The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-10
IT TAXES MONEY
CAMPAIGN HAS COST saz,soo,ooe.
Estimate of sums spent by National and State Committees of Both fnr- ties--Golden Flow In New fofk. Democrats Handicapped py Enormous Expense of Build
 ing Up Their Neglected
 State Machines.
New York Herald.

New York Herald. , cost to both great parties of the poilti. At Sss.Soe.6 300. Of this sum the Re- spent about s5.6oo. ooo and the Demo cratic National Committee appEoxi- mate1y $2,000,000. The various SIate enee between the total of these sums and the grand total The record or campaign finance shows that the com bfned State committees usually spshs Tour dollars for every dollar expenaeu by the National Committee. This year, because of the stiff fights waged in seV- erai States, the proportion will De m creased to about. four and a hait to TO the grand total might be added q large sum spent by candidates wno have paid their own expenses durine costly tours of the State and county.
 Much of the Democratic committees money has been used h establishing organizations 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 Na- tional Committee sent upward or $eVo.- 900. The State Committee added gen erous sum to this amount, all Of which MT. Taggart has used to get out ms
 
 The Republican National Committee has sent hundreds of thousands or Gol- lars into the upstate counties ot New York, and Governor Odell spent in the neighborhood of s25o, 900 perieeting ms ranging his card index of voters unto West Virginia money has poured from both national headquarters, ana rom the State headquarters as well. golden stream has flowed into Connec- ticut. New Jersey. Wisconsin, Rhode Island and the mountain States, from both Republican and Democratic sources. Accurate details of the ex- penditures cannot. of course. De oo. has expended hundreds of thousands or dollars in all the doubtful States
 The New York Democratic State Com mittee. in its effort to perfect an 2r- ganization in this State, spent the bulk of it's money, and obtained generous contribution from the National Com mittee. Realizing that the party lacH. ed a machine of any kind In many the Bureau of Organization. sets about building up an organization that would be useful. MT. Roodie discovered that this work would necessitate an enor- nous expense greater than the conn mittee could ordinarily afford, It was decided to continue the work, however, and the amount of money used has been estimated at from $400,000 to $500, 900. Careful estimates place the total sum sum spent by the Republican party in this State between $500. 900 and $1.000.000.
 In New Jersey and Connecticut tho managers of the Democratic 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 nas been borne by the State Committee, Indiana was about tho only State which was thoroughly organized.
 Where the Money Goes.
 Tn addition to the expenses of organ ization, of getting out the vote and sup plying State headquarters with funds to meet expenses. the National Commit tees are called upon to meet very large printing bills and are compelled to pay a force of men large salaries. They also have to keep an army of spell binders at work.
 It has been estimated that the two National Committees this year have disbursed $700.000 to campaign orators for salaries and expenses. The print ing bills have fo2ted up more than S100,000 The .barefcost of maintaining headquarters is from $3,00o to $5,o0o a week, exclusive of salaries paid tc heads of departments and their assist ants
 Costly though 1t has been, the cam paigns of 1904 will not break the rec ord The expenditures in 1900 were about equal in amount to those of this year, and in 1S96 the fund of the Re- publican National Committee, of which Senator Hanna was chairman, was ap- proximately $6.0O0. 900, or more than the sum used this year by both National Committees. It was during, the caIn' paign of 1896 that the Republican party conducted its so-called campaign oi education" which cost fabulous sum
 Statistics collected by magazine and printed four years ago showed the total expense of the National Commit tees in the campaign of 1864 to nave been only $2o0,0Oo In 1872 this sum rose to $500.000, in 1884 to $1.500,000 and in 1892 to $2,000,000.