Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-24
COST Of CAMPAIGN
UP T00CT. 18G0ES
ABOVE $3,6O0,O(0
Party .Treasurers, in Sworn
Statements to Clerk of
House, Give Figures.

The presidential campaign of 1920,
Up to October Is, had cost more than
$4,000. 900. Sworn statements filed
with the clerk of the House of Rep
resentatives, by the treasurers of the
three principal parties. show the fol-,
lowing total expenditures to that
date:
Republican national committee. 81
741,503.34.
971.69
Socialist national committee, $751;
1858.
Contributors to the various cam
palgn funds aggregated about So
$4,000. the republican national COM
mlttee reporting Il total Of S2,466,-
ol934; democratic national committee,
S6I ,934 81 and the socialist party
Sol. o2s-24. The democratic congress
slonal committee received $13,475.75
and the similar republican organiZa-
ton $116.700-
The socialist party's committee re-
port alone showed surplus of re-
celptS over expenditures.
More Than $500 Pages.
The republican report made vol
ume or more than $500 pages, with
each individual contribution listed to
give the full name and address of the
donor. According to the national COM
mittee, more than $4,000 names were
so listed. No effort was made to
group contributions by states or to
assemble them according to the size
Of the gifts.
Both republicans and democrats
showed hundreds of $1,000 donations.
while larger items were few and far
III Sfa hot
were but sixteen of these larger con-
tributions in the republican lists and
not more than twenty-four in the
democratic.
Lists of Contributors.
Among the larger contributors to
the republican campaign fund were:
Truxton Beale, New York, $4,000
lfor prize distribution: James B.
Smith. San Francisco, $1,000: j. S.
Cossen. Tulsa, Okla. $4,000; Charles
F. Pfster. Chicago; Charles E. Bockus.
cago; w. H. r. Hilliard, Pittsburgh,
and George F. Baker. Chicago, $4,000:
Mr.. and Mrs. Vincent Aston, $1,000
each; Howard & Hedger. Aberdeen,
S. D.. $1,000: Henry w. Taft. $1,000:
7. c. du Pont, $1,000: Chauncey NJ.
Depew, $1,000; William Metcalf~jr
$1,000. and DR.. Nicholas Murray But
Ter. $1,000.
In the democratic list were five con-
tributions of more than s5000-H A
Wroe. Austin. Tex, $4,000: Rem
brandt Peale, Carroilton. Pa. $4,000;
Charles r. Crane and Thomas L.
Chadbourne. jr.. $500. and E. L. Do
heny, $500.
B. NJ. Baruch donated $1,000 to the
national democratic fund. and $4,000
to the "pro-league independents" a
political organization of New York
city which collected s16,735 and ex-
pended s14.706.
Other contributors to the demo-
cratic national committee We're: Ed
ward Hurley. August Belmont. Joseph
E. Willard, Francis Burton Harrison.
Mrs. Emmons Blaine. Cleveland H.
Dodge, Joseph f. Davies, Thomas F.
Ryan. Allen A. Ryan. Ira Morris.
Nathan Strauss. c. E. Davis. NJ. Liebel,
jr.. $4,000 each: Charles B. Alexander.
$4,000: F. ID. Roosevelt, George F.
Brennan and W. N. Reynolds, $4,000:
A. ]. Casey. $500: James w. Gerard
and Norman H. Davis. $1,000: E. T.
Meredith. G. NJ. Hitchcock and John
B. Payne. $1,000: A. Mitchell Palmer.
$500: Col. f. NJ. House. $500, and
Alton b. Parker, 800.
Motion Picture Agreement.
B. NJ Baruch of New York filed a
sworn statement yesterday with the
clerk of the House OF Representatives
recording an agreement between him.
self and the Harry Levey Service Cor
poration to produce a moving picture
version of the story. Uncle Sam of
Freedom Ridge" Mr.. Baruch said he
had advanced $4,000 toward expenses
of the production and had signified
his Willingness to advance $4,000 ad-
ditional if necessary.
Mr.. Baruch said that, while the
or before
campaign began, it was calculated
ito influence votes for representatives
to Congress who believed in the
adoption Of the league of nations"
while a statement of this expendi-
ture may not be required by the let
ter of the law Corrupt practices
act)," Mr.. Baruch said. 1T seems to
me to be within it's spirit, and it
therefore is filed under the provisions
of the Statnte"