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BY JOHN EIiFRETH WATKINS.
The political commanders-Jn -chief have
Cjflr tenta pitched and have posted the
rosters of their staffs. Reveille now
sounds every morn at headquarters and
each eamp bristle and bust lee with ac
tive preparations for war.
Frank Harris Hitchcock, the Republican
General. -Is 10 years younger than Norman
Edward Mack, the Democratic- commander-in-chief.
the former being 40 and the
latter .bavin' reached the half-century
milestone ttie day before commissioned to
lead the Bryan forces In the coming ban
. tie. JlitcocOck1 Is. a bachelor, a Harvard
graduate and a lawyer: Mack baa a. wife
and two "pretty daughters. 1 a self-made
man and a Journalist. There Is a possi
bility that the Republican General, who
was born In Ohio, may become President
som day., but his Democratic opponent
no matter how successful his battle, nor
how great his popularity never can, be
cause, like his predecessor. Mr. Taggart.
h la- of foreign birth. By way of further
contrast In their lives, these two con
spicuous figures In present-day events,
moved In opposite directions when small
lads.- The boy Hitchcock went ' north,
from his native heath. Amherst. Ohio, to
Boston, where he entered the school which
prepared him for Harvard, while the lad
Mack le,ft his birthplace in Ontario prov
fnce. Canada, and went south across the
American frontier, to seek his fortune In
the United States. When Hitchcock was
atlll a towhead In kilt skirts Mack was
sweeping out a country store. After
working for a time In Bradford. Pa., dur
ing the early oil excitement In' that re
gion, lie went west, starting an advertis
ing business In Detroit and pushing It
further In Chicago until 1874. when he set
tled In Buffalo, and there. In 18T. started
the Times, through which newspaper ha
'has made a fortune.
Hitchcock Singer.
A few months after his graduation" from
Harvard. In ISM, Hitchcock came to
Washington as a Government official, al
though but . Having left the Roosevelt
alma mater a trained statistician and
economist, he became chief of the division
of foreign markets In the Department of .
' Agriculture, and soon made a reputation
" as an expert on foreign trade and the
tariff. While at these duties by day he
studied law in the Columbian University
by night and after being admitted to the
bar of the District of Columbia at 27. and
of the United Elates Supreme Court at 30.
he left the Department of Agriculture to
become chief clerk of the new Department
of Commerce and Labor, under George B.
. Cortelyou,. the first Secretary. He and
Cortelyou were close friends, although
- the latter was the elder by five years.
Both had burned the midnight oil to
study law, while working for the Gov-
emment and both were musical. Cortelyou
. a pianist, and Hitchcock possessed of a
fine voice, which In the early days had
.' been heard In amateur comic operas
given by the Columbian students. So when
Cortelyou was chosen to general the
- Roosevelt forces four years ago, he took
- Hitchcock with him as secretary to the
-. National committee. This was his ap
prenticeship In politics, and so successful
was he with the details of management
' that he served later as secretary of the
.. committee which arranged the Roosevelt
a Inaugural ceremonies.
A Fanatic on C'1astlf icatlon.
Hitrhrork Is almost a fanatic on
classification, on having a place for
everything and everything in its place.
... on Indexing and card cataloguing and
docketing and the latest system of saving
time In office routine. It was due to his
peculiar genius In this line that President
Roosevelt put him on the famous "Keep
, commission," which waged a crusade of
house-cleaning from department to de
partment and taught Uncle Sam's clerks
how to save more than half their tftne
In filing and answering correspondence.
When Cortelyou took up the Postoffce
portfolio he took Hitchcock with him as
'First Assistant Postmaster-General. His
later role as the "steam roller man" In
the Taft fight against the "allies" for the
Presidential nomination is well known to
the public. He Is a perfect specimen of
the sanguine temperament typified by his
, sandy, almost rufous, hair. In politics he
Is no poser, and since receiving his com
mission as commander-in-chief of the Taft
forces, has continued to part bis hair In
the middle, to wear kid gloves and carry
, a cane.
Calls Wife "The Commissioner."
