Show the Dam Campaign a s On the second floor ol or the thc Auditorium flee building In Chicago the Demo Democratic cratic national committee Is at work with one or the largest and beet baet trashed trained forces ever employed by a political poll or of organization orb b The walls wails are festooned with flags s and decorated with the portraits portrait of Wa tf ashington Lincoln Dewey Schley Hancock Tilden Bryan Y and Stevenson Banners Ita announce hospitably that every J I ill ll U I r rI r I I 1 1 o e i f Y I f I I I Trying to Form a Passage s southern body 7 ih Is n welcome colonels e f the Here ward congregate d politicians politicians la the thes th thi free silver sliver enthusiasts the local ci 0 of 1 lt holders nd lastly the cranks that always haunt ha nt every ev ry public place The rhe utmost good fellowship prevails and the shirtwaist man Is s conspicuous There are art plenty of chairs chAIn and a tank of iced water IF Ic provided Here in the blue smoke of many pipes R cigars and stogies sto les the situation sit situation situation discussed dl and here the story stor teller iIer re ails incidents in campaigns of lii I e ago Of course e every one of the visitors that call daily wants to see e Senator James K I Jones chairman of the Demo 1 cratic national committee but the aver average average average age man Js is easily pacified if he can see Bee some one who Is 18 near the chairman of the Democratic national committee It is 16 Colon Colonel r 1 John I Martin of Missouri the who manages the crowds and makes every voter feel that he is one of the chief bulwarks of the thu party As a diplomat Colonel Martin IP is I preer With his staff of eight I ht as assistants assistants trained to respond l instantly to toan any an signal he lie conducts what is a peren perennial perennial I nial love feast among those who Ire fre fluent Quant the outer courts of the national Democracy It is II Colonel Martin who re rt receives receives calves all the cranks It is he to whom all the campaign poems and the disser dissertations dissertations dissertations on the tyranny of trusts are presented pre presented In the course of a week half han a aton aton aton ton of manuscripts are personally ten tendered tendered tendered dered with th assurance that if they are aro accepted for far publication as campaign literature no remuneration will be asked Chairman and His Chief Assistants Chairman Jones is at his desk from twelve to fourteen hours a day da Prompt Promptly ly at half past 1 i in the morning he walks through the great corridor and shuts himself In his ills spacious office e where he applies himself to his varied duties with witha a marvelous concentration and energy AtS At S 8 he holds a conference with C A t Walsh of Iowa the secretary of the Democratic national committee and lind J JW JV JW W V Johnson of Kansas chairman pt t the theo executive o committee It is iJ these three throe men upon unon whom devolves the chief re responsibility responsibility of making the party machin machinery ery do the most mot effective service They rhey superintend the routine duties of oJ nearly OO employees em lo ees As Aa secretary of the Democratic na national national committee ommittee Mr Walsh Is in charge of all the departments into which the organization work Is divided Next to his private office is the department of ways and means which keeps account of alt all contributions and looks after attar the col collection collection collection lection of all pledges a task Involving a tremendous amount of detail Mr Walsh WaLh has Introduced a card catalogue system into this and other departments which greatly simplifies the routine duties As Ash Asel each check h for money Is acknowledged a I with a receipt el ir ira and a J thanks the letter ft writing In the ways and means bureau keeps k eps a large corps of stenographers en engaged engaged The bureau also employs a staff stan of solicitors All the departments are arc dependent upon the department of organization which isto Is in to charge char e of W A Deford It is said that this department has bas been busy since the tho election returns ot of 1895 1536 were received It has succeeded In effecting one of the most perfect systems ever adopted In the history histon of campaign work for it works through precinct representatives This means that th t there are workers direct directly ly h appointed by b the national Democratic committee These precinct representatives representatives tives are aro carefully chosen from among the most active a and best qualified adi ad e f fa the f p art v t They are edin lade inde independent I pendent of all local Issues and they are ara arain j jit In direct ct touch with the t national committee com i I ctT ui re ret it To T facilitate the ten work of In instruction the Working Democracy a i iw weekly w paper s published and sent to earn representative who is required to topa pay pa a yearly yearl subscription of 2 2 for the publication The paper makes personal correspondence unnecessary for it gives uniform instruction ri to every ever man In the I great army arm Y of workers work ers Incidentally it i adds the campaign fund 1 Ambitious to Enter Political Arena I IThe The speakers listing bureau is Js one of I the busiest at the headquarters To this i bureau