Howard Pyle, a chronicle by Charles D. Abbott, with an introduction by N. C. Wyeth and many illustrations from Howard Pyle's works.

HOWARD PYLE: A CHRONICLE
to do in bringing about the happy outcome of last Tuesday's
contest. Your comparison of Taft and Bryan was a masterpiece of convincing logic. This is not merely my own individual opinion, but the opinion of many others in whose
judgment I have great confidence. We obtained the insertion of your article in Leslie's Weekly and afterwards, following your suggestion, distributed it as a handbill in labor
centers. Then, too, we used it as the basis for a sixteensheet billboard poster, and I saw to it that these posters
were placed on billboards in Wilmington, in order that
you might have an opportunity of inspecting them. This
billboard advertising was confined at first to cities of over
fifty thousand inhabitants, in states regarded as debatable.
Subsequently we placed it in cities of between five thousand
and fifty thousand inhabitants. We issued also an
eight-sheet poster along the general lines of the handbill suggested by you, and this was displayed very generally
throughout the country.
"Mr. Dolley, the State Chairman of Kansas, was so
taken with the poster that he wanted it placed on every
billboard in his state. The Republican County Committee
of Westchester County, New York, regarded it as a splendid
vote-getter and at its own expense filled all available billboard space in that county. While it is impossible to say
just what effect this poster had on the voters, it is noteworthy
that Westchester gave a greater proportionate increase in
the vote for the Republican Presidential Ticket than any
other county in the state of New York, and became the
banner Republican county.
"The handbill obtained a very wide circulation. I telegraphed a de~scription of it to Mr. Garretson, the editor of
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