Mr. Mack, during these years of Hitch
cock's rapid and precocious rise with the
party in power, has been achieving suc
cess, no less marked, in private endeavor.
The one-time poor country-store clerk has
In less than 30 years elevated his journal
from an Ill-paying Sunday sheet to a
- prosperous -daily, and now dwells In a
i handsome mansion on Delaware avenue,
Buffalo's most fashionable residence
street. Mrs. Mack, who was formerly
Miss Harriet Taggart. and whose father,
like Grover Cleveland, was once Sheriff of
, Erie County, is a graduate of the Buffalo
Seminary, Is an enthusiastic worker in
women's culture clubs, was on the board
of woman managers of the Buffalo expo
sition and the only woman member of the
New York commission to the St. Louts
World's Fair. . Her husband playfully calls
her "the commissioner." She is a personal
friend of Mrs. William Jennings Bryan.
Mr. Mack Is a born politician, and when
r 34 mas a delegate to the last Cleveland
convention, as well as to each one since.
H succeeded Frank .Danforth as Na
tional committeeman from the Empire
State at the time of Bryan's second nom
ination. A sample of his ready wit was
given th other day when some one asked
, him what a "bonanza" was. "A o
V nanxa." said Mr. Mack, "is a hole in the
ground owned by an Infernal liar."
, Chairmen Hearst and Jones.
Just midway between the ages of
Hitchcock and Mack Is William Ran-
.. dolph Hearst, the National Committee
chairman of the Independence party,
which has grown up from his Inde
pendence Leagues throughout the
. country. Mr. Hearst Is now 4S. and.
'. like Hitchcock, he is over six feet tall.
is of the blond type, and is a Harvard
.SECREWzy.. , - y j . ' " ',! Hi r-
man, and has had quite a notable rec
ord for precocity. Although born on
velvet, his father having been a mil
lionaire California Senator, Hearst has
not let the grass grow under his feet,
nor has he attached himself to the ldfe
rich class. He was editor of the San
Francisco Examiner at only 18. and
bought the New York Journal when
32, his political clientele having been
built up largely through the chain of
newspapers which he has built across
the country In Boston, Chicago and
Los Angeles, as well as in the two
cities named. He was first elected to
Congress when 39, nominated for Mayor
of New York City when 4!, and for
Governor when 43. The accompanying
photograph shows him with his wife,
who was Miss MUllcent Willson, and
their child.
For their general-ln-chlef the Pro
hibitionists have Charles Reading
Jones, .who was born on a Pennsylvania
farm, and who Is within a few months
of the age of Mr. Hearst. He was In
the saddlery hardware business in
Philadelphia until five years ago, and
has published temperance magazines
and trade Journals. He has been head
of his city, state and National Prohibi
tion organizations, and is at the head
of the Associated Prohibition Press.
His campaign headquarters is In Chi
cago. New Men, New Methods. -
With new men have come new meth
ods in the present campaign. Chairman
Hitchcock, having the bachelor's free
dom of foot, has given himself a rov
ing commission for the entire Fall, and
will not settle down permanently at
headquarters after the fashion of his
predecessors. His "pull-together" plan
of having "sure state" politicians help
campaign in neighboring doubtful
states 'Is brand-new to politics, as Is
his scheme of combining the National
and Congressional literary bureaus of
his party In one central bureau under
one "editorial director." Another of
his novelties Is the card catalogue for
every political helper In the field. His
Democratic opponents are also fast In
troducing novelties. Their scheme of
limiting campaign contributions to
110,000 Is also, new, as will be their
publication of the names of all con
tributors giving more than flOO. And
another novelty is their advertised
farmers' fund, through which agricul
turists are Invited to contribute from
$100 down.
Father of the "Nebraska. System."
