The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1908-11-24

Gave LIttle-6ulk Of Money Came
From Commercial interests, With
Thousands of Contributions OF From
rs Cents to s25.
Albany N. V, Nov 23,-Ths list OF
contributions to the Republican cam
paign fund was filed with the secre-
tary of state OF New York today by
George r. Sheldon. treasurer of the
national committee. The total amount
contributed was about Sl,600,0OO. The
largest contribution came from Charles
p. Taft, brother OF the presidentelect,
who gave $4,000. The reports shows
1880 contributors, from all the states
in the country, and one from Paris,
$1,000 from Henry White.
Fred W. Upham, assistant national
treasurer for the western territory,
collected more than 100000 OF the
81. 600 900. President Roosevelt is
down for $1,000.
This campaign will go down In his
tory as one of the most economical In
recent years say old time political
leaders. Four years ago the Republi-
can chiefs had about $4,000.OO0 in the
bag and eight years ago the total was
placed at s7000,000.
Some OF the leading contributions
are
$1lOOOO-C. P. Taft, Cincinnati.
$34777-Union League. New York.
s22,5OO-Union League. Philadelphia.
$25,000-Iarz Anderson. Boston; G..
A. GarretsOn. treasurer.
$20,O00-Andrew Carnegie. New
York city; J. P. Morgan, New York
city.
s15.000-Alex Smith Cochran. New
York; J. n. Bagley, chairman, Michi-
gan; William Nelson Cromwell, New
York
s10.0O0-M. c. D. Borden. New York;
Whitelaw Reid. New York; Frank A
Munsey. New York; Jacob II. Schiff,
New York; Fred p Smith, Michigan;
Edyth Agnes Corbin. Washington; w.
]. Gehan, treasurer. Washington.
S9000-S. Vail and associates, Wash
ington; II. n. Coe. chairman.
S750O-Mark T. Cox. New York.
S7000-R. C. Kerens. st. Louis.
$60O0-William Barbour Paterson
$1,000. c. Schmidlapp Cincinnati;
Simon Guggenheim. Denver; Kountze
Brothers. New York; William p
Clyde New York; J. NJ. w. Seligman
& Co.. New York; A. d. Julliard e.
Co, New York; Norman B. Ream. New
York; Robert Bacon. New York; A.
NJ. Huntington. New York; George
Lauder, New York; Mrs. A. A. Ander-
son. New York; James Speyer, New
York; D. c. Mills. New York G.. F.
Baker. New York: z. G. Converse, New
York: F. H. Smith, chairman; A. NJ.
Huntington. New York; c. Sidney
Sheppard. Buffalo; d. R. Hanna. Wash
ington; G. Pinchot. Washington; T. II.
Shevlin, Minneapolis; A. Busch. ST
Louis; Ferdinand Sulzberger. Kansas
City; ". s. Dickey, Kansas City; J.
Bromley, Kansas City; F. c. Dumaine,
chairman.
There were seven contributions OF
$4,000 each and three Of $500 each.
Several hundred persons contributed
$1,000 each.
An examination Of the western list
shows that the financial support OF the
Republican party in the campaign did
not come from the big public service
and public utility corporations, from
the railroads or the banks. but from
the commercial interests Of the coun-
try.
In spite of the particular appeal
which Mr.. Bryan made to the plain
people for dollar contributions, it Is
probable that a comparison OF the two
campaign lists would show as many
small subscriptions to the Republicans
as to the Democratic fund. They run
as low as rs cents, so cents and rs
cents, with hundreds of 81 donations.
There are still other donations rang
ing from 81 to $40. and pages Of $40,
SIS and s25 contributions.