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| leaders of State and congressional con-
tests to increase their first estimates ana
| to demand from 25 TO 100 per cont more
money than was provided in the original
budget of the national committee.
| $6,5O0,0Oo FIGURE SET. -.
IT is predicted by some Of the Republi-
can leaders with whom talked that the
balance sheet Of Treasurer Upham Will
show an increase of at least 30 per cent IN
| the total amount which he and Chairman
| Hays said would be needed to pay the ex-
penses of the campaign for national, state,
Senate and House of Representatives, can
didates
This amount was fixed by them Tor the
| national ticket at IS, 900; for tho
Senate 100000; for the House OF hepre,,
seutatives S500000, with an addltlonai
81 100000 raised under auspices OF state
organizations, and expended through the
same agencies, or 81, 200, 600 IN all. ,
1t now appears probable the total cost OF
the Republican campaign up to date may
exceed sc. 500 900. Every State leader in
the country believes that the national
committee is fairly rolling In money
Consequently elaborate ventures have
been adopted in most of the States, par
ticularly in those in the "doubtfuf
column.
Protests and warnings sent out by
National Chairman Hays and Treasurer
| Upham are accepted in Pickwlctnan
sense, and have not had the least affect IN
modifying the plans adopted by the state
/ leaders Among these leaders there exists
the absolute conviction that the national
committee has raised all the money need
cd to finance the most lavish undertake
| ings.
/ heard in Ohio the other day that the
Republican State organization there es-
| timated the amount of money 1t Will need
| TO defeat Governor Cox at 81, 10000 In
support of this statement, was Informed
Treasurer Upham had notified the State
leaders that if they expected to get thus
much money they would have TO raise 1t
| themselves He is said to have told the
chairman of the Ohio ways and means
committee that he expected the city OF
Cleveland to raise S20O,0O0-in addition
TO the amount already contributed by
that town.
Reports of similar nature come from
other States. Halt a dozen lively rows
have already been caused by the refusal
of the national committee TO come
across with the amount of money de-
manded by some of the State leaders
under the threat Of possible loss of the
electoral vote for the Harding Coolidge
ticket.
The Republican board Of strategy,
which is composed of Hays, Upham, Hert,
Weeks, HiIles, Daughterty, Healing Null
vane and Hamon, has taken the stand
thst it viii not be held up" by State
I leaders.
IGNORE CRIES FOR HELP.
The board has replied TO several cries
for help by asserting there is no doubt OF
the success OF the Republican ticket in
most OF the States from which come most
Of the excessive demands for money.
| The attention Of State leaders has also
been called to their original estimates,
which were adequately provided for in the
budget prenared bv T'pham and which
! complied with most Of the demands.
| Absolute assurance has been given
| these leaders that the opinion shared by
| them that the national committee has
! raised a good deal more money than could
I be legitimately used is not justified by
| the facts. Most OF them have been ad-
! vised 10 get busy in their respective
/ States and pass the hat among Republi-
cans to make up any deficiency that may
| exist.
/ was informed by one Of the members
Of the national committee yesterday that
"Cox did a good deal more damage to US
than he knows. OF course, his statement
that we set out to raise SIG 900, 600 was
Just q pipe dream. We could have got
along on one-third Of that amount, with
mon ey 10 spare if he had not created the
impression throughout the country that
we were getting a great deal more than
was actually the case.
while most Republican State leaders
publicly repudiate Cox's charges, they
really thought he was telling the truth.
/ Consequently, they Immediately set about
revising upward their original estimates,
which were allowed BY US. The fact of the
matter is, that instead of encouraging
contributions the Cox charges practically
closed lot OF prospects We were counting
on
From another source learned that just
at the time Governor Cox made his
charges that the Republican party was
trying to buy the Presidency" Repub-
lican managers were considering the sd-
visibility OF raising the limit Of individual
contributions from 81 ,0(( 10 $500.
The Senate investigation headed of
this plan but IT has not been dropped by
any means. That there will be big de-
5tlt W uQuAOdS a4ltA Tie t4oSSAOA ID zA-
mitted by some of the most important
men In the Republican organization.
DEFICIT UNDERWATER.
One of them told me that group of
/ New Workers have practically under
written the deficit by advancing money
enough to complete the campaign, with
the understanding that after the election
the limit was TO be raised from 81, 900 to
s5, ,00o for Organization expenses" during
the next four years From this fund the
deficit which now confronts the national
committee will be covered.
Some of the Western leaders express
great indignation over what they describ-
ed as failure of William Boyce Thomp-
son, the chairman of the national ways and
means committee, to deliver the financial
support they expected from him. From sll
accounts Thompson has failed TO make
good. and the New York quota which
was fixed at 81 800 900, fell below less
than one-half that amount.
Western leaders believe that Thomp-
son has turned over to the Wadsworth
the money raised under the Hays plan
than it was contemplated either should
have. In any event, New York has been
placed on the blacklist by the Western
managers for It's failure to raise the amount
assigned it.
Thompson is credited with having been
extremely tardy in reporting the result Of
hls efforts TO raise money in New York,
Pennsylvania and other Eastern States,
and less expeditions In transmitting the