Mayor Moores' Campaign Methods
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CONSULTATION BETWEEN THE MATOR, AND CHAIRMAN COWELL OF THH
CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
HAT mao who undertakes to tell
how Frank E. Mcoree conrtucti
"one of his campaign" tr.cklea
a very difficult task. To begin
with. Moores recognizes no
chronological boundaries In campaigning.
He is at It all the time as much the month
after an election as the month before It,
except In the respect that when a battle
f ballots Is approaching, he organizes the
forces that previously have been scattered
and without discipline.
Campaigning has come to be accepted aa
a term meaning "making friends," and
Mayor Moores, acquiescing in this, doesn't
ace why there should be any attempt to
crowd all the work Into one particular
period. For a man of his temperament and
disposition, it Is something which may as
well be made part of the daily routine of
both official and private life, year in an I
yrar out. Moores likes to do it. He did it
before he ever entered puliticea arid ha
did it after his election. He could not
quit if he tried. No man who Is naturally
genial and sympathetic ever becomes
otherwise so long as he keeps healtby
and Moores' health is distinctly a preferred
risk.
Once upon a time the present mayor of
Omaha was a cabin boy on an Ohio river
steamboat. The captain was an austere man
who believed In doing as much as possible
to make subordinates uncomfortable. Ha
worked Moores an average of nineteen
hours per day and he swore at him the
Other five. The lad learned then the differ
ence between a klud word and one with
knots on it- He swore a mighty oath it
ever permitted to become a full grown
Bian he would first bruise the person of
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INTERVIEWERS GREET HIM ON TTfE CITY HALL STEPS.
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ANTE-ROOM OF THE MAYOR'S OFFICE, WHERE A THRONG IS ALWAYS WAITING.
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that particular captain and then devote all
the rest of his days to doing kindness
for other people. The first part of the
pledge never was carried out because the
navigator died while still too strong to be
licked, but the other part of .the obliga
tion has been pretty cons'antly observed.
And that is precisely why it is hard to
talk of "a" campaign with Moores in
mind. Having had no specific beginning
and being still without ending, adjectives
Implying distinction among sevetal of a
kind won't apply to Moons' campaigning If
the word be accepted In the broader sense.
His is not a one-night-stand show but a
continuous performance.
"Hut," some one may suscst, "admitting
that whatever he does he does the whole
year through leaves still unanswered the
main quetstion. What is It that he does?"
And this Isn't much easier answered than
the first query because it la so limitlessly
comprehensive and involves such a multi
tude of little things. Moores never has
been an agitator. Except In movements for
tho relief of victims of a great and sudden
calamity such as the St. Louis cyclone or
tho Galveston flood he never has been a
"leader." No great new theories of gov
ernment have originated with him and he
never has required that his party adopt a
platform btiBed upon some hobby of his
own. What he has done, then, is to prove
a real friend to any man who chose to have
him as such. Content to let other men
champion each great "cause," he has sim
ply championed the people. Where other
men have preached charity, Moores baa
practiced it. Where other men have prayed
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