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country-in Boston, Chicago and Los An
geles as well as in the two cities named.
He was first elected to Congress when
thirty-nine.' nominated for mayor of New
York city when fOrty-two and for gov
ernor when forty-three. The accompany
ing photograph shows him with his wife,
who was Miss Millicent Wilson, and their
child.
For their general-in- chief the prohibit
have Charles Reading Jones, who
was born on a Pennsylvania farm ana
who is within a few months of the age
of Mr.. Hearst. He was in the saddlery
hardware business in Philadelphia until
five years ago ands has published temper
ance magazines and trade journals. He
has been head of his city state and ma
tional prohibition organizations and is at
the head of the Associated Prohibition
Press. His campaign headquarters is III
Chicago.
Chairman Hitchcock is a year younger
than was his predecessor. Mr.. Cortelyou.
in the last campaign, but Chairman Mack
is two wears older than was his prede-
cessor, Mr.. Taggart, four years ago But
the campaigns of 1904 and 1903 are not
able for the fact that their MANAGERS are a.
much younger men than those who led
the opposing forces in other recent pat
ties. Senator Jones was, respectively.
ffty-seven and siXty-one when he man
aged the first two Bryan campaigns while
Mark Hanna, his opponent in those bat
ties. was fifty-eight and sixty-three.
With new men have come new methods
in the present. campaign Chairman Hitch
cock. having the bachelors freedom or
foot. has given himself a rowing commits
sion for the entire fall. and Will not set
tie down permanently at headquarters
after the fashion of his predecessors. His
'.pull-together plan of having sure state"
politicians help campaign in neighboring
doubtful states is brand-new to politics. as
is his scheme of combining the national and
congressional literary bureaus Of his party
i'm one central bureau under one editorial
directoI' Another Of his novelties Is the
card catalogue for every political helper
in the field. His democratic opponents
are also fast introducing novelties. Their
scheme of limiting campaign contribu-
tions to $1,000 is also new. as will be
their publication of the names of all con-
tributors giving more than $780, And
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housekeeping from department to depart
ment and taught Uncle Sans clerks how
to save more than half of their time in
filing and answering correspondence.
When CortelyOu took up the Post Office
portfolio he took Hitchcock with him as
first assistant postmaster general His
later roe as the steam roller man" in
the Taft fight against the ''allies" for the
presidential nomination is we'll known to
the public. He is a perfect specimen of
the sanguine temperament typified by his
sandy. almost rufous hair. In politics
he Is no poser. and since receiving his
Taft forces has continued to part his hair
in the middle, to wear kid gloves and
carry a cane.
Mack. Calls Wife 'the Commission
er."
Mr. Mack. during these years Of Hitch
cocks rapid and precOcious rise with the
party in power has been achieving sue
cess no less marked. in private endeavor.
The one-time poor country-store clerk has
in less than thirty years elevated his
journal from an illpaying Sunday sheet to
a prosperous daily. and now dwells in
handsome mansion on Delaware avenue
Buffalos most fashionable residence
street Mrs Mack who was formerly
Miss Harriet Taggart and whose father
ike GrOVer CleNelaHO. was once SileFlu OF
Erie county. is a graduate Of the Buffalo
Seminary. is an enthusiastic worker in
women'S culture clubs, was on the board
of woman managers OF the Buffalo expo
sition and the only woman member of
the New York commission to the st. Louis
worlds fair. Her husband playfully calls
her the commissioner" She is a per-
sonal friend of Mrs. william Jennings
Bryan. Mr., Mack is a born politician.
and when thirty-four waA a delegate to
the last Cleveland convention, as well as
Danforth as national committeeman from
the Empire state at the time Of Bryan's
second nomination. A sample of his ready
wit was given the other day when some
one asked him what bonanza" was
"A bonanza" said Mr.. Mack. lis hole
in the ground owned by an Internal liar
chairmen Hearst and Jones.
