Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-06-02

'uehtlal nomination for that sum and
ABOUT half a million more given INV
several eastern men, to whom wa
PROMISED cabinet Offices and posts
abroad | put all this money NOT
lar from two millions, into our cam.
palgn OF education" and into those
inpouring delegations upon Burbank
at his rural retreat"
To attempt to combat Scarborough.
popularity with the rank and file Of
MS own party, was hopeless. | con.
tented myself with restoring order
ana arousing enthusiasm in the main
BODY OF our partizans in the doubtful
ana uneasy states. So ruinous had
oeeh Goodrich's management that
even at that comparatively simple
TASK we should not have succeeded
but for the fortunate fact that the
great mass of partizans refuses TO
near anything from the other side
they regard reasoning as dislovaI-
which, curiously enough, It so often
IS. Then, too, few newspapers in
me doubtful states printed the truth
about what Scarborough and his sun.
Eortefs We're saying and doing. The
cost OF this perversion of publicity to
us-dlrect money cost, I mean-was
almost nothing. The big papers and
news associations were big prouer.
Ties, and their rich proprietors were
interested in enterprises to which
Scarborough's election meant disas.
ter; multitude of the smaller pa.
pers, normally of the opposition, were
dependent upon those same inter
rises for the advertising that kept
hem alive.
Perhaps the most far-sighted-cer.
talnly, as the event showed, the most
fortunate-single stroke of my cam.
pal 5n was done in Illinois. That state
vas vital to our success; also it was
one OF the doubtful states where.
next to his own Indiana, Scarborough's
chances were best. l felt that we
must put heavy handicap on his
popularity there. l had noticed that
In illinois the violently radical wing
OF the opposition was very strong. So
sent Merriweather to strengthen the
radicals still further I hoped to make
t919 strong enough to put through
iheil party's state convention plat.
form that would be a scarecrow ia
timid voters in Illinois and through
out the west; and | wished for a
wild man as the canC tie for gov.
ernor, but | didn't hope it, though
| told Merriweather 1t must be done
CuriouSly enough, my calculation of
the probabilities was just reversed
The radicals were beaten on plat
form but, thanks to a desperate eff
'Ort Of Merriweather's in "coaXing
rural delegates frothing, wild-eyed
oitical crank got the nomination
Md he never spoke during the cam
gn that he didn't drive voters
away from his ticket-and, therefore
rom Scarborough And our machine
here sacrificed the local interests tC
ho @eonral by nominating a popular
: and not insincere reformer
When ROebuck and ! descended
nlon Wall street on October 16
nat
everything in readiness for my fina
md real campaign.
= Throughout the doubtful states
Ngu3"uf was in touch with local ma
pae leaders of Scarboroughs party
til corruptible labor and fraterna
rider leaders, with every element
hat would for a cash price deliver 4
bodE of voters on election day. Also
he had arranged in those states for
the right sort" of election Office
at upward of 500 polling places, at
least half of them places where sew
eral hundred votes could be shifted
= without danger or suspicion. Also
: Burbank and our corps of "spellbind
as had succeeded beyond my hopes
\ rousing partizan passion-but here
aEa.u part of the credit belongs tC
Woodruff Never before had there
4nen so many free barbecues, distribu
Gus Of free uniforms to well-financed
nnrbank and Howard Campaign clubs
I'd arrangings of those expensive a
ajes in which the average citizen de-
hts The wise Woodruff 81 ent
nearly one-third of my education
money in this way.
One morning I found him laughing
over the bill for a grand Burbank
rally at Indianapolis-abo $4,000
as remember the figures.
What amuses your" said l.
Il was thinking what fools the PEG
pie are, never to ask themselves
where all the money for these free
shows comes from, and why those
who give are willing to give so much,
and how they get it back. What an
ASS the public is"
Fortunately" said l.
For u.s. said he.
And for itself" l rejoined.
Perhaps" he admitted. 1T was
born to be plucked and | suppose our
crowd does do the plucking more
scientifically than less experienced
hands would"
II prefer to put it another way.