Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-05-29
FOR E-DRAUGHTING
PUBLIC SENTIMENT
Col. Roosevelt Delegates SO Far
Have Cost About 5000 Each
For Headquarters, ETC.,
Expenses. q

Expenses.
New York, May ga special
from Washington to the World says:l
More than $1,OO0,O 900 has been ex-
pended in the campaign to procure
the Republican presidential nomina-
bion for Theodore Roosevelt, and the
daily expenses are increasing as the
time for the assembling Of the Chi
cago convention approaches.
The headquarters in Washington
is costing about $4,000 day. There
80 days before the convention
will meet.
Each Roosevelt delegate has cost
about $3,0e9. If the colonel should
obtain $40, the number needed to
nominate, and the average cost
should remain the same, the total
would be $l,620,000.
The items of expense include ev-
erything from a postage stamp to a
special train, and from an office Boy
to a general Office manager.
It costs $4,000 for stamps to
distribute circulars in eight states.
The telegraph tolls have been about
$751; and the telephone bills as
much.
Roosevelt speakers have cost an
average Of 800 speech.
The weekly "plate" service to
runs up an expense ac-
count Of $4,000 or 100000 for the
campaign.
Printing and lithographing will
cost 100000 before the last delegate
is elected.
It is estimated that about 1000
workers were in the field in the Him
DIS, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,,
Maryland Nebraska and Missouri
campaigns. At St. Joseph, Mo-,
workers were paid $25 a day. For
several days 1900 Roosevelt men
were at work in two Of the Maryland
districts. There were 147 in the
Seventeenth ward Of Baltimore. The
Maryland men, it is estimated, were
paid at least SIS a day.
There have been no signs Of power
ty about the headquarters Of the ma
tional Roosevelt committee in Mr..
Munsey's building since the night
that George w. Perkins made the trip
to Oyster Bay to carry a message
from Senator Dixon, manager of the
Roosevelt campaign, to Colonel
Roosevelt, who had just thrown his
hat in the ring. Before that time
the open space on the fourth floor Of
Mr.. Munsey's building looked like a
deserted dance hall, but within two
hours after Mr.. Dixon's return to
the city from New York, the song of
the saw and the ring Of the hammer
were heard, and soon partitions,
doors and private rooms were erect
ed for the great army OF Roosevelt
boosters.
The Roosevelt committee Offices
have been alive day and night for
three months. Tons Of literature
have been sent out in every direction.
The express bills for incoming and
outgoing matter have run up to near
ly $4,000.
The Roosevelt committee head
quarters here is elaborate and up-to-
date. The Office system is as full Of
red tape as the White House. The
caller is met at the outer door by a
negro usher and is given a seat to
await his turn. At times the vesti-
bule to the Offices has been literally
(alive with colored Republicans Gag
er to make trouble by starting con-
tests. One day IL negro preachers
swooped down on the committee from
West Virginia.
The first room after entering the
door is occupied by Senator Dixon,
who sees but few callers, but is busy
with the ones that count. Mr.. Dixon
works behind closed doors, and the
strip Of red between him and the av-
erage caller is miles long. FL.
o. K. Davis, managing director,
comes next to Mr.. Dixon. He has
clerks and stenographers at his beck
and call. There are expert contest
men, typewriters, copyists and doz-
ems Of helping girls. Everybody lab
ors behind doors. The only persons
within sight Of the ordinary caller
are the negro doormen.
Colonel Roosevelt announced his
candidacy Feb. "a. Immediately his
supporters began to organize. Orms-
by, McHarg, Clifford Pinchot and
hundreds Of leaders who had been
advocating Senator La Toilette be-
gan to work for Roosevelt. Thou
sands Of copies Of the Columbus
speech-"A Charter of Democracy"
were circulated. The Carnegie Hall
speech was sent broadcast through
out the country. The newspaper
syndicates were given large contracts
to print advertising matter. ::
Three headquarters, in Washing
ton, New York and Chicago, were set
In motion.
The first great fight came in Him
ois, where more than $25O,OOO was