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Show BIG MAGAZINE WRITERS ENTER THE CAMPAIGN Varied Views For the Readers of the Standard $16,000 in "Copy"' as Their Party Contribution Richard Harding Davis, George Ade, Hamlin Garland, Gouverneur Morris, John T. McCutcheon, Jane Addams, Wallace Irwin, Frederick Palmer, Edna Ferber, Inez Haynes Gillmore, Riohard Washburn Ohild, Jesse Lynch Williams, and Twenty Other Stars to Write Articles in a Whirlwind Whirl-wind October Campaign. Boginning next week the Evening Standard will begin publication of one of tho most Interesting features perhaps per-haps tho most interesting which was ever Included In the journalistic work of a national political campaign. Every Ev-ery day during the remainder of the campafgn it will publish a flpeclal feature fea-ture by one or another of thirty-six great magazine and newspaper writers writ-ers of national reputation. There will be news repprts of actual political politi-cal happenings by such great roport-. ers aB Richard Harding Davis, C. P. Connolly and Richard Washburn Child; views and reviews by such heavy thinkers as Herbert. Croly, William Allen Whlto, Samuel Mer-wln Mer-wln and Jane Addams; humorous skits hy such laugh-provokera aB George Ade, Wallace Irwin and George' Fitch; imaginative writings by such creators of popular fiction as Edna Ferber, Inez HarneB Gill-more, Gill-more, Gouverneur Morris and Hamlin Garland, Never before probably, In the history of American publication, has any magazine or newspapor been able to put forth n seasonal announcement announce-ment including so many eminent names. It will appear simultaneously In a syndicate of newspapers covering tho whole country; but the Evening Standard will publish It exclusively in this clty Thl3 feature Is unique In another way. These eminent writers, who get from ?250 to $1,000 for a single magazlno or newspaper syndicate contribution, are not recolvlng a cent of pay They aro giving their services serv-ices free. And all thati is a story. Plonoor Progressives. Tho magazines and those who write for them have had a great deal to do with tho growth of so-called Insurgent Insur-gent and progressive Ideas in the United States. When the new Progressive Pro-gressive party was formed, it was discovered that most of the writers had stampeded with the new flock Several of them wrote m to headquarters head-quarters In New York to offer thoir services! and Frederick Palmer reported re-ported in person. "A lot of tho boys aro with you," he said "Why don't you make use of them?" Headquarters warmlv approved approv-ed of the idea, but in tho rush and hurrv of creating a working party organization or-ganization out of nothing, it lay for-gotton for-gotton until Richard Harding DavlB and Will Irwin arrived from different directions, each burning with a desire de-sire to do something. Irwin had another an-other suggestion a syndicate, furnishing fur-nishing matter rogularly to newspapers newspa-pers all over the country, This hap-Dened. hap-Dened. to bo exact, on September 19. within seven weeks of tho end of the , campaign. '"But it's dreadfully late," objected headquarters. "That's all right," sMd Daus, "then we'll be finished fin-ished before we get tired " Forthwith they sat down to talk It over It was agreed that Irwin who has been managing man-aging editor of a magazine and knows something of news-papers, had better take charge. He opened an office within an hour, and in fifteen minutes more had caught C P. Connolly on the telephone and signed him up. At the same time, Davis was in the act of buttonholing Gouverneur Morris and getting his pledge for copy It was two days before thoy had gathered gath-ered enough names to make tho project pro-ject a certainty, but when the office of-fice closed on" Saturday night they had signed up eighteen writers, and within five days the list had grown to thirty-six Tt isn't closed .ret. by any means. Some of the ardont supporters sup-porters are still on vflcons In Europe Eur-ope and the mountains and have not yet been reached, but hero are the thlrtv-slx Richard Harding Davis, famous not only for some of the classic American Ameri-can fiction, but for his work as a war correspondent and general magazlno mag-azlno reporter; George Ado, whose "Fables in Slang'" and comedies have nearly remade the American language; lan-guage; Hamlin Garland, tho original western realist; Gouverneur Morris, unexcelled among contemporaneous American writers aB a teller of stor- ieB; John