Evening star., 1900-09-29

Roosevelt SOS he won't be able to cut any
more of his rough ridin' antics"
Mr.. McConville was interested. He asked
the man to explain.
Wal" said the stranger. you're likely
to have political debates, amt you? Now.
i have a new sort of a proposition. l want
to meet Teddy in a rough ridin' contest.
Teddy don't know no more about a bucking
bronco than he knows about politics. Some
night when he has been a SDeakin' about
the strenuous life and the stormin' of San
Juan Hill, 1 want chance to >hallenge
him to ride a mile race on buckin bronco.
If he's runnin' his campaign a cavalry
horse. he ought to be made to show what
he kin do. i tell you, three minutes on a
buckin' bronco would show him what a
strenuous life is. Try to arrange a meet
ing between Us, can't your
The man bit off big chew of tobacco and
waited calmly for a decision from the man
ager of the speakers bureau. He was told
that his proposition would be presented to
Senator Jones and the executive committee.
Documents by the Million.
The literary bureau is one of the most
important maintained by the committee. 1t
employs writers who have made reputa-
tions along the political and economic lines.
These men prepare the matter for the fold
ers and campaign documents that are
printed by the wholesale. On the regular
staff are Judge w. B. Fleming of Ken
lucky, George III. Shiveley of New York
George Schilling, the labor leader. The
press bureau, in charge of Willis ]. Abb
bott is quite Independent of the literary bu-
reau. In addition to it's English depart
ment 1t has a German department, He
brew department and Bohemian and Scan
dinavian departments that have not yet
been fully organized. Every week the press
bureau issues eighty columns of plate and
ready PRINT matter for the country press.
II publishes also a weekly paper, The Ma
tiOnal Democrat" which goes to all the
democratic papers of the country. Mr..
Abbott is assisted by nine editors.
The document department which circu-
lates the literature prepared for campaign
purposes does such wholesale business
that it has to have separate accommoda-
tionS in the Monadnock building. This is
In charge Of w. c. Kenyon, who superin-
tends the handling of millions of documents
every month. An important branch OF the
bureau is maintained in Washington where
all the franked matter, consisting OF
speeches delivered In Congress and clip
pings from the government reports and the
Congressional Record, is prepared.
Campaign Music.
So closely associated with the democratic
national committee as TO be practically a
part of it is the western branch of the
National Association of Democratic Clubs
of which W. r. Hearst is president. Louis
Stevenson, son of the candidate for Vice
President, has charge. Mr.. Stevenson's de-
partment is the goal of the song writer's
and composers who have music they are
anxious to donate for the campaign. The
number of pseudo musicians who feel
moved to write marches and choruses in
presidential years is astonishing. Men and
women carrying sheets of music besiege the
doors There are Free Silver Quick-steps,
Republican Dirges. Anti-Imperialist March
es and Bryan Hymns of Victory offered by
the score. Some of these compositions be-
long to the class known as descriptive mu-
sic and some extraordinary examples for
realism In sound submitted for consid
Grafton. Among these composers the ones
whose efforts were accepted In '96 are the
most perseverng and insistent. The man
that dedicated Sixteen to One Gallop''