Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-10
Presses Run necessarily to Turn Out Amount of
 ... .ss.a Matter Required.
CAMPAIGN DOCUMENTS
Literature of Purely Political Na- lure ordered Printed Ry Congress
 nj Government Expenses.
fBY SIDNEY ESP PFYi

Washington 0ct. a.-Fifty million count 'em-fifty m Ilion-mssiles If political warfare have been manutae- tured and hurried to the firing line on he campaign upon which fhe na- ton has embarked for the salvation of the counmy-and. incidentally, sew esaI hundred seats in the House of Representatives and he Senate.
 This $ the tally of the output of Washington great peluicaI ammuni- ion Iacfory. or rather it will be the rally before the campaign is over ac- cording to one of the expect manu- lecturers engaged in the work.
 T9'e present summer is the quad fennial season of special rest and quiat ar the nations capital-5he presidential election years. Senators, representatives, cabinet officers, in shert every official big enough 10 get away witaour bein missed from The complex machine of Uncle Sans gov ernmpnt, nas 6etaken himself home 10 attend 10 the mend3ng of his po- iltieal fences and 10 make sure that the Sal River Steamers which IS due always 10 sail on the first Tues day tier ha first Monday in Novem- Der 5res not include ais name an IS pass anger list.
 In governmental Washington if is Il ,gar all night in the night time" and every day is Sunday. save n the ammunition factory. the great bsildfng of he government printing 3ifice at the corner of North Capitol and H streets. northwest. There is it day aI day in the daytime and there IS 10 Sunday The rumbling mach nery whirrs necessarily and tired shift is replaced by another shift indifferent as to all times of day or night Wagons flash in, re- ceive their bulky cargoes and rumble off "a the nearby railroad station O retu Il n few minutes for more. All night long from the many ITS of windows that pierce the ren-storied building the electro-mercurtc lights fling their blue glare far over he sleeping city. silhoueting 10 the gaze of the daybreak pedestrians and sweltlng workers as they fit back ard forth at their tasks. It is the business place in t2e Caised States i is business, magnitude multiplied. flied O the Nth power.
 And there is necessity for it's haste for ta5s glant ammunition factory must turn out The main supply of missiles and proiectiIes for the battles in hls. he hottest campaign that ever added warmth to q super-heated summer. And nor TO one but to all aelligerants must it supply their ma- -erjal made according to models ap- proved by fhe veteran warriors Of rhe political arena and Fashioned o sult the ndividusl ability of The fighter or tse particular form of the fighting the battle may assume in diff fereat sections of he country Here will Ge found avery form of literary weapon from the small aaustic leaf let containing but q paragraph of sat re shat Dierces like a steel-ieek- eted bullet 10 the heavy hundred page solid shot carefully compiled from statistics or the ora orical bomb shell. loaded last winter by some far seeing political general on the floor of the House or Senate with q view of b1rsting this summer and scatter ing destruction and dlsmay n some distant stronghold of me enemy. Greaf sheafs of gumentative ar rows to be shot from the stump are urnea out by the hundred thousands and shipped at once 10 the waiting
 political archer. while n the store #roems row upon row of statistical tables. pregnant Wirh death O the as-
 praHons Of political opponents , 8 ana ranked like so many cartridge , clips of the Mauser rifle. ready to be reauisit oned by .he captains in he
 field Indeed the only sign which
 need he hung over the door of the 5 Government Printing Office al the : present time s Ammunition served at aI hours.
 + is principally for the 400 odd representatives in Congress that this
 legior Of literary shot and shell is
 manufactured, many of them vii
 come up for reelection this fall ane
 re-ebectdon means the necessity oi
 gaining votes Votes to follow thu
 sequerce to it's source, need con