Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-10
PUBLICITY JOKER
Working Of Law Does Not
Rsvea|Campsign Funds.
Most Contributions Under or
Within The Wording Of The Act.
Cost Delns. s2T,T7i 10 Capture
hovss--Aeps. S74,374 to Lose II.

Boston, Dec. Git cost the Demo
cratic National Campaign COMMITTEES
Sz7.771,22 to control the House Of Rep
resentatives in the Sixty-second
Congress, and it cost the Republican
Congressional Campaign Committee
$7t.'7335, or nearly three times as
much 10 lose control OF the House,
So. w asnIn5 tuu dlSpatcn to Inc
Transcript These are figures made
public Thursday by the chairman Of
the two committees in accordance with
/ the law passed At the last session Of
Congress providing for publicity Of
Campaign contributions after cleo
ticn The statements made public to-
day disclose that there was q joker
Of monumental proportions in the pub
nciry' law III that il did not provide
for publicity Of contributions received
by individual candidates for Congress
or by any member Of the Two congress
stonal committees as individuals.
Most oil the contributions 10 the
Democratic fund We're less than $1,000.
I'M largest contributor being W. c.
Beer Of New York, who gave tho COM
mittee $1,000, While only thirteen con
tributions Of 500 or more we're re-
ceive5 by the Democrats, aggregating
$500, the remainder of the campaign
fund bang made up OF contributions
OF less than $500, and the names Of
these smaller contributors are not
made public,
The largest contribution received by
The Republican Committee was from
WIT I y
2515o; the next ?rrgest was from Rep
resentaSivo William r. Mckinley Of
Illinois. CHARM an of the Committee,
$1,000; the Republican State Commit
tee ranks third in the size ofSontribu-
tons With M000. The Manufacturers
Club Of Philadelphia paid in $l620:
John Pitcairn Of Pittsburg, $1,000 and
all other contributions were less than
$1,000. Cash received in sums Of less
than S100 only aggregated $2402, which
indicates thar the Democrats received
their support for the most part from
contributors OF small sums. in CONTRA
distinction 10 Tho Republicans The
Republican Committee had on hand
June 20. 1910, $47.G20. and received
from The Republican National Com
mtteo 1886
John Hays Hammond contributed
VIZ TO the Republican fund and ne
was TIC only resident of that State
10 give an amount sufficient TO cause
the publication OF his name. The only
other New England man whose name
appears in the list is Charles H. OAR
Ing of Bennington, VT. who gave 500.
Some interesting sideIights to the
n Non ,ich c@ E,o ~,
nents made public today. Repre-
sentativos Champ Clark. A. s. Burie-
son Of Texas, and Ollie N. James,
Democrats, contributed their own
travelling expenses. Rev. John Yves
ley Hin, the preaching parson of New
York, was the highest paid stump
speaker employed by the Repubi-
cans, his conversation for preaching
the Republican doctrine being $2250
REPRESENTATIVE Duncan Mcl<inlay, one
Of the very few members Of the House
who was paid TO speak for his party,
received 500 to cover salary and ex-
penses. The committee spent $4,000 in
an effort to capture five districts in
Missouri; 10000 70 head off the Demo
cratic landslide in North Carolina;
$4,000 IN insurgert Iowa 5000 in the
Two stand-nat districts in Minnesota
where representatives. Stevens and
Nve were candidates for reelection,
but not cent in the first Minnesota
district where Charles Anderson, in
surgent. was running for Chairman
Tawney's seat.
That the statements made public by
the Two committees today do not show
the ectuai cost Of the congressional
election is generally believed This is
due 70 the wording Of the law which
does not comneI individual members Of
Congress to state the amount or source
of their campaign contributions.