New-York tribune., 1920-01-30
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Spare No Cost.
Says Thompson
S $4,000 Being Spent Month
Iy on Money-Begging Pay
Roll, He Charges; Million
Letters Printed a Dav

Letters Printed a Dav
Colonel William Boyce Thomson.
chairman of the Ways and Means Com
mlttee of the Republican National Com
mlttee, charged yesterday that the
Democratic National Committee in
washington is keeping busy three hun
dred men and women soliciting funds
tor the committee.
he says that this money-begging
pay roll is $4,000 month. and that
the electrical equipment installed there
by II. ID. Jameson, director of finance
of the committee, cost 5000, 900 and is
capable Of turning out 100000 letters
day.
This charge by Colonel THOMPSON is
cohhrmatlon of the official declaration
made by Mr.. Jameson in August last
year to Tribune reporter, and pub
llshed at the time, that he expected
to collect from $5,OO0,O 900 to 100000
600 for the Democratic campaign fund
this year.
Democrats Good Spenders
The Republican party can compete
with the Democratic party in n,any
things" said Colonel Thompson, in a
talk at the Union League Club yester-
day to TIE ways and means committee
OF the state committee
Some Of us are pretty we'll con-
vlnced that the Republican party. for
instance, is going to be able to com
pete with the Democratic party sue
cessfuly in the next national election.
But we might as well make up our
minds that we can't compete with the
gentlemen who have been steerint the
snip OF state on its zigzag course for
lhe past seven years-we can't COM
pete with them. say, in one thing
and that is spending money.
ut can't be done. You have heard
It SAID of men that they spent money
Ike drunken sailors, but | tell YOU
that the Democratic party is spending
money IN way to make a drunken
sailor by comparison look like a
cautious old maid
81 am not speaking of the wastes of
Democratic officials. am not speaking
Of the peoples money We all know
how they have been spending that. -
i am speaking of the leaders Of the
democratic party and of the way thev
are spending their own money, for it
gives an indication how they are aching
to spend some more of yours.
ne Democratic party has head
quarters in Washington. That is IS it
should be. But is it as it should be
that there are now, ten months before
election, three hundred men and women
working at those headquarters. send
ing out twelve thousand letters daily 4?
us 1t as it should be that an electri-
cal equipment, worth as much as
100000, should be installed there. ca
pable OF turning out a million letters a
day? Is 1T as it should be that the
monthly pay roll at that Office is al
ready $4,000?
know your answer, and I ask YOU
this: Is that political organization or
is 1T propaganda? Is it democracy. or
is II bold attempt to throw back the
rushing waters of disaster with dixie
Of dollars?
Don't Ca. e for Expense
wv Whatever it is, what does it mean
1t means this, that from a dollar and
cent standpoint certain men feel that
they have got to win the next election.
They don't care what it is going to
cost them twenty million, TWENTY-FIVE
million, thirty million, any sum at all
They have got to win
Fellow Republicans, what is YOUR
answer to that challenge? Is it
call to the rich men of your party to
match thousand with thousand and
million with million? | think not.
This next election is not going to be
fought with checkbooks. at least not
by the Republicans
Dollars are important. dollars are
powerful, but they are not omnipotent.
Principles are more important. love OF
America, holy passion for what
America stands for are more powerful
than all the dollars which a crew of
frightened profteers can muster in a
frantic effort to stave off their Just
deserts.
Go to the Fight
GO to the fight with the love O,
America in your hearts. Go to the
fight knowing that you are fighting
for open and upright government and
the principles on which this country
was founded.
Go to the fight in that spirit, and
all the dollars in the world, piled up
as bulwark against you. will be scat
tered like dust before your triumphant
onrush."
In sketching the scope Of the Ways
and Means Committee, of which he is
chairman. Colonel Thompson said:
The Republican party wants 1t
clearly understood that no small group
could, if they would. gain the voice in
party counsels which great contribu-
tons have won at times in the past.
The Republican parity, wants con-