The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-11-10
Campaign Doodle

national committee will have spent
about $4,000. 600, and the democratic
national committee approximately 81
900 600 The various state committees
will have spent the difference between
the total Of these sums and the grand
total. The record of campaign finance
shows that the combined state COM
mites usually spend 81 for every dol
lar expended by the national commit
tee. This year. because OF the SUN
fights waged in several states. the pro-
portion will be increased to about Az
to 1. To this grand total might be
added large sums spent by candidates
who have paid their own expenses dur
ing costly tours of the state and coun-
try.
Much of the democratic committees
money has ben used in establishing or
PLANTATIONS in states which had been
largely neglected in former campaigns
and to meet republican aggressiveness
in Indiana and states in the far west
To Indiana alone the democratic ma
tional committee sent upward OF $780,
600. The. state committee added gen
erous sum to this amount, all OF when
Mr.. Taggart presumably has used.
The republican national committee
has sent hundreds Of thousands OF dol
lars into the upstate counties OF New
York, and Governor Odell spent in
the neighborhood of $250,000 in per-
fecting his organization in New York
city and arranging his card index OF
voters into West Virginia money has
poured forth from both national head
quarters and from the state headquar-
tiers as we'll. A golden stream has
flowed into Connecticut. New Jersey,
Wisconsin, Rhode Island and The
mountain states from both republican
and democratic sources. Accurate de-
tails of the expenditures can not, or.
course, be obtained, but neither party
denies that it has expended hundreds
of thousands Of dollars in all the
doubtful states. III
The New York democratic state COM
mittee spent the bulk of it's money in
its effort to perfect an organization IN
the state, and obtained generous con-
tribution from the national COMMITTEES.
Realizing that the party lacked ma
chine of any kind in many parts Of
the state, William S. Rode of the bu-
reauuaf organi-eti-- --t. out to build
-up air 1srgapizasl0ii .11-ts would be use
full. Mr. Rode discovered that ,lis
work would necessitate an enormous
expense, greater than the COMMITTEES
ordinarily could afford. 1t was decided
h. and tho
amount of money used has been esti-
mated at from 100000 to 100000.
Careful estimates place the total sum
spent by the republican party in this
state between 100000 and $1,000,OO0.
In New Jersey and Connecticut the
managers of the -mocratic campaign
discovered an almost utter lack OF or
ganization, and enormous sums were
sent into those places to build up a
machine. IN West Virginia the bulk
of the democratic campaign expense
has been borne by the state commit
tee. Indiana was about the only state
which was thoroughly organized.
Besides the expenses of organization
of getting out the vote and supplying
state headquarters with funds to meet
expenses, the national committees are
called upon to meet very large printing
bills, and are compelled TO pay force
of men large salaries. They also havt
to keep an army of -sDellbinders a
work
= 1t has been estimated that the two
national committees this year have
.disbursed 100000 to the campaign or
ators for salaries and expenses. TIL
printing bills have footed up more thai
500, 900. The bare cost Of maintain
ing headquarters is from 81 900 to IS.
600 a week. exclusive Of salaries pail
to heads of departments and their as
sistants.
Costly though it has been, the cam
paign Of 1904 will not break the record
The expenditures in 1900 were abou
equal in amount to those of this veal
and in 1895 the fund Of the republica
national committee, of which Senate
Hanna was chairman, was approx
mately $6.O00,OOO, or more than tn
sum used this year by both nations
committees. 1t was during the cam
paign of 1896 that the republican part
conducted its so-called campaign {
education." which cost fabulous sun