The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-17

@s-- paign, not to mention what he spent In the praconvention contest. Aside from his subscription, between sS0,o0o and Si00,000 was raised In ohio. or this Dan R. Hanna, of Cleveland son of the late Senator M. A. Hanna. gave 45,- 900, which he sent to sheldon through Elmer Dover, Secretary of the Advis- oFy Committee. Most Of the balance was raised by ex-Governor Myron T. Herrick. who represented the Finance Committee in the Buckeye State. and sent nearly S75.000 to New York du- ring the last four or i've weeks Of the campaign.
 New York was the largest contribu- tor among the States, several hundred thousand dollars having been raised here. If the statement which Treas urer Sheldon will tiie with the Score tary of State at Albany some time next week, shows to what extent the various committees of the doubtful or debatable States were assisted at crit teal periods of the campaign, it will be seen that something like a quar- ter of million dollars was turned over by the National Committee to the Elm pire State Committee. The National Committee this year followed the cus- tom in vogue for some time, of attend ing to the collections from the large contributors in New York city and then handing over to the State Com mittee what it needed in conducting the campaign in the State. The most the State committee did was to levy the usual assessments against the of- hceholders.
 Ohio's Momey Went Back.
 The bulk of the money raised through the efforts of ex-Governor Her rick found It's way back to Ohio. It's source. This would mean that in the latter part of the campaign something like $75.OoO was sent out to Ohio for the purpose of effecting a mueh~1e- sired improvement in the situation there. As has been stated in prevt- ous dispatches, the understanding is that additional funds were sent to Coz lumbus from Cincinnati for distribu- tion in the bad spots in the State. At least $75,000. and very likely more, was sent to Indiana, for the purpose of stimulating the efforts of the local managers in aFousing interest in the Republican cause near the close of the campaign and in getting out the vote on election day. The State managers asked for sI5O,O00 but this sum was reduced at least one-third by the Ma tional Committee.
 Other States which received assist ance of this kind were Maryland and West Virginia, in which the situation, especially in the former, was in no sense satisfactory up to the day of election. Some of the funds collected early in the summer were sent up to Maine for expenditure in the State campaign held in September. It will be remembered that the issue there in- volved the resubmission of the pro- vision of the Constitution which placed the Pine Tree State on a prohibition basis. and that the Republicans were not overly confident that they would carry their State ticket through. As it was, the Republican candidate for Governor had only about 5000 major. tty or something like 25 per cent. of that which Judge Taft received last week The sum furnished by the Na- tional Committee for the Maine con. test was not more than SlO,O0O.
 Not Up to Old COEpOrati0A &aAas.
 Treasurer Sheldon's list will contain the names of many men prominent In the business life of the country. who believed that the election of Mfr Taft would result in a termination of the commercial and industrial staguation. These men contributed more Hberally than did the wealthy Democrats who subscribed to Mir. Bryan's campaign fund. But the individual amounts in no sense equal some of the sums which were formerly contributed by large corporations before Congress passed the law prohibiting such concerns from subscribing in the interest of candidates for President and Vice. President Cabinet and other promi- nent ohfcials of the Government sent their mites to the Republican treas- ury.
 So far as sheldon's certified list is an indication. the cost of Mir. Taft's campaign was less than any Repub- iican campaign since 1896. In that year more than s4,000.000 were ex- pended by the Republican Committed, or about the same amount that waa disbursed in 1892 on behalf of Presi- dent Cleveland by the Democratic Conn mittee. In 1900 the Republicans rais- ed s2.Soo,000. and, as already said, this was nearly $1.0oO.000 more than was collected and spent in 1904 The high water mark in Presidential campaigns was reached In 1899 by ths Democrats. and by the Republicans in ls9s. Of the money collected thls year nearly s250,000 came In in response to the Iet- ters sent out at the suggestion of Sec retary Dover, who about three or four weeks before the close of the cam paign mailed more than 50,0O0 letters to as many individuals asking for sub- soriptions of $50 each.