The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-10-08
SENATOR | R SCOTT.
Day Spent With tho Junior Senator
mt Republican Headquarters.
HIS EVERY MINUTE OCCUPIED
In the Arduous Work Of Locating
and Instructing the spellbinders.
\ No Effort Neglected to Secure Sue
cess Of Republican Party-Appears
to be in Good Health.
Correspondents Of tho 1ntolllCcnce,rr

u Correspondents l tue Encouragement. Ie'tb7
'js NEW YORK, Oct. Tone day
Mt Republican Headquarters In this city
gives new ideas OF the labor connected
with the making Of a president of the
United States. In olden times, all the
directing of the machinery of a national
campaign was ordered at one head
] quarters, but the growth of the country
as.made 1T necessary to divide the re-
Ssponsibility. Now the west is taken
care of at Chicago and the east here.
West yirginians have a special inter-
est in the New York headquarters, since
their junior United States Senator is
.one OF the leaders in charge. Twelve
hours spent with him In his office at
!tthe Metropolitan Building teaches the
observer that no effort is being neglec-
ted TO secure the success of the Repub-
lean ticket In, charge OF the Speakers
Bureau Senator N. b. Scott Is brought
in contact with nearly every visitor to
the headquarters. and each night finds
him ready fora rest; that Is. II he can
secure 1t, for he Is followed to his. hotel
s by inslstent visitors and never puts in
less than six hours hard work there. q
Not at All Exclusive.
Is Up at seven o'clock in the morning
for an hours walk, the only exercise he
gets during the day. he Is through his
breakfast and ut his private office by
S:S0'o'clock. There is not the least bit
of exclusiveness about him. All the
doors leading to his Office are wide open,
and anyone can walk in.and speak with
him without the necessity OF sending a
card through q messenger. The Sena-
tor holds that II anyone has Important
enough business with him 10 cali at his
office to see him. he has time enough to
listen. 1t does not stake, long for such
knowledge to become. public property
and as a consequence Senator Scott is
busy receiving visitors all the time. A
desk telephone sits on the table at his
left and It rings often enough. with no
regard as to what Is occupying his at
tention at the time, to spoil the temper
of the most even-minded man In the
world.
His, Mail Comes First.
The first matter to receive his atten-
ton in the morning is his mail, which
Is piled a foot high before him. Oppos-
ite him sits one OF the most competent
y and rapid stenographers in the city and
with this aid the Senator starts in.
Letters are from everywhere and on all
subjects, from a request for 4 contribu-
ton to church fund to demand from
some state for small fortune for cam
paign purposes; from q plea for small
position In one of the Departments a,
: Washington to n petition from q SOL
der in the volunteer army for a dis.
charge: and from u request from q
.'spcllblnder" for assignments to speak
to refusal to listen to any speakers
that may be sent except the candidate
for vice-precident or United States
Senator. Then there are numerous epis
ties Informing him how the campaign
is going on In various states and Just
what should be done to make success
sure. Each writer receives u courteous
reply and as tn. work Of the day Is
begun the dIctatIon stops pretty soon.
One Of his assistants comes In with a
telegram just received. A local com
mittec some where In the east wires
imperativcly that they must have q
speaker for n certain night, who at tina,
time, is in the far west. An examin.
alton of time tables shows that It Is ar
imposslbllity for the speaker to reach
the place where he Is wanted by thu
date set and the local committee Is sc
informed and told at tile same time tina,
another equally as good an orator has
been given them.
Bliss Appears.
This out OF the way. 4 few more let.
ters are disposed OF when we'll dressed
and prosperous looking business mar
walks briskly In. His grey side wills
kers are neatly trimmed and his ruddy
face Is aglow with health. He is Cor,
nellus Bliss, ex-Secretary of the Inter,
Tor, and Treasurer of the National Re
publican Committee. Chairs are draw