The secretaries of the National com
mittees are adroit men. William Hay
ward, who has just succeeded Elmer
Dover . In that capacity at Republican
headquarters, is only SI, and as head
of the Republican state committee of
Nebraska has been the youngest state
chairman in the country. In this latter
capacity he has become famous as
father of the "Nebraska system." new
to politics, and which, from the state
organisation, reaches successively
down through well-organized district,
county, precinct and neighborhood or
ganizations. By an elaborate system
of reports the state chairman thus
keeps In closest touch with the work
of every party organization In his com
monwealth. This system naturally at
tracted Mr. Hitchcock, and he has
asked Hayward to instruct the other
tate chairmen In the method. In Mr.
Hitchcock's - old place as secretary,
Hayward will have charge of the
party's Chicago headquarters while the
Republican general himself Is in the
saddle.
Urey Woddson, secretary of the
Democratic National committee, held
the same position under Chairman
Taggart, four years ago. He is 40
IS years older than Hayward and 18 a
Kentucklan by birth and. residence. Ma
was a country editor for 2tt years
previous to taking charge of a Paducah
dally seven years ago. He .has been
the Blue Grass member of the Demo
cratic National committee since the
first Bryan campaign.
The Kew Barrel Keepers.
Each party now enters the field with
a new barrel keeper, that of the Demo
crats being Charles N. Haskell, first
Governor of the infant state of Okla
homa. He is still another of Ohio's
contributors to National politics, hav
ing been born In the Buckeye state 4S
years ago. Like Chairman Mack, he in
of the self-made type, having worked
1 i- Y
lit, $ 11 ' wJ?
up from plowboy to country school
master, and thence to country lawyer.
Later he took down his shingle and
became a railway contractor, going
seven years ago to Indian Territory
to build several lines of railway. He
got Interested in the statehood move
ment, and was elected member of the
constitutional convention of the new
state, of which Indian Territory formed
a half. His executive ability was so
felt in the convention that he1 carried
off the Governorship, and now Mr.
Bryan is tickled to have him as his
campaign tteasurer, because Jie Is the
executive of the only state which guar
antees bank deposits, a system which
the Democratic platform advocates -for
the Federal Government.
The new Republican treasurer, George
ttumsey Sheldon, is, like Chairman
Hitchcock, a Harvard man, and since
his graduation has been a New York
banker. He is 61 years old. Is an offi
cer or director In 11 big business en
terprises and belongs to many clubs,
including the New York Yacht Club,
Racquet and Tennis. He was a dele
gate to the second McKlnley conven
tion and was National committeeman
from New York when Roosevelt waS
nominated.
Du Pont Meads Sneakers' Bureau.
It Is quite appropriate that the Re
publican general has selected as his chief
of artillery Coleman du Pont, of the cele
brated Delaware family of gunpowder
makers. Experience with explosives will
: : - i;W?- X:' W yr. I yy
be to his advantage as chairman of the
speakers' committee. Hs Is arranging
at headquarters a card Index of all ora
tors to bo employed during the campaign.
Each of the thousand or more speakers
will be accompanied on his early trips by
an observer, who will make careful notes
of how many passe eggs or bouquets the
eloquent one receives from the audience.
Digests of these reports will be entered
on the cards, and Just a glance at them
will show whether a spellbinder is
strongest on the tariff, the Injunction is
sue or the trusts; whether he makes bet
ter impression on the farmer than on
the laboring man, or the Irish voter than
the German voter, etc. The Democratic
chief of artillery is John Harrison At
woofl, of Leavenworth, who has been Na
tional committeeman from TCansas since
the Parker campaign. He Is a lawyer,
banker and an attorney for three rail
roads. No officer of either political army will
be more potent than the commander of
the brigade that charges the enemy with
the gall-dlpped quill. This commission
the Democrats have conferred upon none
other than "Marse Henry" Watterson,
the veteran editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal.
He will act as general super
visor Of their publicity department, and
his party could not have Selected front
among their faithful a man of greater
literary vigor. "Marse Henry" was a re
porter at 18. an editor at JO, Confederal
officer when barely of age, and chief of
SCOUtS for General Johnson when only 34.
After 40 strenuous years as editor of
the Courier-Journal he Is only M years
young, and theBO days he thinks nothing
of dropping Into headquarters and dictat
ing four or five thousand words at a clip.
