New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-26
WILSON CAMPAIGN HAS
50 FAR COST S677,46O
Expenditures Within Less than
$1,000 of Total Receipts
Up to October "a.
53,3O3 SEPARATE GIFTS
Ryan and Belmont Not Con.
tributors-$3, from Mrs.
w. K. Vanderbilt, Jr.-
New York Heads List.

The report Of the Democratic National
Committee on campaign contributions and
expenditures was filed in Washington yes
terday, showing total receipts up to Octo-
Der "a OF S67S,364 20 and expenditures OF
| S677, 400 49, The receipts include $685.
| S25 16 surplus from the Baltimore conven.
| ton.
The list of contributors did not show
| the name Of either Thomas +. Ryan or
August Belmont, both heavy contributors
| TO Democratic campaigns OF the past.
Henry Morgenthau, chairman OF the
| finance committee said that no contrfbu-
tions had been sought from either Of these.
two fnanciers, and that neither Mr.. Ryan
nor Mr.. Belmont made offers to give to the
campaign fund, perhaps because It wasi
known that their gifts would not be ac-
ceptable.
When I took this Office" Mr.. Morgen-l
THAI said, Governor Wilson gave me in
structions not to solicit contributions nor4
to accept them from sources that might
be regarded as having an axe to grind
with the aid of this campaign.
mo promise Of any kind has been nladsi
in connection with these contributions and
no pressure was brought TO bear in any
case TO make them larger. The largest
contribution made was $4,000 by Just.csI
Gerard, who regarded this number as Al
| lucky one.
Predicts Limit Of $960,0o0.
Our greatest achievement, believe,
was the careful manner In which the
money has been used, and we believe that
we will be able 20 wind up the campaisni
with a cost of about $780, 900, as against
our original estimate Of nearly s1,100, o0O-l
The report showed the total number OF
contributors thus far TO have been 53,3o3.
or these 52,246 have contributed less than.
| 800 each, record mark in the history
Of individual contributions 10 campaigns.
There were LOST persons who contrib
uted 800 or more.
Following the lead Of Justice Gerard
with $4,000, the following contributed
$4,000 each Henry Goldman, Henry
Morgenthau. Frederic c. Penfeld, Of Ger
mantown, Penn; Samuel Untermver,
| James Spayer, Charles r. Crane, OF Chi.
cago, and Jacob H. schifr.
Contributions Of $1,000 were received
from Abram L Elkus Hugh Wallace. Of
Tacoma, Wash; Cleveland H Dodge
Rolla Wells, Of ST. Louis Charles r.
Smith. Of Monasha, Wis; J. c. C. Mayo,
Of Paintsyille, Ky; c. A. Spreckels, c. W
! Watson, Of Fairmont, W. Va; s. Harris.
a S. White, Roger C. Sullivan. Of Chi
/ cago; John L. de Saulles Nathan Straus
William A. Clark, OF Butte, Mont D. w.
LYMAN and J. y. Camden, Of Versailles,
Ky.
Mrs. Virginia Vanderbilt CMrs ". X
vanderbilt tr) gave 5000, William Church
Osborne 5000, and among the contrib
utors OF $500 were James B. Regan,
Jacob Wertheim and S. H. Jarvis.
| The heaviest contributors In New York
City were the lawyers, Mr. Morgenthau
said. adding that they were not corpora.
ton lawyers.
In the long list OF those who gave S,OCo
appeared the following names: John B.
stanchfeld, Perry Belmont, Eugene GU.
terbridge, Delaney Nicoll, Samuel Sachs,
Henry S Black. Henry Morgenthau, r.;
William F. sheehan, Senator James A.
! O'Gormau, Thomas f. Conway. Herman
! a. Metz, w. ]. Curtis and William J.
| Bryan.
Wilson Gave $500.
A contribution OF 500 to his own cans
paign fund came from Governor Wilson.
The Governor wrote an article for which
! the publishers sent him a check for $50
but, having been under the impression
| that his article was TO be a free contrlbu-
I ton, Governor Wilson returned the check
| The publishers insisted upon sending 10
again, and finally Governor Wilson ac-
cepted their suggestion that the amount
be turned IN as a campaign contribu.
ton.
| Carter Harrison, Mayor OF Chicago,
gave $3.50. and the same amount camsi
/ from DR.. John D. Murphy. who attended
Colonel Roosevelt in the Mercy Hospital
in that city. .....
| BY states New York has been leading,
| in campaign generosity, contributing thus
! far more than $4,000. while Pennsylvsnial
was second, with $40, $50, and Illinois third
with S37,6sS.
| The expenditures In the New York andI
| Chicago headquarters were made up chielN
| " of the following items: Payroll, NS9S'i
ONCE supplies, S7S72; kilograms and tels-
phone, s6,4S; pamphlets, s67.bSS; advert
Using, s27,lo2; photographs, Autographs
and buttons, 81. 66S; postage, $50 is0; trav-l
cling expenses of candidates and speaks
ers.. Sl3O,S70, and the amounts sent TO yar''
Gus states, Sl2l,4S9. I
| The outstanding contract obligations OK
the committee were put in the report ~
s55,149.