The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-03
Many of the latter are provided with
sermons bearing on political issues.
COST is ENORMOUS.

COST is ENORMOUS.
OF the seventy documents and the
seven posters S0,121,0O0 copies have
been printed at a cost of $164, 200.
About three -fifths Of these have been
furnished by Chicago printers and have
been distributed from this city. The
northwestern states have been SUP
piled in part with documents printed
in Milwaukee and st. Paul, and about
1S,0O0,O00 were sent out from Philadel-
phia to eastern states.
In the campaign of 1896 about 1885,
100000 documents were issued, but
many of them were small leaflets, and
the documents of this year contain
more reading than those Of the last
campaign. 1t is figured that placed 60
gether they would make a string S5,-
900 miles long. The packing boxes
alone have cost as much as $500 in a
single week. Most of the documents
are sent by freight and express. but
the postage bill runs as high as S125 Il
day.
SOME BIG CONTRACTS.
Superintendent Rand's printing con-
tracts usually are for lots of 200
or 100000, but some documents have
been ordered in 100000 lots. OF Presi-
dent McKinley's letter of acceptance
100000 copies We're distributed in
eight languages, as follows: English.
2,5OO,O00 German, 100000; Norwegian.
250,O0O; Swedish. 10000; Bohemian,
100000; Polish, 100000; Italian, $4,000;
Dutch. $4,000. Some printing houses
have been able to turn out 100000 six
teen-page pamphlets per day. Others
have printed eightpage documents at
the rate of $4,000 per day.
For the poster entitled mckinley
Was Right" the orders We're for $4,000.
100000 and 100000. making a total of
$4,000. "The Real Issue" poster had
an edition of $50, 900 copies. The most
popular poster is one in TX colors en-
titled prosperity at Home. Prestige
Abroad" 1t cost $25 thousand and
100000 We're printed.
Harry G. Sommers, of Chicago, who
is to be business manager of the Illi-
nois theatre, is in charge of the ship
ping department. The store room at
3l1 Wabash avenue, looks like whole
sale paper house, and Mr.. Sommers has
organized a system as perfect as that
of a great mercantile concern. He has
shipped as high as forty tons Of mat
ter in a day and for three weeks the
daily average was about thirty-five
tons. He received from 5000. 900 to
100000 documents and posters daily
through the front door and sent them
out of the back door in boxes and
bundles. He had to run day and night
forces and had as many as seventy
eight persons engaged under him.
About 5000 boxes have been shipped
and about half as many bundles. Nine
drays We're kept busy, and policemen
We're stationed in the alley to maintain
IL clear way for them. AS many as 240
boxes We're sent out in morning. The
system is so perfect that even the name
of the man putting up a package is
recorded and not a single mistake has
been made.
WITH THE SPELLBINDERS.
The management of the campaign
spellbinders is intrusted to Major
Henry C. Hedges, of Ohio, assisted by
Willis George Emerson. of Wyoming.
Major Hedges was formerly a partner
of John Sherman, and for sixteen years
he has had the management OF Repub-
lican stump speakers in Ohio state
campaigns. Mr.. Emerson has proved
an able lieutenant.
These men now have nearly 600
speakers under their direction, and the
number Is increasing at the rate of
about ten day There are about
twenty United States senator's 100 con-
gressmen and 450 old campaigners.
Many of these are volunteers, the COM
mittee paying only their travelling ex-
penses. Among the spellbinders are
about fifty Germans, Twenty-Five
Swedes, twenty-five Norwegians, ten
Poles. ten Italians, five Frenchmen and
six Firms. At the head of the German
contingent Is Louis Werlich. former
member of the German parliament but
now a naturalized American citizen.
More than 5000 men have sought en-
gagement as campaign speakers, but
funds are too limited to supply all of
them. Many applicants are put
through catechism at headquarters,
and some of them are steered into the
MONDAY meetings, where they are un-
expectedly called on for speech. This
is called the gridiron test"
LOOKING FOR A JOB.
Major Hedges office is besieged by
teemen seeking speakers. II is quite
as hard to convince the committeeman
that all of them cannot have senator's
for their meetings as It Is to turn away