The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-12-30
Chairman Republican Committee
Writes to Democratic
Treasurer.
MAY CUT CAMPAIGN FUNDS
Possible Agreement Would End
Excessive Expenditures in
Politics.

The revolutionary political fact that
during the recent campaign the con-
gressional Republican campaign COM
mittee discussed only $74,373 for ex-
penses, while the Democratic committee
spent the miniature sum of $27,77l and
achieved considerable of a victory at
that, according to figures from Wash
ington, indicate that the days of the
dollar as the dominant factor in a
straight campaign is waning.
During this same campaign it is gem
orally understood that both the Demo-
Gratis and the Republicans of this Terri
tory provided "sinews of war; in ex-
cess of, or approximating the total sums
spent by the national committees; the
excuse on each side being that the other
side was spending so much money that
they were forced to do so too.
But now comes the aftermath; for
John Effinger, treasurer of the Demo.
cratic central committee, yesterday
sent to Alfred Cooper, who was secre-
tary Of the Republican central commit
tee during the campaign and is now
chairman, statement of this surpris-
ingly small disbursement by the ma
tional committees, thus indirectly crit,
lzng the comparatively great expendi-
lures here.
Straight Reply,
In reply Mr. Cooper yesterday, wrote
to Mr.. Eiiinger as follows:
"Dear Mr.. Efiinger:-I guess the Sc
cret of it is in the expenditures being
made by private individuals instead of
through the party organization. See
Cost of Election in Doctor Scudder IS
article, page five this mornings 'Ad.
vertiser. which seems to me nearer true
conditions If local Democrats will
| agree to limit expenses, | feel sure
Republicans will do likewise, and |
hope some understanding will be reach
ed before the next campaign,
The last words of Mr. Cooper 8 letter
oner the doors to a vista of new style
politics which would cause a nightmare
to almost any oldtime politician
campaign minus the CAMPAIGN runner
of paid oratory, of hired gatherings, OF
artificial enthusiasm, of dollarles'
votes--what kind of political luau
would that be7 he would ask himself
when he walked to the facts.
The Parasites.
Nevertheless it is probable that, nov
that the wedge of comomn sense ha
! been pounded in a little ways, Their
/ will be some action taken along TIN
lines indicated in the editorial in TIL
Advertiser yesterday morning, with TIL
result that the Territory and the candi
dates, as well as both parties, will bene
fit, the financial losers being the politi
cal parasites who fatten on the fears OF
defeat, where one side is bound to lose
The following quotations from edi
torial correspondence in the San Fran
cisco Examiner, dated at Washington
is, in this connection, of interest:
The political millennium is at
hand. It's harbinger and herald is
found in the reports furnished by
the congressional campaign com
mittees of the Republican and
Democratic parties to the clerk of
the house of representatives and
made public today.
In this year of grace and of re-
form, the amazing fact is recorded
that in the entire congressional
campaign of the Republican party,
whose past is plethoric with plum
der and prolific of expenditure,
only $74,373 has been spent, while
in the tempestuous yet triumphant
campaign of the Democratic con
gressional candidates, only $27,771
| has been expended upon the cleo
tion of the majority of the sixty
second congress Of the United
States