all ambitious orators apply and and their number is legion They Theare are required to fill out blanks giving their names ages ases qualifications QualificatIon experience and an estimate of their effectiveness This last Is sometimes surprising not to 10 say weird Modesty is not the besotting besetting sin of or the political orator Hundreds of applications I are aro received daily by letter and ana scores of speakers make personal pleas plear I for fg tc campaign c engagements m It Is here W that t the crank seeks recognition The broken down preacher the superannuated d actor tho the college valedictorian the youthful lawyer the street fakir and the girl elocutionist all ask for forr opportunities to enter the arena Some Som of these orators are so persistent that they succeed in passing the sergeant and gaining admittance to the secretary A man with long hair and a Byronic cellar col cel collar collar lar one warm day dap cla Interviewed Mr Walsh on the possibility Of or obtaining a chance to o speak sr eak for Bryan The orator ot tor had ona on ona a shiny frock r coat r and nd he swelled out the t bosom of a a frayed Shirt as he posed be before before before fore the busiest man in the headquarters Sir I 1 am not only a speaker of more more than local fame but I am a poet he said I have haye composed a a few lines be beginning beginning ginning lets clasp each other by b the hand a fine unbroken band and stand to together together together gether as one man that would be sure to catch eaten an on audience The secretary was occupied with the weekly pay roll He looked up from a long I column of f figures and said sal h quickly Go Into the next room add and fill till out an application blank Be sure to state your qualifications There is ito trouble about my m exper In public speaking declared the orator approaching the tho desk and pounding his fist on the leaf that ex extended extended extended tended out at atone one side I have been an auctioneer for ten years My ly persuasive power is a gift as rare as It Is valuable Put it down in the blank said Mr Walsh and the man went away and wrote himself a recommendation that would have been baggy on Demosthenes In addition to the speakers listing bureau there Is a separate department that assigns assi ns the orators to the various districts where they are most needed in charge harge of Daniel 1 Mc Conville of f Ohio It ItIs t Is expected that in the Ithe next two months not less than 2000 speakers will be sent gent ent out to all parts of the United States St tej Mr McConville has al with the men t who have nave been duly dul accepted as able to stir or 01 Inspire audiences with a desire to vote for Bryan and But his office e duties demand the h exer se of great patience Many lIan P the th f speakers are so full of the eloquence they are anxious to pour out for the benefit be benefit of the voters that they insist upon giving him specimen ex 1 t tt t i rr I S I i i l I h 1 i 1 Ii IiI I r Trying It on i he a Musical Musi Critic tracts of addresses add op Oll op free freo silver militarism SIJ sm or ar the But Buthe Buthe Buthe I he Is a long suffering and politic p man manI and he manages to p avoid throwing ee coX cot f I water on the of patriotic emotion Among the men who gained access to him recently was one who ho wore a sombrero j I corduroy trousers trou ers and ond a blue flannel shirt I The stranger was of fine physique and ills his I I bronzed oen face ff e determined e r look fo that t tI suggested the possible possession of a re revolver revolver revolver I volver Wanted to Challenge Roosevelt I Im from Texas T sah said the strang stranger er folding his arms and looking significantly cantly toward a chair I have come to offer you a suggestion sah sail and I reckon you ou all will be grateful when you hear what It is I have a scheme tha ll knock knockout knockout knockout I out Teddy Tedd Roosevelt sos he wont be beable beable beable able to cut anymore any more of his rough ridin antics air Mr Conville was Interested He asked I the tha man Inan to explain Was Val said sald tae trie stranger youre likely I to have political debates aint you Now I have a new sort of a proposition 1 want to meet Teddy in a o rough ridin con contest contest test es Teddy d dont t know no n more r about a buckin cJ bronco r than t when he knows t about g politics politic Some night ithe when he has been beena a p about the strenuous life and the storm of San Juan hill hm I 1 want a a ac chance c ance to challenge him to ride a mile taco raco on a buckin buc in bronco It hes run sin his is campaign o on a cavalry horse he J made to show what he kin kindo kindo ought ou ht to be j do I tell you OU three minutes on a buckin bronco would show him what a strenuous Ilife I j Ilife life is LB Try to arrange a meeting between us cant you The man bit off a big chew of tobacco i j jand and waited calmly calm for a decision f from om the manager of the speakers spa bureau He Hp j I Iwas was told that his proposition would be presented to Senator Jones and the ex executive executive executive committee I Documents By the Million The literary bureau Is one of the most Important maintained by the committee I It employs writers who have made reputations reputations reputations along the political and economic lines