Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . 150 ^eHiHdJHe §ceHe5. BEHIND THE X an old-fashioned house on Wahiut street,Philadelphia, with a front that was architect-£^^j.^ urally fashionable thirty ^xars ago,there sat from the beginning of thecampaign to its successful end a manfrom whose office chair radiated linesof communication to every electionprecinct in the vState of this one man w^as entrusted theconduct of the campaign for the Re-publican part}^ so full of vast possibilities, sopre-eminent in success. Day after day, nightafter night, this

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Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . 150 ^eHiHdJHe §ceHe5. BEHIND THE X an old-fashioned house on Wahiut street,Philadelphia, with a front that was architect-£^^j.^ urally fashionable thirty ^xars ago,there sat from the beginning of thecampaign to its successful end a manfrom whose office chair radiated linesof communication to every electionprecinct in the vState of this one man w^as entrusted theconduct of the campaign for the Re-publican part}^ so full of vast possibilities, sopre-eminent in success. Day after day, nightafter night, this man and his efficient aids kepttelegraphers, typewriters, special messengers, vSec-retaries and pasters and folders bus}. He restednot, and he gave nobody else any rest—not eventhe candidates. He was the Czar of the cam-paign. His name was B. F. Gilkeson, Chairmanof the Republican State Committee. No name was so familiar, so often on the lipsof the campaigners, as that of Gilkeson. He was 153 alternatel}^ congratulated and condemned. Manya speaker, eloquent, popular and efficient, towhom ten days i

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