The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-03
|. O. p. TREASURY
 RUNS OVER WHILE
 DEMOCRATS WANT
Campaign Expenses of Re- publicanS Expected to Total $1,200, 900. Democrats
 Garner About $120,000
By HUGH W. ROBERTS Washing ton Bureau, The Age-Herald,
 800 Davidson Building.

Washington, November 2.-(Spe- eial. .)-The conservative estimate is that when final statements of col lections and disbursements are filed with Washington authorities, 1t will be demonstrated that through their three committees. the national and two congressional, the republicans will have expended s1,200,000. and the democrats s120.OOO.
 In the beginning, democratic lead- CTS, Cordell Hull, chairman of the national committee, and Senator David I. Walsh, chairman of the sen atorial campaign committee, declared that the people were so deeply aroused against the republican ad- ministration and Congress that they could not, this year, be successfully subjected to the evil power of money
 Since the Initial filing of expense statements, however, these leaders have changed their tune. They now refer to what is obviously fact that the republicans, having collected from those benefited by republican legis- lation, are attempting to "Newberry ize" every congressional district in the United States
 The G. 0. r. Laughs
 The republican press refers to the inability of democrats to collect large sums of money for campaign ex- penses in connection with their own conclusion that people are not con tributing because they are satisfied with conditions under the republican control of national affairs. They deduce from their conclusion the comforting thought that the country will not rebuke the republicans, as in the beginning, it promised to do
 Democratic leaders do not dwell extensively on their failure to collect abnormal sums of money. They pre- fer to explain that republicans can collect many thousands from those whom they benefited by many mil- lions. and by rhetorical indirection to urge the people of the country to stand firm against alleged attempts by republicans to debauch the cleo torate.
 The Rockefellers led the big con tributors to the republican fund They have been benefited in many respects. They secured through Sec retaries Fall and Denby control of the Teapot Dome oil fields for one of their subsidiary companies; and through Ambassador Harvey, 25 per cent of the stock of the principal company which under British super vision operates the Mesopotamian oil fields.
 Those Who Profited
 Examples are said by democratic cheftains to be unlimited. Especial reference Is made to the brother of Secretary Mellon. who gave the na- tional committee s25.000. The Mel Ions are among the richest families of the United States and operate businesses which profit from ex- treme conservatism in legislation, and, of course, from a tariff framed for the purposes that the Fordney- McCumber tariff was framed. l Wrigley, the Chicago chewing gum manufacturer, contributed heavily to the national republican committee, and the two congressional campaign committees. It has been charged that simply by relieving chicle of certain 1 offensive" duties, the republicans, 1 by legiEiation. served Wrigley to a million dollar melon for his private consumption.
 In years gone there were one or | more democrats who contributed handsomely. There was Thomas 8 | Fortune Ryan. This year, nothing l material has come from Ryan. And Henry Ford, said to be the richest man in the world, did not score heav- ily if at all. in aiding the cause of the democratic party.
 Where Money is Used It Is understood in Washington that the amounts collected and ex- pended by the national committees is never to be compared with the amounts put into campaigns by state committees. It is a safe prediction, | 1t Is said here, that more than s1.000,000 will be expended in each of several states, Ohio, New York, New Jersey and others. The figures of the national committees, 1t is ex- plained. are serviceable only in ar irving at the comparative amounts the par lies are expending in the sew eral states. If republicans in all states are expending s10 to $1 ex- pended by the democrats. which is indicated by contributions to the two national committees, then Newberry- ism is live issue
 In Ohio, where the President is especially interested and the re- publican party more or less at stake, expenditures by republicans are said to be unreasonably heavy. In. New York. Senator Calder, who by trad ing votes with other republican mem bers of the finance committee. se- cured protection the Littauer glove manufacturers deemed satisfactory, is understood to be receiving the re- turn his ardour deserves. Senator Frelinghuysen. the Presidents bosom companion. endangered in New Jer- sey, Is understood to be receiving handsome support from manufac- turers who profited from his course in Washington.
 Sales Tax Looms
 Cordell Hull is appealing to the electorate to look forward. He quotes the President as having said that the deficit the end of the fiscal year 1923 would be s672, LOGO, ,000, a figure which will be increased to s1,000.- 100000, 1t Is judged certain.
 The deficit, he continues, the end of the fiscal year 1924. which will come as the two conventions pro- ceed to nominate candidates for the presidency, will be many billions, due to the reduction of surtax and excessive profit rates, and the re- auction of incomes because of return ing normal conditions.
 It Is his idea that in the presi- dential election year, the republicans will not go after big business for the money necessary to run the gov- ernment. In the offing. he opinies, there stands the ghost of the sales tax which would fall on the con- sumers of the country.