The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-09
REPUBS TALK
 POOR MOUTH Complaint of Alleged Money Scarcity. NEED CASH FOR CAMPAIGN But the Democrats Do Not Believe
 This Story. It Is Believed By Some That Repub- liean Managers Are Receiving Money On the sly Fron.
 the Corporations.
 
BY ALFRED J. STOPPER.

BY ALFRED J. sToFER.
 Washington. Sept. s--(Special.)-- strange as 1t may seem. the average
 Republican who is politically inclined,
 Is telling It around that the campaign
 managers for his party this year are complaining bitterly that they are painfully short of money.
 Republican Congressmen are nearly All talking this way. Business men who are supporting Taft and Sher- man when they stop here, bring the same information. They are authority for the statement that the manufact- urers and bankers are not relinquish- | ing their cash as they did in previous campaign, and especially in 1896 and In
 1900. So many of the Republican nom-
 tnees for Congress are being pressed hard for reelection that they have been calling loudly upon the Nation al Committee to come to their aid with money. They assert that Hitchcock has informed them that he Is poweriess to help them, and that their own cam paign committee will have to produce the necessary cash. for it Is all that he and his associates can do to run their own headquarters. These Re- publican Congressional nominees claim that they have never been as-
 sisted to any liberal extent by the Na- tional Committee. Even under the late Mark Hanna, they were expected to look out for themselves.
 Democtats as rule doubt the sto- ries that the Republicans are as short of the "sinews of war as they pre- tend to be. They have an idea that on account of the state of public feel ing against such lavish expenditures especially if the contributions are
 made by corporations which are bene- l. fitted by legislation, the Republican managers are receiving the money on the sly and are purposely putting up
 poor mouth. but at the same time they are showing evidences in cer- tain sections that they are not lack ing fin money. Both in New York and Chicago the Republicans have spacious and expensive headquarters. They have | lots of high salaried men directing the fight, and 1t is known that most of their speak CTS who are to take the stump will have their expenses met,
 and probably quite number will get pay also.
 The sFavored Interests"
 Some Democrats are of the opinion l that the Republicans are really having | a tough time to make collections, for | it has leaked out that they are worry. 1 ing the favored interests" great deal | and are endeavoring to create the inl- I precision that if the rich business men | do not loosen up they will awaken on | the morning of November and dtscov- | CT that Bryan has carried the country. f the Republicans have lost control of the House and that the Democrats have made substantial gains In the stand pat" Senate.
 The men doing the newspaper work | for the Republicans at their headquar. ters are understood to be getting good
 pay. There Is Dick Oulahan. Wash- | fngton correspondent of The New York | Sun, who is in charge of the press | bureau in New York. The Sun gave | him leave until after election, and there | Is a man temporarily in charge of that
 journals affairs here. oulahan IS
 bright and experienced, but he Is de- | pendent upon his salary. He could not | afford to work for nothing or on a con- 1 tinkency to be realized in the event Of | Taft's election. Writers at Democratic l lheadquarters are reported to be get- | ting little more than expenses. Every | body knows that the Democrats are not realizing heavily in the way of raising | funds They will probably have enough
 to run the headquarters economically. l and that will be about all.
 The Republicans have been so In the | habit of having hundreds of thousands | to spend In this section and equally large sums in others that if they do
 not keep up the pace this year they are going to be embarrassed. They started this extravagance-indeed, they
 have been charged by their opponents | for thirty years with using vast sums | to corrupt voters-and if they do not | have several millions in national cam
 paign they are in bad way
 A Campaign Bluff.
 | The statement was given out last | week that the New York headquarters had collected only s150,O00. Democrats | are divided as to that. Some think 1t
 is probably true. Others are positive
 that it is e campaign bluff.
 Representative Clark of Florida. Sec retary of the Democratic Campaign | Committee, has been up in Maine for inc past week assisting the contest up there, and will remain to the end Of that local campaign. A number Of well known Democrats are helping the Maine candidates to put up their Dig fight against the Republicans. EePUrss received here are to the enect that | McfSinicuddy, the Democratic candl- date for Congress in the district repre- | sented by Charles E. Littleneld' mas
 a fair chance of defeating his Repuo- | lican opponent. McGillicuddy himself hut says that the Republicans manag. ing Tafts campaign are so alarmed
 over the tendencies this year that they arc beginning to pour money into the district. They have also spent some or their best stump speakers to Maine, so r afraid are they that tue ASli -F
 win one or two seats in Congress.
 ''Unless they put in too much money against me-" writes Mir. McGillicuddy' :T feel reasonably certain of carrying
 the district"
 He ran against Littleneld two years
 ago and made a rattling contest. Lit
 tieneld had such close shave that he
 decided to get out of Congress, and tendered his resignation to take erect | September 30.
 There turned up in the dead letter
 oface here this week $20 note or the issue of October, 1851 of the Gen. tral Bank of Alabama. at Montgomery On its face was the signature of VII
 liam Knox as President and H. " oates as Cashier. The note Is an at. tractive one, and is in good state oi preservation. One of its owners, how l ever. has pasted another old time note m the back. It seems that efforts
 were made by the last possessor to find
 out whether the United States Govern | went would redeem it.
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