Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 276, 27 September 1913 — Page 55

PAGE TERES CONGRESSMEN READY FOR 1 914CAMPA1GN Prepare Thousands of Stock Letters For Their ManyConstituents. Mrs. David Dubois Gaillard USE A MIMEOGRAPH Ambitious Politician Uses Franking Privilege For Own End.

fHE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, 1913

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. WASHINGTON', Sept. 27. The click and pti; of mimeograph machines in the i louse office building 8roves beyond doubt that another campaign 1b approaching. Walking jdown the corridors of the structure ."where the members of the House of Representatives have their ofices, one liears the steady grind of the mimeograph, manipulated by some young woman or a boy who is engaged at CO much "per" to turn out letters for 'iny congressman." Over in the majority room there is & larger mimeograph, driven by electricity. This is available for the use

cf members who have no machine of j their own but who want to send ou" j thousands of letters to their consti- j tuents. " During the off years, so-called, thp j member of Congress isn't the lettc:-

writing busybody that he is when th;- j

campaign is only a few months on. Last . winter and spring the mimeographs and typewriters were comparatively quiet and the member contented himself with answering the daily mall and writing an occasional personal letter to some politician henchman. . Getting Busy. The 1914 elections, however, will be comming along next spring and summer and the House member is getting busy. Everybody in the House must Stand for election every two years and almost everybody wants to come back, once a taste - of Washington life is had. Consequently, the ambitious politician desn't hesitate to use the franking privilege and the mimeograph to keep in touch with the fellow with the votes. Hundreds of thousands of documents and letters are going to be sent broadcast from the House office building in the next six months. Scores of members are already at work getting up campaign material in their own individual interest and in the interest of the particular party to which the letter writer happens to belong. It would be almost impossible for a member of the House to write a personal letter to every voter in his district and to keep up the correspondence. Consequently, the average member of the House gets out a stock letter about this period of the campaign, has it mimeographed and then writes in at the top, in the same type and ink so that the entire letter may seem personal, the name and address of his constituent. Many of the "wise" coastituents know that this letter Is Imerely a circular, sent to every voter In the district. Others cherish the epistle from "my Congressman" and proudly exhibit it about the family circle. Uses Stock Letter. Practically every member has a different form of letter which is used for stock purposes. For instance, the member who comes from a district where there are many veterans will talk of the prospect of pension legislation. Another who hails from an agricultural district will ask If the constituents doesn't want a few seeds or farmer's bulletins issued by the Department of Agriculture. Still another member who hails from a union labor district will discuss labor legislation, pointing out incidentally that he, the member, is endeavoring to push this or that bill. A letter typical of the run of them all Is that sent out by members of Congress who represent the rural districts. It breathes solicitude for the voter and places the Congressman absolutely at the long-distance service of his constituency, as follows: "My dear friend: I am sending you under separate cover a list of the Farmer's Bulletins issued by the Department of Agriculture, some of them quite valuable docments. I would be glad to have you examine this list and advise us on the enclosed sheet !the names of those desired by you, checking off whatever documents you most prefer. "I have made arrangements at the department to get quite a supply of these documents for the people in my district and I assure you it will afford me pleasure to send you as many as you desire. I have also at my disposal a limited number of Yearbooks, issued by the Agricultural Depart

ment. Do you desire one? "I trust you will take the time to

(read over my recent speech on tariff,

which I had the honor of mailing you the other day. Will you write and tell me what you think of it? I am anxious to keep in touch with my constituency, and, as you will note in the speech, I believe this bill will be of material help to our section. Do you agree with me? "Much to my regTet, the present session Is draging along through the entire summer and I have been obliged to stay by may duties in Washington, foregoing my usual annual visit to my neighborhood. I am in hopes that we will adjourn within the next three weeks, in which event I shall re-

turn home where I trust to have the

pleasure or seeing you. "Meanwhile, do not hesitate to communicate with me on any subject and permit me to assure you that it will be always a pleasure to serve you in any way I can."

"With kindest regards to yourself jend family." Mail Many. Thousands of letters of this tenor

are being mailed from Washington every day. In the busy season, when the Congressman wants to blanket his entire district with vote-getting letters

auu uvvuuic-uia, tit- crusades tx lui Uf ui half a dozen girls who addresses enfvelopes, fold and mail the letter for so much per thousand, the average irate being $1.25 a thousand or 1.50 ja day. While this extra force Is sending ,out the stock letters, the regular secretary to the Congressman is answerlas his mail, attending to applicants for postmasterships. getting information from the departments which may 'be desired by some especially valued ' constituent and otherwise caring for

the political needs of the busy mem-j

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Mrs. David Dubois Gaillard, wife of the tropics. They have spent some the Panama Canal engineer, is accom- time at the Johns Hopkins University panying her husband in his search for j hospital in Baltimore but have left a cure for the nervous disorder he has j there to try a private sanitorium in contracted as a result of his work ia New York.

