Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-31
CAPITAL CHAT.
Work of the Presidential Cam
paign Has Commenced.
Democrats HustIing to Get Out Their
Campaign Literature.
Bill to Aid Maine Postmasters-Main. Will
Soon Receive Her Seeds.

stage of the session of Congress. Inc
shadow Of the Presidential campaign
! is upon all the proceedings. Members
| from the close states and close dis
| tricts guide themselves by the logic of
! coming events. Next session, which
will last hardly three months, Will be
| different. The President will have
| been elected; Democrats and Repub-
| licans will know whether they are to
| keep their seats two years more.
The eagerness to create campaign
material these days, is one of the
| notable features of the proceedings.
The Democrats are more active in that
| regard than Republicans because the
| Republican party is the party that is
| doing things and has record to go
/ before the country on. Democrats
have been doing nothing that can be
counted as achievements and they
must accordingly, rely upon printed
talk to convince voters. Accordingly,
whenever big appropriation bill
comes up for consideration. Democrats
| press for zine to speak. They crowd
| the Congressional Record with news
paper statements. with compilations,
| with theses. and with criticisms. When
| printed III tUt 1NtCOIu, tlt matter tdl
| be mailed under a congressman
frank and cost the sender nothing.
| Both the great parties have bureaus
| in this city watching for every utter
ance that can be used in the coming
| campaign. All these speeches and
| parts of speeches are filed away. When
| the campaign is on in earnest both the
| congressional committee headquarters
| will swarm with clubs addressing
these to voters all over the country.
where results are in doubt. Maine
may not receive many of these neatly
printed documents, but there are
voters. thousands and thousands Of
| them in other parts, who will be quite
| smothered by this political literature.
| In many cases members want some
thing printed in the Record that APP
plies to themselves personally. Oc-
| casionally they have difficulty in Sc
| curing permission. An instance To the
poirt happened here, recently
with Representative Jasper Tai
bert Of South Carolina. 1t is
| Mr.. Talbert who caused the
change from Friday night pension
sessions to day sessions He insisted
on a quorum being present and a
quorum could not be secured at night.
Representative Amos ]. Cummings of
New York, who is an old printer and
newspaper man and who writes many
letters for a syndicate Of newspapers.
proposed an extensive and a humorous
article prasing Mr.. Talbert. whom the
Democrats refer to as Uncle Jasper
for his activity in forcing a quorum.
Mr.. Talbert wanted to circulate that
article among his constituents. 1t was
excellent for campaign purposes.
Uncle Jasper" first asked unanimous
consent to print the article in the
Record but that was refused He
waited days and days for an oppor-
tunity, which finally came When the
army appropriation bill came up Mr..
Talbert got Is minutes for general de-
bate. He occupied it with reading the
newspaper article, or rather by having
the clerk read it. The article was
printed in the Congressional Record
as part of Mr.. Talbert's remarks and in
few weeks large envelopes. franked
with Mr.. Talberts name, will be falling
as thick as snOwtlakes in his congress
sional district.
Hon. Joseph II. Manley is here again
this week. His time is still much Occu-
pied with preparing for the great conven
tiar ,,.t,icb iii, ,. j,
phla- Recently arrangements Were made
Ior distributing seats to the immense au-
ditOrium. The privilege has to be- safe
guarded I'm avorv nos.iht, r,,,,,. 49,,
thousands or nannId Vii u,nt , IL.
have no rights ii than Snn. vLiII III n,
willing to resort t. Improper methods To-
gain entrance. Mr.. Manlcy'S long cx-
pericnce in preparing for national con
yentl"ns stands him in Sood stead. lie
knows all the Republican politicians
from every quarter Of the country They
seek hlm out at the Arlington hotel
where ne makes his headquarters. In the
lobby almost every evening he sits in
| the broad leather chairs chatting with
the leaders in political thought
Senator Frye introduced a resolution
this week for information upon i echr1 .
ult. OF the readiusted su1,ripl III III ,,.t
masters WIN served ~ ~ :, p"'l
Maine bafwaon I'M, r>ct ~ -
iv-t - "t'E !, t'pf'. anu July l.
If rI,ins in tha 'as ~ a. IN w We T'uI
others The senator offarnd Nv mo- ,'i III"
zion in thn intar,st of IoIs. :, t,, i,I,''
Pitts0eId who served ! niImhnr III r7...,rl
as postmaster MIR Conner m,I.p. thn
following statement of his serIicns.
r2iarpi,l
'Tirn, - u, NJ,
Srtic - 80 -; ne" ~ SiIarN
~ ~ ,Ic, Y j, 0aLiT!. salary. Due