The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-31
SlNEWS OF WAR
 FOR THE CAMPAIGN
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| (Continued From Fourteenth Page)) have been been tied for eight years be- cause of the peculiar financial attitude of the party under the leadership of Bryan and who have anxlously await ing the coming of a Moses who might lead the party along a sane and safe road to success. To such a leader their attitude is that of generosity personi- fled and one of the most prominent men in the party said on the day Judge Parker was nominated:-"There has been $15O0,0 lying In the pockets of the voluntary contributors which will be thrown into the eund where Bryan from all sources got less than S200,0O0."
 How will these millions for attack and defence be expended? Who are the men and what are the means by which in three or four months are distributed these vast sums?
 Campaigning in politics has become expensive as the years race by and what could be accomplished in Lincoln's s day with million costs two now l.iv- ing Is higher love of luxury is greater, and the men who do the work have keener sense of the necessity of liberal ity than those who managed campaigns a score of years ago. When w w. Dud- ley planned his famous blocks of i've coup men were astonished at his ex- travagance. In these days such a move would be a mere incident.
 In the first place. the campaign of ed- ueation." Hanna aptly termed it in 1896, is the keynote of modern political war fare. How expensive such a method may become Is exempllfied by ths fact that Tammany in a local campaign which re- suited unfortunately in 1901, spent $S2O,- GOO, of which more than two-thirds was for Literature" In 1903 with a treas ury depleted by two "lean" years, Tam many spent $160,000 in this way alone. How much more costly then is a cam paign that extends from Main to Cali fornia and from the great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
 Books, leaflets. circulars and posters In 1900 cost the republican party at least $2 O0o,o0O, including postage and express charges for distributing the same. Every resident of a doubtful state got copies of this literature, which was compiled by high priced experts and edited as care- fully as any newspaper on the globe.
 Headquarters were maintained in New York and Chicago then, as they will be this year. at vast expense, with large clerical and directory forces. Incident to the maintenance of these quarters was the expense for the entertainment of the party leaders from all states who were called on for consultation.
 To aid the party in states where there was a possibility of defeat no matter how remote, hundreds of thousands of dollars was distributed to help local candidates and consequently to add to the strength of the national ticket.
 Then there was the army of orators the 'spellbinders" who preached the party doctrine from the platform at country cross roads and from trucks. In round numbers the republicans for three months had fifty of these men and wom- en-for women have invaded the field under pay. Some of these unacceptable of featuring in a university on nearly any topic-commanded as high as $500 a week besides their travelling expenses. These were few. however, but the mana gers were obligated to defray the ex- penses of many of the party's "blg'' men whose services were given gratis
 The majority of the spellblnders re- ceiyed from $50 to $100 a week in addi- tion to their expenses This class found their expense account a good thing" and although for three years and nine months they had patronized cheap boarding houses or lived on Sl5 a week, they experienced little difficulty in lodg ing in the best hotels on a champagne diet,H at sl0 to sl5 a day. Through the rural districts of the east and middle west and the mountainous region of the Trans Mississippi country they plodded their way, spreading the gospel of re- publicanism and depicting the treasury at leaps and bounds.
 Another item of expense that cut wide swathes in the party bank roll was rents for meeting places, music and fireworks, and 1t is calculated that this alone took out of the chest a half million dollars. Then there was the machinery set In motion by local organizations, but paid for by the National Committed by which the party managers estimated the prob able vote. Hundreds of men were en- gagged in this work at periods of the campaign. They were paid $5 a day and l expenses and the total cost was nearly another half million.
 Compared with the extravaganza Of the republicans the policy of the demo- cracy because of the limited capitaliza- ton of the machine was necessarily economical. Work that the party in power expended millions upon had to be done for nothing or not at all, and in many details the latter was the case Printing and literature were kept down to the lowest ebp, and the spellbinders were put on beef and" diet, but even by practising the most rigid economy 1 the democratic Mother Hubbard found her cupboard bare at frequent intervals. This year with conditions admittedly reversed. the democrats will be the spenders, the republicans are econo- mists. But the latter are intrenched. their breastworks are defended by any army of office holders whose existence largely depends on their ability to ward off blows of a golden club with argu- ments for the continuance of the pre- sent regime. What the result wlll be the climax at the polls on November VIII tell.
 In any event this campaign will decide under the fairest possible test the ques. ton of to what extent the "sinews or war'-that is. the coin of the realm determine the result of national political