The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-17

Said to Have Cost s7So.ooo 20 Dste.
Washington Special to N. X. World, y
II William Taft is inaugurated next
March II will be as the result OF the
mostexpensive campaign ever waged
for q Presidential candidate. Practi-
cally every cent Of the money spent
cred citizen Of CINCINNATI who looks
like Methodist deacon, and Is In fact
q dead game sport" Charles p. Taft,
owner of The Cincinnati Times-star
The expenses Of the Taft campaign
reached on December i last the limit
established by Mark Hanna in 1895.
100000. Hanna broke the record
nominate and elect Mckinley. Ac-
cording to Hanna's own admissions In
private. the entire amount OF his ex-
to boom Mckinley to The dale Of the he
Presidential election, was 100000. In
the case of Taft this limit was reached
before single delegate had been elect
Since that date. three months ago.
an additional quarter of q million has
been spent The total expenditure to
date Is $4,000. and the monthly ex-
ratio. Each month sees. not alone tns
expense of the month before, but new
ways q spending; The irruptIon OF
expensive STAFF into the Taft boom.
for instance, boosted the expenditure
before.
II you listen to the anti-Taft sena-
tors you will hnd this S7S0, 600 esti-
mate laughed at as utterly inadequate.
II is, however, based on admissions
made n IL pHEt ss1s. p y rafs leaders
William Randolph Hearst four years
ago achieved considerable reputation
as spending candidate. AS matter
OF fact, Hearst Is entitled to rank as
There was never q month OF Hearst's
candidacy which showed an expendi-
ture equal to a single week of Taft
One man who was on the Hearst pay
roll In those days deserted him and
went over to August Belmont. who
was running the financial end OF the
Parker boom and when questioned as
70 ree reason replied sIDg.sa, found that
lag" No human being has yet found
occasion to make that criticism of the
leg OF Charles p. Taft.
the kind You would pick out for your
self tie has paid William H. Taft
his salary every year the latter has
been in Washington. until the present
used tb be $4,000 year. enough to
keep him In cigars and scarfare. II
does not begin to pay for the din
ners and receptions. Charles p. was
H.
make a decent showing and he dupii-
Gated his brothers salary every year.
Not until Congress had nerve enough
e r sh the cabinet salary to $4,000
The prodigal way In which the Taft
coin - being showered can be figured
out from this fact. 4 man named
crying need for the money was sent
out from st. Louis headquarters OF
the Taft boom to canvass Missouri and
Oklahoma. His salary was $1,000
month while on the job. Bear in mind
that this was an Inexperienced, un-
known Individual, with nothing back OF
him, and you can get line on the
salaries that must bepaid to the ex-
perienced and efficient men like Frank
Hitchcock. Arthur Vorys and the rest.
Money Poured Out Like Water.
There is Taft boom Organization in
every State in the Union. Where the
cash was poured cut like water was in
Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas, where
the Taft crowd had enough of a night
to make the thing look two-sided.
three States than in (all the rest Of
the Union, outside OF Ohio
In Ohio the expenditure tops all
else where. The reason fcA that Is
less Taft could get Ohio unanimously
he would have little chance of the
nomination. In consequence II became
impossible to walk out in Ohio with
lar bill. One OF the best-known men
in the Senate when told that the $780,
900 estimate had been disputed as too
low replied; 1T is undoubtedly corr
rect II Ohio is left out. II Ohio Is In
ciuded you ought to double H."
Long before any fight was started
anywhere else the heavy expenditure
an Illustration the composition Of the |
Columbus headquarters can be mem |
toned. Arthur Vorys. who took |
charge of the headquarters. was high |
State of1eiaL He engaged Henry a. |
Williams to assist him. Williams IL |
a well-known lawyer with q good /
practice. which he gave up because OF |
the higher rewards promised him In |
this Taft activity. In view Of the /
I'll 600 4 month paid TO the unknoxn |