The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-17
HEARST SPENT S266,OoO.
BUGHESS ELECTION COST HIN
LITTLE MORE THAN 5000.
The Democratic Candidate Gave Nearly
100000 20 ms Own League and More
mar $4,000 20 the Committee
travelling Expenses ~ nc $500.

travelling Expenses Put nc $500.
ALBANY, Nov. is.-wiliarn r. Hearst
filed with the Secretary Of State this after-
noon a certificate showing that he spent
$3.50, $40. % in his campaign for Governor.
OF that amount he gave J. q. Follansbee,
treasurer Of the Independence League,
sos, $40. %; paid W.. j. Corners, chairman
OF the Democratic State committee, So. 900,
and expended $500 for travelling expenses.
Governor-elect Hughes spent te1s.55.
His travelling expenses were sl0s.4o;
kilograms. 1857; postage. si2.e4; stem
ographers' services. tll.s 90; private secre-
tary. Raymond M. Lowes. soOs.sS; Charles
W. Lttleield, private secretary, $3.50. and
William D. Black. assistant private secrs-
tary, sis.55.
The announcement that William r.
Hearst, candidate for Governor on the
Democratic and Independence lie sgue
tickets. had filed with the Secretary Of
State at Albany a statement showing
that he had spent the sum Of s2Ss,s7o in
his Efforts 30 win the election, caused some
thing OF q stir among politicians here yes
terday. Not since the law requiring can
didates for public Office to file a list OF cam
paign expenses went into effect a number
OF years ago has any one else seeking the
favor OF the voters admitted the spending
OF anywhere near that sum for election
purposes. When he ran for Mayor last
fall Mr.. Hearst's statement sho we'd that he
had spent $50 900. OF which ST 1000 had been
contributed from. outside sources. Tit
sum he spent this year for his campaign
is far and away greater han any ever re-
corded in the books of the State for that
particular purpose.
Az large as this sum is the total does not
begin to compare with the actual amount
that Mr.. Hearst spent from the beginning
Of his fight to be Governor of New York.
In the first place the total does not In any
way include the preliminl ry fight he made
to get the nomination, and the Law does not
require that such expenditures should he
included.
Immediately after he was declared de-
feated for Mayor last fall he began through
his managers the organization Of the In
dependence League. An organization was
formed i'm every county of the, State and in
every Assembly district in the Greater New
York. In the latter city he had the Did
Municipal Ownership League as a basis, but
the association had to be reorganized, and
altogether the establishme nt OF the league
must have cost him thousands of dollars.
He had a great staff Of paid agents out
organizing the various branches of the
league. and their expenses must have been
enormous.
Another great source Of expense was the
obtaining Of the necessary signatures TO
petitions for the nominations on the 1nde-
pendence League State tick 81. Sue a
petition. with the sworn signatures ~ the
necessary number of voters. had 70 be got
in every one Of the sixty-cne counties in
the State.
Nor does the statement include, appar-
emily. the great cost of distributing free Of
charge copies Of Mr.. Hearst's newsraT ers.
of which millions of cor les were given
away during the camp align, Then. too,
there we're tho salaries of many raid EN-
ployees who are on the regular rayrolls
OF his newspapers all the year around.
Herbert Parsons. chairman Of the RePub-
lican County committee, spent Si.4sO 70 be
reelected 10 Congress. according 70 his
certificate filed yesterday with the County
Clerk. Of this sun $4,000 went 10 the trea-
surer of the Republican campaign com
rsittee.
William :. Bennet, elected 20 Congress
in rho Seventeenth. spent S. $50, while
James L. Wells rent sI.25e TO be beaten in
the Eighteenth Congress district. II cost
Alfred r. Page s'.o5s to go back to the
senate from the Nineteenth. while The
Men an got elected az an exr ense of only
s567 in the Fifteenth. Christie sullivan
election TO the Senate in the Thirteenth
cost him only $50. Theodore Prince in the
Twentieth spent 81 ,se3, and was beaten for
his pains.