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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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l pointing out the enormities perpetrated bythe opposition party. These documents rangefrom a one-page dodger to a book of 240pages. Their preparation involves a great amountof work and the employment of many men ; forin the aggregate they amount, in the course of acampaign, to more than one hundred separatedocuments. How great the volume of this mate-rial sent out is may be judged from the fact that agentleman representing the shipping-room of theparty with which I am not allied, here in Chi-cago, told me that one day they sent out threeand a quarter tons of documents, and on thesame day had received four and a half millioncopies of a single speech. Speaking of this to aRepublican United States Senator whom I knowintimately, he told me that it was not in any waya record-making performance ; that, in the cam-paign of 1890, the Republican document-roomwas so well organized that, when a telegram wasreceived from New York on a certain day at 10 560 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS.
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True Inwardness of the Republican Elephant AN ANTI-TRDST diagram EMPLOYED BY THE NATIONAL, DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE. (This drawing—the work of Prof. Frank Parsons—was printed on the back of 1,000,000 copies of Mr. Bryans anti-trust address, and has also been extensively circulated in poster form.) oclock in the morning asking for a carload ofassorted documents to be shipped at once, thedocuments were picked out, the car loaded andshipped by fast freight before 5 oclock in theafternoon. The man who accomplished tliat feathad for four years been wholly out of that line ofwork. It would not be extraordinary for a greatwholesale house like Marshall Field or Mont-gomery Ward & Co., whose shipping-office isalways in order and active, to do a thing of thatsort ; but it does seem an extraordinary mani-festation of organizing ability for such a feat tobe accomplished after only three or four weekspreparation. At the time of writing this article, the Demo-cratic National Committee has issue

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