The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-08
POLITICAL GOSSIP
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Costs Much Honey to Run the
Campaigns.
Republicans Spending About
$500 a Day.
BIG POST AGE BILLS.
Chairman drummer Says They
Are SIS Daily.
Democrats Have About 800 a
Day to Expend.
.IG POST AGE BILLS.

A few days ago it was announced
that the Democratic state central COM
mittee was so hard up for money that
it did not have enough to buy postage
stamps.
A prominent member OF the Demo-
cratic committee declared this to be
false. and volunteered the information
that with the money then on hand, the
committee was prepared TO pay cam
paign expenses of 500 per day from
now until election.
At tie same time. it is believed that
the Republican state committee is
spending upwards OF $500 per day at
the present time. and this expense is
likely to double between now and
election.
When the matter was mentioned to
Chairman drummer he said: Il would
consider we We're lucky IL we could
get off on an expense of $3.50 per day"
The postage bill alone at Republican
h headquarters Is from $50 TO $50 per
day. The expense of express and tele-
phone charges is about S25 per day
Then there is messenger service and
incidental running expenses at the
committee rooms.
Printing is big item. The one item
of printing Governor Hoch's address
on the issues of the campaign has cost
the Republican committee hundreds of
dollars This is a little "a page PAM
phlet, and 10000 copies have already
been printed and distributed. There
are a good many other campaign docu-
ments of which vast quantities have
been printed.
Plate matter for the country weeklies
is another big expense of the Republic
can committee. This plate matter is
sent out in liberal quantities from the
Kansas City plate houses, free of charge
+ to the country weeklies. All that a
country weekly has to do IS to notify
the committee how much of the stuff
it will print and the required amount
is sent them every week. It is reeog-
nized by country editors as good
thing for it saves them buying plate
matter to fill up their columns, at g1e
rate of 80 cents q column. The manu-
script from which this plate matter is
! prepared is written in Topeka by 4
couple of newspaper men in the employ
of the committee and after passing
through the censorship of Charles
Sessions, private secretary to Governor
Hoch. Charles Barnes, candidate for in
suranee commissioner, both Of whom
are newspaper men, it goes over to
Chairman S C. Drummer for final ap-
prevail Then It is sent to Kansas City
to be put into plates and sent 20 the
weeklies. EMIT SIS. a8 sefs
Six stenograpiIers sshave been. employ
ed for a number Of weeks at the Re
publican headquarters, and this force
will be needed until the campaign is
over These employees attend to mali
ing of the hundreds of thousands OF
circulars and circular letters winch are
sent out from the headquarters. Some
Of them put in good share OF their
time printing circular letters on one. OF
the new tangled typewriter copying
machines Others are attending to the
vast correspondence which comes 70
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These letters are the kind that must
be answered promptly and with the ut
most courtesy and discretion.
Another big expense which the Re-
publican committee has on ITS hailas =
the travelling expenses OF speakers. Inc
speakers out ON the road all use trans
uorfation furnished free by the railroad
/ companies, of course, but 1nelI hotei
bills carriage fees. Pullman accoInIno-
dations and incidental travelling eX-
penses must in most cases be paid by
the committee The Republican COM
u9ittee has a list of about rs speakers
within CALI and While 1t does not use
nearly all of them all the time, it would
he no exaggeration to say that between
now and election speakers Will be as
signed to 1000 different dates, and this
involves a vast amount of travelling ex-
peuses A few of the speakers will ex-
Dect pay from the committee for their
services. Some of them speak from
the love of the cause, or desire to get IN
line for political preTefment-
Democratic Expense Is Light
In comparison with the Republican
state committees expenditures, the
T Democratic committee is getting along
with very small expense. The commit
tee now has two stenographers in Its
employ. and 1t has only five or six
speakers on the road. Tt pays all OF the
expenses of w A. Harris, but the 9TH
er candidates are supposed to foot their
own bills. That IS their contribution to
the campaign.
There has not been much printing
done by the Democratic committee and
their expense for plate service for the
weekly newspapers has been nothing.
for they have had no plate service.
They have depended entirely upon the
manuscript stuff sent out from head
quarters once week by J. r. farrell.
1t is said that the Democratic com
mittee has planned to spend a total OF
about SIS GOO in the campaign. This is
considerably more than they spent two
years ago, and is probably above the
average amount expended by the Dem
ocratic state committee. Col Bill
Sapp. who was chairman of the com
mittee for a number of years, says that
the largest amount he ever had to
handle during his chairmanship was
$500.
The Republican expense for the
campaign. on the other hand, will
probably be upwards of SIS. 600.