Bisbee daily review., 1908-03-24
TAFT FAMILY
 SPENDS MONEY VERY FREELY
Half Brother of War Secretary Already Spent a Fortune Booming "Bilp' For the Presidency.

WASHINGTON, D. C., March 23.-l If William H. Taft is inangurated next March 1t will be as the result or the most expensive campaign ever waged for a presidential candidate. Practically every cent of the money spent comes out of the pocket Of a bewhiskered citizen of Cincinnati, who looks like a Methodist deacon, and Is. in fact, dead game sport, Charles P. Taft, owner of the Cincrn natl Times-Star and halfbrother of William H.
 The expenses of the Taft cam paign reached on December 1 last the limit established By Mark Hanna fin 1896, $500, 900. Hanna broke the rec ord when he started in to spend mon ey to nominate and elect Mckinley. According to Hannas own adm.s- sions in private, the entire amount of his expenditure from the day he started in to boom Mckinley to the date of the presidential election, was $500. 900. In the case of Taft this limit was reached before a single eel egate had been elected outside or Alaska.
 Since that date, three months ago, an additional quarter of a million mas been in Washington until the present date is s750000. and the monthly ex- pense is increasing in geometrical ra- tio. Each month sees. not alone the expense of the month before, but new ways of spending. The irruption of Frank H. Hitchcock and his large and expensive stan into the Taft boom. for instance. boosted the ex- Denditure away beyond what 1t was g month before.
 If you listen to the anti-Taft sena- tors you will find this s750000 esti- mate laughed at as utterly made quate. It is, however. based on ad- missions made in private by Tart leaders.
 ] Puts Hearst in Piker Class. I William Randolph Hearst four
 years ago achieved a considerable
 reputation as spending candidate. As a matter of fact, Hearst is entitled | to rank as a piker in comparison with | Taft. There never was month of 1 Hearst's candidacy which showed an 1 expenditure equal to a single week of Taft's. One man who was on the Hearst payroll in those days deserted him and went over to August Bel mont. who was running the financial end of the Parker boom, and when questioned as to the reason replied
 q found that there was no elasticity to Hearst's leg" No human being has yet found occasion to make that criticism of the leg of Charles P Taft.
 Charles F. Taft is an ideal brother the kind you would pick out for your 1 self. He has paid William H. Taft his salary every year the latter has ibeen in Washington until the present | year. The salary of cabinet officer t used to be sS900 year. enough to keen him in cigars and carfare. Il
 does not begin to pay for the dinners and receptions. Charles P was de termined that William H. should
 make a decent showing and he dupli
 cated his brothers salary every year Not until congress had nerve enougf I to raise the cabinet salary to s12,0e' [ did Charles P drop this habit. The prodigaT way in which tht Taft coin is being showered can b' figured out from this fact A mal named Howe. with no qualification
 except a crying need for money. wal
 sent out from the St. Louis headquar
 ters of the Taft boom to canvass Ms
 souri and Oklahoma. His salary wa 5000 while on the job. Bear in min' that this was an inexperienced. un known individual. with nothing bacl tof him. and you can get line on tn
 salaries that must be paid to the e1
 perienced and efficient men lik
 Frank Hitchcock, Arthur Yorys an
 the rest.