The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-04-10

woodruff east TO direct a campaign
of calamityhowling in the eastern
press, for the benefit of New York
Boston and Philadelphia captains oil
Industry" At the end Of ten days
recalled him, and sent Roebuck to
Wall street to confirm the fears and
alarms Woo6ruE's campaign Lad
aroused. And in the west I war
laying out the money / had been
able to collect from the leading men
of Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio and west
ern Pennsylyania-e1ce a quarter
OF million from Howard of New
York. to whom we gave the vice pres.
identiaI nomination for that sum, and
about half a million more given by
several eastern men, to whom we
promised cabinet Offices and posts
abroad. / put all this money. not
far from two millions, into our cam.
paign of education" and into those
importing delegations upon Burbank
at his rural retreat"
To attempt 10 combat Scarborough e
popularity with the rank and file of
his own party, was hopeless. j con-
tented myself with restoring order
and arousing enthusiasm in the main
body of our partizans in the doubtful
and uneasy states. So ruinous had
been Goodrich's Management that
even at that comparatively simple
task we should not have succeeded
but for the fortunate fact that the
great mass of partizans refuses to
hear anything from the other side;
they regard reasoning as disloyal-
which, curiously enough, it so often
is. Then. too. few newspapers in
the doubtful states printed the truth
about what Scarborough and his sup
porters were saying and doing. The
cost of this perversion of publicity to
us-direct money cost, | mean-was
almost nothing The big papers and
news associations were big proper
ties. and their rich proprietors were
interested in enterprises to which
ScarboroEgh's election meant disas-
ter: a multitude of the smaller pa
pers. normally OF the opposition, were
dependent upon those same inter
prises for the advertising that kept
them alive
Perhaps The most far-sighted-cer
tainly. as the event showed, the most
fortunate-single stroke of my CAM
paign was done in Illinois. That state
was vital to our success; also it was
one of the doubtful states where,
next to his own Indiana, Scarborough
chances We're best. | felt that we
must put a heavy handicap on his
popularity there. had noticed that
in Illinois the violently radical wing
OF the opposition was very strong. So
i sent Merriweather to strengthen the
radicals still further. I hoped to make
them strong enough to put through
their party's state convention a plat
form that would be a scarecrow to
timid voters in Illinois and through
out the west; and | wished for a
wild man" as the candidate for gov
ernor. but I didn't hope it, though
told Merriweather it must be done.
Curiously enough. my calculation of
the probabilities was just reversed.
The radicals were beaten on plat
form; but, thanks to a desperate eff
fort of Msrriweather's in "coaxing"
rural delegates frothing, wild-eyed,
political crank got the nomination.
And he never spoke during the cam
paign that he didn't drive voters
away from his ticket-and. therefore,
there sacrificed the local interests to
the geenral by nominating a popular
and not fnsincere reformer.
When Roebuck and / descended
upon Wall street on October 16.
three weeks before election, 1 had
everything in readiness for my final
and real campaign.
Throughout the doubtful states,
Woodruff was in touch with local ma
chine leaders of Scarborough's party.
with corruptible labor and fraternal
order leaders, with every element
that would for a cash price deliver
body of voters on election day. Also
he had arranged in those states for
the right sort OF election officers
AT upward of 500 polling places. at
least half OF them places where sew
eral hundred votes could be shifted
without danger or suspicion. Also,
Burbank and our corps OF .'spellbind-
ers' had succeeded beyond my hopes
in rousing partizan passion-but here
again part OF the credit belongs to
Woodruff. Never before had there
been so many free barbecues. distf1bu-
tons of free uniforms TO well-financed
Burbank and Howard Campaign clubs, |
and arrangings of those expensive pa
rades in which the average citizen de- |
lights. The wise Woodruff spent |
nearly one-third OF my education" |
money in this way.
One morning I found him laughing /
over the bill for a grand Burbank |
rally at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. S35. 900. |
as I remember the figures
What amuses you?" said 7.
Il was thinking what fools the peo- !
pie are. never TO ask themselves
where all the money for these free
shows comes from. and why those 1
who give are willing to give so much.
and how they get it back. What an
ass the public is,'