Show T THE HE CAMPAIGN mm BUTTON reeds was the ahe first production of the year CRISP HAS A NEAT WREATH it Is made of 0 southern laurel dor cor mans button of tin in red white and Is 15 a capa cod fish Whit whitneys odd button of brains 1101 boiton tou has haa a BS big brass button butacan wear two tiny buttons ot of their leader A tad fad ot of the campaign Cory richt hv by nyman interview syndicate A few diya days before the benjamin harrlson harrison edding a political club having for its object tile domination aa of another member of the iho same party as harris harrlson 0 n it and n 1 I JC ar I 1 n g H harrisons Harrl art is ons sons strength began to circulate small email buttons bearing the inscription benjamin benjam M in harrlson harrison Is in not my man to this the harrison society in that town promptly prod produced U ce al buttons a bize larger than the others and made of 0 P f hills silk button better material upon them there was the mystic information U n H Is all lacht phoso buttons were worn by the embers in the cappels of 0 their spring overcoats and wore were shown with pride to all who passed by the making of tile the political button for or campaign purposes has become so 80 much ot of an industry that for or many months the he manufacture rit have been getting ready for them out once in four years yea rs they devote their time exclusively to the political cai button industry tho the campaign campal button bulton proper does docs not c come 0 me to light until otter the noal botlon 7 a if 0 i for the iho presidency dency in juno june or july hut but long before that you may alley see political buttons upon tile the coats coals of on en politicians tho have kotten gotten them out either cither to boom their own candidates or to show ular what hat prophets they were mip Nin THE BUTTONS the manufacture 0 of tile the button li 13 1 3 conducted conduct rd lu ju a pecullar peculiar way by those who make a business of 0 get the most button ting it out they provide designs for buttons for or almost any canak candidate date that may be nominated they will bay have buttons for reed heed mckenley allason find and morann and buttons for or hill gorman Gor nian carlisle crisp anil and olney bi be alls hidas that chat they will have blank buttons lit ID chich v any other name may lie be inserted jn in case the la lark horse comes up tip at the convention knit and gets ecla tile nomination they pay for or a doxen de kigns and await it gieir time 10 or getting one out As ah soon as tile the news of 0 ili the e nomination Is mired over the country tilt buttons are turned oft by tile the th thousands ou sands 1 5 1 l YR L IS the birst of t he campaign n ight and day and started in boe bocey on OIL their way to tho the different cities others are arc turned off and still others thou rands upon thousands and thousands more it II seems as though there might be enough buttons to supply tile the whole country with tappet ornaments even if every woman and baby were to weir one and if the country be unanimous for one man for two weeks after tho the nomination the express cars are full ot of boxes of campaign buttons and inside a 0 month every shop every campaign club and every pocket of every wire puller is 3 stuffed with the little button for use at the right time then the manufacture of the buttons stops and tho the campaign button industry is dull for four years but in that months month a time enough b buttons tu it have ve been made to bring brine a very large and ami profitably profitable proFit ablo table sum into the pockets of tile the maker BUTTONS YOU NOW SEE the way the advance campaign button 14 Is made la in an interesting inac thing thine tor for those who see the little button mysteriously circulated and wonder where it comes from take that button ot of 6 Gor bormans mans artistic badge Alli sons that hall haa appeared on the streets now biow ltd did it conic there who made it II where ill 11 it come from who has ha s 4 got it for sale to all of these I 1 questions boaya answers 1 I dont I 1 inov novt As a rulo rul though tills Is not definite definitely stated staled to be true of the allison but ton the andl bidual himmele hirni lf has hn tilt tho button made As soon boon as a mans name Is prominently mentioned for the presidency al ncy there la Is sent to him by a button manufacturer a very I letty desik dealan ll for v HE HE BEP C N 0 lui P laurel wreath for crisp a campaign button willi the design la 14 the that he the do dealer cut n oft off of the buttons as aa samples they can lie be taken or not na as the candidate may desire the button is such a pretty thing go 0 o well conceived and so BO flattering in its ita ot of leadership r that the candidate orders the 10 unhesitatingly what v ill lie he do with them ts Is tile the next question and one which la Is em cm even to himself when tile the buttons arrive in their little packets each button done don up tip in tissue s eoma a lend of the candidate bees then them i and a poe packet ket of 0 them he 9 alvea I 1 them away others want them admirers d from all over tile the country them and uk for metal and nd to 10 the t le buttons get and silently around rou d without money and without price that Is 19 tho the average channel of 0 the A 44 mckinl rites wear two of these advance campaign button which you now see sec upon the street tills this year the political contest Is going boing to be sharp and severe and the political societies not to be behind in representation have been retting getting out their own buttons this means that sti st I 1 4 harrisons Harrl sons defiant button this or that volunteers have ordered dl delans ns for a button with S such acl and suchs name upon it ichen lien they have selected the lite design they still w III have several hundred thousand of the buttons made thase they will alc away to the poor and gell ell them to those who halo five cents to spare A HILL BUTTON A very characteristic hill button was shown the other