The age-herald., 1900-08-19

the contest Each national committee sends, out 5.090e00 buttons and 5.0000o0 lithQF, graphs. all of which are distributed through the State chairmen of the two pafttesss i
 To follow the movements of Senator Han na or Senator Jones for twenty-four hours is to get insight into what is probably the greatest problem of organization ever known Shrewd, far-seeing men who orr ganize trusts other great enterprises have comparatively simple tasks with which to cope. These two great generals of the campaign of 1900 are organizing maT chinery as complete and substantial as though they expected never to do anything else but elect Presidents If they were or ganizing hundred-year Presidential clubs they could not be more thorough any sys- tematic.
 The national chairman maps out the work and divides great responsibilities among his immediate assistants They in turn dt- vide their work so that a dozen or twenty or hundred men will look after the de- tails. These men in turn assign impor- tant tasks to hundreds of party workers under them. After the campaign is well under way the minor workers report to their superiors, as a Lieutenant in the army reports to his Captain. The Captain in turn reports to his Major, the Major to his Colonel and the Colonel to his Gem erGl Senator Hanna or Senator Jones, as the ease may be When a situation arises
 
 ator Hanna Senator Jones hears of 1t and devises some plan for averting the. danger He then directs his subordnates to see that the plan is tried and requires full explanations for failure
 While the national chairmen very busy devising plans for success, they also find time to raise the bulk of the campaign funds. They delegate to others tEe task of selecting and sending out literature, en- gazing and assigning speakers receiving callers and answering correspondence and studying reports on conditions in the va rious States. Speakers are told the subjects on which they may talk. and they are di- re cted as to how they shall handle those subjects. If it is found that a certain fine ot argument is received with dfsfavor Tn certain State the speakers in that State are warned to shit their arguments in ac- cordance with new instructions. If dis cussion of the money question promises more votes in given State than discus sion of imperialism. the speakers of the respective States where the voters seem to care more for speeches on imperialism than finance, the spellbinders are directed to talk imperialism. A dozen and one straws of this kind have to be watched constantly, the campaign managers realizing that 1ail- ure to act promptly may result in the loss of State whose electoral vote may be es- sential to success
 No feature of the campaign is watched by the national chairmen more closely than the preliminary and the final canvass of the voters Both parties soon will have underway canvass of every voting pre- cinct. This will show in a general way how many of the voters favor Bryan and how many favor Mckinley. It also will show who of the voters are doubtful, who are inclined to favor Bryan and who lean toward Mckinley The taking of this can vass costs a tremendous sum Of moneys but the party managers must have 1t In order to gauge the outlook. They soon discover where their own lines are weak est and where those of their adyersaries are strongest. While steps are being taken to insure success at one point and to avert disaster at another, second and hnal canvass is begun. This usually is com-' pleted two weeks before the election. By that time a large proportion of the doubt full voters have taken sides and can be classified. The result is a canvass which shows with fair clearnesS the probable re- suit of the election Once again the man. agers of the two parties search for the inn portant weak spots, deciding the points at which to do the hardest work in the closing days of the campaign.
 Some novel campaign methods will be re- sorted to by the two parties this year. The Republicans have already adopted the plan of sending out a. large number of phono- graphs, which will be used in small places Eloquent party speakers like Representa- tive Deliver of Iowa, and Representative Dalzell of Pennsylvania have been making speeches into these machines. The Demo- crats, on the other hand, will make free use of stereopticons. James K. McGuire, chair man of the Democratic State Committee of New York, already has arranged to give Democratic stereopticon exhibitions all over the State. He will send out these shows on a schedule in every respect similar to that made by a theatrical manager who puts a show lon the road" The Republi- cans will also use flags and maps Tn novel ways. They will send out thousands of maps of the world, showing the American flag floating over the union. Alaska. Ha- wai, the Philippines Porto Rico and Cuba upward of fourteen million votes will be cast for Mckinley and Bryan, and it is to get these votes to the polls that such tre- mendous campaign funds will be required by the two parties.