The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-03-25
r EXPENSIVE BOOMING FOR
w. arcrnENTIAL NOMINATION
HISTORY OF COUNTRY.
u,lF BROTHER HIS CANCEL
,..,,.,lv Every Penny Being Put up
~ ' CINCINNATI Newspaper Proprie-
l" An Ideal Relative From
poIiticaI Standpoint.

Political Standpoint.
washington dispatch to the
,IodoInbia Record says: That
wnIiam Taft is inaugurated
March il is expected to be as the
l'A IA If the most expensive cam
,an ever waged for a presidential
an1idate. Practically every cent OF
tsa money spent comes out OF the
,,.o+ If bewhiskered citizen OF
s1,sa;nnati who looks like Metho-
Act deacon. and is, in fact, a dead
ramp sport''-Charles P. Taft owner
- the Cincinnati Times-Star and
So1f-brother of William H.
Tho axpenses of the Taft cam
,tar are now asserted to have
mod on Dec. / last the limit es-
.ob1isbed by Mark Hanna in 1885,
s,oo 400 Hanna broke the record
whom he started in to spend money
nominate and elect Mckinley. Ac-
oordino to Hanna's own admissions
IN nrivate the entire amount OF MS
ovnnnditure from the day he started
in TO boom Mckinley to the date OF
the presidential election was $500
sooo IN the case of Taft this limit
5s said to have been reached before
q single delegate had been elected
outside of Alaska.
Since that date, three months ago,
an additional quarter of a million
has probably been spent. The total
Expenditure to date, therefore, would
he $4,000 and the monthly eX-
|penses. are increasing in geometrlcaI
Ratio Each month sees, not alone
the EXPENSE of the month before, but
new ways of spending. Frank H.
Hitchcock and his large and eXpen-
sive staff boosted the expenditure
away beyond what it was a month
before
Charles p. an Ideal Brother.
Charles P. Taft is an ideal brother,
the kind you would pick out for
yourself. He is said to have paid
William H. Taft his salary every
year the latter has been in Washing
ton until the present year. The sal
AIRY of a cabinet officer used to be
$4,000 a year, enough to keep him, in
cigars and car fare. 1t does not be-
|gin to pay for the dinners and recep-
|tions Charles P. was determined
that William H. should make a de-
cent ohswing, and he duplicated his
brothers salary every year. Not UNI
It'll congress had nerve enough to
raise the cabinet salary to $4,000
did Charles P. drop this habit.
There is a Taft organization in
every state in the Union. The cash
was poured out like water in Mis-
souri, Oklahoma and Kansas, where
the Taft crowd had enough of fight
to make the things look two-sided.
More money has been spent in these
three states than in all the rest of
the Union, outside of Ohio.
In Ohio the expenditure tops all
elsewhere The reason for that is
that it was figured out early that
until Taft could get Ohio unanimous
ly he would have little chance of
nomination. In consequence it be-
came impossible to walk out in Ohio
without stubbing your toe over
% bill. One of the best known men
IN the senate when told that the
100000 estimates had been dis
puted as too low replied:
1t is undoubtedly correct if Ohio
is left out. If Ohio is included you
ought to double it.
Brother Henry Working, Too.
Missouri is the limit, outside of
ohio' in Taft expenditures. The ex-
penseS of all country delegates to