Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-22
CAMPAIGN MANAGERS
A Peep Into Republican Headquarters
in New York.
CHAIRMAN HANNA'S MANY VISITORS
Each One Thinks He Can Make
the Election Sure.
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ORATORS AND w RITE r S
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

NEW YORK, September 20, 1900.
Business is the key that unlocks the re-
publican national headquarters. To the
man who has business TO transact commu-
nication with any of the members of the
executive committee Is quickly obtained,
and their attention may be held as long as
is necessary. The twenty odd rooms which
the committee occupies on the third floor of
the Metropolitan building at l Madison ave-
nue. in New York city are always open to the
man or woman who knows what he or she
wants, and whose wants are of kind that
interest the men who are striving for the
election of Mckinley and Roosevelt From
all parts of the country, therefore, come all
sorts of people who have or think they
have important transactions with the re-
publican party in the matter of the coming
election. If those persons only who have
real interest in the campaign and its man
agement called there the doors would be
ouen on the corridors all hours But
besides the great number who visit the
COmmitte emen on business, every day
stream of curioSity-impelled visitors. cranks
OF various degrees of crankness and fak1rs
who believe that they can swinde the man
ayers of the campaign 10 their own advan-
tage pour into the building. For these
visitors there is courtesy enough, but they
are not allowed to waste the time of the
men whose minds are occupied with the
detail work of getting out the republican
vote throughout the country.
The national headquarters of the repub-
lican committee in New York are only tenn
porary. From them all of the campaign work
for the eastern states is directed. They were
opened on the 1St of August. They Will be
closed UP within a couple of days after the
election but they have all the appearance of
permauency that attaches to the executive
offices Of a great business concern. The
fittings are substantial and look as if they
had been installed TO stay. The clerks
messengers and doorkeepers all have air
about them which says to the visitor that
they are permanent parts of great organ
iZation engaged in serious work. Through
out the offices are portraits of the republic
can national candidates set off by the ma
tional colors- The Mckinley portraits
all the same They show the President as
he appears at his desk in the White House.
OF the portraits of Roosevelt there is
great variety. He IS shown q soldier
mounted horse and leading a charge of
Rough Riders: he is shown a statesman
dressed in a frock coat. such statesmen
are alleged to affect. There are pictures of
the soldier Roosevelt dressed in khaki. at
mess with the officers of his regiment
Some of the pictures are those OF a cow
boy and others of a hunter. All of them
are of the same Roosevelt, however They
are samples of the portraits that are being
distributed throughout the country on the
acquisitions Of the various state commit
tees
How the Work il Divided
Chairman Hanna is essentially a business
man. He does his work as the head of the
national committee in the same way that
he manages the commercial enterprises
which he controls. He does not believe in
wasting time Neither do the men who
help him on the executive committee His
associates AT the New York headunarterS
are United States Senator Nathan b. Scott
OF W eSt Virginia. ex-State Senator Freder-
lex ,. Gibbs of New York Mr. JOseph II
Manly of Maine
Interior Cornelius y. Bliss of New York
who Is treasurer Of the national committee
Each one mas his own province to fill in the
Work OF the committee. Mr. Bliss looks
after its finances. His books as treasurer
OF the national committee are kent on the
same system that the books of the house
or which he Is the head are kept Mr. bliss
doeS not want 10 get his name into the
newspapers He Is seldom Interviewed
W Zen his opinion Is asked he usually saws
mat ne does not wish to be quoted He is
buSE always. He is consulted by the o,bar
managers on every move of imDortan ca Tho,
Is made, and his experience makes his indp
heh, Oh great value There is a strong ner
sonai friendship of long standing ha7uaa
Senator Hanna and Mr. Bliss and ~
senator Hanna is at Headquarters 1bev
spend great deal of time together
Mr Manly looks out for the general work
9l The campaig n He knows the United
states like a book, politically Hardly q
PJnucaI question can be asked that he
G ga, OF answer offhand and If he does
ba
hIMS where II can be obtained most
easily MIR. Gibbs is another old-timer In
Pohtcs He. too, has a store of political
Nsto"'euse co-extensive with the history
OF the republican party. Most of his at
tention has been devoted to the CITY and
state OF New York, and to him is intrusted
more particularly the direction of afYairs
IN the empire state. Senator Scott fs at
the head of the speakers bureau He
makes the assignments for all the sneak
ers who operate under the direction OF the
aS for
Ole of Ohio. From that line to the Pacifc
coast everything Is under the direction Of
the Sampalgners In Chicago To the east
"ard OF 1t they have no Jurisdiction.
In Touch With Chicago.
AT noon OF every working day, under an
arrangement with the telephone COMPANY
the long distance telephone in the Chicago
headquarters Is connected with that in the
New York headquarters, and the COM
mltteemen, nearly thousand miles anart
tax matters over with each other The
telephone was of especial value when the
committee was arranging the Gov Roose
Welt stumping tour through the west. Gov
Roosevelt was In New York Most Of the
territory In which he was to speak was
under the Jurisdiction of the Chicago head
quarters. His itinerary was a difficult one
TO arrange. because of the avalanche az
demands Tor him from all parts of the
country. chairman Hanna, Senator Scott
ana Gov Roosevelt would gather at the
New York telephone and talk with Mr.
Henry Z. Payne, who is Mt the head of the
committee in Chicago. Three consultations
between them sufficed to arrange the whole
tour Of forty-three days. so that the regu-
lar trains of the various roads over which
the candidate will ride will be utilized and
the schedule was so contriyed that his