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Show I ENTER THE CAMPAIGN H Varied Views For the Readers of the Standard $15,000 in "Copy"' H as Their Party Contribution Richard Harding Davis, George Ade, Hamlin Garland, Gouvenieur Morris, John T. McCutcheon, Jane Addnms, Wallace Irwin, Frederick Palmer, Edna Ferber, . Inez Haynes Gillmore, Richard Washburn Child, Jesse Lynch. i Williams, and Twenty Other Stars to Write Articles in a Whirl-' k wind October Campaign. w ' m Beginning next week the Evonlng H 'Snndard will begin publication of one V iOf the moat Interesting features pcr- W hapg the most Interesting which was H 'ever included in the Journalistic work B of a nntlonal political campaign Ev. H iery day during the. remainder of the W 'campaign it will publish a speoial fea- ture by ono or another of thirty-six H 'greal magazine and newspaper wrlt- M 'r of national reputation. There W will be news reports of actual polltl- W cal happenings by such great report - m ers as Richard Harding Davis, C. P. B Connolly and Richard Washburn M ;ChIld; viows and reviews bv such (heavy thinkers as Herbert Croly, M (William Allen White, Samuel Mor- W twin and Jane Addams; humorous i fl Iflklts by such laugh-provokors as W 'George Ado, Wallace Irwin and m I George Fitch, Imaginative writings M jby such creators of popular flotion. W jss Edna Ferber, Inez Haynes Gill- Hl imore, Gourernour Morris and Hamlin m 'Garland, Never beforo probRbly, In H Ithe history of American publication, M 'has any magazine or newspaper been M 'able to put forth a seasonal announce. W ment including so many eminent W .names It will appear simultaneously W 'In a syndicate of newspapers covering H tho wholo country; but the Evening Standard will publlBh it exclusively In .this city. J This feature Is unique in another BH way. These eminent writers, who H get from $250 to $1,000 for a single BH magazine or newspaper syndicate BH contribution, are not receiving a cent MM of pay. They -are giving their serv- ilccs free. And all than Is a story. (J Pioneer Progressives. W The magazines and those who write I for them have had a groat deal to do with the growth of so-called Insurgent Insur-gent and progressive ideas In the United StateB, When tho now Pro- l igresslve party was formed, it was H IdlBcovered that most of the writers M had stampeded with the new flock. m (Several of them wrote in to head- H quarters In New York, to offer their M 8ervlcesl and Frederick Palmer re- M 'ported in person. H "A lot of the boys aro with you," H fbe said. "Why don't you mako use of B 'them?" Headquarters warmly approv- H jd of the idea, but in the "rush and H 'burn.' of creating a working party or- W ganlzation out of nothing, it lay for- Hj gotten until Richard Harding Davis Hl iaad Will Irwin arrived from different H! dlrectlone, each burning with a de- W lre to do something. Irwin had an- m other suggestion a syndicate, lur- H inl&hlng matter regularly to newBpa- H vpere all over the country. This hap- W pened, to be exact, on September 19, H! pvithln s9$en weeks of tho end of the M campaign. '"But it's dreadfully late," H -objected headquarters. "That's all Mw, irighu" said Dais, "then we'll bo fin- Hj 'lshed before wo got tired." Forthwith Hr they sat down to talk it over. It was Wj agreed that Irwin who has been man- MF$ iftfflng editor of a. magazine and knows Wyv isomethlng of news-papers, had better m't, 'take charge. Ho opened an office If&'i 'within an hour, and in fifteen minutes Hflj more had caught C. P Connolly on mfS the tolephone and signed him up. At Hot ne Btvras time, Davis was in the act Owl huttonhollng Gouvernour Morris BjS -and getting his pledge for copy. It mul .was two days before they had gath- "5hK lered enough names to make the pro- SlgY Ject a certainty, but when the of- Ml if Ice closed on Saturday night they Kfyj (had signed up eighteen writers, and HI:' (-within five days tho list had grown 1 jto thirty -six. It Isn't closed yet. by Wmr j 'any means. Some of tho ardent eup Hy porters are still on yniiona in Eur- HTr1 lope and the mountains, and have not HU (yet been reached; but hero are the H ithlrty-slx- H Richard Harding Davis, famous not only for some of the classic Amorl-i Amorl-i can fiction, but for his work as a war correspondent and general magazine mag-azine reporter: George Ade, whose "Fables in Slang'" and comedies have nearly remado the American language; lan-guage; Hamlin Garland, the original western realist. Gouverneur Morris, unexcelled among