The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-06-11
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS Arm
COSTLY.
Estimated Expenditure This Year
Will Be $40, 900, 900

| elect a president of the United States The
annual allowance which the British Parlia.
ment makes TO King Edward is 81 ,92b, 900. Or
| 81, 600 in four years. These comparative
! figures would seem to indicate that it ia much
| cheaper TO maintain royalty permanently than
! it is TO elect president once in four years.
! In the campaigns of 1896 and 1900 the Dem
/ ocratic National Committee spent in cnch
| about 81, 500, 600 and the Republican commit.
tee as much more. This year it is safe TO as.
/ sumo that the expenditure of neither party
/ will be less than 1t was then. This makes one
| item OF $1,000, 900, or one-fifth the total Of
! the estimate.
Experience IN past campaigns has shown
that for every dollar spent by the national
/ committee of the two great parties an average
| of 81 will be spent by the various State com
| mittees, local candidates and individuals This
would mean that If the national committees
| spend 5000, 600 the State committees will
| spend $50. OOO, 600.
More than half of the money spent by both
national and State committees goes for cam
! paign orators. Altogether, it is estimated that
/ not less than $1,000 more or less eloquent pa
! triots will spend on an average of eight weeks
! Of their time in Saving their country on the
stump. All this campaign speaking will cost
| between now and November s. the sum of
/ Sll COOS coo.
! PRINTING AND STATIONERY.
! The next largest item on the campaign bill
! is that for printing and stationery. Each OF
/ the national committees will spend at least
I $500, OO0 in this way. Before the campaign is
/ over 1t IS estimated that both the Republican
and Democratic committee Will send out 100.
100000 separate documents, a supply sufi.
Cieut 10 furnish each voter with IA pieces of
campaign reading matter
Daring the coming campaign IL is estimated
that he Republican and Democratic national
committees viii each distribute 300, goo cam-
paign buttons, showing portraits Of their re-
speciiye candidates. aud 5000, 600 large htho-
graphic portraits.
One most important branch Of the work Of
the campaign committees is the taking Of the
two hOuse-io house cauvasses of the voters
When the great cost Of taking federal census
I Is considered. it will he understood how large
a hole Is made 10 the campaign funds by the
expenses az taking this house to-house can.
vaS~.
The expenses al headquarters are enormous.
The national chairman mHps out the work
sud divides great responsibility among bis ian.
mediate assistants. They in iurn divide their
work $50 that dozen or twenty or hundred
men will look after he details. These mea IA
'urn assign important tasks 30 hundreds Of
party workers under lhcm. After the cam.
- NH.f @fi'4H.A sue EtiflEtt htffatFe re-
port 90 their sap"ruTs. ss a lieutenant IN the
aTmy spuFt- lo bis captain. The CAPTAIN iu
'urH REPORTS 60 bis msJpr. the MAJOR 20 his col
uHrt and the colonel "a The national chsiruau.
When situation ARISES d0~u the lire thA,
threatens trouble the chairman hears Of it and
3sy5ses some plan Ipr svvsiine the danger He
thru dlrrcfs ti, sgbori,uyfss e. see chat she
Z plan 81 ir'sd sad rsqarre fail sxp'ana,ian for
fa..tgrg.
Tho late Senator Hanna. who managed she
Z R"Flhheau csmps'g us 81 lss-5 sui ltso. de-.
csrra fbAi az thv i9bs be hA-i ever fzyN Bod he
,hsiFmausbIp gt the uat5uual campa xu COM
ul'irc sas b. F1og odds the ~or,t. A. 90 tn.
as aud difficulties shich I..-s.I = uH .fua.l cam
rsExT pausuiif~f chairman. there D, probably
Do aaH Hvfag Thai has I+-u Jhyaaeh them ~ho
would a0saErs~ 9Th Mr. jisuua. LEAVING the
political suTk uus ,itoEri her add considering
ss solely igHn tEr business la,s3ss Il ylev tbs
cna1sgs az grrsHiruTlsj camVaiEu cuunHl5li,s
Is Tremendous rr. position. r>pscts Is 1T ate
rests. Iar euys gasaisrs The creation If an
~K~fafass arEsH.ftf.ua 4g'ie 80 elaborate aad
.aa p.lga'.a taat rrqaIrs! ta casrrY rf5 the
al's1 rsIrfsssF uf siE=!"ru -Hfsri-r ss-s she col
.-csinH .nd ryp-sd faT, aI a sons ui usaurs 50
i-FEe 81 iU yrs{4sre s~svn Hgnrr- tnr fi- expires
sruH. zai ihr -~.rtil1u ar8 employment. d.