Just midway between the ages of Hitch
cock and Mack is William r. Hearst. the
national committee chairman of the indie
pendence party. which has grown up
from his Independence Leagues through
out the country. Mr.. Hearst is now forty
five, and. like Hitchcock he is over six
feet tall. Is Of the blond type and Is a
Harvard man. and has had quite q notable
record for ,precocity. Although born on
velvet. his father haYing been a million
aire California senator. Hearst has not
let the grass grow under his feet nor
has he attached himself to the idle ricn
class. He was editor OF the San Fran
cisco Examiner at only twenty-three and
bought the New York Journal when
thirty-two. his political clientele having
been built up largely through the chain of
newspapers which he has built across the
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~ly fashion, scandal. literature and theater:
and while he admitted their charm" he
smilingly insinuated that he recognized
the futility of the Parisienne. proverbial
in Europe.
The hostess in answer called up four and
asked how each had spent her day. One
had been at a dolls house of her own
help dress their work girl mammas neatly,
chiefly even. One with trained nurse
diploma helps direct a tuberculosis dis
pensary. The third had been teaching
smart housekeeping to little girls. while
the fourth had been at a social resi-
dence' giving tips and cash to working
mems wives.
But what the hostess did not tell was
that three of the four had been led to
their work for others by her precept and
example
She was the Countess Jean de Castel-
lane. wife of Boni's next younger brother.
In the American colony she is called
1.-The Helen Gould of Paris" and her pres
ct life-like that OF her American name
sake-showS how ladies who in England
or Germany would be up to the neck in
high politics find worthier. if less snowy,
usefulness in unappreciative republics.
She was not always SO. Like Anna
Gould-Sagan-who. curiously. has got
twice related to her-her life was cut in
the middle Years ago Lady Randolph
Churchill admired her, as the Princess
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another novelty is their advertised farm
ers' fund. through which agriculturists
are invited to contribute from 800 down.
Father of the Nebraska System"
The secretaries of the national COM
mittees are adroit men. William Hay
ward. who has just succeeded Elmer
Dover in that capacity at republican
headquarters. IS only thirty-one, and as
head of the republican state committee Of
Nebraska has been the youngest state
chairman in the country. In this latter
capacity he has become famous as father
Of the Nebraska system" new to poll
ties. and which. from the state organi-
cation. reaches successfully down through
we'll organized district. county. precinct
and neighborhood organizations. BY an
elaborate system of reports the state
chairman thus keeps in closest touch with
the work OF every party organ cation in ms
commonwealth. This system naturally
attracted Mr., Hitchcock, and he has
asked Hayward to instruct the other state
chnirmen in the method. In Mr.. Hitch
cocks old place as secretary, Hayward
will have charge of the party's Chicago
headquarters while the republican gen.
eral hfRlself is in the saddle.
Trey Woodson. secretary of the demo-
cratic national committee. held the same
pOSlIlOn unQef CHAIRMAN 1dSSdft. ioui
years ago He is forty-nine-eighteen
year solder than Hayward-and is a Ken
tuckian y-birth and residence. He was
a country editor for twenty years previous
TO taking charge OF Paducah daily seven
years ago. He has been the Blue Grass
member of the democratic national COM
mittee since the first Bryan campaign
The New Barrel Keepers.
Each party now enters the field with a
new barrel keeper. that of the democrats
being Charles n. Haskell, first gov nor
of the infant state of. Oklahoma. He is
still another Of Ohio's contributors to ma
tional politics. having been born in the
Buckeye state forty-eight years ago.
Like Chairman Mack. he Is of the self
made type, having worked up from plow-
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boy 10 country schoolmaster. and thence
to country lawyer Later he took down
his single and became a railway contract
or. going seven years ago to Indian Ter
ritorv to build several lines of railway.
He got interested in the statehood move
ment. and was elected member of the
constitutional convention of the new state
of which Indian Territory formed half.
