Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-09-13 | Page 4 | Convincing Campaign Literature

CONVINCING CAMPAIGN LITERATURE. Both the big congressional campaign textbooks are. now out and Are being placed in the bands of the spellbinders and stump orators so that they may know what to say and what not to say to the people. The Democratic book run3 over 500 pages and was made up of short extracts from speeches in congress, thus enabling it to be sent through the mails free as a public document. One very ludicrous error (or more likely hoax) crept into the mouth of Congressman Haugen, a jiery insurgent, a part of a speech by that old archfiend Speaker Cannon, denouncing insurgency in the finest possible style. The humor ot the Republican book is not quite so obvious, being humor of omission rather than commission. In other words, it is amusing for the issues it studiously avoids. But the compilers had the advantage of the Democrats in one way, for as they were not making a public document they were not confined to statements In congress for their material, but could draw from the four quarters of the globe. The introduction especially is a rattling good one, as follows: "A Republican textbook differs from a Democratic textbook somewhat some-what as history differs from romance, A Republican textbook aims Btmply to give fact3 and results; a Democratic textbook is like a promise to pay without funds in the bank."