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On a recent visit to Democrat
Il State headquarters David Hill il
y Esdulged in "Reminiscences, says the Nel
y y York World. ,'.
): Seeing all you young rren here.
Z f5he observed, reminds me e. how t.le
) used to conduct campaigns. i 10 no
) suppose many of you recall .NEil
/ E9smith. one OF the brightese Dung me-
Z the Democratic party ever h3Ii. Bacl
Il in l8SI he conducted The State cam
spaign in two rooms down on the frs
3 sioor. There was no general taft q
y anuch of the paraplernatia which
Il 5seen1 to be necessary III a cAninaiga
now, but we won. Twas Just think
4 ing about him.
Mr. HITS text set his hearers e
comparing the machinerv Of tho ca5n
4 paign with that of 90 years ago.
IN those days Dan Lamont lool:
ed after things in Albany. The habit
Of having New York headquarters
was just beginning. Political cam
I paign We're not directed from New
| York hotels any more than We're ses,
sions of the Legislature managed by
Telephone from New Yor:1 business
t:omces. WIZ Smith. OF I-f,tt&ourg,
and Judge Miller OF Elnlira, laid Tie
Foundation of the Headquarters sys.
TEN, which has grown until the eantlI-
dates, chairman and many bureaus
have taken a good part of the ] Ion.
man house wing for Che Democratic
work and. have overaowed to No II
East Twenty-third street.
The Republican campaign system
has developed even moro. Its head.
quarters are on the TMenty-tktrd
street side of the Fifth Avenue hotel.
During the campaign additional hotel
rooms are secured and bureau es-
tablished in some nearby Office build
ing. This year, including the New
burg annex, there have been over
200 employees.
The growth has been greatest in
the document departments t has
long been customary for the Nation
book with statistics for speakers, bI.t
the Bryan campaigns We're the first
in which literature was circulated on
a large scale. The political newspa-
per organ had been relied8upon to fur-
nish campaign doctrine. The edf-
tors of country week1ie5 wrote theiI@t
own campaign arguments. Tie change
began by furnishing few editorials
for publication. That grew to fur
nishing the political news in plates.
and now a country editor can save
his paper bill during campaign ut
the; cost of the committees. This@press
department alone requires more space
and more employees than did The whole
State headquarters 20 years ago
The chairman and vice chairman
and assistants have increased II mum
Der. but still they all seem busy. SEN
ator Platt used to sit in his room in
he Fifth avenue hotel and VIII,
Smith in his room in the Hoffman
rouse, both being on the first floor
lear the main lobby, with plenty OF
ime to talk with everybody There B
vas a clerk or two and a stenog-
apher, but the doors were wide open. Z
here was no mystery.
Now it is as hard to find the chair E
1an as needle in a haystacil. His II
flee is the last place to look. for: him.
on must have the password and the
Dom number at one OF, thesais hotels. (
nd even then there is more mystery
i getting in than at a Masonic lodge. z
Lr. Cartelyou at the Manhattan. Mr..
heehan at the Waldorf, Gov OdeIl
t the Republican CLUB. Judge .7arlicr
the Seville, Mr.. Rode at the Hoff-
an. all have a series of rooms and II
ate-rooms and rooms off tom; almost
.byrinthine in their entanglep1ents.
This growth of mystery has in
.eased until it is difficult to saylS
here it will end. Even the press b1l-
aus, which have ostensfbly been
Gated for the purpose of giving ont
olitical news, have their series of
'ors, hardly worth penetrating. as
e result of persistence is to be told
Whispered confidence. Noting &!
ing today
OHIO RAIL- ROAD