Having waded In the gore of political
battlefields since the down of youth first
pin-feathered his eloquent lips, having eat
In Congress, having acted as temporary
chairman ofthe Tllden convention and
Sketch of
You Can Ask Yourself to
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N Australia a month's visit to a coun
try house would be nothing. Two
months three months six months as
long as you like would not be con
sidered too long, other things being
equal. Nobody thinks of dates. To
write and Invite you from the 15th to
the SOth would be rude. You are asked
to stay as long as you like; or else
you ask yourself to stay as long as
you like. Or even to face all the con
tingencies you neither ask nor are
asked; you simply go. And, having ar
rived, you remain, for the one unfail
ing commodity of an Australian coun
try house Is welcome. Everything else
may give out. If you stay long enough
there is sure to be a time when there
are no servants, no milk, no vegetables,
no meat but mutton, or even no water,
but the thought of guests going away
will never enter the minds of the host
and hostess.
Good nature, gayety. Informality J
these are the leading notes of life In
every Australian country house.
One morning after a moonlight pic
nic perhaps you do not wake for your
early tea. You sleep,' arid It get cold.
The servant, guessing what has hap
pened, comes back later with another
cup, but still you do not wake. She
returns; It must be five times, for when
you wake up you find five cups of
cold tea standing in a row on your
bedside table.
When people prove unamtable there
is one explanation dyspepsia, which Is
ten for bv the climate, the
large amount of meat eaten, and the'
abnormal quantities of tea conaumea.
In the Blue Mountains, three hours
from Sydney, are many beautiful coun
try houses, mostly bungalows with
wide verandas all around, where Syd
ney people fly In February and March
to getr away from the dreadful heat of
the city by the harbor, and here you
will find the house of the famous Mr.
Dash, who ones behaved so badly to
a houseful of guests.'
Feeling ill on day, he went to see a
doctor. "Dyspepsia," said the doctor.
"What you need is cheerful company,
bright conversation and laughter!"
"Then I'll run up to Burradoo to
night," said Mr. Dash. "My daughters
have lot of people there; they'll cheer
me up." " 1
He arrived at his country house that
JZr M A
as chairman of the platform committees
of the Hancock and second Cleveland
conventions; having, in fact, been a virile
factor In every campaign that has been
waged ,slnee the war, and having now
forgiven Mr. Bryan and grappled him
to his soul, this veteran will be one of
the most potent factors on the Demo
cratic side of the fray.
Country Life
Be Guest at Ideal Host's House, and
night In a violent temper, swore at the
man, the horses, the garden, at the
dried-up look of the country, at the
giving out of the lee, at the heat at
everything. At dinner the guests, who
were all youngish, eank- Into deeper
and deeper silence, appalled by the
awful look on- Mr. Dash's face as he
served the corned beef thick, and asked
why there was nothing but beef and
mutton and a turkey and curries and a
pigeon pie to eat on the table.
Deader and deader grew the silence.
Nobody could summon up a whisper.
Suddenly Mr. Dash banged - on the
table with his fist, his eyes blazing
with Indignation.
"Laugh and talk, can't you you!"
he cried.
But no. Even In gay Australia you
cannot gibe people into cheerful con
versation and laughter.
Breakfast, when a good many steaks
and chops are eaten. Is at half-past
eight, but you may be as late as you
like. It Is even possible that you will
come down so late that the servants
are busy with other things, and you
will go out to the kitchen and cook
yourself a chop Or bacon and eggs,
and make fresh tea. NO one will think
anything of it Nothing is locked up,
and you may take what you like with
out asking. It may be that you will
have to help wash up aftdrward. Yes!
Even In the most luxurious country
houses this may happen. Servants are
always an uncertain quantity In Aus
tralia, and every Australian girl and
woman knows that she may be called
Upon to "do things" even . when she
goes to stay with friends.
But nobody minds. Nobody minds
anything, in fact. The Premier's wife
is lfonlng her blouses in the wash
house. Lord M., the young English
man, Is cleaning his boots In the ScuU
lery. Four ladies and six men are
washing up In the kitchen. The Pre
mier Is feeding the fowls. The daugh
ter of the house is rolling out pastry.
