The Washington times., 1908-08-26
If He Should Quit Being
Publicity Agent" the C. o.
P. Would Surely Fail.
WRITES FOR CAUSE
AND BIG SALARY
No Day Too Dull for Him to Wiring
Out a Column, Really Fit
to Print, Too.
By TAMEs Hay. Tr.

HOT SPRINGS. Va, Aug. 26.-It is
time for a grateful people to approach
in reverence and lay the blooming laurel
wreath upon the highly polished and
pFotuberant brow of Gus Joseph Kar-
ger. II is time that he be given his
due. for he is a great man.
Gus Joseph Karger Is the official pub
lclty agent OF the Republican national
committee, and he is stationed at Hot
Springs 10 furnish all the news favor
able to Taft and to make an Intellectual
effort TO suppress anything which might
be construed as inimical to the cause
OF the candidate. II he were doing this
work for an actress, he would be called
press agent AS It is, he revels and
eniles and basIzs In the wordy and gus
ty role Of official publicity agent"
Nevertheless. his duty is TO advertise
the Republican candidate and the Re
publican cause by handing TO the news
paper correspondents here much copy
every day. II is thus that he has put
the reading world in his debt.
Memories Golf Scores.
He is a great man because he knows
more about William Howard Taft than
William Howard himself. He has mem
date from July Is until today He
knows Mr. Taft's views on every possi-
bic problem and on some impossible
problems. He has stored up within the
vastly recesses. Of his mind the Taft
family tree. and he has read with care
and diligence all Of the Taft CORES
pondence. He is the uafai1ing iuforma-
tion bureau of Hot Springs.
day can be so dull but that he can
wiring from its dunness an item at least
column long. When he sits down IN
front OF his typewriter. he IS seized
with an irresistible impulse 10 write
He snites the keyboard with all the
ferociJy Of a fanatic. and he adorns
the copy with figures of speech and
flowers Of rhetoric.
The other day an invalid lady, whose
room Is few doors from him, sent
word that the clatteT of his machine
was driving her 10 the brink of nervous
prOstTati0n and then showing her over.
She asked that he be quiet.
Not Omitting the Salary.
Tell her" ne said, not missing a
stroke on the machine, that this is for
a great cause and a good salary. The
noise must go on"
II is IN ways like these that he sacFd-
fees himself and others TO the neces-
sity Of putting readable stuff within
easy reach OF the correspondents. He
IS always close to the sources of in
formation. He sleeps with Arthur I
VOrys, Taft's personal manager and ad-
wiser, and he spends the day with Fred
Carpenter the candidates private sec
retary. He works early and late
Others play golf. but Karger does not.
Others ride horseback, but not so Kar-
ger Others play tennis, but Gus Joseph
prefers TO read the official correspond
ents in search OF story for the next
days papers.
If a prominent person arrives. the
first person he meets is Karser. Karger
gets an interview from the prominent
person, makes multiple copies of II,
and hands II 70 the newspaper men. II
the newspaper men go to the prominent
person TO get further details, they ind
II hopeless task There are no fur
Jher details when KgTgeF has had the
witness.
Leaves iNaught But Chaff.
In fact, he has become an expert In
dealing with prominent persons. He
does not feel at home unless he is
swinging picturesquely from the button
hole OF a tail prominence or standing in
a threatening attitude over the head of
low prominence
And he is successful with Senator's
Representatives and other prominences
because he has a smiling and a winning
way. Nothing can dim The effulgence
of karger's smile. Nothing can lessen
the radiance OF his eyes. That IS. moth
ing can do these things except q refusal
TO print the stories he hands out Some
times he is met with refusals. If he
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