contemporaneous American writers as a teller of stories; stor-ies; John T. McCutcheon, cartoonist of the Chicago Tribune preeminent In his line and almost as good as a writer; Jane Addam6, "the most eminent em-inent woman In America"; Wallace Irwin, probably the hest contemporary contempor-ary writer of light verse, nnd famous also for tho "Japanese Schoolboy" i papers; Frederick Pnlmer, novelist and war correspondent; Edna Ferber, who Jumped into fame only last year with her "Emma McChesney" stories; Tnez Haynes Gillmore, who writes with one hand the witty, realistic "Phoebo and Ernest" stories nnd with tho other stirring articles on the future fu-ture of her sex; Richard Washburn Child, an artistic fictionist when he Isn't being a journalistic thorn In the flesh of the Wool Trust; Jesse Lynch Wlliams, fictionist, playwright and biographer of President Cleveland Stop, Look and ListenI Let's make a paragraph here nnd stop for breath because this is only half tho list. To proceed now Dr Woods Hutchinson is the muckrakor of the human inside, the great popular popu-lar authority on disease and hygiene. Ho has views, also, on the sanitation of the hody politic. C. P. Connolly wrote the story of Montana, and iie has been writing since vigorous articles arti-cles on certain gentlemen who juggle the cards and load the dice on the people. He is not related except by tribe to J. B. Connolly, famous for his stories of the Gloucester fishers and the Irish at home. If you ask In Chicago who Franklin P. Adnms is, they say that he Is tho Bert Le3ton Taylor of New York; and In the metropolis me-tropolis they say that Taylor is the Franklin P. Adams of Chicago. Between Be-tween them thej' are the best newspaper news-paper paraghnphers since Eugene Field. Emerson Hough is a best-seller of out-of-doors novels who takes a whirl at muckraking now and then; Herbert Croly wroto "The Promise of American Life," perhaps the deepost political philosophy of this generation in America; Will Irwin, reporter, short-story writer and muckraker, Is best known lately for his muckraking muckrak-ing of certain newspapers which deserved de-served the rake; Walter Weyl's standard stan-dard work Is "The New Democracy," a statement of progressive principles; Samuel Merwln has of late put that name philosophy into fiction In "The Citadel." He was also co-author with Henry Kltchell Webster in "Calumet 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 novels a year of late. P. C. MacFarlano, until two years ago a clergyman In Kansas City, has been filling the magazines since. Louis Evan Shipman is a novelist nov-elist and playwright with a strong progressive streak In his work. I. F, Marcosson la an authority on finance William Allon White, since the beginning be-ginning of this campaign, probably needs less Introduction than any other writer In America. Judson C. Welllver has for years been hammering hammer-ing progressive principles from I1I3 correspondent's deck InWashlngton. Frank A. Munsey Is not only one of tho most successful pnbllshers who ever broko Into the newspaper and magazino field, but a vigorous writer; George Fitch Is about as funny a humorist as wo have; he Is taking time off, to write for tho Syndicate, from bis task of building a new newspaper news-paper In campaign times. Roy Norton Nor-ton is a novelist, short-story writer and reporter with a reputation on both sides of the Atlantic. Rufus Gillmore Is a writer of mystery stories and an authority on tho big business at which most of our muckrakora arc tilting E. S. Van Zllc Is widely known for his stories and espays. Burgess Johnson shines in his wise and witty humorous verse. Harry Stlllwell Edwards Ed-wards has taken a successful whack at every form of literature, Including ' newspaper work; he Is the man who, In 1901, seconded tho nomination of President Roosevelt on behalf of tho I South; Harvey O'Higglns. after ma'k-I ma'k-I ing his reputation by his touching, stirring and hurnorous stories of the Irish In America and the New York fire department, has of late turned his attention to muckraking, which he has done with equal force and art. Henry Beach Ncodham, finally, ls all muckraker, and when he sits down to Investigate a trust, that fictitious body dlvldes itself into Its component parts perhaps to assemble again, like the grass snake, alive and well! In that caBO, Harry has another Job. And these are not all only the I ones which tho Syndicate was able to gather definitely In the first five days I of Its existence. |