Evening star., 1912-07-21

becomes the scene of violent debate: but when the
session breaks up the party zeot fired as to
turn at the polls as the election day.
In various rural districts throughout New York State
and New England the vote has been increased by
eral thousand through the SpellbnderS timely call to
A veteran spelbnders testimony is of interest. He
said he had become very Skeptcal of the theory that
"the hushed attention of the great multitude is the
truest his experience tending prove that the truest
usually from audiences that intended to vote the
other way: that the most enthusiastic meeting al
the successful On the of election he
rushed doubtful Yankee district, and encountered
the empty front and strangely quiet audience of
New England, which such a terrible trial to the
speakers used to the swift response and close
faces of the West and South The proverbia pin might
have been heard to drop while he spoke and beyond
half dozen politicians on the stage nobody applauded
His speech however increased the vote OF his party
the following day nearly fifty per cent.
VARIOUS familiar and picturesque types are GER
tainly lacking from presentday campaigning. The
day has surely passed when, to quote Aremus Ward,
every haphazard politician is "on the stump bin his
clothes and abusn' his neghbors"; noticeably and
pahetically these days the soldiers,
planting the eagle in the stars with talk of battle;
while reegaed almost entirely to phonograph records
the rather sloppy panegyrc of the oldschool political
revivast, compounded of patriotism, pers1age, and
promise, which calculated to bring sentimental
clutch the throat but when boiled down left nothing
but a ringing in the
Certain stock types of campaign oratory, too
far in the past that they look like pictures of hoopskrs
compared with plates of hobbleskrts construct
i've type who points with pride" the angel plumage
his partys back who lifts up the patron saints of its
beneicent policy, demonstrating that they have noble
qualities enough throw at the birds and then have
some left, and weaving chaplets of rhetorical flowers
about the candidates haloed head; and the destruct
i've type, archpessmist who has apparently taken
in misery and unhappiness and @vews with
alarm the country, 3skidding to socialism, awaiting to
anarchy, rushing to ruin, and chasing calamity, who
gous gee reviews all the great panics since the ounda
ton of the Republic, foreseeng and foretelng repe
tition of them if the other party is to rule.
Such picturesque features" have become small by
degrees and beautifully less" They filled no ballot
boxes and practical people despite occasional
emotionas1n The leaders found that the people
tired of the gtteng generates of the average political
buncombe they not to be herded by party lash
stampeded with political claptrap from the stump.
Therefore, the modern spellbinder, the "mercenary"
you WILL like the of business, the soldier, the Sal
walton Army evangelist, concerns himself more with
results than conventional methods with matter rather
than form. He is who has something to say and
knows how to say it well. He is logical, cold emphatic.
and makes his points by telling pithy facts and figures
clearly fairly, and succnctly stated. So far it pos
sbe for his manager the chief of the speakers bureau
to mold him, his speeches within Froudes brief
definition of Casars style where he says that the Roman
spoke without ornament but directly to the purpose
DEPARTED, indeed, are the days when the greater
= part of national campaign the mere sizzling of
youthful exuberance to whoop her up and et nature
caper" when the ideal argument consisted in parade
of several miles length and twenty bands OF music
procession with brass band will, of course always
carry conviction in America; but do not respond
steadily formerly to the Hurrah Boys method of
pagnng Cone too, much of the glamour and prestige
of the giant outdoor rally at night that all American
political threerng circus where the cang and chroma
c drone of the sreetcar and the catchy phrase of the
rereshment vender mnge with the orators Herculean
effort to be heard until the audience departs with
fused general impression that "The-crec oficialbu
tonof the-judciary veabag forced
byt peanus-fresh- e-moneyof
the-peepu"
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