Half a doien people are clearing away
the breakfast table and making beds.
The three maids have all gone off
without notice. The hostess is driv
ing around in a buggy trying to find
others. She will have hard work to
find them, but she has wired to the
Registry office in Sydney to send up
three more by td-nlght's train. Let us
hoDe they come. Let us hope they
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Eighteen years his Junior' la his rival.,
Francis Curtis, the "editorial director" of
the merged Republican literary bureaus,
who Is as much of a Yankee as "Marse
Henry" Is a Southron. Born In Connecti
cut 50 years ago, he went through Yale
two classes behind Mr. Taft. worked on
trado Journals five years, was a New
York World reporter one year, founded
an educational magazine, edited the
American Economist four years, the Re
publican Magazine another four years
and afterward a newspaper In Blngham
ton. N. Y. His pen has turned out also
a half hundred political pamphlets and
handbooks used in recent campaigns. He '
was the official editorial writer of Roose
velt's campaign against Parker and wsa
In charge of the literary bureau of, "Sun
ny Jim" Sherman's Congressional commit
tee two years ago. He is also the official
historian of the Republican party, having
turned out two volumes on Its career.
Prize Political Essays.
One of the novelties of this campalsn
has been Mr. Curtis' enterprise nf offer
ing a $180 prise for the best essay on why
the Republicans should continued in
power. This competillrni closed July 15.
by which time the editorial director was
snowed under by thousands of composi
tions on this theme,
A real, sure-enough hnom-a-laddie on
Commander-in-Chief Hltchrock's staff Is
Major Beecher B. Ray. IT. 8. A., who
while on temporary leave of absence from
his military duties Is directing the "In
dustrial headquarters" of this compnlcn.
as he did those of If! snrl 1W. Bpng
himself a member of the Order of Rail
way Conductors, he Is alleged to have
complied a. valuable directory of a half
million of railway employes. He will mall
campaign literature to these gentlemen
and later to other Industrial workers.
Washington. D. (!.. September 4.
in Australia
Remain as Long as You L1ke.
stay, at any rate, till the next holiday,
for the Australian domestic has one
direful habit she leaves when a holi
day comes around.
Hence the story of I.ady F., a chief
Justice's wife. One night the chief and
she were giving a dinner. Among the
guests there was a young Englishman.
Suddenly there was a lull In the con
versation. "Awful pause!" said the boy English- ,
man lightly to his hostess.
Her hands were on the table at that
moment.
"So would you have If you'd done
your own washing and ironing." was
her strange and unexpected reply.
After breakfast you may 'help to
catch the horses in the paddocks, and
then you can go riding as long as you
choose. "Do as you like," is the only
recognized order of tho day. There
will be golf, tennis, croquet, polo, kan
garoo hunting, rowing on the Creole
(but no punting), moonlight rides, billy
tea, and picnics galore. And then will
be gayety and laughter, mtnlc and
song, dancing and bridge, nlgilt nr.d
day and. day and night. And all day
long there will he tea. Tea at 7, tea
for breakfast, tea In the sitting-room
or veranda at 11, tea for lunch, ten
with dinner.
And yet there will always be more
girls than married wonnm. Girls in
fact abound In a country house, for
Australia is pre-eminently the land of
the girl. Everything is for her. Mar
ried women, unless very beautiful or
very dashing, are put on one shle when
girls are present. An Australian lady
who had been living for yeHrs in Italy
paid a visit to Sydney last year and
afterward confided to her Italian
friends how glad she was to get hark
to Italy. "In Australia," said she, "I
was left out of everything because 1
was married. It was always Ktliel
who was asked, never me. If by
chanoe I did go I was sorry. I had
Something to cat and tlt.ii was left
alone, while all the young people
talked to each other. It's nlcn to get
back to Italy, where a married woman
IS the only one who counts."
And all day long and all night the
front door will stand wide open, ami'
the strange folk who come drifting in
ar never turned' away empty-handed,
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