El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-12-02

since 1912 No sooner did Kremer book
a speaker than the itinerary was hand
ed to the press bureau and we shot
speech in advance TO every town any
, where near the speaking date.
The speech was marked for release
. at a certain hour governed by whether
the schedule called for an afternoon
{ or evening talk As a result we got
in dozen places by sending his speech
I TO nearby points
The strike Comes Up.
Then the strike situation came up.
we told the farmer what d would
mean TO him TO have the transpOrta-
ton facilities OF the country tied up.
Hughes was in Colorado playing golf
during the crisis and IN our office We
laid odds, based upon his tactics thus
far. that he would say nothing. but
would take a second guess. as Billy
Evans, the umpire. says, after the pres
ident had acted to prevent panic The
second gUessers," as Evans saws, al
ways know how TO win the Old ball
game.
Wughes kept silent when a word
from him would have talked the Adam
son bill to death in the senate In my
opinion that silence cost the candidate
100000 farmer votes. judging by the
way he hammered the bin after it
passed. The farmer sure likes TO
know where YOU stand on anything
Failure to shake the hand OF one Hi
in the broad MONDAY sun where every
body could see. cost the judge couple
more votes in my opinion-bUL oh, you
second guessers,
The WOmen's Special.
Soon after this the real fun OF the
campaign came along to relieve the
strain-namely and towit, the Hughes
WOmen's Special That idea was the
best thing the Democratic national
committee did not think OF. If YOU do
not think so. shut your eyes and look
n the map Now, remember the route
Well. Mr. Wilson carried every suffrage
state the train went into but two-Or-
egOn and IllinOis-and he carried al
most all the rest where the train
touched Just to give the dOpester
some thing to dream about, two states
that turned down the suffrage question
on November went RepuhEcau-We est
Virginia and South Dakota. What do
you make of that, WatsOn2 VIII the
congressman OF Republican states vote
for a federal amendment for sufIra ge-
Yes. they will not
With the train trip a matter Of his
tory the press bureau started in 10
cinch the votes the train had made for
Wilson. Interviews with Jane Adams.
of Hull House; Mary Mcdowell the
stockyards social worker; Antoinette
Funk. leading worker of the Progress
sive party Of Illinois; Ella FlagE
Young. former superintendent of
schools of Chicago. and dozen other
widely known women were sent broad
cast throughout the west. telling why
they were for the reelection Of the
president
Using the Papers.
The exchanges were watched with
hawkIike eyes. If John Smith. ira
northern Wisconsin. who had voted the
Republican ticket all his life. came out
for Wilson. Topeka, Los Angeles Sc
attic and Winnemucca editors found a
paragraph about II on their desk the
next morning These shorts or I'LL
ers" fit in the little corners and help
justify the bottoms of the columns
Therefore. the editors used them nine
times out Of ten and every time one
was used it made an impression on
somebody. Thus the hammeTing on the
west 10 which the opposition paid little
or no attention was kept up until the
morning of the election
On the other hand. many q red hot
interview was suppressed for fear IL
might wake up the enemy For in
stance the postmaster of Sacramento
told me right after the Hughes trip
that Wilson would lose Los Angeles 10y
20 O00 would carry san Francisco Toy
10000 and that the northern half Of
the state would beat the rest Of Cali
fOrnia by 5000. thus giving Callfor-
MAS IS electoral votes to wilson The
postmaster backed this Up with a can
voss of the counties, but We dld NOT
allow the figures 10 get out or the
postmaster to be seen by reporters for
fear the Republicans would go TO
work in California. In passing the
postmaster missed il by only 1000 in
the state that gave Johnson for seHa-
tor around 100000
CALIFORNIA; Case.
Here is another case of "hittin'
where they amt" Gavin McNab, the
campaign manager on the Pacific
coast. said in August not TO spend
cent in the Golden state He said II
was no use. The day Hughes left the
state McNab jumped on a train and
gauoped into headquarters. There he
demanded all the literature and all the
money senator Walsh had AZ his com
mand We've got en- he said. "all
We need is the knockout punch From
that moment every energy was pointed
no reporter was allowed to know that
McNab was anywhere but in his home
state.
Senator Shaffroth. Of Colorado.
brought IN some confidential figures
that showed his state would 20 for
Wilson by at least $4,000. The figures
were filed away and the senator shooei
back home We sent out paragraph
on his visit with the statement that
everything looked all right in Colo
another remarkable campaign was
conducted by Fred J. Wheaton in Min
nesota. 1t is so remarkable that u is
another story. suffice TO say here that
where the state stood
The Button Man
All this time We were making lot
Of noise in Illinois. Michigan. Indiana
and Wisconsin. Our chief aid IN this
was the button man. = button man
would call TO get business He would
hear a lot of talk about Illinois. Tndi-
ana and Michigan He would get an
order for 500 600 buttons. Then h.
would jump into taxi and knock down
two or three traffic cops getting TO the
Republican headquarters. There he
would tell how the Democrats could
not supply the demand for buttons in
Illinois Soon he would he followed by
the lithoman with 4 similar story and
a similar order. The Republicans would
get New York on the telephone and as
a result page advertisement for
Hughes would APPEAR in the Chicago
papers. Now 30 percent of this circu-
lation is within five miles of the
loop" While they were shooting their
money this way we were busy sending
the buttons and the Autographs to
Nebraska, Kansas. Utah. North Dakota,
any two of whose electoral votes al
most equaled those OF Illinois
After Ford Owners.
Henry Ford said; The eight hour
day IS a good thing and I can prove it,
the opposition screamed at big en-
ployers in the east The western head