. Review of reviews and world's work . he open fight. Some-thing of the old method remains, of course, and incertain localities it still predominates, feut, so far asthe central management is concerned, the old methodhas been largely abandoned. It has been supersededby what is known as * the campaign of education. The New There was always a considerable use of Educational campaign literature. But in the former^ * days it consisted chiefly of speechesmade in Congress, reprinted at Washington and dis-tributed under Congressmens mailing franks. Thatplan has now been systematized and enormously ex
. Review of reviews and world's work . he open fight. Some-thing of the old method remains, of course, and incertain localities it still predominates, feut, so far asthe central management is concerned, the old methodhas been largely abandoned. It has been supersededby what is known as * the campaign of education. The New There was always a considerable use of Educational campaign literature. But in the former^ * days it consisted chiefly of speechesmade in Congress, reprinted at Washington and dis-tributed under Congressmens mailing franks. Thatplan has now been systematized and enormously ex-tended. Under the disguise of quotations in speeches,several Democratic members in June or July se-cured the entire republication in the CongressionalRecord, in several successive installments, of HenryGeorges large book on Protection and Free Trade ;and hundreds of thousands of copies printed by theGovernment were franked as campaign docu-ments. But large as is the work of the literarybureaus of the National Congressional Committees. -^ >*^ HON. JOSIAH QUINCY, OF MASSACHUSETTS,Chief of the Democratic Literi^ry Bureau. at Washington, it is hardly perceptible in comparisonwith the colossal work that the National CampaignCommittees at New York have accomplished throughtheir educational agencies. Much was attemptedin 1888, but all former attempts have been eclipsedby the achievements of 1892. At the head of theDemocratic educational bureau is Mr. JosiahQuincy, of Massachusetts, the talented scion of afamily distinguished for several generations by emi-nent and honorable public services. The exponentand chief organizer of the Republican educationalcampaign is the Hon. James S. Clarkson, of Iowa,who, despite any impressions to the contrarj^, hasalways, as a political manager, contended for thevalue of a propaganda of, ideas—that is, for the mostlegitimate and intelligent form of campaigning. The Vast ^^^ election funds in this country do notOutput of of necessity mean a corrup
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