Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-29
I. R. HACKERS
FIGURING COST
Colonel Believes Campaign Will
Not Involve Any Great
Outlay Of Cash.

NEW YORK. June 29.-How much
will 1t cost to finance the third-term
party for Theodore Roosevelt? His
advisers are hard atsit with pencil
and paper in rooms sos and sos OF the
Hotel Manhattan, trying to figure out
the answer
The colonel himself does not feel
that a great deal OF cash will be. re-
quired, but the more practical, mem
bers of the Oyster Bayscabinet are
convinced that millions will be needed
to campaign in these days of red-fre
publicity. .frock.coated and silk
hated press agents and a candidate
who insists on campaigning through
the forty-eight states OF the Union in
a private car. s3.
Dixon. OF Montana, has the difficult
task Of setting forth the financial
needs OF the movement. George w.
Perkins, formerly of J.. Pierpont Nor
gan & Co., and still a member of the
executive committee OF the United
States Steel Corporation, and Frank
A.. Munsey, owner of newspapers.
periodicals and VARIOUS stocks, are
Senator Dixon's chief associates In
the drafting of an estimate of the
total expense of the forthcoming CAM
paign.
wants 10 Reach 900 Voters. !
There are $4,000. 900, voters to. DO
-.1.LnA L. kAa exa44A1 uytAn pphHrffV
campaign Colonel Roosevelt plans to
have under way before the dog lays
set In. Then there Is the h~erculean
task of getting an organization un-
der way in each county In each state.
In New York county alone there are
800. 900 voters to be reached. This in
ciudes Manhattan and the ron
whore the Democratic and Repub-
lican parties each. have a political
centre and organization in thirty-fve
assembly districts. Cook county.
Illinois, the home of Chicago and it's
400, 900 voters, also has a large num-
Der of political subdivisions, as have
the counties In other States that
hold Philadelphia, Boston, San Fran
cisco, Cleveland. Cincinnati, Newark
and other large American cities.
Colonel Roosevelt and his associates
admit they can hardly hope to put
the third-term party on a parity with
the older political organizations In
the more thickly populated centres.
but they expect to nearly do SO.
The cost of mailing q single circular
of. postcard size, plus the expense of
printing, to each voter in the land tis
$500, 900. Besides. there is the expense
of thousands Of halls, advertising
space in the country newspapers,
travelling expenses for orators. and
a dozen other items which go to burn
up the money raised IN behalf of The
presidential candidate. All this is
being taken into account by the
friends of Colonel Roosevelt. One
argument Is that the huge sums
already spent on the Republican
primaries to obtain the representa-
tion Colonel Roosevelt had in Chicago
will have been absolutely thrown
away IL the fight. be not continued
through the medium Of the third
term party.
But the question arises: us there
any use throwing good money after
bad?"
Colonel Roosevelt himself believes
that not a penny of new money will
be wasted, for he Is certain he cannot
lose. Besides. he expects to get his
chief. support from the hostile press,
whose owners, being fair-minded
men, will give him a square deal In
the news columns OF their publica-
lions.