The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-20
DEMOCRATIC NOTES
 OF TIMELY NOTE
Whats Doing in the Realm of
 National Politics

New York, Aug. N.-There is cloud of songs lowering over the American people; mot the old, home songs, but the campaign songs that come into being every four years.
 The crop that has been reaching Democratic National headquarters ds larger. than usual this year.
 Josephus Daniels, chairman of the publicity committee, does not claim to be musician, but he has been giving due attention to each author, until he has acquired the habit of humming various tunes It became a case of either humming while talking to his callers and answering his avalanche of letters or turning the songs over to one of the employees of the publicity bureau Ia
 A winsome young stenographer was found who said she could play the piano just as-well as she could use the typewriter. For two days she played tunes after office hours, but today it was found she was writing her letters in B sharp or F flat and should not employ a regular editor to select the songs for the campaign.
 If a Congressional committee ever cares to investigate the National Dem- ocratic Committee Campaign Fund of 1912, they will find one entry on the cash books of Treasurer Rolla Wells that he will be unable to give any 1n- formation about.
 In his morning mail, Treasurer wellss found a dollar bill, in a highly scented spiece of letter paper and was signed "Only a Sufrigette. ' This was duly entered on the books.
 
 A political headquarters during a National campaign is about the last place a man would expect to spend a vacation, but that is what William Rufus Hollister, private secretary to Senator Stone of Missouri Is doing.
 Mr. Hollister is in Chairman Mc- Combs private office, and to him falls the duty of answering many of the letters that reach headquarters. MT. Hollister was selected for theimport- ant post, because he has reputation in Washington of being able to keep a half dozen stenograp aphers busy writing letters
 But I am having vacation" ex- p1ained MT. Hollister from behind a yard of high letters. Senator Stone every four years, declares it is wrong for any one to eat or sleep
 "A political battle is like war to him. He goes on the theory that a man is engaged Tn real war, when the shot and shells are doing business, has no time to stop to eat or sleep. A po- litfcal fight is like war to Senator Stone, so he refuses to eat or sleep until the victory is won.''
 That's why I am sort of glad to get into the busy headquarters. I will at least, get some sleep and I can eat now and then"
 But there is another reason why MT. Hollister is glad to come to New York. MT. Hollister's own family and Sena- tor Stone are about the only people who know his middle name is Rufus. He is not happy over that middle name-Rufus-as MT. Hollister comes from Jefferson City, Mo.
 When Senator Stone is about to buckle on his sword and get real busy in a National campaign, he forgets his private secretary's dislike for his middle name, and starts calling him Rufus"
 when Hollister hears Rufus said Colonel Thomms Jones Pence, he knows the famous Missouri Senator is starting to forget his dislike for Rufus and also to forget to eat or sleep.
 The Ladies' World, one of the Mo Cure publications, just completed a political contest in their magazine.
 In a letter to Sh7trmaF MScoRahA