The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-27

whole controversy Where does the line
begin and end between the expenditures
for national and state ticket
Usually the political mass meetings have
included speakers for all candidates and
literature and posters have often em-
braeed national and state tickets.
Plainly the whole case of Governor
Cox nests upon the charge that the Re-
publicans planned fund of Sl5,000,000
for the whole campaign and that the ma
tional organization set for the individual
states huge quotas, only a part of (which
world be certified ta5- as having been
spent for the nationaFtickett
What is suggested among. the politi-
clans ahere is that Governor Cox has
Iiaotfen. hold of the quotas of the states
and that if New York was set as 81.
l.0OeO00, Illinois at 100000, the total of
lall the states would easily make the
ISIS 900 900. Mr. Ipham, the Republican
treasurer. insists, however, that the total
fund under these calculations would be
in the neighborhood of ST 800, 900.
OF course all these sums were esti-
mates and very little money has actually
been received by either the Democratic
or the Republican NATIONAL committees
thus far, most of it being in pledges
The Democrats have collected less than
$4,000 and their effort is to make it
just, as hard for the Republicans to col
lect much more, though the latter have
admitted collecting 100000 thus far.
Governor Cox in selecting the SIS
100000 figure as the basis for his charge
Of lavish expenditures is really not say
ing anything new. The Democrats here
| for the Cox speech pointed to several
| newspaper articles written as early as
January of this year concerning Repub-
lican finance plans. One of these articles
was a seven-column affair i'm the Brook
| lyn Eagle with the streamer heading,
ITO raise SlG00OQO0 to elect G. @. p
President in 1920. Will III. HAYS. chair
| man Republican national committee, to
collect and control greatest campaign
fund in American history
The article itself is written bv the
| Washington correspondent of the Brook
| lyn Eagle. who, the Democrats saw, is an
intimate friend of Will HAYS and they
allege the yarn came from Hays himself
1t is illustrated with pictures of win
Hays and Col. William Bovce Thomson
chairman of the ways and means com
mittee of the Republican financial or.
ganization. The first two paragraphs of
the article are bound to play part in
| the question of proofs of Cox's charges
| This ~ the way it begins:
Sixteen million dollars NAV be spent
in the effort to elect a Republican presi.
dent of the United States this year. The
| figure staggers the Imagination of most
persons who remember that the average
size of national campaign fund runs
| in the neighborhood of four or five mil.
lion dollars Yet Republicans are plan.
ming to get sixteen millions into the wal
chest in this years fight. 1t will be more
than twice as much as was spent under
the direction of Mark Hanna in 1896 to
| accomplish the election of William Me
i lNinley, and the Hanna campaign fund il
generally credited with holding the rec
ord.
I'm aiming at Sl6,O00O00 the Republi
cans are not figuring TO double or treble
the amount ordinarily spent in nationa
campaign, although unquestionably they
lWill spend. far mora than ever before
They are consolidating all campaign
/ financial activities In one huge fund
rather than having the national commit
tee raise ito own separate fund and al
the state and local committees confirm,
on the old basis of making their owl
i collection
THE state committees are turning owe
their subscription lists to the nationa
committee. The latter plans to receiv,
lall subscriptions. IT, will gather none,
from persons who have hitherto sub
scribed only to state or local campaign
funds. County and other local commit
tees are expected to fall into line will
the national committees plan. Their
will be one great collection agency an,
one great disbmsing agency. BY central
ization of finance the Republicans hop
not only to eliminate great deal o
Waste that has characterized campaign
in the past, but to spend their campaigl
funds in a more scientific manner an,
place it where it viii do the most good.
While the Democrats were bombardin
the Republicans finance plans, f. Hudson
formerly editor of the Liquor Dealers
journal. made public a telegram to Sen
ator Kenyon, chairman of the senate in
vestigating committee, a charge that ha
been commonly rumored in this sectio
OF Pennsylvania, namely, that bootleg
gers are obtaining whiskey from distil
leries under medicinal permits and sellin
it at high profits and putting share i
the Cox campaign fund Prominen
Democratic politicians in Pennsylvani
are alleged to be involved and Mr.. Hnd
son Is urging the senatorial investigat
ing committee to probe the charo,
Really the presidential campaign ha
just begun.