reci.y and fa.is7~ct.y q ihausaua. II spf xers.
tbr ssihertus aud .is.s.r,1snarser s.f special pa
f.rnlafE-f oH scale ass less excessive fhau
thzs nt Erras latsEragasc uca- sssacsAs'au
aud . 4antfre aghrE ghiuks bratr-, noue o.
sh.ch can rsfc.y b. interested to anyone aug an
expert ia bis hnc- Moreover. the drEanlra.
tioB 81. ths gumsslgtsr forces hzs 70 BE- effected
troHl the Ereaat up aad as so entire ~osk
muaI Zee atrempisshed va a l5;sir nsofr than
iour mauihs ~ The aatslde everything has 10
BE- Joae uader the muss intense and uraaaE
prrssarc-
THE rsEss krEEtu.
In ers.ss b. press betvaa Is next 10 isu
ggYt4ucr Go the sbairmaa Headquarters, slnrg
through it %. reporters and correspondent,
arc furnished zlgb sach u~ws A. the COMMITTEES
szzaes 60 gave oal This baFrAH. however.
r. oaly ssuzli part 81 she couamffgre's ma
Cbiheiy inr the tiE0aatssn 81 political iui7r.
mz5spn. The barcaa Fe.Anos, are mainly
@lth The tr}eEruphic aews associations, ihe
metropolitan papers AID the special CORES,
ppu4cais, Ihe cusHiry IagrHAh receive po,ii-
isai ness Through the medium Of the a,g pat
cuiJnslar Publishing houses aad tkr concerns
aAsch sspp.7 plate matter copy FOE the ''rSi
ruts, the plates heiEg furnished by al call1.
FiAl s'aa employed especially ior that psrpose. [
Omen The pilates and sometimes the patents
Ass furnished % the papers A. the committees
expense. Ous rear Que OF the great parties
s4pVlsd netsvvu 2.0so and a.ugO aeekly
ar~spapvrs ~tth virtually al their political
reading 10 th.s way Throughout the entire cam
paika, ~Alls tAe u4hrs party Supplied, perhaps.
ize. thirds - many.
luumAtsly connected with tkr documru.
mti - she bareau or department whIeh pre-.
pAres political reading matter Tor voters Who
have uos mastered Eag.ash-lhe Films and the
Magyar, tho ScAudinAvsans and the Bohe-
miAus, lhs Italians. the Poles sad 81. the rest
Of the ElFopean eoutiHkent. Il has commonly, (
ihBaSb no; zlways, been considered good CON
mst,es practice 10 issue TRANSACTIONS 10 almost
every European language OF nearly all the doc.
amsEis go, out ga English. aB3 the isoablss Of
the iunetioB4ry Who has 90 look after this job
ara simply INDISPENSABLE,
FOOTBALL DISCOVERY.
To begin with, he IS generally and OF neces
atty ignorant Of the languages into which the
documents are 20 be translated, ard. there
fore quite Incompetent TO lgdge the ability Of
those Nhom he has % engage a. tTausiaiOrs or
their wark Uhea Il Is flushed. His only safety
lies IN engaging two persons familiar with each
Of the unknown tongues into which the matter
Is to BE- done. To one OF these be lnlrusts the
translation; the other examines Il carefully
when finished 70 see that no error has been
ommiried. What vas considered one of the
most Important documents 10 one campaign
came Htaf 0EtAA s uttetiefaLE 50 lHG a. iue
Firms we're concerned. The translator under
stood Finnish all right, bu, the knowledge ii
English VAS limited, and be transformed air
natives into negatives and vice versa 10 a
Wholesale fashion that made the docuL-eui
stand in Finnish for exactly the reverse OF
what It stood for in English Fortunately.
the errors we're discovered M time to prevent
The distribution OF any OF the uucorrected
copies of the document, though not until after
the plates had been put on the prrss aud about
half ton Of good, clean white paper had been
spoiled Documents ia German aud French
are easily handled, Of course, and generally by
special bureaus.
OF course money in wads ana rolls and bags /
is needed 10 keep the committee departments
mentioned and others, of which there is no l
room to speak, in operation. and the real |
storm center Of every national campaign com
mittee is the treasurers office. How be gets |
his cash nobody but himself ever knows 10 |
full. and there Is no doubt at all that he and /
his collectors-more often than not political 1
stars Of the FIRST water-are driven tc their |
wits ends TO gather the needtul. Presiden- |
nal candidates themselves have rarely made /
heavy contributions. for the reason, among |
others. that they have rarely been able to do |
SO. 1t may be mentioned in passing that while /
presidential candidates seldom visit headquar-
tars yira presidential candidates often do /