Evening star., 1912-07-21

ever sent out is known as 3Them Steers, owing to
his occasional juggling with the rules of English
grammar, and he has constructed unique speech by
which he lumnates the entire Republican policy of
protection by discussion of his "crop of sweet corn.
And the army of paid spellbinders is representa-
tive of the almost complete revolution in the methods
OF conducting our national campaigns evolution
that goes far to prove that who study political
events at first hand coming to merit less and less
Burkes reproach that politicians did not know their
tools. The change IS apparent to anyone who
has been superficial observer of political head
quarters of the national committees army stats
in this quadrennial fight The headquarters
longer luxurously furnished suite in a fashionable
hotel They offices in business building and there
IS the crisp commercial snap of well conducted bus
about the atmosphere. 1t is longer anecdote
exchange and loafng place for iders who by some
miracle have made connection with the payroll.
NOWADAYS too, the chairman of the national COM
mittee need not have chief qualifications that he
is "good fellow and an untirng @mxer.' He may be
man of few graces of manner speech; but he must
have plenty of space between his temples and eyes,
business head and personal acquaintance he uti-
ize to get into close communication with the representa-
tves of certain factors whose help needed For since
the application of business methods to political organ
zaton became the order of the day, the task of this
chosen general IS to iprovise in few weeks piece OF
administrative machinery that in ordinary 3big bus-
ness would be built gradually year by year. and put
it in good running order for sxty-day high pressure
squirt that would throw out of gear the best constructed
industrial mechanism ever put together. One pres-
dental candidate, hearing, naturally, good deal OF
complaint against the at the head OF his campaign
remarked whimsically but with some feeling, "Well I'm
rather glad that unable to find the ideal chair
man. for if we had party able to meet all
the requirements of the ideal chairman he would have
been nominated for President instead of me-
Not that the chairman is much in evidence. He sits
in the secuson Of his bailwick, and the unofficial
visitor who applies to the businesske cusodans of the
outer office for admission @matters which con-
dentia and of the gravest Importance is called upon
then and there give almost documentary proof that
his claims susceptible of vercaton before he is al
lowed the chairman If he turns out to be
novice merely party hack, he finds he has bumped
into unsympathetic market and few days devoted
to the obsolete practice of chair warming usually accom-
plshes the result that the answer Nothing doing is
accepted as final.
So with the hungry looking wire puler, the breezy
and prosperous looking Individual who has something
in the commercial advertising line to SELL the original
sponsor of the candidate and the who controls the
vote of nationality class, who has the negro Ger
man. Italian Hebrew labor vote in his vest pocket
all these types still swarnng about the national
committee headquarters like flies about sugar "bar1'
but the Chairman has departmenzed the work OF the
campaign with able lieutenants at the heads of his
bureaus and the harebraned scheners well as the
politician coming to plan consult to receive advice
or give information to the state of pubic thought
in this or that locality which the national commit
tee has supervisory oversight is sfted to the