His executive ability was so felt In the
convention that he carried off the govern
Orship, and now Mr.. Bryan, is tickled to
have him as his campaign treasurer. be-
cause he is the executive of the only state
which guarantees bank deposits. a system
which the democratic platform advocates
for the federal government
The new republican treasurer. George
Rumsey Sheldon. is. like Chairman Hitch
cock. a Harvard man. and since his grad
uation has been A New York banker. He
is sixty-one years old, is an officer or di-
rector in eleven big business enterprises
and belongs to many clubs, including the
.~ew York Yacht. Racquet and Tennis
He was delegate to the second Nc
Kinley convention and was national COM
mitteeman from New York. Wren ROose-
welt was nominated
Gunpowder Man Heads Speakers
Bureau.
1t is quite appropriate that the repub-
lican general has selected as his chief of
artillery Coleman du Point of the cele-
brated Delaware family OF gunpowder
makers. Experience with explosives will
be to his advantage as chairman of the
speakers committee. He Is arranging
at headquarters a card index OF all ora
tors to be employed during the campaign.
Each of the thousand or more speakers
will be accompanied on his early trips by
an observer. who will make careful notes
of how many passe eggs or bouquets the
eloquent one receives from the AUDIENCE.
Digests of these reports will be entered on
the cards. and just a glance at them will
show whether spellbinder is strongest
on the tariff the Injunction issue or the
trusts: whether he makes a better i'm
preston on the farmer than on the labor
ing man. or the Irish voter than the Ger
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ond wife. had daughter by her who was
the Countess de Talleyrand, before she
married Furstenbere!
ExaRtly, The granddaughter OF the
betrayed Dorothy. the daughter OF the
love- ereft Castellane girl. first married to
the Prince of Furstenberg. then 10 her
cousin Jean de Castellane. is the half-sis-
ter of the doddering old Prince de Sagan.
Flies father.
When. therefore. she married Jean de
Castellane, she became Anna Gould's Sis
ter-in-law.
And when Anna Gould married Ellie.
this sister-in-law, lost by divorce, became
the aunt of Anna Gould.
Sister-in-law or aunt, this great lady.
who was almost ruling princess with the
German Furstenbergs and now has the
right to pay the bills of Castellane boy
younger than herself can give Anna
Gould-Sa gan cards and spades on silent
suffering.
But Anna. not being eternaly patient
see how the two cases parallel and con-
tradict each other-quit paying a Castel-
lane boys bills to marry into the German
principality of Sagan. While her sister
in-law-by marriage, become her aunt-by-
marriage. found her refuge from SORROW
in the good works that cause her to be
known as 1.-The Helen Gould of Paris
Her grandmother. Dorothy. died too soon
to know there could exist any poor eX-
cept the poor" to whom you give charity.
She could not assuage her anguish by
throwing herself. heart and soul. into that
world Of substitutes for charity that Is
called social action.
OF the great Paris works that constitute
such social action there are few indeed to
which the Countess Jean de Castellane
has not brought vast assistance. Several
of them she not only directs. but absolute
ly animates, and there are still others that
she has personally founded.
When Madame Taine died it was she
who became president of the society OF
the Taine libraries, with her own means
tripled the book distributions to local IL
braries, clubs and workingmen's syndi-
Gates. And, as one idea starts up an
other. she is now at the head of work
ito struggle against the foreign distribu-
ton of bad French books.
This costly struggle-not so Quixotic as
may appear and which will win France q
better reputation in the book line than she
has enjoyed-has really arranged with
Paris publishers that they shall send to
foreign booksellers good French books
at greatly reduced wholesale prices.
In the vast struggle of the mutual bene-
fit societies of Paris against tuberculosis
and mal-nutrition of the young, to which
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man voter. etc. The democratic chief OF
artillery is John Harrison Atwood OF
Leavenworth, who has been national
committeeman from Kansas since the
Parker campaign. He is lawyer. banker
and an attorney for three railroads.
