The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-09-21

Money N Campaigns.

p1nded for music, decorations -
The hire Of . hall.
Larger ExDeadilzFes Myytesloe
These, however, are only nipes
expenses. They have nothine e
10 with the inner work Of the -.
paign. The big money goss M
Into those states that are dorhfSi
md then to the debatable onee A
, rule the doubtful states can ~
Ill they need, while the dehetah,s
Ones must be content with til -
Both sides watch the =.
uation % closely ~ to have q r..
when the state u dorh. :
IN. or dehatAble.
During the closing days Of H.
campaign Of 1883. both MIR. Clark..
son Of the Republican and Calvin
8. Brice Of the Democratic natioe,
al committee placed West virginh
among the doubtful states. ~
Democrats spent $4,000 while a.
Republicans spent $4,000 thefe
Indiana was. Of course, another
doubtful state. The nomination q
BENJAMIN Harrison. who had ri.
resented 1t In the United State
was one cause. The Demo.
cratic nominee for vice president
was Allen G. Thurman, an OH
man. The Democrats spent 3l0o..
900 trying to swing the state whiIe
the Republican fund was thrse
times as great. Much bribery want
ON in the state that year. It Il
charged that the voters ven
bought In blocks of I'VE.
Mark Hanna Used Much Noney.
Mark Hanna spent a fortune
during the closing days Of the can.
paign OF 1896. The reports from
the west while Mr.. Bryan vss
swinging the circle seriously
alarmed the Republican manager,
A call for more money was there.
fore sent out by them. The imam.
cial interests Immediately respond
ed. In the state Of Iowa, which
the Republicans believed had BE-
come doubtful, more than two hun
dred thousand dollars was expend-
ed. There was a ssimilar situation
in 1888. -Four days before the
election. Matt Quay, then chair
man Of the Republican national
committee, notified Senator Plat Of
New York that he must have two
hundred thousand dollars. The
money was raised with the assist
ance Of Coils P. Huntington. The
situation during the closing days
of 1884 also worried the Republi.
can managers and caused them to
ask for more money. They decided
that New York. New Jersey and
Connecticut were doubtful and that
$150,000 was needed to swing those
states. James G. Blaine, their
standard bearer. contributed $751;
600 Of this sum and other mem
bers OF the party . like amount
The managers asked the candidate
to advance the rest. They prom
Used 1t would be repaid to him
after the election. Mr. Blaine &C.
cordingly advanced 100000 moro.
The amount was never repaid and
it is said that to reooup his losses
Blaine wrote his famous Twenty
Years in Congress-"
Corporations Always Chip In.
The business interests and cor.
porations have always been liberal
contributors to the party campaign
funds. The large ones usually give
to both sides. the biggest check to
the one most likely to win. During
the campaigns Of 1896 and 1900.
however, the eastern business and
corporate interests were hostile to
Mr.. Bryan. and in the first cam
paign his fund came entirely from
the west. The time he ran, tho
Democrats tried the endless chain
system. So confident were the
friends Of Mr.. Bryan after 1896,
that he could be named again In
1900. that they started to raise
money this way as early as 1897.
1t was by canvassing country dis
tricts for subscriptions Of dollar
a month. The sum raised by this
method, however, was entirely In.
adequate. The candidacy Of Mr..
Cleveland. On the other hand. Al
ways attracted heavy contributors.
When he became the nominee OF
his party IN 1892. the fund at the
disposal Of the Democrats was very
large, much Of it being raised BY
William c. Whitney. Benjamin
Harrison. on the contrary, was moi
SO popular with the moneyed men.
The raising Of funds is usually
delegated to more than one man ID
the party. While the treasurer OF
the national committee is usually
supposed to do the collecting. DO
is never. without assistants. Len
P. Morton was we'll known - .
collector Of campaign funds. His
system was to make a list OF those
on whom he intended to call Win
the amount he expected them 10
contribute set opposite their nanes
They usually responded favoraply
Marshall Jewell also had a repu'
tation as . Republican collector
having raised rs much as S70,os
in Boston In a single day. Duf1nl
the tariff fight in 1855, John wan.
! amaker acted for the Republican,
in Pennsylvania and got togetnei
nearly half a million dollars. Ste'
phen B. Elkins was also q famool
collector. The late Roswell r
Flower. congressman and Cover
nor Of New York. gathered many
campaign funds for the Democrats
William C. whitney and Abram >
Hewitt did also.