T. McCutcheon, cartoonist of tho Chicago Tribune preeminent in his lino and almost as good as a writer, Jano Addams, "the most eminent em-inent woman In America"; Wallace Irwin, probably the beet contemporary contempor-ary writer of light verse, and famous also for the "Japanose Schoolboy" papers; Frederick Palmer, novelist and war correspondent, Edna Ferber. who jumped into fame only laBt year with her "Emma McCheaney" stories; Inez Haynea Gillmore, who writes with one hand the witty, realistic "Phoebe and Ernest" stories and with the other stirring articles on the future fu-ture of her sex; Richard Washburn Child, an artistic flctlonlet when he Isn't being a journalistic thorn in the flesh of the Wool Trust; Jesse Lynch Wlllams, flctlonist, playwright and biographer of President Cleveland-Stop, Cleveland-Stop, Look and Listen! Let's make a paragraph here and stop for breath because thiB Is only hair the list. To proceed now: Dr. Woods Hutchinson Is the muckrakcr of the human inside, the great popular popu-lar authority on discaso and hygiene. Ho has views, also, on tho sanitation of tho body politic. C. P. Connolly wrote the Btpry of Montana, and he has bpen writing einco vigorous articles arti-cles on certain gentlemen who juggle the cards and load the dice on the people. He Is not related except by tribo to J. B. Connolly, famous for his stories of the Gloucester fishers and tho Irish at home. If you ask in Chicago who Franklin P. Adams is, they say that ho 1b tho Bert Leston Tnylor of Now York; and In the metropolis me-tropolis they say that Taylor is the Franklin P. Adam6 of Chicago. Ee-twoou Ee-twoou them thoy aro the best newspaper news-paper paraghaphera since Eugeno Field. Emerson Hough Is a best-seller of out-of-doors novels who takea a whirl at muckraking now and than; Herbert Croly wrote "The Promlao of American Lifo," perhaps tho decpeBt political philosophy of this generation in America; Will Irwin, reporter, short-etory writer and rauckraker, Is best known lately for bis muckraking muckrak-ing of certain newspapers which de served the rake; Walter Weyl's standard stan-dard work Is "Tho Now Democracy," a statement of progressive principles; Samuel Merwin has of late put that Bame philosophy into fiction in "The Citadol." Ho was also co-author with Henry Kltchell Webster in "Culumet K," called "The epic of America at work"; Webster has taken his own turn at article writing, and has been turning out his two good noTels a year of late. P. C. MacFarlane, until two years ago a clergyman in Kansas City, has boen filling the magazines since. Louis Evan Shlpman Is a novelist nov-elist and playwright with a strong progressive streak In his work. I. F Marcosson is an authority on finance. William Allen Whlto, since the beginning be-ginning of this campaign, probably needs less Introduction than any other writer In America Judson C. Welllver haB for years been hammering hammer-ing progressive principles from his correspondent's deck lnWashlngton. Frank A. Munsoy Is not only one of the most successful publishers who ever broke Into tho newspaper and magazine field, but a vigorous writer, Georgo Fitch Is about as funny a humorist as we have; he is taking time off, to write for the syndicate, from his task of building a new newspaper news-paper In campaign times. Roy Norton Nor-ton is a novelist, short-stary writer and reporter with a reputation on both sides of tho Atlantic Rufus Gillmore Is a writer of mystery siorie3 and an authority on the big business at which most of our muckrakors are tilting E. S Van Zile is widely known for his stories and essays. BurgeBS Johnson shines in his wise and witty humorous verse, Harry StIIhvoll Edwards Ed-wards has taken a successful whack at every form of literature, Including newspaper work; be Is the man who, In 190-1, seconded tho nomination of President Roosevelt on behalf of the South, Harvey O'Hlggine. after making mak-ing his reputation by his touching, stirring and humorous stories of tho IrlBh in America and the Now York flro department, has of late turned his attention to muckraking, which he has done with equal force and art. Henry Beach Noedham, finally, Is all muckrakei. and when he sits down to investigate a trust, th2t fictitious body divides Itself into Its component parts perhaps to assemble again, like the grass snake. alle and well In that case, Harry has another job And those are not all onlj the ones which the Syndicate was able to gather definitely in the first five days of Its existence! |