No officer of either political army will
be more potent than the commander OF
the brigade that charges the enemy with
the gal-dipped quill This commission
the democrats have conferred upon none
other than "Marse Henry" Watterson, the
veteran editor of the Louisville Courier
Journal He will act as general super
visor Of their publicity department. and
his party could not have selected from
among their faithful a man Of greater
literary vigOr. "Marse Henry" was re-
porter at eighteen. an editor at twenty,
a Confederate officer when barely OF age.
and chief of scouts for Gen. Johnson
when only twenty-four.
Marse Henry's Job.
After forty strenuous years as editor of
the Courier-Journal he Is only sixty
eight years young. and these days thinks
nothing Of dropping into headquarters
and debating four or five thousand Words
at a clip. Having waded in the gore OF
political battlefields since the down OF
youth first pin-feathered his eloquent lips,
having sat in Congress, having acted as
temporary chairman of the Tilden con-
vention and as chairman of the platform
committees of the Hancock and second
Cleveland conventions; having, In fact,
been a virile factor in every campaign
that has been waged since the war, and
having now forgiven Mr.. Bryan and Crap
pied him to his SOUL this veteran Will be
one of the most potent factors on the
democratic side of the fray.
Twenty-six years his junior is Richard
V. Oulahan. head Of the republican liter
airy bureau. Mr.. Oulahan has had more
than twenty years experience in the news
paper business. and before his selection as
head of the Washington bureau Of the
New York Sun, some. years ago. was
known by the enviable title of the best
reporter in Washington" He has an ex-
tremely wide acquaintance among public
men, and this, together with his news
paper experience in various campaigns. his
literary ability and his qualifications as
an executive, made him the logicai choice
for the post of director of the literary fea-
ture of the republican campaign.
Prize Political Essays.
One of the novelties of this campaign
has been the enterprise OF Francis Curtis.
Mr. Oulahan's chief assistant. in Offering a
$50 prize for the best essay on why
the republicans should be continued in
power This competition closed July Is.
by which time the editorial director was
showed under by thousands OF compost.
tons on this theme.
A real sure-enough boom-a-laddie on
Commanderzin-Chief Hitchcock's staff is
Maj. BeechNr b. Ray. lisa. who while
on temporary leave of absence from his
military duties is directing the industrial
headquarters" of this campaign. as he did
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loved passionately Prince Adam Czartory-
ski-who SO loved her that he was at
Warsaw fighting for her in the lawsuit
for her. dukedom. The car came down
on Dorothy with a brilliant retinue, pre-
Senting .Talleyrand and his nincom-
poop nephew. Dorothy's own mother was
in the plot. At the right moment an old
Polish lady. the Countess Olinska. fresh
from Warsaw. told offhand the out
rageous lie that Prince Adam was just
married. and TO whom. and all the de-
tails. And another creature of the ear.
Count Poopaloftski, nonchalantiy a ideI
other details.
Weeping all night. the betrayed Dorothy
next morning said that as Prince Adam
had forgotten all their dear engagements.
she would be glad to be married. soon. to
any one.
And so, at once, they tied.the knot be-
tween her and the nephew of old Talley-
rand. To heap hot Goals on his wicked
old head for this, her loves betrayal,
Dorothy was Talieyrands nurse, protect
or and patient companion. later on, in his
last years: and the old villain told him.
self that he had done her no harm: be-
cause if he had helped to take Couriande
and Prince Adam from her. he had given
her his nephew. Talleyrand- Perigord. with
the titles and estates of Duchesse de Dino.
de Valencay and de Talleyrand The Sd
gan estates and titles were. of course,
her own.
x
Her son. Duke of Valencay -Talleyrand-
Perigord-Sagan, with chateauX and lands
and revenues for all of them. first mar
ried the last heiress of the great and no.
BILE French house of Montmorency-to
continue which Napoleon made a young
er son of hers the Duke of Montmorency
but the heir of the marriage was that
great old Paris sport, the Due de Sagan
money Spender, arbiter of elegance, the
Ward McAllister of the City of Light,
who still lives today-keeping Ellie, his
. own son (andAnna Goulds hearts second
choice, out of his property and titles
except that of Valencay, which by fam
lily arrangement, was handed over to his
brother Bosom, who married and was d.
