The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-06-30
uow 4 CAMPAIGN IS MAN
AGED.
,o,.e Amount of Detail Pre-
ipv ,'ninnry to the Great Pfe''a'"''"'
Elections.

~ Elections.
rDo ordinary citizen Who ha'
III knowledge Of political af
~" "is his only the vaglost k'nd o.
i'i' ;aeo rs to the detail in the ma
,,;oorv of the management OF
.,deotiaI campaign. For some
.o II has come to be supposed
~, Presidential election Is
atooeous outbuast Of favor or
~ o.r, Of the people, and it Is
-, improbable that this descrip
M migbt have been applied 10
Ioloelions half Il century or SO ago
Iof late years there has been a
sreat change in things political
ootil today. when the macnlnery
|th,t must be put in motion be-
|foYe campaign can be carried
~ / as complicated and rs eX-
|,ct il every detail as if the work
Il be done was that Of a great
railroad system
II was not many years ago
vben money was not as necessary
H. i1e conduct of a campaign as II
II today, A certain amount OF
money was, OF course, reqNlsite'
h. beyond that nothing was
|pssded, and the chairman of com
'm,ttees eyeu twenty-five years
'Deo would not have known how
h got rid Of the immense amounts J
HI money that are now expended
in the carrying out OF a Pres'den'
|tlal campaign
+. In 1854. when there was grave
aloubt as to the reelection OF Lln-
'coln. considerable money was
|subscribed, 50 much that politi-
|ians everywhere regarded the
|fupd with amaZemcnt. and yet the
.sum that was at the disposal OF
Henry J. Raymond, the com'nlt-
'tec chairman, at this TING would
'seem ridlculoasly small to cam
paign manager today.
Prior to the Lincoln campaign
money had received comparatively
little attention, but since that
tuue il has entered more and more
fnto politics. When the first
step was taken the way was open
ed for scores Of Innovations and
'iprovements IN the political ma
'chinery that little by little cave
brought it to it's present state OF
comparative perfection, and some
idea Of the extent of this improve
ment may be gathered from tne
fact that whereas 1t was poSslole
flo carry on, the Grant campaign
ply the expenditure Of less thal
sS2OO00Q it is safe 70 say thai th'
campaign Of 1896 cost tSe Repub
lcan party and the Democrats no
less than, (, 900, 600, all told, al
|of which was devoted TO legitl
innate expenses.
A COSTLY ITEM.
For instance, one OF the mos
costly items in the Mckinley
Bryan campaign was the "literar
buleau." When this innovation
WIS proposed by Samuel j. Tildel
! in 1876 older politicians had noth
me, bnt idicule For d scheme thu
they regarded as :. extremeI
|Qalyofic. The campaign Of 1o1t
however, established the fact thi
Mr. 'lllden had been right IN n
conclusion that there could be r
more powerful aid than the nc
cry bureau, and since that TN
it has become one Of the most IL
portant features in political worI
the bill OF the Republican par
Tor printing alone IN 1896 BEN
itls said, more than 100000.
As The organizations that ma
aged the campaigns Of 1896 we
themost perfect that had yet he
effected. it is but nataral that o
should .ofcr TO its work VIII
outlining the labors that must
aecomplished by the orgaplzatl
Of 1865. Prior to 1895 1t had be
tue custom for political parties
lo,ate their headquarters in n
Yolk. In that year, howev
this custom was changed, Q
both parties decided upon Chica
as the head centre from which
great political wires could best
laid
1t was a unique Innovation,