The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-01

tional Committee and custodian of the
surplus from the campaign of 1904.
THE COMING CAMPAIGN.
While the figures may be a surprise
to those who suppose that campaign
chairmen generally spend all the money
contributed, it is asserted on authority
which ought to be sound that Mr.. Cor
telyou has about 100000 of the 1904
fund still in his keeping. In any event,
he is known to have a considerable
surplus. The managers of the con-
gressional campaign want him to turn
a good portion of it over to them for
use this year. 1t is stated at Demo-
cratic headquarters that Mr.. Cortelyou
has already given Chairman Sherman
$50, 600, put, whether this be So or not,
Mr.. Sherman wants a great deal more.
He and Speaker Cannon argue that
the President is the dominant issue this
year. The President willingly per-
mitted that. He wrote the Watson let
ter asking for a Republican House in
the Sixtieth Congress to uphold him in
carrying out his policies. If the Presi-
dent is the issue, say Messrs. Cannon
and Sherman, he ought not to with
hold the big surplus in the national
committee on the plea that it is ma
Iional IufiOy not cOiSICSSiOndl luil1
The Republicans have been running
their congressional campaigns on a
pretty lavish basis. Their average ex-
penditures in conducting a congress
sional election have been about $350,00O,
as against about $4,000 by the Demo-
cratic Congressional Committee. Rep
resentative Babcock, during the ten
years he was chairman, began gather
ing contributions months in advance of
the campaign. He 'shook down the
railroad, steamship, and insurance
companies, not to mention a lot of
other corporations that came to Con-
gress during the winter for legislation.
When the campaign was on he had
the big fund under lock and key He
placated labor uprisings by big pay
n.ents where they would do the most
good.
Chairman Sherman had no such
suspicious start He has gathered in
lot of money, but nothing like what
Mr. Babcock, his predecessor, used to
have Many of the committees per
quisites have been cut off. For in
stance, two years Speaker Cannon
had a special train for his stumping
tour in many states east of the Missis
sippi River. 1t was furnished free of
cost and deadheaded over all the roads
where Mr.. Cannon and his party trav-
eled. Mr.. Cannon starts again Septen-
Der % from Chicago for long tour
through close districts. He will not
have a free train, as he had two years
ago. Thus far the Republican Congress
sional Committee has been unable to
secure passes for the Speaker and his
party. Representative joe Sibley OF
Pennsylvania, one of the Speakers
cronies, very wealthy from his transac-
lions in oil, is putting up for the spe-
cial car, and if the committee has to
pay mileage for the car Mr. Sibley
expects to pay the most of that bill.
Tho Republicans have numerous
fights on their hands. They are not
as confident of winning the next House
as they claim to be Notwithstanding
the decentralization of the Democratic
party fractional quarrels in districts
are giving them a lot of trouble. Us
ually these quarrels are adjusted be-
fore election day but the complications
this year are acute. The managers
| need a lot of money and they ask:
| why does President Roosevelt and
| Postmaster General Cortelyou want to
keep that big 100000 fund? Is it be-
cause the President thinks that. in the
last analysis, he may have to run
again?"
Several very urgent appeals have
been made to Mr.. Cortelyou to "shell
out Some of them have come from
Oklahoma and Indian Territory, where
the Republicans are up against it. -
Missouri Republicans have also applied
to him, because of their exigencies