night to bonic adinor admirers of 0 the senator it has the 1 I an am a democrat done Idone in blak letters upon a background thu tho button was 0 silk lilt awl ami the lite lett elit v was as done by machine with black silk on oil the eanie battle principle that a hag flag Is stamped the ine color colorbio cof orlim bix upon hills taco face was anas remar remarkably good A silk ilk button like this costs the society ordering it almost 5 cents apiece no matter how many buttons aro are I 1 bought anu and as they sell fat only B G cents it can be q seen it in IW patriotism alone that prompts tho or 0 tile the buttons all the fancy goods shops hops c carry arry the campaign buttons the P period ellaa erlaa 11 between election and nomination and have them tor for sale ealo the pattie fame as the political it Is th the business hu of the societies to keep the stores stocked with thora them and also to offer slight premiums n for I 1 those huse sold if 1 a cc call number are cleaned out before it a C certain ertain date the next nent lot of 0 butto bulsons rag will nill be sold old low enough to give the prosperous dealer a greater profit W Whit whitneys ando very often the palo eale of 0 tile the button Is entirely in the hands ot of the political party parly at lie who thus becomes the iho jobber or middle man for the 1 whole hole country taking taeng the buttons adli directly estly from rom the manufacturer and distributing til then them often the button li 19 intensely sectional an ail olney lutton brought out from the dolthes leilh loi lh of a designers lina flag a 9 great losli upon it swimming te MC hencly along between n olney and I 1 mass A design like this being I 1 is I 1 understood by all and la Is a I 1 grea kocat t favorite tn jai the state at least I 1 and tillo often l in the he entire country i JO r to of f nebraska bebr it a c could 0 I 1 1 r not have ft more 0 ig efat button thal than i illie the tre and vines he has flag propagated so ao industriously during lila ills entire career and cip jublle labile A L gruesome c button la 13 the whitney turned out to a smiling birla the first sunshiny day of 0 spring it hal bad the simple inscription branni Bral Brai nil ni whit neyl nut but between the two words bori there was it mottled heart shaped drawing supposed to represent the sub stance referred to all lit could gaze upon sir envy ir whitney a brains who would anil envy or admire HIT strangely enough this little button buttmi lial had an almost magical effect in bul bual n acsa ncsa ess circles it was visit applauded aoa and pronounced the best thing 0 of the season but uptown among the leisure classed claa aes tho the woman it was less ICES liked it Is predicted though that hat such fauch a button would win a vote at chero hero a merely funny ono would not A plain button with bormans Gor mang mans bust upon it peering through space as though breaking through all opposition 0 A typical state button and proclaiming itself has breen been do 01 signed by an artist who Is buy bogy dar and night upon buttons for different candidates and societies ills hla plan for or this button Is to in ake it of 0 tin in with the red white and blue enamelled enamel led upon it the circle around bormans Gor mans head la Is while the lines upon it blue and the lettering Is rod red the stars are NI white alte german corman ix head Is outlined in black A southern arthal designs aro af round found upon many useful as well wi 11 as a I 1 ornate buttons has produced ca a nee neat I 1 celluloid lutton button for or crisp of georgia it has been ordered manufactured ainu by a southern political goof society ay its design crisp lears laars our laurel wreath Is ii delicately toll told by a branch of 0 green tho the celluloid Is stamped with ith black und and except for or a a rim of 0 blue and red running ono one inside the other the lite button shows no hint 0 of the flag which A aich la Is supposed in one way ay or another to bo be upon ait all political danices de ices Nices BUTTON collections S reed Is right in it Is the announcement upon a large hat flat button with a portrait of 0 the balno man lit in the middle dle this la Is of 0 white metal alth a hue center upon which the face ace odthe of th speaker appears the lettering la Is la in blue also this button la Js a a pretty and will add to the collections of 0 political buttons in an ail elrd alc tic tlc tense sense alor morion ton and mckinley buttons care art alike but different the 1 morion orton buttis button more striking on account count of the myrtle R U in the he middle it 11 Is of brass or r a substance to look like gold ae we 0 ho raj A in national motional colors for reed heel and Is very brilliant in tits ati ceralli tr Is a bright blue anil and all the letters are arc real ml others of 0 1 morion forton have hare IL portrait of 0 hint him in the middle the rho nley button butto n Is of oc it a simple nolte with trimmings of 0 blade it Is a small button and two of 0 them are arc worn by the there are people T w ho buy these campaign buttons who ho nrc are not clams in any sense they pet get t heril for their button collections and mount them up ion on tapestries or hang hannings hangings haji Inga ings so 0 o they will show it oft rf t to advantage adlanta e those these button collectors are enthusiasts like other olner collectors col lectora and get all the c buttons whether hether they come by them by bv bea begging ing borrow ine testing or plain burch pe this i last method to I 1 boast 1 ast bred ln in the b bone one collector Is the exciting citing and consequently la 19 lo 10 birss gatt than tiny the scarcest rt button with collectors isi Is the heed om 0 ne or of which tow few ca can n tc le obtained for love 0 or money in a few days davs the street breet will 10 gay cy with bright litti of lead erlile anil and party the sight of them li is not it a strange 0 one ne to ua u but to fort or flaners it Is one odthe of the oddes features ot of our CLA REN CE S |