Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-26
THOUSANDS GO INTO HE TAFT
 CAM PAIG \
Expenditure of Enormous Sums
 Attracts Attention in Wash
 ington-Cash Exceeds To-
 tai of MckinIey's Campaign
(special to inc Reyiew.D


 cost of the Taft campaign. It has been estimated that the secretary's brother, Charlie, has spent all the way from s400,0 to SS00,000 ll the reform" movement to nominate the secretary of war.
 A member of the cabinet is given as the authority for the statement that $750,000 has already been spent on the Taft campaign. It is ad- mitted that Senator Hanna was con- servative in his expenditures for Mckinley when he was conducting the campaign for the presidential nomination. Those who nave had experience in paying the bills for a political campaign insist that there was more money spent before del egate had been selected in the -afL campaign than was put into the en- tire campaign for the nomination fer Mckinley
 Secretary, Taft's managers have in- vented new ways for sepnding mon- ey in political campaign. To be- gin with they have organized tie most expensive and elaborate pub | Iicity scheme that has ever been conducted in this country. It is said that there is Taft press bureau in all of the large cities in the country. Besides this the Taft management have a number of magazines writ CTS who are travelling over the coun- try attempting to create public sen | timent and stampede the republican l leaders by whiting articles wnlc:l are intended to create the impression that the country is wild with Taft enthusiasm.
 | Another innovation which the Taft managers have made in the art of nominating presidential candidates is that of sending agents to the meet | ings of all associations and trade conventions. In many instances these agents have been regular dele gates to the conventions, but where | the Taft management have not been able to employ officers or dele gates who had an excuse for attend ! ing the meetings they have boldly sent outsiders to these non-political gatherings to talk Taft. Many of them have been after dinner speak CTS and have been able to get upon 1 the program at the banquet which tusually closes lsuch meetings. This has given them an opportunity to incidentIy refer to the secretary in responding to some toast. But in most cases they have worked quietly with the view of creating sentiment for the war minister.
 And the regular political worker has not been neglected by the man. Rgement of the Taft campaign. It is said that not only state and nation al political leaders are on the Taft l pay roll, but even ward workers. In l Missouri, according to reports which have reached here, the Taft manage ment conducted the most eXtTayagant campaign in the history of the coun- | try. The chairman of one of the counties which held the balance of power in a district was placed upon the Taft salary list at S100 per month. It is claimed that this man never drew a salary of $1,000 a year 1 from any business concern. But he was needed to help prove to the | Taft and the politicians are against l him. Why the Taft managers should pay him such an enormous | salary the Missouri senators and members are unable to see. for he | S20 a week.
 
 i feature of the Taft movement is the elaborate headquarters which are maintained wherever an effort is being made to capture delegates. The headquarters at Washington are mora expensive than those that have been maintained at Columbus.
 It is not thought here that Frank Hitchcock would have given u3 his position as assistant 9os-ma ster general unless he had been offered a handsome salary. MT. Hitchcock was not originally Taft mar. He 4 was for Secretary Cortelyou and he expressed his opinion to his close friends that it would be dangerous to nominate Secretary Taft. But MT. Hitchcock is poor man and needed the money. AS consequence when the Taft management came along with an offer of $20,000 or s25.000 for a few months work he could not
 afford to decline it. Besides Mir. Hitchcock there is in the Washing ton headquarters an expensive corp lof assistants There are five men Iconnected with the headquarters who
 could not afford to give up their former positions unless they were
 assured of a years work at from
 si50 to $200 per week
 Then the Taft management has
 opened headquarters in New Eng
 land with former Representative
 Powers of Massachusetts in charge
 There are also branch headquarters
 in all of the other states with the
 exception of Rhode Island. State
 Senator Butterworth is at the head
 of an affair in Connecticut; ex-Goyer nor Hill in Maine and Winston
 Churchill assisted by ex-Governol
 Rollins in New Hampshire. In addi
 ton to regular headquarters in these
 states series of public meetings are
 being held in all of the large towns
 More money is being spent on hal
 rent in New England alone by the
 Taft management than has been uset
 by the other candidates for all pur
 poses throughout the country. By
 the activity of the Taft management ! in New England you would imagine
 that the party had nominated cand
 idate and the regular presidential
 campaign was in progress. There
 has been more money spent in Nev England than was used in the las
 presidential election.
 About the only place that Senate Hanna spent any large sums for thu nomination of President McKinle. was in the South He secured mos of the delegates from the North ol account of the great protective tar if sentiment that was at that tim lsweeufng over tha country and n,