Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-16
Will Tell Why Taft and Sher-
man Should Be Elected.
LITERARY BUREAUS. MERGE
Essays in Prize Competition Under
Consideration.
HITCHCOCK ON WESTERN TOUR
Will Open Headquarters at Chicago
and Then Go On to Colorado for
Conference With Committeeman.

With arrival in this city today of Fran
els Curtis of New York. named to take
charge of the joint literary work of the
republican national and congressional
committees in the present campaign, thu
real work began of telling the voters OF
the country why Taft and Sherman
should be elected. and why there should
be another republican House of Repre-
sentatives.
MIR. Curtis was in Utica, N. Y. with
Frank H. Hitchcock. chairman of the ma
tional committee. this week to discuss
He stayed over a day to talk especially
of the literary features.
Chairman Hitchcock left this city today
for the west. He will stop at Chicago
arrange for opening Headquarters there
There he VIII confer. July 20 and u, with
members of the national committee from
North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kan
sas. Oklahoma, Texas. Montana, Wyo-
ming. Colorado. New Mexico. Idaho. Utah,
Arizona. Nevada, Washington, Oregon
and California, with view to carrying
the campaign into this territory with par
ticular v.gor.
Plans Agreed Upon.
conference with Mr.. Curtis. Detailed
plans were made for beginning the lit
erary work of the republican national and
congressional committees.
For some time the merging of the lit
erary bureaus of the two committees for
the campaign has been in the minds Of
party leaders At Mr.. Shermans home
yesterday complete arrangements were
made.
Mr.. Hitchcock had gone over the matter
to some extent on the train with Mr.. Cur
tbs. Mr. Sherman at once heartily en-
tered into the spirit of the agreement and
the matter was fully contaminated.
Four years ago Mr.. Curtis had charge of
the literary work for the national COM
mittee and two years ago assumed the
dictatorship of the literary bureau of the
congressional committee, preparing the
text book. Since that time the permanent
literary bureau Inaugural ted at the end of
the congressional campaign has been con-
tinued with Mr.. Curtis in charge as di-
rector. with headquarters in the Metro
politan Bank building of this city.
Headquarters in New York.
This bureau will be continued not only
during the present campaign, but after
the campaign is over. Mr.. Curtis will
then resume his duties in this city. While
the entire literary work of the campaign
will be under the supervision of the ma
tional committee, Mr.. Curtis will have a
room at the congressional committee
headquarters in New York, where he will
visit daily for consultation with the CHAIR
man of that committee.
Mr.. Curtis was in entire harmony with
the views of Mr.. Hitchcock and Mr.. Sher-
man that an executive officer should have
charge of the business end of the bureau
in order that Mr.. Curtis time might be
civ n
not be consumed in the consideration of
the thousand and one schemes and finan-
cial ideas which come up during a cam
paign.
documents to large extent and the con-
gressional committee will make use OF
many speeches which have already been
printed. yet Mr.. Curtis believes the bulk
of the work should he done through the
newspapers. Further than that he does
not think the public will be interested in
his plans. From now on he will devote
his entire time and energy to placing be-
fore the voters of the country the various
issues of the campaign and what are be-
lieved to be the arguments for the cleo
ton of Taft and Sherman and republi-
can House of Representatives.
Prize Essays Considered.
On Mr. Curtis return to this city he
found the desks and tables of his office
covered with essays sent in competition
for the prize of $50 offered by the con-
gressional committee for the best presen-
tation of reasons why the republican
party should be continued in power. Ac-
cording to the conditions July II was
the expiration of the time limit. While
it is believed that for two or three days
many hundred more essays will be re-
ceived yet the last of the week should
about see the end of that part of it. Up
to the time when Mr.. Curtis went to
Utica he had been able to keep up pretty
we'll with the articles as they came In.
reading each one carefully and reserving
those of real merit for a second reading
later.
1t is Mr. Curtis idea that by a plan OF
elimination he can reduce the manuscripts
to about score or so. 1t is his intention
to ask several experts, with whom he is
now In correspondence. to read these and
submit to him their decision. 1t Is quite
possible too, that as many as possible OF
the executive committee of the congress
sional committee will also be asked to
read the best articles, SO that the deci-