The spellbinders ;' ISW, rightly or
Wrongly, al least left their party for
conscience's suke ami gave their serv?
ices to their cause. Even today a ma?
jority of political speakers are abso?
lutely unpaid. Of Course one hears
stories of fees of $10,000 paid to a not?
ed Democrat for campnlgu services
against Mr. Bryan In I8WJ and of fees
of $300 a night paid to a neted lnde>
pendent who opposed Mr. Harrison. In
addition, however, to eongrvwineu and
senators and stat" ard Krai officehold?
er! who give th< ir services, lhere are
hundreds ot* speakers of various po
litia'itl faiths who neither bold nor e\
peet to hold public office who would
regard the offer of payment for a po
Utica! speech as an insult. Neverthe?
less, the spellbinder must gel what
comfort ba- eau from the triumph ol' his
cause, for the world will not credit him
with disinterestedness, and his best
friends, out of polities, think him hired
The orator of au earlier generation
has had his day. The modern spell
blnaler, like the man of business, the
soldier, the Salvation Army evangelist,
concern! himself mere with results
than conventional methods with mut?
ter rather than form. Colonel Catis
Guild, Jr., in Scribner's
JUMPING THE DEER.
A Style a>f Huntlnii Thal Look. Eaay
Tilt ino Try lt.
