The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-27

Campaign funds are running low
| this year. No authoritative sta
tisticA have been compiled. but on
ID conservative estimate dimes are
being dragged in where dollars for
merly flowed In. and It IL mot to b
overlooked that there IL . decided
difference between dragging" nd
flowing"
All Of which means that the pol
iticians of all parties are up
against It. They have on their
hands q tight that would call nor
maffy for larger expenditures than
have eyer been made for such pur-
poses, and they are discovering
that they will have only about q
10th OF the resources that they
should be able to command. Party
organizations have almost doubled
in size since all the wcmen have
suffrage, and the demands that are
made ON the committee have more
! than doubled. but when the hat is
passed it comes back practically
empty.
! Men who are responsible for
financing the various committees
are growing gray and haggard.
Others who have always counted in
campaign years ON lucrative en-
ployment or profitable business re-
lations with the committee are j01g.
less. 1t is sad situation. The
| GlOoms have - driven all the lows
out of politics.
tional chairman announced that in
his judgment contributions to cam
paign funds should be limited to
81 900 and another politician OF
equal prominence declared that
that limit was too high-$100
should be the maximum.
This year the man who could get
81 900 donations-would be hailed
as his party's savior, while the
1900 producer would be rated as
little less than a genius.
Those who would question the
truth of this. need only go to TIKI
headquarters Of either of the dom
inant parties and undertake to sell
any plan or proposition that in.
wolves the spending of money
I They will be convinced in short
order. They will hear tales Of pow
erty that are more than distress.
ing. and, what is more to the point
they will find it next to impossible
to do business with the committee
for the good and sufficient reason
that the committees have no none,
with which to do business.
One Mans Sad Experience.
One man whose business is II
the line of campaign publicity fea
lures had a particularly unhappy
Experience in Washington this
week. He had worked out plar
that had everything to Recommend
it, and that he was confident o.
selling to a certain committee a.
soon as he could lay it before tn,
, chairman. He expected a contrac
representing several thousands o
dollars. He got what tradition sayl
the little boy shot at.
l. LIN you bell yVui PiOPOoIttou =
a friend inquired.
did sell it," he echoed. "Say
that chairman isn't buying, he.
selling! He sold me a poverty ant
hard luck story that was SO sat
1--WE wound up weeping on each 9th
er's shoulder and before l left h
had me digging up a 10-spot II
help keep his committee out Of tn
poorhouse. And I guess / wa
lucky to get OF at that price,"
As yet no one has come forwart
with satisfactory explanation o
this state of affairs. The same In
dividuals and the same Interests
that heretofore have been interest
ed in the success Of this or tina
party to the extent that the.
would contribute freely and NOR,
or less literally to campaign
funds are-presumably-still in
terested. There are as many rea