The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-15
Little Demand for Literature, and
Speakers VIII BE Depended on to
Arouse Political Enthusiasm.
CAREFUL REGARD FOR DETAILS
NOTHING NEGLECTED. THAT WILL
CONTRIBUTE TO PARTY SUCCESS.
Most Eminent Men i'm the Party to
Participate-ThOusa of Minor
Speakers VIII Be at Work.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-THE Republic
an congressional campaign committee is
arranging for a whirlwind finish In fact
there will not be much but finish to the
campaign. The oratorical artillery will be-
gin booming the first week in October and
there will be one continuous roar along
the fighting line from then until the Sat
urday night before the election. Never
in the recent history of the party were
the preparations for an off year so extern
sive and elaborate.
1t is to be essentially a speaking cam
paign There has been free of litera-
ture, but the main dependence is to be
placed on heart-to-heart talks with the
voters. The distribution Of printed matter
is nearly finished; that is, the orders have
nearly all been given and the actual send
ing out of the documents is progressing
so rapidly that it soon will be over. There
Is no sharp hunger for literature shown
this year. Several Congressman have COM
planned that the people are not reading the
speeches sent out Perhaps the main rea-
son for this is that there is no sharp and
vital issue on which the voters desire to
inform themselves.
Chairman Babcock, of the committee,
who has a political foresight excelled by
few men in this country, seemed to have
anticipated this. The greatest campaign
of education in the history of the party
was that of 1896, when nearly every voter
in the country was marshaling facts on one
side or the other of the money question.
Whenever two men met there was cam
paign meeting. They took turns in being
orators and audience Then the demand for
statistics and other political information
was tremendous. 1t is doubtless true that
in that campaign the literature had more
effect than the oratory. The 1900 cam
paign was sort of a warmed over affair.
Chairman Babcock assumed that there was
no issue in this campaign which would
cause the people to call for large amounts
of specific information, and that, therefore,
literature should take second place and the
campaign oratory depended on TO come to
the front at the proper time and arouse
the voters sufficiently to cause them TO ap-
pear on election day and win the battle.
The campaign managers in the big OF
flee building on Broadway In New YORK
have devoted their best energies TO pre-
pairing for this speaking finish. The general
plan is TO divide the work with the con-
gressional district committees. The details
are being worked out with the Characters
tic Republican devotion to detail and busi-
ness method The speakers are directly In
charge of Henry Carson, sergeant arms
of the House, and Chairman Babcock ana
Secretary OverStreet are giving close Su-
The general committee will furnish the
speakers and arrange their schedules and
itineraries. The committee will look after
the travelling expenses or these orators; IN
short as one of them remarked, deliver the
spellbinderS {. o. b. to the various meet
ings The congressional district commit
tees are expected to look after all other ar
rangements. They are to provide the bands
the halls the advertising and secure the
crowds This is not very different from
former plans, but it Is being worked out
with far greater detail. There are two or
three hundred speakers OF the hrst ana
second-clasS and thousands or other grades
of excellence. Those of minor Importance
are turned loose in the districts where they
| will do the most good and will be left in
charge of district leaders. There are the
German speakers, the Scandinavians the
labor leaders, the tariff experts, the tall
end wagon spell-binders and so on. The
supply of these kinds of speakers is large
and the various districts Will have no need
to complain of lack of material.
These wholesale packages of oratory,
however are causing much less trouble to
the committee than the arranging of the
schedules of the stars. Speaker Henderson,
for instance, is to talk in dozen States
He will fly about in special train, and
his meetings will be arranged month in
advance Two score of meetings have been
arranged for Representative Littlefield in
California, where the Republican situation
is not pleasant, and ii has been decided
to give them vigorous course of antitrust
treatment. His meetings have all been ar
ranged The stalwart managers of the
house. Messrs. Payne, Dalzell and Gros-
venor are being dated through Ohio, Penn
syvania. West Virginia and Maryland:
The two last named States need special
/ attention Much attention has been given
to the task of a proper and effective distri-
button of all the speakers.
Especial attention will be given to the
| firing of a lot of big guns during the first
attention to the fact that something is go
| ing on. Secretary Shaw will open the
campaign in Massachusetts; Attorney Cen
| eral Knox, now on the ocean, is expected
| to sound the antitrust keynote ini the
| Northwest; Secretary Moody will make one
of the first big speeches and so will Root
| and Wilson. At the same time, the lead
| ing Republican Senator'S will begin their
| speaking tours. OF those who will devote
every moment TO the campaign are Alli-
/ son, Frye. Burrows, Fairbanks, Beverage,
! Depew Hanna, Foraker, Doliver. Elkins,
| Nelson, Clapp Scott and others. The COM
mittee will give most of these men two or
| smaller ones. OF course ii will not control
/ the time of such men as Hanna, Fair
banks and others who have fights of their
| own to look after but even these have
contributed literally of their time
| The plan of the managers is to keep
things going so that there will be no ap-
/ pearance of a let-up This work is being
4 carried on so systematically that in arfis-
/ tic effect it would do credit to theatrical
man. Even the work of supplying appro-
! pirate advertising matter of general ma
/ ture to furnish district committees is being
/ looked after
The orators are expected to give heart-to-
heart talks and not to indulge too much in
general oratorical fireworks. The rapid
/ fire debaters among the congressman are
expected to stand before their audiences
! and explain in a matter-of-fact fashion just
what this administration has ACCOMPLISHED.
what there remains to do. and why the
! Republicans are the ones to do it,
OTTO CARMICHAEL.
Primary Campaign Closed.
MINNEAPOLIS MINI Sent liza