El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-15
BUSINESS ME- H0DS IN POLITICS;
HOW ANTS HAVE RUN CAMPAIGN
Everything Has Been Take Up in Busnessike Man
ner and the Work Has Been Done With Method and
System; a Perfect Working Organization Has
Been in Charge of Fight For LEAFS Ticket

In addition to this general checking
system. the secret service committee
maintained regular watchers at the
county collectors office to see that no
fictitious receipts were issued and TO
check all who had paid g poll tax. All
OF these results were reported, tabulated
and filed at the general headquarters
for future reference IN the campaign.
The Speaking Arrangements.
After the candidates on the anti ring
ticket were nominated at mass meet
ing the work Of organizing the speak
ing campaign started. Headquarters
were established in each precinct IN
charge Of paid and volunteer workers
Speaking dates were assigned to each OF
these precincts and speakers were as
signed to these meetings, which were
held each week at the start OF the
general campaign and later increased
to daily and nightly conferences win
freuuent speakingS by the downtown
and local orators. A campaign mana
ger was selected in the person Of Eu-
gene Harris He has been devoting his
whole time to the work and has his
private office at the general headquar-
tiers downtown Under his direction are
the precinct managers. These precinct
managers have charge of the work in
their precincts and have, working IN
der their direction block captains who
also had committees working in each
block of each precinct to get out the
vote Transfers from one precinct to
another were checked by these commit
tees and the final poll lists were pre-
pared after the poll tax payments had
closed. These lists were also copied
by the corps of six stenOgraphers at
headquarters and lists furnished all of
the paid and volunteer workers.
The Publicity Campaign.
Next came the general publicity and
advertising campaign. which was
handled by experts Publicity matter
TO ha of no = q ion
were prepared by trained writer's for
publication in the newspapers, adver-
tisements of mass and precinct meet
ings were prepared for publication and
the list of candidates inserted for pub
LEGATION in each issue of each paper un-
til after election. Printed matter was
mailed out to the names on the voting
lists, postcard notices of meetings were
sent out and a great volume OF litera-
ture was prepared Tor maulng during
the final week Of the campaign.
This routine work completed, the last
and most vital matter that Of actually
getting the voters to the polls, was
taken uD by committee OF political
managers of long experience. All day
Sunday the final lists were checked over
at headquarters and every voter as
signed to someone in the organization to
see that he gets to the polls and gets
there as early as possible.
The Supreme Effort.
The final supreme effort will be to
get out the vote early and a flying
squadron has been organized to cover
the entire city while the precincts were
assigned in such a way that no one
would be overlooked. The work Of these
committees has been tactful as there
have been no buttOnhOling of voters
asking them to vote for the anti ring
candiUctns- Instead the voters have
been solicited as public spirited citi-
Zens, to be sure to vote Tuesday Ar
guments in favor OF the anti ring cam
didates were advanced in a tactful way.
Over 200 WORKERS.
There have been more than 200 paid
and volunteer workers engaged in the
clubs organization work. A battery
of eight telephones have been in con-
slant use at headquarters with branch
phones at the precinct headquarters.
Automobiles have been in service for
the speaqers and precinct workers and