The New York herald., 1920-01-30
SAYS DEMOCRATS
PUT FAITH IN Ca Z
Colonel Thompson Declares
They Have Huge Cam
paign Fund.

Charging tho present Democratic nation.
wastefulness and extravagsnce, Colonel
Willtam Boyce Thompson, Chairman oi
the Ways and Means COMMITTEES Of the
Republican National COMMITTEES. declared
yesterday that certain men back Of the
Democrats organization did not care what
it would cost to win the election, and were
prepared to spend thirty million dollars or
even larger sum.
Colonel Thompson, who made this decla-
ration in an address to the New York
State Ways and Means Committee at the
Union League Club, said that the Repub-
licanS did not propose to fight the cam
paign with cheque books or TO try to
match dollar with dollar.
"The Republican party can compete suc-
cessfuIfy with tho Democratic party IN
many things" said Colonel Thompson.
Some OF us arc pretty well convinced
that the Republican party. for instance, is
going to be able to compete with the
Democratic party successfully in the next
national election. But we might as well
make UP our minds that we can't COM
pete with the gentlemen who have been
steering the Ship of State on its zigzag
course for the past seven years-we can't
compete with them, l say, in one thing
and that is, spending money. 1t can't be
done. You have heard it said of men that
they spend money like drunken sailors
but tell you that the Democratic party is
spending money in a way to make a
drunken sailor by comparison look like a
cautious old maid.
IT am not speaking of tho wastes of
Democratic officials. am not speaking
OF the peoples money. We all know how
they have been spending that. 1 am speak
ing of the leaders OF the Democratic party
and of the way they are spending their
own money. for 1t gives an indication how
they are aching to spend some more OF
yours.
1.-The Democratic party has headquarters
in Washington. That is as it should be
But Is 1t as 1t should be that there are
now. ten months before election. three
hundred men and women working at those
headquarters, sending out twelve thousand
letters daily? rs It as it should be that
an electrical equipment worth as much as
two hundred thousand dollars should be
installed there, capable Of turning out a
million letters day? Is it as it should be
that the monthly pay roll at that office is
already $4,000?
II know your answer. and l ask you
this. Is that political organization or is II
propaganda? Is 1t democracy, or is 1T a
bold attempt to throw back the rushing
waters Of disaster with dixie OF dollars?
Whatever it is, what does it mean
It means this, that from dollar and cent
standpoint certain men feel that they have
got to win the next election. They don't
care what 1t 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 an
swer to that challenge? Is it call to
the rich men of your party to match
thousand with thousand and million with
million? I think not. This next election
Is not going to be fought with cheque
books, at least not b.. the Republicans
Dollars are important, dollars are power
full, but they are not omnipotent. Prin-
ciples are most important, love of America
a holy passion for what America stands
for, are more powerful than all the dollars
which a crew of frightened profiteers can
muster In a frantic effort to stave of
their just deserts.
Go to the fight with the love Of 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