The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-30
Upham's Letter.
August 21, 19O'

CO., Chicago, Ill.
 Gentlemen: Both the New York and Chicago headquarters of the republican national committee have been opened and the work of the campaign is well ad- Vanced. The election of MT. Taft and MT. Sherman is essential to the welfare ot this country, and perfect organization is necessary to elect them. To secure a perfect organization the national commit tee must be literally supplied with funds. Congress recently enacted a statute mak- ing it unlawful to solicit money for po- litical purposes from corporations. All the funds, therefore, for the campaign must be supplied by individuals. You are requested to bring this matter to the at tention of your business associates and ask each to send a check.
 Please be as liberal as possible, as 1t will take a large amount of money to pay the expense of organization, the postage, printing, speakers bureau and various details that are absolutely neces- sary to success. Yours very truly,
 FRED w. UPHAM,
 Assistant Treasurer.
 Clever Scheme.
 This is a clever scheme for evading the federal statute in collecting cam paign funds, and 1t shows that MT. Taft's managers are relying on corporation aid for the conduct of their campaign. Fol lowing this plan of hat passing 1t is req sonable to suppose that a letter of like kind has been or will be sent to the Standard oil company with the expecta- tion of receiving a contribution from John D. Rockefeller and his multi-mil- lionaire associates who share in the roy alties of the greatest of all corpora tions.
 Early in the campaign leading repub- f4 oil .;oht fnt anr tions to make campaign contributions. It was their purpose, judging from the ut terances of the party leaders, to start out for funds in the regular way. One of the leading republicans who defended this method of fat-frying was none other than George R. Sheldon, treasurer of the republican national committee. Another republican authority said it was all right for corporations to contribute in cam paign and that they had as much right to do so as do farmers, whose business interests might be affected in a local campaign.
 Kansas to the Front.
 The action of Kansas republicans in party council who yesterday indorsed the Denver platform by declaring for the principle of guaranteeing bank deposits has caused republicans to sit up and take  party began the campaign with the firm resolution to aggressively assail the dem- ocratic declaration for the protection of bank depositors The argument advanced by some of the big national banking in- terests in opposition to the guarantee plan has been continually aired by re- publican orators since the adjournment of the Denver convention. Only as late as Tuesday of this week Postmaster General George Won Meyer, one of Mir Taft's personal admirers, announced In an interview following a conference with the republican presidential candidate that "Bryans guaranteeing proposition will be one of the foremost issues of the cam paign." A correspondent from Hot Springs in giving publicity to the Won Meyer interview said: "The way the wind | Is blowing now, only one issue. the tariff, may surpass this in interest to the pub Iic"
 On New Tack. Right upon the heels of MT. von Mey- er's denuncia.ion of the democratic plan | of guaranteeing bank depositors, the re- oublicans of Kansas gave a hearty in- 1orsement of the principle. Both the big parties in Kansas have indorsed the dem ,cratic banking plank. MT, Von Meyers interview and the utterances of other re- oublicans in opposition to the guaran- | eeing of bank depositors will undoubted- y be given much circulation in Kansas. | This situation and the knowledge that Wisconsin and Nebraska republican state