The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-24

QulSeQ Tn when ne was candidate TOT governor of New York and after he was in office are rare examples of dry humor; and since his nomination for the presidency MT. Hughes has chuckled over the clever cartoons which represent him crowned" with the German helmet. Colonel Roose- welt is good, hearty laugher, but not always. When fortune is against him politically he is grouchy. But those who know MT. Hughes we'll say that he never loses his temper and that he is never too busy to listen to joke or look over the latest cartoons.
 Humor is valuable asset for any man, and those who aspire to high of flee in these strenuous times need it, both as safety valve and as hu- manizer.
 While all public characters cannot be as waggish or as witty as Irwin S. Cobb, Private John Allen, Tom Heflin, or Judge B. M. Allen, no ora tor should be accepted for campaign speaking unless he measures up in some degree to the modern leaders who have flow of humor along with their solid reasoning.
 ~ NICE Congress passed law re- O quiring the publication of the names of contributors to national campaign funds with the amounts contributed "slush money" may not roll into republican coffers as in the years when finance committees held up Wall street and milked protected industries and when managers in doubtful states openly bought votes at $1 per. But the republican party is never short of the sinews of war.
 The publicity law is sometimes evaded when it comes to corporations and the republican slush fund is sure to be large this year.
 Large sums can be spent legitimate ly and somtimes profitably. The liter arv bureau of either of the big parties is an expensive proposition, but it pays. Headquarters expenses are al ways enormous. And then there is the campaign orator. Many speakers are needed and their travelling ex- penses and hotel bills must be paid.
 MT. Hughes finance committee will raise many millions and none of the vast sum will be left over, but no matter what may be said of the politl- cal corruption of the seventies, the eighties and the nineties, the elector- ate today contains comparatively few purchasable votes. Nevertheless re- publican campaign managers will bear watching as much as ever.
 It is estimated that the democrats will need for campaign expenses about s2,OO0,O w. w. Marsh, treasurer of the national committee, states that he has a plan for raising $1,70o,0O0 by popular subscription. Every demo- crat will be asked to give dollar, or some fraction thereof. If every man who voted for Wilson in 1912 had con- tributed 50 cents the total from that source would have been $3,1 ,509.5O.
 But the popular subscription theory never works out well. It will be- all right for Treasurer Marsh to try 1t, but before the summer is gone he will have to call on some of the party men of substantial means and of generous impulse to make Liberal" contribu- tions.
 Both parties will need money to start their respective campaigns, but September is usually the time when the money raisers have to hustle. But good luck to MT. Marsh and his popular subscription project!
 
 According to a magazine writer, Gen eral Obregon's forebears were named OBrien. That may explain why Car ranza trembles when Obregon gets his dander up.
 Alabama's colored citizens say there are no 'hyphenates" among them. Afro American" is merely a term used in or ganizing churches and benevolent so- cieties.
 Amos F. Eno's valet says Mir. Enc promised to send him a postal card from heaven It didn't seem to occur to him that he might have to write on asbestos.
 So many citizens of Juarez are leaving for parts unknown that a bull fight in that enlightened community would no longer be profitable:
 New York sometimes has as many as 200, 600 visitors in one day and it is pre- stunned that about 19s,OOO of them buy theatre tickets.