The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-27
Cost of His Campaign Is Made
Public.
Spending Th rty-Five Dollars a
Day for Postage.
IOT ONE THOUSAND.
The TrOutman- BristOw- w hite
Charge Called Absurd.
Other Details Of Campaign Ex-
penses Given Out.

Ever since JAMES A.. Troutman of
Topeka made the charge in his Nc
Pherson speech that Senator Longs
headquarters were spending $1,000 a
day on postage alone, and ]. L. Bris-
tow echoed the assertion and init
mated that the Long headquarters
were conducted with something like
Oriental splendor, there has been a
good deal of talk about the amount of
money which is being used in Senator
Longs interests.
Morton Albaugh today gave out
some figures on this subject which will
be of interest to the voters of the state
perhaps. Alaught is the financial
manager of the Long campaign He
pays the bills by check, and has re-
ceipts for what he has spent.
Our postage bill for the Long cam
baugh today, 'is a total of ss,532.7O.
There have been probably about 100
working days in that time-certainly
not less. This would be an average Of
$35.32 per day for postage.
I'VE don't say that this is a small
postage bill 1t is big. We have sent
out large quantity of mail. This
charge that we have spent $1,000 a
DAY Tor postage was SO absurd that we
did not consider 1t hardly worthy of
man. 1t is only since Mr. Bristow
himself has echoed the charge that we
think 1t worth while to state the facts
One thousand dollars a day for post
age would mean so, 900 pieces of first
class mail or 100000 campaign cir
culars, and of course we are in no
shape to handle mail in such quantity
Il would judge that out of the total
amount expended for postage stamps
and stamped enve1ops we have about
l. -.
to the end of the campaign. We have
used stamped envelopes to a great ex-
tent because it SAVES time in preparing
envelopes for thetmail. About $1,000
out OF the total postage expense has
PROBABLY been used for letters. the
rest for campaign literature.
Now as to the other expenses of the
Long campaign. ] Will say that our
pay roll here aG Long headouarters
for clerks is abosat $50 per week, and
has been that for two months So $500
would be a liberal estimate for cleri-
cal help. Z Mr.. Morgan and myself
charge nothing for our services here
at headquarters: we pay our own no.
tel bills and railway fare.
The cost of publishing our cam
from $500 to $1,000. 1 have not footed
up the exact amount While we had
a great deal of campaign literature
printed, We got it done at very low
price.
There has been some expense for
advertising meetings. hiring halls, etc.
in such places as there was no local
arrangements to do that
"An these expenses have been defray-
ed by means of campaign fund con-
tributed by Mr.. Longs personal
friends; by people who want to see
him elected. 1 don't care to make pub
lie this list of contributors. because
some of them might object. Some OF
them are candidates for office, and it
might interfere with their plans
Senator Long pays all his own ex-
penses while on the road, and does not
draw on the campaign fund for any
travelling expenses"
1t, now will be interesting to know
what Cyrus Leland and w. r. Stubs
have spent on their campaigns. 1t is
likely that the expense of these can
didates will be fully as great as that
of Senator Long. What ]. L. Bristow
has spent is somewhat of a mystery,
because all of Bristow's campaign has
been handled from Salina and En-
pOria.