The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-11
COWHERD's COMMENT
NATIONS EMPLOYES WORKING FOR
 REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Force of Clerks of Department of Com- merce Engaged in Collecting Matt erlaI for Use of G. O P. in
 Coming Campaign.
Advertiser Bureau Colorado Building


 Colorado Building Washington. June 10..
 Representative Cowherd, Chairman of the Democratic Congrcssfonai Cam paign Committee, in discussing the Speech of Leslie Nj. Shaw In opening the Republican Campaign in Delaware today Said:
 'The speech of the Secretary of the Treasury made at Wilmington June 6th was of special interest to Democrats in at least two particulars. The story has been current around Washington for weeks that a corps of clerks work ing under the head of the Department of Commerce, the future chairman of the national Republican committed, were engaged in preparing campaign literature for use by the Republican party. Tn fact, one New York paper published a statement a few days ago giving somewhat in detail the number of. clerks engaged upon that>work. and stated that the Republican campaign text book was being prepared at an ex- pense of about S20,000 to the National treasury.
 T was very loath to believe this re- port but the folliwing statement rom Secretary Shaw's speech seems to give credence to the story. He is reported to have said am confident, however,  very far there will be furnished from the highest possible authority fin the United States well autaentieated data showing that the average wages have l increased in larger proportion than the average articles of ordinary household consumption.
 '"The Secretary evidently recognizes the pressing need of the Republican party for data of that kind, and while cto iNf ha | furnish figures to corroborate most any theory they will be hard put to | find an excuse in law or good con- science for the employment of govern | ment clerks to prepare campaign mat | erial The Secretary is also reported | to have said that the Democrats would endeavor to run their campaign on local issues fitted to the particular | community.
 Another gentlemen almost as close to the administration as the Secretary has been giving forth some informat- | ion in regard to the Republican cam paign along this line. Francis E. | Leupp., correspondent of The New York | Evening Post, IS recognized in Wash ington as possibly being closer than | any other newspaper man to the Presi- l dent. He was selected by the Presi- dent as his personal representative in the Indian Territory investigation. ana | IS said to have at all times the entree | to the White House and the ear of the l President. In an article published in The Post of June 3, over his signature MT. Leupp said;
 But there was shrewdness In | Blyth's plea for the recognition. of every man who asplred to call himself A Republican since every one who | could speak or vote would be needed this year, and the reports from outside | Congressional districts indicate that | the discussion of the protective sys- | tenn will be more varied in character l than in any campaign since Hancock declared the tariff local issue. In | Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota-nay, even in the heart of stanchest New England. | there will be preached gospel from Republican pulpits such as would have made MT Hanna wonder whether he was awake had he lived to hear 1t.
 The word appears to have gone forth from the big men of the party that there will be no hide bound in- hibitions in the platform, and that the stump must be free So the motto of this campaign in the Congressional dis tricts will be Every man for him. self" The low tariff member will talk low tarir. the reciprocity advocate will talk reciprocity. the conservative revisionist will talk conservative re- vision, the stand patters will talk nc change at all. As the districts do not overlap there will be no need of try ing to make the doctrines ex- pounded in them harmonize economI- cally for the sake of the common presI- dential ticket. The theory is that that ticket will get the benifit of local Re publican success. In any event, 1t will be a campaign which as far as the tariff is concerned could give points to the gathering at Babel.
 considering MT Leupps White House connections this statement car be taken as ex-cathedra. and in the light Of this. Secretary Shaw's criti- cism of a Democratic campaign, ad- tusted to local conditions, sounds very much like the time honored ruse of the escaping thief. And so the hepubIi- can campaign begins with fraud in the Department and hypocrisy on the stump. We are told by the news papers that it has been decided thst the entire Cabinet will take the stumI for the presidential ticket. If la' other members are -z unguarded 1T
 their disclosures of party practice al the Secretary of the Treasury. the Dem
 ocratic party will certainly YeIcom'