Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-10-08
ASKREPUbLICANS
TO AID CAMPAIGN
YOUNG AND FUNK WILL HAVE
CHARGE or RAISING FUNDS
IN THIS STATE.

LES MONIES, OCl. O.--lOWd ItSpubAi-
cans will be asked to assist in rails
ing funds for the national campaign.
| Hon Late Young of Des Moines and
Hon. A. B. Funk of Spirit Lake have
| been .named committee to take
charge Of the work Of raising money
| for the national committee and will
receive contributions in any sum, how
ever small, for that purpose.
The funds will be sent to Homer A.
| Miller, who has consented to act as
! treasurer of the Iowa committee, and
checks and drafts may be made direct
| ly payable to him. He is not a mem
Der of thhe committee, but was re-
uuested by Messrs. Young and Funk
to act as treasurer.
| The. national committee has enor-
nous legitimate expenses. The cost
Of literature, the maintenance OF the
| headquarters and the travelling eX-
penses Of speakers are immense.
From 81 Up.
| The committee which has under
taken the task Of raising funds in
Iowa for the national committee will
! be glad to receive subscriptions OF
S. Even So subscriptions may be sent
|
fuse 81 contributions if offered.
All subscriptions will be acknowl-
edged by the national committee by
receipts forwarded by the assistant
i treasurer Of the national committee To-
Gated at Chicago.
This course is in pursuance of the
! plan which Chairman Hitchcock has
said would be followed hereafter in
national politics. However, he de-
clared that hereafter the state COM
mittees would raise funds for the ma
tional committee. Hitherto the GUS
tom has been for the national COM
mittee to furnish additional funds to
state committees. This has been done,
in the past, In the case of Iowa.
The new committee of Messrs.
Young and Funk are acting indepen-
IDENTIFY Of the Iowa state Republican
committee and directly under the ma
tional committee
Mr.. Young left last evening for Chi
cago where he attends the convention
on deep waterways to which he is
delegate. He also will have con-
ference with the national chairman
respecting the status of the national
committee funds which are understood
quite generally, to be very low.
The expense of the Taft train, for
instance, is enormous, although the
newspaper people pay their own ex-
penses. There are two or three Pull
man cars, diner, locomotive, ETC.,
and the milegae travelled There
have been times, it is said, when
specials Of this character would cost
the political parties nothing Nowadays
it Is different. The anti-pass laws and
the laws respecting political contribu-
tons by corporations have had de-
leterious effect on campaign funds,
generally, and Of all parties
Originally James G. Berryhill was
man Hitchcock to undertake the bus
mess of raising the Iowa share of the
national campaign fund He resigned
the commission, however, and Hon.
Late Young was chosen. Mr.. Young
| suggested that Senator Funk be add
ed to the committee and together they
proposed the idea of Mr. Miller acting
as treasurer for their committee
The committee will suggest that in
each city or town one or two Repub-
licans take 1t upon themselves to raise
the community's share of the cam
paign fund.- that is the share of the
Republicans of that community.
The fact that the indications are
favorable to Judge Taft ought not to
operate to deprive the national com
mittee of thhe funds for ordinary ex-
penditures at headquarters, in the
judgment of the Republicans interest
ed.