Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-08-29
GREAT FALLS DAILY TRIBUNE
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LEONARD C. DEEHL
Business Manager

Treasurer Upham to the charges seems on the
surface to be conflicting. Mr.. Upham seems tx
| admit that quotas have been assigned to each
state and also that the sum of two million dol
lars has been assigned to New York, but he says
this two million is intended to be the whole states
contribution and that it includes both the ex
pense OF the state and national campaign because
the rich men Of New York do not like to be
solicited twice for political DOODLE Mr.. Uphan
further declares that the quotas" attributed tt
various cities in the list he read are in each in
stance the quota for the whole state in which the
city mentioned is located and the sums mentioned
are not accurate. But as he mentions only one
such inaccuracy and that is in the quota assign
ed to the city Of Chicago, which Gov. Cox says
was S75O,0O0 and which Mr.. Upham says was
100000, we are led to assume that the quota
list made public by Gov. Cox is substantially cor
rect. Mr. Upham also says that these quotas
were made much bigger than they expected tc
realize, and that the total collected would shrink
very much when compared with the quota fig
ures. That may be true. It also may be true
that the reports printed in the official bulletin
Of the national Republican committee about some
Of these cities greatly exceeding their quotas
may be fake reports designed to stimulate other
money diggers' in other localities in their ef-
forts to go over the top. Such deceitful tactics
have been known in drives by men and organi-
tons making more profession Of piety and good
morals than the Republican national committee
has ever done But admitting all that Treasurer
Upham claims to be the truth and the whole
truth Gov. Cox can well say that he has estab-
Ec1a hot OF !, of no o1
committee has started out to get whale Of a
campaign fund, the like Of which has not been
seen since the days of Mark Hanna, even if the
city quotas are really state quotas and expected
to shrink in collection.
Chairman Hays speaks more directly to the
point After indulging in some general sarcasm
at the expense Of Gov. Cox who he says is "a
dreamer" he declares that his committee has col
lected only little over million dollars up to
date, and he does not expect the total to exceed
three million 1t will at once be noted that
Chairman Hays does not deny the truth of the
quota plan though he ridicules Gov. Cox's state
ments about it and implies that his list is a fake
list and someone has played practical joke on
the Democratic candidate by giving it to him.
Of course any such sum as even eight millions
paign funds Moreover it could never be raised
by subscriptions limited to $1,000. In order to
get this amount or anything approaching it
Chairman Hays knows very we'll that it would be
necessary to get number Of very big subscrip-
tons from rich men like Col. Proctor the soap
magnate who gave over half million to the
pre-convention Republican campaign fund. Gov.
Cox has evidently started something as Senator
Borah did when he charged that Gen. Wood was
spending millions to buy the Republican nomna-
ton for the presidency.
This idea that political success can be bought
with money seems to have taken storing hold on
since they defeated Bryan and elected Mckinley
by scratch and spending nearly score of mil
lion dollars. Their success in organizing the
senate with the aid Of Senator Newberry now
under sentence in Republican state and at the
hands of a Republican judge for gross corruption
in securing his seat, seems to have convinced
them that what could be done in the state of
Michigan in the way Of achieving party success
through the use of vast sums Of money could
be repeated in the nation at large It can't be
done. The man or men who conceived that no.
ton are the dreamers, and they have dreamed a
bad dream and will have a nasty awakening
Gov. Cox says he has obtained still further
evidence of the truth Of his charges which he
will make public in few days. Go to it Gov.
Cox. The public will listen well to all you have
to say on this subject and the voters will take
pains to see that no one buys the presidency as
they bought the Michigan senatorship in order
to get control of the senate Of the United States