Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
NEW DEAL N POLITICS
Becoming More and More an
Amateur and Gentleman'S
Game, With Changes
OLD METHODS WILL NOT DO
People Will Not Stand for Systems
Adopted by Hanna and Whitney and
others-Manasers, Not Bosses, Are
Wanted-Geniuses of New Sort
Demanded, But Not Yet Found.
OLD METHODS WILL NOT DO
Especial Correspondence

New York, Oct. "a vast amount
of conversation is INDUCED these days
about the revolution of certain funda-
mentals of political management in flu
ture campaigns. The impression is
strong that politics is going to be more
and more an amateur game; pro-
as if the country, continuing base ball
crazy, should find that 1t wasn't to be
allowed, or didn't have the money, to
hire professionals 1t would go back
to organization Of crack amateur clubs,
and make it gentleman's game. That
is what politics is going to be.
Publicity of campaign contributions
and expenditures is rather fad this
year; voluntary concession to public
opinion" explained a republican vet
eran of several campaigns. But before
another national campaign comes
around, there will undoubtedly be laws
enough on the subject to prevent any
reaction. 1t was a shock to the boys
to find that congress had already
passed an act prohibiting corporations
contributing; but that law will stay
where it is, and the states will next
winter be found passing all kinds of
corrupt practices acts, which will have
much the same effect in the states.
They are going to put the hopples on
us. and we've got to get ready for
the new DEAL"
Striking Changes Involved.
The new DEAF will involve some
striking changes in methods. Thus at
both headquarters there is considera-
ton of making the national campaign
organizations more effective as perm
anent affairs. Leaders are considering
the lpracticabilty. of forming strong
permanent bureaus. probably with
headquarters at Washington, to card
index" congress and the national adj
to keep careful tabs on
everything done, to manufacture liter
ature, to gather and preserve materials
for campaign speakers
But still more than this Is proposed.
Campaign funds will have to be popu-
lar subscriptions in future. If city
Is 'WIpGu ouL NY IL lIOuQ VI NISShSd Wy
a tornado, the public comes TO the res
cue and readily gives millions. Well,
the old -fashioned modus of party pol
itics has been taken abaft the beam by
a tidal wave Of public disaffection, its
rigging has been swept away by cy-
clone of sentiment, and the officers
swept overheard. Anybody coming to,
the assistance of this shipwrecked OUT
fit? Is there any genius of press agen-
cy clever enough to induce the great
public to go down into its jeans and
dig up a rescue fund?
A New Genius Wanted.
That's what must be had Instead
of closed corporation campaign treas
ury, some new Napoleon of organiza-
ton must find a way to make the peo-
pie furnish the money. The tens Of
thousands must be induced to take
their politics seriously enough to pay
for the support of their con-
victions. Who's to do it?
This new genius of peopleiZed poll
tics, as Judge Grosscup would say, will
(be the new type of Mark Hanna or
Matt Quay. He will be the new boss,
evolved by new circumstances. He will
LII udcI NC d ltuuCl illSlS.ctd VI q oOs''
In the short dozen years since Hanna
rose to dizzying heights of power, there
has been such revolt against his meth
DDS that Hanna leading either party in
this campaign would spell damnation to
the cause he managed. Let that be
by people who would reck-
lessly criticize the methods of Hitch
cock and Mack. Neither of them has
this new game, neither of
them is the right man to effect such
a reorganization of methods as the new
require. But Hitchcock
is better man for this years work
than Hanna would ibe, and Mack is
better than Whitney would be.
The other day the democratic ma
tional committee announced that it was
going to stow away in Its stocking toe.
sacred from any draft, a fund with
which to prosecute anybody trying to
coerce voters. Anybody who promises
to open mills after election, Or to in
crease wages. provided some particular
candidate wins, will be prosecuted.
Putting a printed appeal in the pay
envelope will be construed as attempt
at undue influence. That sort OF
methods went only "a few years ago.
and nobody took them very seriously.