The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-22
REPUBLICANS SPENT $ssS,0ii.
THE TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS
WERE S353,923.
Democratic state Committee Spent SIS ,87S
and Has Sta IN Hand-Hearst Wal thS
Largest Democratic Contributor. Giving
gS7.OOO-Names OF Liberal Republican,

Albany. Nov. 21.-The statement Of con-
tributtons and expenditures of the Repub-
bcan State committee was fled with the
Secretary of State to-day. The total re-
ceipts were 1888, 923 and the aggregate ex-
penditures we're 1892 oil, OF which tl45, 500
vert to Republican county committees.
The committee received contributions ag-
rrpgating 1913 ,923 and $40, 900 was borrowed
from Timothy l.. Woodruff. The disburse-
nents we're s3I2. 24o, already paid; bills
payable rendered, sl7,O85; bills estimated.
a.. 700. The committee has an apparent
balance on hand of sl,s12.
Among the contributors were: j. Pier
pont Morgan AND Levi p. Morton a Co.,
$4,000 each; Andrew Carnegie and T. L..
Woodruff, $40 900 each; N. s. Collins, Onon-
daea Republican committee by Z. NJ. Wells,
treasurer, and John d. Rockefeller, Jr.,
each $1,000.
Harvey Fisk 4 Sons, c. NJ. Depew, John
W. Gates, William p. Clyde, H.. 8. Black,
Frank W. Higgins. j. and W. Seligman q Co.,
James B. Ford, Kuhn, Loeb 4 Co. and W. u.
Thomas, each 81, 500; f. B.. Fallows, W. f..
Corey, William j. Moore, Frank A. Munsey
Charles NJ. Schwab, Jacob II. SchifY and
c. H. Mackay, each s., 900; F. W. Whitridge,
$3.50.
10. White, Henry A. Van Alstyne, Fran
chct Bros. Irving Blake, John B. Mcdonald,
Henry F. Shoemaker, Adolph L~ewisohn,
". K. Vanderbilt, Jr., Kountz Bros, j.
Borden Hartman Estate, Frederick Bill
lings, Z. J. Berwind, Mackay a Co., 8. G..
Coykendall, j. L. Laying, Edwin Gould.
j. G. Matchmaker. Winslow Lanier, Brown
Bros. 4 Co., Edward, P. Nichols, Fred @
Bourne. Frederick c. Stevens, Secretary
OF State j. F. O'Brien, Merton +. Lewis,
William Nelson Cromwell, John Jacob
Astor. William A. Engeman, C. Wander
bilt, Spencer Trask a CO., Oscar 8. Stratus,
and Clark. Dodge 4 Co., each 81 900.
II. NJ. Flagler, Bpoksw Bros, Romans a
Co, W. n. Cohen, j. Ledlie Hees, Louis
Stern, c. W. Anderson, w. H. Reynolds,
D. :. Talmadge, w. c. Witherbee, Emerson
Mcmillan, B. T. Wilson, r. A. G. Smith,
Frederick Potter, Fl. X. Knapp, Hiram
W. Sibley, William s. Miller, Arbuckle
Bros, Richard Hyde, W. L. Greene, Robert
Winthrop, Howard Carroll, j. r. Maxwell,
Arthur P. Heinze, Francis r. Appleton,
H. P. Heinze, c. William Barbour, H. F.
Huntington, Jacob H. Schiff, Horace Por-
ter, NJ. l.. Schif, l.. H. Birelow, r. F. Cut
ting, A. G.. Reeves, T. F. How land, G.. r.
Sheldon, s. s. Sanford, d. o. Mills, Max
well Il Scoville, Moore a Schley, George
=. Baker, j. H. Harding, Fisk a Robinson,
Bang 4 Co, HUM, Edey a CO, REDMOND
&CO., H. +, Kennedy, G.. I: Aldridge, G. H.
Shepard, w. B. Cutting, N. w. Harris q
Co, George F.. Morgan, Douglas Robinson.
and George Eastman, each $500.
The report of the treasurer as filed is a
record OF daily expenditure n the
are not classified, but Secretary Gleason.
speaking of the report, said:
The records Of the treasurer show Hat
there were contributed to the various
county committees of the State $152. $50.
$40. 900 Of which went to the county Of New
lork and $50. 600 to the county OF Kings.
As there are over $500 election districts in
the State this will be seen TO be an allow
ance of about S34. so for each election dis
trict for meetings. a canvass, registration
purposes and necessary expenses OF election
day for watchers.
%In addition to the amount distributed to
the chairmen of the county committees as
above stated, 50. $50 was distributed in
amounts OF 500 or more to the chairmen OF
the different county committees for the
purpose Of distributing and posting ex-
tracts from the speech of Secretary Root
delivered at Utica on November /.
Speakers salaries and expenses cost
the committee S23, 1894. while the expense
of meetings. which included contributions to
organizations and clubs, rental Of halls.
music. transparencies. st~ereopticons. trucks.
decorations. &c, footed up $27. IT'S. 10.
The expense of the Hughes's special
trains, including railroad fare, hotel bills,
car accommodation and meals, and salary
of the superintendent of train, amounted
TO S., 34S.93
The bills paid by the committee for
printing. stationery Advertising,
papers, mailing publications, expressage,
&c, amounted to S63, 032. "a, to which should
he added the unpaid bills. amounting to
about $4,000.
The documents printed in the English
language, varying from a single pa ge
dodger TO a pamphlet OF twenty-four pages,
numbered, all told, S,043, 900. The docu-
ments printed in foreign languages num-
beled, all told, 1 10000 pieces.
salaries and supplies, including stationery,
postage, house bills, repairs n alterations
OF headquarters, rent. furniture, desks,
&c, amounted to sic, l55. a..
miscellaneous and incidental bills, in
Guiding express charges, house supplies,
repairs, messengers, kilograms, telephones,
hags, gas, electric light, coal, &c, mounte
to $3.50. SO.
The committee paid bills contracted
by the previous State committee amounting
TO $3.50.
The total amount expended by the
treasurer in sums less than $40, for which
no receipts were taken, was S26O.0l.
The treasurer has in his possession a
receipt for every bill paid by him in the
amount OF SO and over, and in cases where
money was paid to agents or sub-com-
mlttees for special purposes, a report has
been made and is on file with the treasurer
showing the disposition Of sue fu nds.
"Of the bills reported as rendered but
not yet paid and awaiting D. H., about
$500 is for campaign buttons, and the
balance rs entirely for printing, all of which,
except a few hundred dollars, is for the
printing and distribution of extracts from
the speech of Mr.. Root, which was delivered
on November 1 and which Mr.. Woodruff
ordered TO be printed in all languages and
distributed as widely as possible through
out the State.
MIR. Woodruff has advanced $40 600
10 the treasurer for these unforeseen ex-
peuses, which, for printing and including
the 50, 800 paid to the committees for dis
trbution, amounted 70 over S35 900. Had
A. not been for the printing and distribution
Of the Roo speech the expenditures OF the
committee would have fallen below its
receipts. and a good balance would have
been left in the treasurer's hands"
Mr.. Gleason called attention to the fact
that the campaign documents OF the indie
pendence League and Democratic State
committee other than Autographs con-
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