothing was
needed, and the chairmen of committees.
even rs years ago, would not have, known
how to get rid of the immense amounts of
money that are now expended in the car
rying out of a presidential campaign.
to the e'o Reelection of Lincoln, considerable
money was subscribed, so much that poll
ticians everywhere regarded the fund with
the disposal of Henry J. Raymond, the
committee chairman, at this time would
seem ridiculously small to campaign man
Prior to the Lincoln campaign money had
received comparatively little attention, but
since that time it has entered more and
was taken the way was opened for scores
of innovations and improvements in the
brought it to it's present state of COMPARE
tive perfection, and some idea. of the ex-
tent Of this Improvement may be gathered
from the fact that whereas 1T was posi-
BILE to carry on the Grant campaign by the
expenditure of less than $2O0,OOO, it is safe
to say that the campaign of 1896 cost the
--,, 1S4o1 nr& o~J tho lo~no -
less than $4,000, 600, all told, all of which was
devoted to legitimate expenses.
A COSTLY ITEM.
For instance, one OF the most costly
items in the McKinley-Bryan campaign
Was > the ' was nrop oafsap by s Mnee ' = Tn n
den in 1876 older politicians had nothing but
ridicule for a scheme that they regarded
1876. however, established the fact thai Mr..
Tilden had been right in his conclusion
that there could be no more powerful aid
than the Literary bureau" and since that
time it has become one of the most im-
portant features in political work, the bill
Of the republican party for printing ing alone
As the organizations that managed the
! campaigns of 1896 were the most perfect
ural that one should refer to it's work when
outlining the labors that must be accom-
plished by the organization of 1900. Prior
parties to locate their headquarters in New
York. In that year, however, this custom
was changed, and both parties decided
which the great political wires could best
be laid.
TWAS a unique innovation, but it turned
out SO satisfactorily that the same loca-
ton will probably be selected this year.
From these headquarters will extend wires,
the influence of which will be felt in every
hamlet in the United States.
! 1t is difficult for the uninitiated to fully
appreciate the immense amount of work
that must be accomplished by the national
committee with in an extremely short time.
Upon the adjournment of the convention
practically nothin has been done, but
within a few days at the most the Won
derful machine must be set in motion.
It is the effort Of the to set
the citizens of the country thinking along
given lines, and to accomplish this there
are many things that must be done. The
cheap, poorly printed dodgers, but books
and pamphlets written by the brainiest
men in the country, specialists of the high
est ability who have devoted the best years
of their lives to the study of political SUBJ
jects.
FOR ALL TO READ.
Then there are vast numbers of speeches
to be printed and neutrality-suspicious. that
set forth the position of the party upon ma
tional Issues. All of these are geathered
together, reprinted if necessary. and sent
frone one end of the country to the other
as campaign arguments to the minds of the
voters.
In addition to this the national commit
great demonstrations that are to do so
much to arouse the voters TO the proper
| spirit of enthusiasm. In this connection
| the political speaker is called into service,
orator Is one of the most important men
In the country.
While literature plays its part In cam
paign work-and an important part at that