The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-03
Its Citizens Have Completed Elaborate Pre-
partitions for the Great Republican
Gathering This Month.

been made for so newspaper writer's and
artiAts. Back Of the stage, in A semicir
Gle, are six more sections reserved for in
vited guests In the corners of the front
OF the building are more sections reserved
for ticketholders
Several committees have been formed in
Philadelphia TO look after the needs OF the
delegates and visitors and provide for their
comfort and entertainment The Philadel-
phia citizens committee has it's headquar-
tiers In the city hall. At the head Of this
committee is Mayor S. II. AshbridEe, who
ala more than any other one man TO secure
the convention for Philadelphia Charles
n Cramp. Of the shipbuilding Cramps, is
on this committee James Pollock e the
chairman Of the finance committee and the
mayors secretary Hamilton Moore, who
has been state secretary Of the League Of
Republican clubs. ia general secretary.
Charles F. Warwick formerly mayor Of
Philadelphia is 70 be the head Of the re-
ception committee.
experimenting the work OF the citizens
committee will he that Of the all ed Repuh-
lican clubs ~ Philadelphia and vicinity
who VIII have headquarters at POI Broad
street
During the convention local Republican
clubs have arranged to keep open house.
Smokers and receptions have been planned
at the different Philadelphia clubs and no.
tells as well as private residences and the
visitors will not be allowed 70 complain Tor
lack % entertainment
The convention badge for the delegates
and alternates will consist 81 medal. on
one eide OF which there will be prof!es Of
Lincoln. Grant and Mckinley. on the tp-
posite side OF the medal viii he engraved
liberty bell and Independence hail. The
medals will be suspended by broad ribbon
from a pin to he attached IN the coat
In a burst of confidence, following a long
dav Of devotion to the consideration or
insoIuble puzzles in practical politics In
the midst Of the campaign Of 1895, the Hon
Marcus A. Hanna declared that Of all the
Jobs he had ever tackled. the chairman
shin of a national campaign committee
was by long odds the worst Then after
picturesque recital Of some Of the exasper-
atne hraIu-racking experiences through
which he had recently passed, he made the
UNQUALIFIED statement that no imaginable
consideration would induce him to at
tempt the management Of a second presi-
dental campaign. Yet, there are plenty
Of Indications that unless his health shall
fail he will enter the campaign this year
with as much heartiness as he did four
years ago.
As to the trials and difficulties which be-
set a national campaign committee chair
man. there Is probably no man living that
has been through them who would dis
agree with Mr. Hanna Leaving the polit-
ical work out altogether and considering
IL solely from a business point of view,
the conduct OF a presidential compaign
committee is an appalling proposition. es-
pecially Of late years. II involves the Gre
alton OF an executive organization quite as
elaborate and complicated as that requir-
ed to carry on the most extensive OF
modern enterprises. the collection and ex-
penditure of sum OF money so large
as to require seven figures for its express
sion the selection and employment. di-
rectly and indirectly. OF thousands of
workers. the gathering and dissemination
OF special Information on scale not less
extensive than that OF great Geographic
news association. and hundred other
things besides. none Of which can safely
be iutrusted to any one not an expert In
his line
Moreover, the organization Of the com
mlttees forces has to be effected from the
ground M as it were. and as its entire
work must he accomplished In a little
more than four months. at the outside
everything has to be done under the most
intense and wearing pressure.
Until 1896 campaign headquarters were
Invariably established In the city ~ New
York and according to an unwritten rule
they were almost always located in four
story house on Fifth avenue That year.
however both parties broke away from
the old order of things and housed their
chief headquarters I'm Chicago, though
each committc perforce maintained a
branch In the metropolis In Chicago the
forces Of both committees were Quartcrci
In modern office buildings. in New York
the Republicans took one whole moor in