The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-26
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CAMPAIGN FUNDS "
= LOWEST IN YEARS
.f,r. --
Both Democratic and Republic
can Election Chests Show
Heavy Slumps.
TOTAL ABOUT $750,000
Fight for Mitchell in City Cost
100000, Making
IL D.. High Mark.
TOTAL ABOUT $75O,OOO

SpeCfdk DeSto5CN 70 Ans WV
, ALBANY, Nov. 26.-Figures added to-
day to totals which have already been
made public make It clear that less
election money was spent In New York
State this year than during any other
: campaign of recent history, and 1t is
unlikely that the totals Of all cam
paign contributions will exceed $780,
600.
When 1t is recalled that nearly s2,-
100000 was spent in the Mitche
Mayoralty campaign In New York
city in 1917. the figures of this years
contributions and expenditures be.
come remarkable.
So far the Republican State COM
mittee has reported that It has spent
$500 900; the Alfred H. Smith personal
campaign committee. $4,000; Tam.
many Hall, sl43.000. and the Kings
County Democratic committee, $4,000
The report Of the Democratic State
committee has not yet been filed. Oh
the Smith personal campaign fund
$b4,1 1872 was contributed by 233 in
dividuals, according to the report OF
it's treasurer, John F. Gilchrist, filed
to-day with the Secretary of State.
Smiths Big Contributors.
Among the large contributors were
$S.0oo-Joseph J. Murphy.
$4,O00-W. II. Todd.
$1,000-M W. Potter. s Levy, ]. H
6chiff, p Borolsheimer. A. I. Elkus. H
J. Schnitzer ]. N. Wallace, w. II
woodin, r. Schafer, w. Fitzgerald, J
Butler.
s5o0-A. s. somers, p. Baron. ]. I
Straus, T. S. Straus, Z. G. Bruins, J
Holland, G. Kern. Il Evans, T. J
Theophilapos, II. A. Corroow,
Steiner, d. II. Knott, j. Smith, w
Kenny, G.. w. Olvany, w. +. McCombs
w. W. Foster, c. b. Alexander. G. w
Loft, G. Gittins, W. F. Morgan. Jr.
n. II. Vogei. ]. J. White, w. w
Cohen. Z. Smith, w. Joyce. A. II
Woods.
5000. J. Hoey.
or the total $4,000 was turned ovei
70 the Democratic State Committee.
!, ). United States Senator William NJ
Calder distributed $4,000 among ter
Republican candidates for Congress or
behalf of the Republican Nationa
Committee and was the vehicle through
which, the Republican State Commit
tee secured loan Of $4,000 from
the Republican National Committee.
Tammany Hall had campaign con
tfibutions Of 's143,SsS in, individual
subscriptions and expenditures O
$140,97S. Of which $4,000 was giver
to the Democratic State Committee
$4,000 TO the Kings county Demo
cratic Committee. $4,000 for printing
and the rest distributed among tn,
Tammany district leaders and useC
for legitimate campaign expenses.
The New York. Republican Count!
Committee reported receipts of $54,
$50, of which $4,000 was received
from the Republican State Committee
Big Republican Subscribers.
The only other big subscribers wer'
Andrew Carnegie and George F
Baker, who gave 81 1000 each. Tn
$500 subscribers were Z. c. Converse
Edward s. Hardness. George r. Shell
oUti, oSueH Mills, 0diuuci II Ececie
John d. Rockefeller. Jr., gave S4oC
The expenditures OF the Republican
County Committee were S50,0S9.
The largest subscribers to the Tam
many campaign fund were:
$4,000. George Ehret, Jr.
Five thousand dollars. A. Nc
earthly, A. J. Baldwin. J. Z. Dordan
Philip J. Knott. John F. Calvin. G. W
3 Pfunkett.
%, Two thousand 1--WE hundred dollar
"A. ]. johnson. Arthur q. Meyer
James l.. Holland. II. II. Hiland. P. F
|. Donohue.
: Two thousand dollars-George Z
Weller, T. r. Foley. William Fox.
j. One thousand I've hundred dollars
] d. H. Knott, James w. Gerard
One thousand dollars-Frank
, Pendleton, Alexander Moran. G. "
Loft, Lewis Nixon, II. Schneider
!. Henry Schneible. J. Rupert. p. II
Dugro, Charles N. Harris. H. r. Sin
clair, Thomas 3. Flynn. w. II. Bald
win.
Five hundred dollars - Nathan
Hirsch, James J. Hagan. Joseph y
, Mayer, l. Lafiin Kellogg, Sander
wertheim, De Lancey Nicoll. A. L. Er
LANCER. A. II. Tonley, n. J. Gerold
Z Henry Smith. c. B. Myers. T.. F. Smith
Alfred Frankenthaler, Edward c. Par