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Show sH. '"" -J H Tlia nun who manage political cam- B signs niMt with omo amusing expert- H encea during tho progreas of their H work. At the rcspectlm national head BHI quarter ol tha two parties In Chicago flfl! tha leaden tell some hughablo ttorlcs Jl of their experience with cranka For BBH ao matter how ranch patna aro taken to BpJ prevent hie entry the crank who ha BBf omo wonderful scheme to win tho B battle "hsnds down" will get Into the BBV presence of the practical men at the BBVi head of thing. BBW The other dy one of theso men got IB Into the pretence of Henator Jonea, BBS manager of the Democratic campaign PkV II Insisted that he had a plan that BftV would "land Bryan In the white house," BBf lie eiplalned that It would Drat be noc- BBV entry for tha chairman to Inrest a BBV Billion dollara In air balloons, with BBB the nJtrnos and portralfa of tho fualon PKV candidate printed thereon, aad that W 000 000 of theie released on a certain cer-tain ilar would do the work of the campaign Of rourae he failed to explain ex-plain how the operation waa to con-rlnco con-rlnco Totem and tha scheme waa tinned tinn-ed up loiter on he ahowed up at lie-publican lie-publican headquarter where he went through a like experience The political crank knowa no party allegiance and la na much at home nround ono headquartcra aa the other Thla wo illuatrntcd Terr forcibly one day last week by an accident that befel one of thorn The victim waa a longhaired long-haired long whlikered pen artlat who carried two rolla of rarluona of hla own make Into Kepitbllean headquartcra. After gaining the prraence nf Chairman Chair-man Bibcock nf the congreulonal campaign cam-paign committee be proceeded to business busi-ness at once "I hare here," he began, 'a aerlea of cartoon that will, when published, an nihilate every chance that the Demo-crata Demo-crata ever had," and he proceeded to unroll hla ware ' ion rco, here la a cartoon tint that that wow II Ill" The artlat had Inadvertently opened the wrong roll, tho one he Intended to exhibit at Democratic headquarter lie made a dusty exit Then there U the campaign none crank Ono aoiight an audience with Senator Ilanna under the prctcme that ho bare a nolo from an Important per-iot,ago per-iot,ago that be muat deliver In person ' Into the Inn la of the national chairman" chair-man" Mr llannt wa greatly taken back when ho found that the envclopo contained a poem Hire are tho firat Unci ' Hurrah for lllll McKlnley, hurrah, hurrah, hurrah! Hurrah for Teddy noosorelt hurrah, hurrah, hurrah hurrah!" "How much do you want for thla?' Uked the chairman perceiving a chaDce for a laugb "Ono hundred ' nniwercd tho pc-t, anumlng an air of haughty Importance Im-portance Not a cent lca" Borne day later when thin time poet vlilted Becrctary ttnlah at Democratic headquarter the two flrat Unci of tho poem had umd thla form: "Hurrah for Hilly Bryan, hurrah, hurrah hur-rah hurrah! Hurrah for Uncle Adlal, hurrah, hurrah, hur-rah, hurrah!" Aad to the cranka come and go from headquarter to headquarter Nono of then ever have a practical Idea to set forth. They bavo become tbo terror of lbs campaign managers H Norman U Mack. J. O. Johnson. Chairman Jono. Willis J Abbot. Charles A. Walsh. H ' CIIAHIMAN J0NB3 OF THE DHMOCKATIO NATIONAL COMMITTOR AND 1113 CHIEF AIDS |