The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02

The regular work of the presidential canpaign win begin next month Tn the last twenty years the leaders or hnfh fhe Republican and Democratic parties have given their attention m June and the first week of July 10 the conventions; then they took q rest and no move was made to open head quarters until August. If will be the same this year, says writer in The Nav York Evening Post Even In Au- wuat there is little heavy campaign work. The oface forces at the head quarters are organized, campaign plans are discussed. and campaign literature Is outlined, but the managers do not settle down to their regular daily pus- mess till September. They have dis- covered that voters cannot get enthu- slastic over politics in the dog days. and have no inclination to listen to the spell binders" who point with pride" and "view with alarm"
 Since the Cleveland-Blaine contest of 1884, the national headquarters have been managed on a strictly business basis--something like a department store. One man looks after the liter ature bureau; another gives the ora tors their assignments. and others give fheir attention to campaign funds, the disfribution of money to the various States, and other matters of import ance in national campaigns. Under each head of department there are many employees, and 1t has been ntc- eseary to rent a whole building or a floor in an oflce building or hotel to accommodate the managers and their sfaffs in recent years.
 Tn 1888, when Cleveland and Harri- son were the opposing candidates, the Democratic headquarters were In Twen- 1y-ninth Street. near Broadway. Cal- win S. Brice, afterward United States Senator from Ohio. was in charge. Sem ator Quay directed the Republican eampaign in a house in Fifth Avenue, below Twenty-third Street. The para If reform. Mir. Cleveland had. in fact, made 1t the sole issue by his message to Congress in 1887.
 Quay and Dudley.
 As q consequence. the men who con- frolled tour infant industries" espe- cially those in Pennsylvania, were sol idly arrayed against Cleveland. Quay's There was no Lack of money at his Headquarters. Funds poured In from Pennsylvania, New York and other States from the over-protected manu- &acturers, and the money was used in the most effective way in the doubtful States. It was silent campaign. so far as the Republican national head quarters was concerned. Quay's chief assistant was Colonel Dudley of In- diana who was Harrison's personal Representative. Dudley was the au- thor of the famous blocks of i've" letter to the County Chairman in In- diana. In this letter he instructed the chairman to divide "hoaters" into h1ocks of five and to see that they went to the polls and voted. There was no mention of money in this letter but 1t was presumed that the hoaters were to os paid for their votes. A copy of the nekter fell into the hands of the Dem ocratie National Committee and 1t was published in some New York newspa- 6ers
 When Quay was asked whether the letter was authorized by him he would give neither an affirmation nor a de- nial. Soon afterward Dudley brought kuita for libel against the newspapers that published the letter but the suits never reached court, although the news papers did everything possible to ob- tain q judicial decision. Dudley was simply bR1ffing. and there was no doubt whatever that the hoater document was genuine. Dudley did not appear at the Republican national headQuar- ters afterward.
 As political manager. Quay was eminently successful in New York and Washington, as he was in Pennsyl-f vania- He gave out typewritten state- ments. One of the longest interviews with him was obtained by the writer in Philadelphia when he was State treasurer, and boss of the State. At that time 1t was reported that Quay had been lobbying at Harrisburg for some measure in the interest of the Pennsylvania Railroad. and had been 0uttonholing legislators at the Capitol. When he was questioned about this re- port. he smiled and answered: Young fellow, you must be 8 green one, or you would know that if I wanted the legis- larure to do anything I would not 70 to the capitol; would just send for lne legislature, and the majority would come to my room"
 "Fry-the-fat" Letter.
 In his conduct of the national cam