linesa les These men prepare the matter for forthe forthe I Ithe the folders fold rs and campaign documents that tha I Iare Iare are printed by the wholesale On the reg regular j I jular ular staff are Judge W B Fleming or ot j I Kentucky George H Shiveley of New NewYork NewYork York author of The Money Question and George Schilling the labor leader I The press bureau In charge of Willis J Abbott is quite independent of or the liter literary literary ary an bureau In addition to its English f department It t has a German department a Hebrew department and Bohemian and Scandinavian departments that have not I yet been fully full organized Every Ever week the theft press bureau issues eighty columns r of plate ft and a ready print r matter rii r for fg the noun coun country U I try 1 press It publishes also a weekly pa perthe 1 National Democrat which goes to t all the Democratic papers of the coun noun country country try Mr Abbott Is assisted by nine ed editors editors editors The document department which circulates circulates circulates lates the literature prepared for cam campaign campaign purposes u does e such a wholesale ls business that eft it has h to o h have separate ep ac accommodations accommodations In the build building lag ing Dearborn street This Is In charge of ot W vr R C Kenyon Kenon who superintends the handling h of millions minions of documents every month An Important branch of the bureau Is maintained in Washington where all the franked matter consisting of speeches delivered In congress and clippings from the government reports arid and the Congressional Record are pre prepared prep prepared pared p red So closely associated with the Demo cretin cratic national committee as to be a part of it t Is the western branch of the National Na National a Association Asso of Democratic clubs of which W R Hearst is president Louis Stevenson son of the candidate for vice ce president has charge Mr department is the goal of the song writ writers writers ers and composers who have music they are anxious to donate for the The number of pseudo musicians who feel moved to write marches and choruses in presidential year is astonishing Men and women carrying sheets of or music be besiege bEsiege besiege siege the doors They are free silver slIver quicksteps Republican dirges marches and Bryan hymns of victory offered ott red by the score Some of these se compositions belong to the class known as descriptive musIc and some ex extraordinary extraordInary examples of realism In sound are submitted for consideration Among Anon these composers the ones whose efforts s were accented ac In 96 are the most pre severins severing and insistent The man that dedicated ded dedicated a Sixteen to One Gallop to the Cowboy band of Tin Cup Colo elbows thu t woman that wrote the song Jus Justic I tica tiCO tic Frowns on Hannas Gold for the mixed chorus at Weeping Water Neb All compositions are received for exam examination As the musical contributions vary from front to fifty a day It Is 13 not likely that a majority of them will get a nubile hearing During his bis working hours at the head headquarters headQuarters headquarters quarters Senator Jon Jones s sits at it a large square desk so arranged arran ed that his secre mere secretary tary tUY can an n face him The chairman of af the Democratic national committee Is ac accessible accessible accessible to many persons who feel It t ab absolutely absolutely absolutely essential to their Democratic well ell being to shake the hand of oC the man who vho Is directing the campaign When Inter Interrupted interrupted Senator Jones rises for a moment shakes hands cordially and says a few in inspiring inspiring words to his visitors Then he re returns returns returns turns to his labors I Notwithstanding all the tact and alert alertness alertness I Iness ness of the many cranks manage man ge to steal the time of the famous man from Arkansas The politician politician politician cian from the back country countr who carries the vote yote of d his district In his vest pocket is a perennial nuisance He has a letter of Introduction from his congressman and he calls prepared to spend an hour or two Colonel Martin adroitly takes charge of af him and manages to Introduce him to some other ather back county politician so that they have an opportunity to expend their conversational energy upon each other Unappreciated Genius One of the back county members from Missouri succeeded in obtaining an in interview interview interview with Senator Jones Tones by b presenting letters that vouched for his industry as a worker for the Democratic party After having a heated interview with a member of the staff of the the theman theman man mart carried a large valIse in with him hum He deposited his valise aUse on the floor flour as carefully as if It had been packed with eggs After shaking hands bands he said n Senator since I X became a voter vote I have f resented great gret unwashed ti that ignominious i epithet the i r applied to our r party arty by hy J a 1 our I have here 4 t a bright W Ids Idea J that i will 1 f forever r that damned cl un i Just title J j Tho Tn m mn o ee ned his valise 1 and took t from It two parcels enveloped In tissue i J l paper He slowly unwound the wrappings wrapping i and then n set two W |