The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-02

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however, all corporation contributions
have ceased. If we get money from
rich men this year, it must come from
their personal accounts, and so it is
that they are rather diffident.''
"Have YOU planned the campaign
this year on the usual elaborate scale
on which republican congressional cam
paigns have been heretofore man.
aged2" -<0~. = -.
Expense List Trimmed.
"Not quite. We knew that there
would be a scarcity of funds and so we
began early to trim. We cut off items
OF expense right and left wherever we
able reduction that | felt right proud
of our work: But even after these
reductions had been made, the total
expense Of the campaign is SO large
that we are far short Of being able to
meet it. For years men who have
worked for the republican party have
been accustomed to being we'll paid for
1t and this year it is almost impossible
to make them understand that no funds
are in sight, The result is a daily
tsnn feo of BE, begging and protesting let
at good wages" 8.
Chow do Speaker Cannon and men
of his type pay the big bills incurred
at the big meetings which they hold9'
II presume that these bills are paid
by local committees. We do not know
anything about them here. In Maine,
we have been able to do absolutely
nothing Of Importance for Mr.. Little
Go1I LIZ IL G-l.l |.
ab bs to tlFs H5Zd AsGs b saa
aid; that iaIYs waald nav, been able
Of tss bg 9dRs M ca eaS axPsn of
furnishing important speakers, etc. But
not this year. Mr.. Littlefeld is going
it practically alone, unless the rest, Of
the, republicans Of Maine are coming
to his assistance
And so the story Of hard luck and
poverty ran along for half an hour or
more.
:*'~ Both Parties Hard Up. ~..
From all that can be learned at re-
publican headquarters in New York,
it is the desire of the rich men of the
managed as economically as possible,
and they think economy will come more
readily with an empty treausry than
full one. So, they are holding back,
intending that the bills. shall be paid
in some way after election. Some half
dozen rich men have already agreed to
stand good for certain lines Of &C
counts One man, for example, will
take, care Of the printing, another of
there is a great deal, and still another
of the telegraphing. In this way, the
credit Of the committee is maintained.
After election these men will pass the
hat and get enough to pay what is due.
A system Of this kind means, Of
course, the cheapest campaign the re-
publicans have conducted for many
years, and it is no wonder that Repre-
sentative Babcock of Wisconsin, Rep
resentative .Overstreet Of Indiana, and
Representative Hull of Iowa, managers
of former campaigns, stepped down and
out last spring, when they saw what
was coming. These men conducted
successful campaigns for years, but it
| AS has been already suggested, the
republican and the democratic congress
| sional committees are about on an equal
footing this year, so far as money goes,
for the first time since free silver be-
| came an issue.
| It is too early to make campaign pre-
dictions. The real work of the cam
paign will not begin in earnest before
about the middle Of September, and it
will be nearly October before prelim-
| mary reports will come to hand.
Republicans Confident.
Meanwhile, the republicans are con-
| fdent, as they have been from the first,
that they will carry the next house, by
considerably reduced majority as com
| pared with the present one. This is en-
tirely satisfactory to them, and likewise
earnestly desired. A working majority
Of twenty, to thirty is good deal bet
majority Of more than a hundred. With
large majority, the house is difficult
to handle, as was discovered last win
| ter, and as has been discovered every
time either party has been swept into
power by landslide, - .1..-- ..
There is more significant air Of
confidence at republican headquarters
ticeable. One is almost inclined to
think that the democrats, as heart, 10
not expect to carry the next house Of
representatives. 49,
The republican managers believe that
4 they have the only issues of the cam
paign- prosperity, President Roosevelt,
and the performance of the last session
OF congress-. Ine democrats seem TO ane
working up hill when they make the
tariff their leading issue. They are
equally handicapped, it would seem,
when they generalize about various top
les as to which the republicans in the
last session Of congress made record of
accomplishment. The strongest factor
i in favor, Of republican success thus far
! is the feeling among all classes of peo-
1 pie that President Roosevelt ought not
! to be handicapped during the two re
. naming years Of his administration by
!. an unfriendly house of representatives.
Such house would, as matter Of
course, almost paralyze! his arm. The
. people who believe in Roosevelt, and
4 want to give him a free rein, will vote
4 for republican candidates for congress,
dent is. the greatest issue Of the cam IN
paign. ls s.i.ss q,