New-York tribune., 1920-09-21
White to ass
Hat I'm Raising :
Campaign Fund
Jameson Plan of Relying
On Rhetorical Appeals
Rejected by Democratic
Chairman as Utter Failure
No Limit ON, Amounts
Method That Worked Finely
for Wilson 4 Years Ago
Lacked Punch This Year

george Whlte, chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, said
last night that the plan of William
D. Jameson, director of finance of the
committee, for collecting campaign
subscriptions, had been abandoned
and that plan of his own was in sue
cessful use.
"The money is coming in slowly, but
steadily" said the chairman. about
nine thousand towns have been organ
lied with finance committees to solicit
subscriptions. We do not limit sub
scriptions. The Jameson plan has been
dropped"
Chairman White spoke rather guard
edly about the financial operations of
his committee and the information out
lined above was obtained after direct
questioning
Painful to Jameson
The scrapping of the Jameson plan
"a sort of nationwide, chain-l letter
dragnet-to the Wilson following in the
National Committee, is one Of the sem
sational, and at the same time painful,
events of the canvass. 1t is especially
painful to former Representative Will
liam D. Jameson, who worked it with
gratifying success four years ago. He
tried to get it under way year ago
without success.
The new plan is a reversior to the
old-fashioned method of appointing a
small finance committee of two or three
men in each town and depending on
them to pass the hat among their
office-holding friends and those who
may be hoping for favors from the ma
tional organization.
The breakdown of the Jameson plan
Cor raising campaign funds came early
in the year. Mr.. Jameson, following
up his idea of intensively canvassing
every nook and corner of the United
States, installed an immense plant in
a Washington Office building, equip
ping 1T with about 800 employees
MIR. Jameson not only had the record
of subscriptions to the Wilson war
chest four years ago, when the slogan
"He kept up out of war" unlocked
strong boxes, unleashed checkbooks
and united cold stockings" from Maine
to California, but he had access to the
records of Liberty bond sales around
the country, it is said, and it was cur
rent gossip in Washington that he was
working every resource in the interest
of the Democratic National Commit
tees war chest.
Mill Stops Grinding
Shortly after the first of the year it
became apparent to Jameson and his
little army of money diggers that the
people who subscribed four years ago
had become cstranged He was turned
down ell along the line. The spring
flowers bloomed and faded and the San
Francisco convention met and adjourned,
all without yielding subscriptions to
Mr.. Ja;nieson's we'll organized efforts. "
The mill in Washington finally
stopped grinding. George White, an
old-fashioned Buckeye Democrat, &C.
customed to obtaining the sinews of
war in the orthodox way, by word of
mouth, took charge of the campaign.
Mr.. Whites announcement yesterday
of the death and interment of the
Jameson rhetorical honey-dew method
of shaking down deserving Democrats,
and the substitution Of the old-fash-
ioned direct action plan, means, prob
ably, that William D. Jameson is done
with the campaign and that the Will
sonlan method of soliciting campaign
subscriptions has been definitely
scrapped.
The committee was greatly cncour-
aged to-day" said Chairman White, "to
receive voluntary contribution from
j. d. bort, president of the motor car
company bearing his name, and a prom
trent Republican,"