FORCED by another American girl.
Now we are getting close to the queer
relationships and startling condolences.
When his Montmorency wife died. Dor
othy's son, Observation-Disclosures Perigord-
Dino-Sagan, saw a beautiful young daugh-
ter of the Castellane house, who loved
passionately her cousin. And as there
seems to be a strain in the Talleyrand-
Perigord blood that makes for TIE APP
proprating of the loves Of others. he
coolly proposed for her to the Castellanes
and was accepted. The poor cousin step
ped down and out; and Dorothy's son.
marrying this Castellane girl for his Sec
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ex-President Loubet has given his name
and half his activity, the Countess Jean
de Castellane Is a generous and untiring
ward director-paying lecturers from her
pocket helping out the mutualists sani-
tariums. and keeping special secretary
and stenographer continually at work on
this scheme to help the Paris people super
wise their own hygiene.
The abatement maternel OF the late
Casimir- Perter has no more solid hacker
than the Countess Jean de Castellane. BY
IL mothers OF the people have the wages
they might otherwise earn paid To them
while they nurse their babies 1T the breast
the only device to bring up physique and
population in French cities.
So from work TO work: but that which.
assuredly, ''the Helen Gould OF Paris
prefers is the association of associations
that has its seat In Rue de fAbbaye.
There, in the ancient mansion OF the
Cardinal de Furstenberg. four syndcates
are installed:
The syndicate Of work girls in the cloth
ing trade: the syndicate OF ladies employed
in commerce and industry: the syndicate
Of private school teachers and the synd-
cate of house servants: there will be others.
All these four were struggling for life
when the Helen Gould of Paris" took
them up.
With others like herself-"futile .Paris-
iennes' Of the English statesman-she
welded them into this association of asso-
Citations gave them the Furstenberg man
sion, and. generally. set them on their
feet.
This great lady, who abhors a certain
"feminism' and distinguishes between
feminine" and feminist" has made them
indeed the veritable Paris center OF
''women's rights without a touch Of
revolution"
do not touch the family" is the cry
Of the great soul who has had so much
i'll from her own families. But why per-
NIT family-destroying extremists TO get
possession Of the feminine syndical move
ment?" she continues. Why not group
working women. to demand their rights
according to moral and family ideals? No
politics. but all and always business"
You would have to 60 and see the happy
usefulness that radiates from the Countess
Jean de Castellane's association of asso-
Citations. Working girls. clerk girls and
domestic servants. all. together on great
questions. vet separate for separate In
terests, pick up technical skill. increase
their ideas Of salary, begin saving and
find social protection based on business
and not charity.
Therefore. II you come TO Paris and see
in the dazzling social functions of the
rich and happy, great lady, very beauti-
full and noble still. in Paquin gown and
jewels that cost fortune. find out II
she be the Countess Jean de Castellane
before you set her down as futile"
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS.
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In those of 1896 and 1900. Being himself
a member of the Order of Railway Con-
ductors. he Is alleged to have compiled a
valuable directory OF a half million OF
railway employees. He viii mail campaign
literature to these gentlemen and later to
other Industrial workers.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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A NINA GOULD Has Be-
"A come Twice Related to
Her-Involves the Tale of
Flies Historic Descent-A
Wounded Hearts High
Refuge in Well Doing-Gives
a Palace for Social Better
ment Clubs for Women of All
Classes-Triples the Book
Distribution to Working
mems Syndicates, Libraries
and Clubs.
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The great Talleyrand, having betrayed
France to- the car, asked his price. He
wished to found family and pass on the
great estates and titles he had picked up
with both hands: and as he had, no son,
he asked Alexander 1 to pick out a sur
passing Russian heiress for his nephew,
the nincompoop young Count Edmond de
Perigord. And Alexander. having just
robbed Dorothy of her Courlande duke
Sagan estates, over to a foreigner who
would have no right to demand accounts
Of him.
It mattered nothing that poor Dorothy