Arizona republican., 1900-09-25

ty have always denied emphatically
 that the government of the United
 States could be based upon corrup-
 ton of the popular ballet. In the bit
 terness of the presidential campaign
 of four years ago an effort to accuse
 ;he republican national committee fail
 ed completely. Followers of Bryan
 were then so disappointed that they
 searched for cause for an attack upon
 Chairman Hanna. They simply could
 not find reason for such an attack.
 They directed their inquiries especially
 toward the figures of the election in
 Ohio, state where there seemed to have been an extraordinary incr5a 5ase in the percentage of votes cast. This in- crease of percentage in relation to the population excited a suspicion. The in- VestigatiOns of the democratic leaders only showed them that the voting pJp- ulation in Ohio had grown beyond the average of the normal census statistics. because of the great increase in manu- faCturing and other industrial enter prises of that commonwealth. So thor oughly were the democratic inquirers convinced of the truth of this that they never made any attempt to cast slur upon the honesty of their opponents in the last presidential campaign, although they d.d try vainly in the con-
 test over Mr. Hanna's election to the senate to make out q case of local cor ruption in the Columbus legislature.
 It is a fact that at this moment both the republican and democratic national committees are straining every effort to collect more money for campaign eX- penses,
 It Is a singular feature of this cam paign, which millions of republicans have so calmly assumed would go all in favor of the reelection of President Mckinley from the very start, that the discovery has just been made of a carefully contrived effort of the Bry- antics 60 prevent the financial sringen- cy in campaign funds from which they suffered in 1896 This effort has been going on for more than year. It has been conducted in secrecy. The amass- ing of a campaign fund for Bryan has been a task of detail that has been car ried, as a literal fact. into every con- Eressional district in the United States.
 It was by accident something was discovered of the methods employed by the Bryan managers, and of their at tendant success. IL has been a matter of comment for weeks in Chicago that while the republican headquarters seemed short of money to meet current expenses, the democratic headquarters just across the street had no difficulty in meeting all the Bills and have dis played d readiness to expend money in any and every kind of enterprise.
 The explanation of this democratic plethora of wealth may be found in the activity of Mir. Buck Hinrichsen, who has done nothing else In the last twelve months but devote himself to the problem of how to secure gold for the Bryan campaign of silver" anti trust" and "anti-imperialism." Mir Hinricqhsen has succeeded in intrCduc- ing an ertire new method In the collec- tion of campaign funds for presidential campaigns. He has originated the idea Of detail in these collections. Instead of depending upon large subscriptions from corporations and millionaires, he has formed a plan of appealing directly to more humble individuals, reaching citizens in even modest circumstances. He has caused these persons to give ev- idence of their partisan faith in each of the 367 congressional districts of the country. In every district he has form ed a committee of from three to five men each, of his personal selection, and each man agreeable to MT. Bryan per sonally. It is through this method that MT. Hinrichsen now estimates that he will collect for the democratic national committee before the end of October, a sum averaging $3.OOO for each congress sional district. If you multiply the sum of $3.000 by 367, the number of congress sional districts in the United s ates you will obtain the handsome total of S1,O7l ,OOO.
 Mr. Hinrichsen is himself an interest ing person. It was he who started the campaign for free silver in confer ence of democrats held in Springfield. H.. in 1894. Hinrichsen was at that time secretary of state of Illinois. In 1896 he was elected to congress from the Illinois district of Jacksonville. Two years ago he was defeated for a Since that time he has devoted all his energies to the collec- tion of funds to meet the expenses of the Bryan campaign.
 There are some odd features about Mir. Hinrichsen's returns of money that may be somewhat indicative of local political sentiment. For example, his largest receipts of these subscriptions, which vary in amount from $l to 8, are from the state of Missouri, which is regarded as democratic, and from Iowa, which is regarded by the democrats as hopelessly republican. Chairman Jones is beWildered by these returns as much as Mir. Hinrichsen. Another phenome- non is the fact that more money has been received at national headquarters from New Jersey than from any other eastern state. This is accounted fO" by the fact that nearly all of the New York contributions have been turned in directly to Tammany Hall and have been handed over by MT. Croker to the democratic state committee. The con tributions from New England haV- been meager.
 All this influx of funds to the demo- cratic national committee is supplement led bN sDna Worry h rrra o,Dtrib,r+ in,