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Show which instantly produces silence. In all our experience of . campaign orators w Lave never li.nl tho good fortune to .'-".1 one equipped with such a lever. This un-' dcfl'ct lis. at one time or another, oauVca""f :r.?fanc outbursts on tho part of ordinarily qdicSji 'aw abiding citizens. To bo forced tVsTf" and listen to a man rapping your cher-isl?d cher-isl?d ideals up one side and down the other and be impotent to stop him is ono of tho most annoying phases of ire-election times. "With the phonographic phono-graphic campaign, however, all this will be e.hnnged. The sovorcign eioctor of a sovereign state will have his tormentor literally under his thumb, to encourage or to squelch, as to him may seem most proper. A further merit possessed by the phonographic pho-nographic speochmnker over the animate one is that tho auditor may laugh his arguments to scorn; he may guffaw loudly when the speaker "points with pride," or kick the cat out of the way just at that tense instant when the speaker "views with alarm." He wil cause the orator no annoyance if he loads up his trusty corncob and blows columns of smoke promiscuously about. Moreovor, lie need hear only such parts of an address as ho wishes to hear, and can, with a simple twist, delete any platform joke, new-born or hoary with age. Indeed, one might dwell indefinitely upon tho superiority of the phonographic phono-graphic speaker over the living one. There is no end of things one may do in the presence of, or to, the former which would be severely condemned in the caso of the latter. It is announced that the phonographic campaign will be opened on September 1, when records containing the utterances utter-ances of Attorney General Palmer, speaking for the Democrats, and others registering the speech of Senator Lodge, voicing the sentiments of tho Republicans, Republi-cans, will bo releasod. These speeches will be reproduced at clubs, headquarters headquar-ters of various societies, churches, noonday noon-day meetings and in the homes of party workers and elsewhere. Following the releaas of the remarks of Messrs. Palmer and Lodge, other records will be distributed monthly, and it is expected ex-pected that the meeting places and homes throughout the country will fairly fair-ly echo and re-echo with words of wisdom wis-dom or the veriest slush, as tho viewpoint view-point may be. Among speakers already scheduled for talking machinery oratory by the Democratic National committee are President Wilson, Secretary of War Baker, Secretary of the Navy Daniels, former Secretary of the Treasury He-Adoo He-Adoo and former Secretary of State Bryan. The preliminary list of the Republican Re-publican committee, it is promised, will be announced within a few days. PHONOGRAPHIC CAMPAIGN. Both the Kopublican and Democratic National Campaign committees are out with announcements that phonographs will bo used extensively in the approaching approach-ing presidential contest in spreading the doctrines of tho two parties. Tho plans embrace a program which will put the nation's best orators on everybody's center table, as it were. We make no doubt that the scheme will meet with wide popularity. Certainly, Cer-tainly, it should be very convenient to sit in one 's easy chair after a hard day 's work and listen to a Democratic spellbinder preach tho gospel of free trade, and immediately afterwards to hear those arguments refuted nnd tho preceding speaker crushed to earth Xiy a Republican cxhorter with an illuminating illu-minating speech on the benefit of a high protective tariff. Fersons who dwell at places remote from fhealors, auditoriums and halls where "rallies" are usually conducted will receive the same enlightenment as those who join in tho jam and crush at the meeting places. The suburbanite, having milked his cows and fed his chickens, can ease his feet by withdrawing with-drawing their covering, elevate them to a comf ortable position on tlw3 window sill nnd drink in the orotund sentences of a silver-tongue, or lend receptive ear lo the points made, by a president or an cx-president. The people who crowd into public gatherings can enjoy no such luxurious ease. The! greatest advantage of all, however, how-ever, will be the facility with which a -pcaker may be made to d.-sist. At the sidi1 of each phonographic machine thero is a liltlo lever, tho turning of |