FOUND HANGING ON TREE HE PLANTED

PARIS, Sept. 27. Gedeon Silvestre was recently found hanginng at Chateau neuf-du-Rhone from an acacia tree which he himself had planted a few years ago. Silvestre was" a renowned practical joker, so that when he told a friend at the time of the planting of the tree that his intention was to hang himself upon it when he grew tired of life, little attention was paid to the words. Those who discovered the body of the man were amazed to find that the suicide had inscribed upon the trunk of the tree: "I trained you to grow tall and straight In your youthful days so that you might support me in my latter days." Silvestre's will was worthy of the sinister type of which characterized him. He left $525 to be equally divided between the carpenter who would make his coffin, the gravedigger who would "dig a place for his last sleep," and the members of a bowling club. The condition attached to the last legancy was that the bowlers should play a championship game over the testator's grave. Another sum was left to a number of friends in order that they might revel and enjoy a feast around the coffin. Silvestre expressly stipulated that at the conclusion of this "celebration" a farewell song should be sung by the company. All these bizarre wishes were fulfilled.

ber who must hasten back and forth between the capitol and the office building in order that he may miss no roll calls. The mimeograph will be overworked for the next six moths and "everybody will be doing it." There is not a Congressional district in the United States which will not be plastered with letters and documents, sent with good intentions, of course, but also expected to have an effect when the votes are counted next summer.

FEARS RESULTS OF HOME RULE FIGHT

LONDON, Sept., 27 "Since Home Rule became emmlnent I have been constant in prayer to God that He would take the matter into His own hands and avert the danger that threatens us." Thus said Bishop Elliott in the course of an earnest address here before the Ardagh Diocessan Synod. "The prospect," added the Bishop, "is not only anxious; it is fearful; for though the disturbance may not reach the proportions of civil war, it is sure to produce tumult, bloodshed, and loss of life, sufficient to fill the country with lamentations, mourning and woe.

CURIOSITY FINDS BUNDLE OF BONDS

ENGLAND'S CURIOUS WELL.

PARIS, Sept., 27. A bundle of bonds, worth several thousand dollars los t by the president of the town of Laval fifteen years ago, has just been traced through the curiousity of the people of Laval at the sudden rise to a position of wealth of a man who had formally been a shop messenger and his wife, originally a cowkeeper. At the same time it was found that some of the long missing securities had been negotiated in the neighborhood. Inquiries led to a confession by the wife that she had kept the bonds hidden all these years, but thought it safe to dispose of them now.

Its Water Never at the Sams Level For Two Consecutive Minutes. Two miles out from Settle, on the main road between that town and Ingleton. Yorkshire, England, there Is to be found one of the most curious of natural phenomena in the shape of the famous ebbing and flowing -well of Giggleswick. A small, unpretentious little structure, scarcely to be distinguished from the ordinary trough of water to be seen on many of our country roads, it is yet one of the most quaint and fascinating spectacles one could hope to see. Aa the name implies, the well has the nature of a tide. It ebbs and flows continually, though by no means with regularity. Sometimes the privileged traveler will see the oblong stone basin filled with clear water; then, even as he gazes into its pellucid depths, the water gradually sinks until the trough is half empty, or it may be more. There is barely time to wonder at this strange thing ere. with a rush and a whirl, the

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continue with more or less marked effect, and the water is never at the same level for two consecutive minutes. Sometimes the outflow has scarcely begun before the basin again fills, but at other times the trough is almost emptied. Wide World Magazine..

An Indignant Artist. Haydon, the painter, was much disgusted when he visited London in 1846 at the time when two of his finest pictures were being shown at the Egyptian hall, and the public thronged into another room where General Tom Thumb was on view. "They rush by thousands to see Tom Thumb," wrote the disappointed painter in his diary. "Their eyes are open, but their sense is shut. It is an Insanity, a rabies, a madness, a furor, a dream!" Another entry later on runs: "Tom Thumb had 12,000 people last week. R. R. Haydon 133if. (the half a little girl). Exquisite taste of the English people!"

Browning's Pauline. The first edition of Browning's "Pauline" was sold at auction for ?2,400, yet not only did Browning receive nothing for it originally, but he would have withdrawn it from print if It had been possible. Yet so highly did Rossettl think of this despised masterpiece that, not being able to find a copy elsewhere, he went to the British museum library and spent several laborious days copying It word for word.

Wasteful. Grasper (a rery careful man) No. I should never allow my only daughter to marry a journalist. He always wastes one side of the paper. And still less should she wed a poet He doesn't even go to the end of the line. Exchange. 'Effective Method.

Mrs. Newed (to dear friend) What'a j the secret of getting a new gown out i

of hubby after he refuses once? Mrs. Wiley If at first you don't succeed cry again. Judge.

Few, but Costly. "Were there many doctors at the consultation?" "Oh. not so many, only about $100,000 worth.- Life.

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