The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-08-19


tlonal campaign The campaign ora.
tors, like the poor, are always with us,
for local and state campaigns are fire.
ouent TO give them active employment,
hut IL is only in presidential years that
the party captains shout, "All hands
on deckw and muster every speaker,
the little fellows as well as the big,
into action.
During the present campaign, i'm addi-
tion to the human orators, both the Re
publican and Democratic national cam
paign committees will send out me-
chanical spellbinders in the form of
monographs and phonograph records,
| which will spout forth speeches by
Taft, Bryan. Sherman and Kern. The
man on the farm Will have Taft and
Bryan sing to him from the mantel-
piece while he Is eating his third piece
lof pie, and the unfortunate city man
, who lives in n big flathouse with up
ward of fifteen neighbors on each floor
will probably hear all four national
candidates talking in high metallic
notes at the same time In different
parts of his "house"
or course the presidential and vice
presidential candidates of both parties
will be the great "headllners' of the
campaign. Mr.. Taft will have to do
more work In this connection than he
had desired or planned owing to the
/ breakdown to some extent I'm the
health Of his running mate. James S.
! Sherman. Mr. Taft's campaign will
| be given increased interest, it Is
thought, IL President Roosevelt will
do what It has been limited he will do
that ia. take the stump himself for
Taft in the west and middle west. Mr.,
Bryan win fulfill many speaking en-
gagements I'm various cities.
Next TO Bryan and Kern, the two
leading Democratic campaign speakers
will be Mayor James c. Dahlman OF
Omaha, known as the cowboy may
or" and Senator Gore of Oklahoma,
the blind orator and statesman who
made so effective an address at the
Democratic national convention In Den.
YER that at his mention OF the name
OF Bryan the delegates burst into a
frenzy of applause and n demonstra-
for over eighty minutes. Gore Is now
conceded to own absolutely, without
entail the title of "silver tongued ora
tor of the Democracy"
Dahlman Is the most picturesque fig
ure I'm the public life Of Nebraska. and
his popularity in the west and middle
west is unrivaled. He says he viii
make speeches for Bryan in New
York In buckskln chaps, wearing a
sonbrero, II the national committee ap-
proves A native of Texas. Dahlman
said when elected mayor of Omaha:
TIM a cow punchcr, and can rope and
tic n steer as quick as any man In the
business. I won't write a long MESA &c
now I'm elected mayor, but n they want
me 20 sign anything against the interests
OF Omaha I'll write 'Nothin doin' "
across the top OF It.
Other leading Democratic oratoricnl
lights will be Congressman Champ
Clark, Senator Benjamin r. Tnlmar
and state Senator Thomas II. Grady oi
New York, who VIII be nominated fol
congress in place Of Bourke Cochran.
The Republican national committed
has split up the country into three
sections as regards speakers and placed
Il well known man I'm charge of eacl
section to superintend the operation o
the men who not only will make thr
eagle scream, but will give it acute
hysterla Colonel du Pont havln'
charge Of the speakers bureau in tn,
enst, win have the largest aggregation
Of spelbinders to cover his terrltor!
ever known. After Taft and Sherman
In Importance as word artists will
come Senator Henry Cabot Lodge o
: Massachusetts,. Elihu Root, Secretar,
! Of state; Joseph II. Choate, ex-ambas
] sador TO England; Governor Hughes o
: New York. Governor Fort Of New JeT
sey and Senator Dick Of Ohio,