Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-21
MUCH SPEECHMAK|NC
Chairman Babcock's Plan for
the Republicans.
NO LITERARY FEATURE
A SPELLBINDERS' BUREAU IN
NEW YORK CITY.
Latitude to Be Allowed the Orators
Who Are to Go Into Every
Debatable District.

Chairman Babcock OF the republican con-
gressonal committee is speeding eastward
after trip to Wisconsin, to establish
headquarters in New York city for the
coming campaign. He will be Joined in a
few days by Secretary Overstreet and other
members of the executive committee, and
the work Of the committee will promptly
be inaugurated.
AS he came through Chicago Chairman
Babcock announced the general outline of
the work for the campaign He said that
the literary feature OF this campaign would
be subordinated to speech-making. Proba-
| bly, not more than a dozen speeches in Con-
gress will be circulated, embracing the SUBJ
| jects of tariff, trusts and the Philippines.
The number of copies Of each speech sent
| out will range from 50,0e0 to 100000, while
in former campaigns 10000 copies was
small order. A couple of democratic
speeches, Tillman and Wheeler of Ken
| lucky he announced. would be circulated
| by the republicans, to show the democratic
animus upon certain topics.
An oratorical Campaign.
The republican campaign handbook will
not be out for several weeks, and it will
| be designed mainly for the use of the army
| Of spellbinders who will be put IN the field,
| furnishing them suggestions and statistics
| for use in their stump speeches.
A spellbinders's bureau is to be establish
| ed in New York, probably in charge Of
| Col. Henry Casson. twill be the aim of
| this bureau to provide stump speakers for
! every district and county where the repub-
| licans propose to make light.
Chairman Babcock's idea in this regard
| as follows:
The party has new doctrines and new
policies OF course, the people know what
| they are. They have been reading about
! them But what they have read for the
| most was the newspaper reports of our
| doings in Congress and President Roose-
| Velt's utterances. While these reports were
| accurate, newspaper l.spaee is so limited
| they could not explain many questions as
| Intelligent speakers can explain them.
| Explanation of our Philippine, our trust
| our Cuban and our tariff policies Is the
thing that the voters demand in the cam
! paign we are entering upon. That is one
| reason for making 1t an soratorical rather
| than literary battle The battle of the
| giants viii not be in 1t with the battle of
| the orators. The republican party is for
| tunate In having a big array of oratorical
! talent among its members. This talent
| must not be permitted to go to waste where
it can be utilized to such good advantage"
Latitude Allowed the Speakers.
one advantage recognized in this plan of
| campaign is the latitude which will be al
| lowed orators in discussing the issues best
suited TO particular communities. For ex-
| ample. in the east Chairman Payne and
| Representative Dazell Of the ways and
means committee Will shout for no tariff
| changes and whoop 1t up along that line
| Tor all there is In It, with the serene in
| dorsement of the campaign committee. Out
| west the revlsionst orators will demand re-
| ductlon OF some Of the higher tariff sched
| uies such as steel, iron, glass. tin etc.-still
! with the serene Endorsement of the COM
| mittee. In Minnesota Mr.. Tawney will be-
| rate Cuban reciprocity, while south of him,
| in Kansas. his colleague the ways and
means committee. Mr.. Long, will defend
| that policy
| There will be labor ora tors for New Jer-
sey and Pennsylvania. depicting the bene-
| hts accruing to labor under republican pol
| 1cles: there will be! antitrust orators for
| the agricultural districts who will make the
| welkin ring with denunciation of the oc
| topf and threats of their determination.
| There will be German orators and scandi-
| navian orators and Italian orators, each
| appealing after his own fashion to people
| to whom he talks in the interests Of the
republican party and for the election Of
republican House Of Representatives.
| Confident Of Success.
Persons in close touch with Chairman
| Babcock and his associates of the executive
| committee say that the republican man
| ayers are absolutely confident Of winning
| the campaign-thats is to say, the conf
dence entertained Is, not the brand for pub
lie consumption merely, but the real thing;
that they know where the seats are to be
| obtained and how they. will go about 1t to
| get them.
The republican management has had am
| pie experience. Practically the same men
! now in control have wen four consecutive
congressional battles. Their machlnes are
| well organized in every district. In many
| Of the states. it is said, the same ma
| chinerv is In existence which did the work
six and eight years ago.