The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20
HIGH COST ALSO
AFFECTS POLITICS
.upAICN FOR PRESIDENT TO
COST MILLIONS. LEADERS
PLANNING FOR MONEY.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-From its
;niotial start the year 1920 will be a
-ooord- breaker in the high cost of
nolitics. With many the cheapest
thiro in this country at this time,
and with many persons the easiest to
got fifteen and twenty millions of
tbo neoples' coin will go for the great
nolitical game alone before the year
is out. -,
Inst how and where the money will
oon,o from and how it will be expend-
ID is no secret. Leaders among the
domocrtic and republican parties
have already announced that not on
" will they need this great amount
If coin to carry on the great pres
dental election contests, but they
know where they will call for it and
where it will come from. But this is
not all. The "drys" will seek not less
than 100000 alone.
The republicans have already an
nounced that Col William Boyce
Thomson, Of this city, the man who
contributed cool million to the work
of the Red Cross in Sillc1a, will be
their chief money getter.
The democrats so far have made no
snch announcement, but indications
mint to Barney Baruch as the man
who will pilot the financial ship OF
state for his party through the
troubled waters of the next ten
months.
Will Milk Corporations.
Republicans are already charging
the democrats with organizing first
class "slush fund" for use in the COM
inc elections, while from various sec
tons it is said corporations are beng
nrepared to be well MIXED, if not, in
fact, MIXED dry. They are. going TO
be made to produce, 1t is claimed, as
they never have been before, and IL
is said that already arrangements are
being made by many of them to meet
the demands which will soon be upon
them.
The republicans claim they will on
" need a small amount of money TINS
time-it may be good politics-only
about five million dollars, while the
democratic leaders will not get off so
easily, It will probably take ten MIL
lion IN square their accounts.
The most interesting part OF TINS
Il situation comes in with regard to
what the "drys" will do, the country
already being constitutionally dry
from one end to the other, after jan
16, 1920, and how they will expend
their twenty-five million dollars,
which it is claimed they have assess
ed against the teetotally dry sympa-
thizers in the different states.
There are rumors here that al
though the "drys" have already bur
led old John Barleycorn for keeps
thew propose to make the thing
so effectively dry that there may be
no aftermath of the proposition any
time hereafter. Therefore, so the
story goes, they are going IN to de-
feat every member of congress, sena-
tor or house member, who is not dry
inside and out. They mean, they say,
to find out who is not in sympathy
with the "dry" movement and to give
him a place of honor along side John
Barleycorn. That may be where some
of their twenty-five million dollars,
which the prohibition people will use,
goes. At any rate, that is the way
the story goes here.
Will Make Fight in South.
Another situation of more than or
binary interest to the South is that
the republicans will fight to replace
the members of congress who are In
sympathy with the presidents league
of nations plan with one from among
their ranks. They profess to believe
that they now have the methods by
which they may ''get under" many
present members of the house from
Dixie and "break the solid south. ;"
They propose to put the skids under
the southerners if they can. They
point to what has recently happened
in Kentucky, Arkansas and other
states where democratic members of
congress have been replaced by re-
publicans, and they predict land
slide this fall. Whether or not they,
too, have "slush fund" as they al
lege the democrats have, remains to
be seen, but with million dollars be-
ing spent for politics alone this year
there will be no reason to doubt tna1