Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1896 — MARK HANNA'S BIG JOB. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MARK HANNA'S BIG JOB.

Some or the Thinga Demanded of a Campaign Director. In accepting the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee Mark Hanna has undertaken a big job. He will be one of the busiest men in the country during the next four months. Fortunately he is of robust constitution. One of the chief duties of the campaign manager is to raise a campaign fund. The greater part of the million dollars used in a national campaign belongs to the national campaign fund and is distributed by the national chairman. It is sent to the States where it is most needed and the national chairman must exercise good judgment in the distribution >f It, If the party is to achieve the best results. In a great many campaigns coney has been spent uselessly in one

State and withheld from another State where it would have doue the party good. In several States there is an elaborate system of canvassing' and keeping a record of the doubtful voters. This work is collected by townships and then is entered In a large book for the guidance of the State committee. The committee compiles a list of the doubtful voters who may be 10,000 or even 20,000. To all these campaign literature is sent and after a time a man is assigned to see each of them and argue with him the necessity of vofiug the Republican ticket. All of this involves a great deal of expense. The missionaries as a rule do not labor for nothing, and the clerical work is costly. There are traveling expenses, the hire of horses'and vehiAes to di*. e through the country, stationery and printing and postage. All these expenses are legitimate and necessary for tfie conduct of a systematic campaign. Then there are the expenses of campaign orators who receive In some cases also large salaries. Finally, there are campaign writers. For the national committee and the State committee as well keep on their pay rolls many trained newspaper men. who furnish editorials to the press for the benefit of the party in the campaign. There are other vses of money not so legitimate, but .ecognized in doubtful States as- necessary to one party because the other party adopts them. The national chairman also lias charge of the candidate and regulates to a certain extent his conduct and travels and no letters are given to the public by the candidate without consulting with the manager.

MARK HANNA.