Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-05

note of their full names and addresses
and send them to me- is the substance
of what Cannon has often said TO MS sup.
porters. and this is the very keynote OF
his political successes. The amateur N
politics discovers the existence OF large
number of unsupported unfrlendiy per-
sons on the day after election. ana not
before. "Marse Sydney" otherwise known
as Representative Sydney E. Mudd OF
Maryland. is another campaigner ma
tionally famous. His schools for In
struction of illiterate voters. instituted
when his political opponents removed
the party emblems from the ballots MUS
trated his resourcefulness.
He had an easy time of Ii. when an ne
had to do was to tell the coiored prethreii
to hunt for the oX-yoke, with one emu
of republican" but when the democrats
dropped political party names from the
ballot and began running other Mudds
as his opponents his difficulties were IN
creased. but he found a way to nave the
ballots marked right despite all attempts
to confuse his admirers, and being return
ed to Congress is now a habit of long
standing with him. Asked one day in d
previous campaign where he would have
his headquarters for the distribution
of campaign literature. he mentioned
the name. Of a Baltimore bank. Mr..
Mudd is a noted epigram manufacturer as
we'll as a campaigner with an unlimited
supply of shrewdness. as Is evident from
wished to get a JOB through Mudd's in
fluence. DO you live in my district"
asked Mudd Not now. but [ did"
Young man, there is no past tense in
politics." Having a congressional dis; riot
we'll in hand is a small affair besides bav-
ing the entire country in the same state
of lamblike docility. but in many in
stances men who have had experience
in district or state politics have become
successful presidential candidates. Mr..
Tafts aim will naturally be to prove that
experience is not essential.
Campaigning Reduces Weight.
Whatever happens. if there is any way
for William Howard Taft to reduce his
weight, he has chosen the right way. Even
If he does not conduct as strenuous a
campaign as has been conducted by
Bryan. who made thirty-three speeches in
a single day, or by Roosevelt who rivaled
Mr.. Bryan whirlwind exploits when a
candidate for Vice President. Mr.. Taft
has time before him not calculated to
foster corpulence. Even the marvelously
robust physique of Mr.. Roosevelt was put
to severe test in his campaigning, and
there were times when 1t appeared that
the strain was too great for him.
If there were no other arguments
against the whirlwind campaign than Its
exhausting effect upon the campaigner. it
would seem that those would be sufficient
to justify a preference in all cases for
the front porch plan. That Mr.. Bryan has
travelled SO many miles and delivered so
many speeches with so little harmful re-
suit is due to the very scientific manner
in which he husbands his strength and
his voice. Had Bryan the faculty of get
ting the majority of votes 1t could be said
that there never was campaigner like
him. for he appears to be able to keep
at it as persistently as the monographs
which will multiply his speeches this fall,
or the moving pictures which will show
Taft on horseback in more places than
he would be able to appear personally il
he started on a tour today and kept on
touring during the years of an average
life.