The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-26
ALABAMA URGED
 TO SEND MONEY
 FOR PARTY FIGHT
Victory Within Grasp If Loyal Democrats Will
 Seize Opportunity

Jesse H. Jones, direet0f lauf finassee of the democratic national committee, Saturday night telegraphed to The Age Herald from New York an urgent appeal to Alabama democrats for if nancial assistance for the Davis presi- dential campaign. His message is as follows:
 As is well known to all readers of the newspapers, the democratic national committee is being seriously restricted in waging its campaign because demo- crats in Alabama and elsewhere do not take enough real interest in their par tvs welfare and in the success of our national ticket at the November 'elec- ton.
 It is a raced real race, and we start off well in the lead with the solid south, but after that, we must fight every inch of the ground; and it takes money, not for slush fund purposes, but to pay the actual and legitimate ex- penses of the candidates and the con- mittee.
 We have been able to collect to date in the entire United States only about $600,O00. The republican committee acknowledges that they have collected approximately four times this amount, and have no doubt but that they have raised for use at strategic points great deal of money in addition. The reason for this is not because republi- cans are so much richer than demo- crats, but because they get out and work and take more interest in their elections. It is true that certain of them have much at stake because of the unfair protective tariff which en- ables them to enrich themselves at the expense of the rest of us. But aside from that, they respond to the needs of their party very much more literally and more generally than democrats, es- pecially in national elections.
 Each Owes Duty
 l would like to impress upon every man and woman in the Democratic party the absolute necessity of each taking unto himself or herself a full share of the responsibility in this great fight, if we are to win, and if we lose 1t will be because we go to sleep at the switch and don't back our party in a really and truly interested way. There is so much more at stake than the democrats throughout the country indicate that they understand, and if we go down in defeat, it will be be- cause of the lack of interest of the people of Alabama and other southern states in furnishing ammunition to the front line trenches, as it were, to en- able those at the front to put up really winning fight.
 Success With Grasp
 Success is so easily within our grasp, and if it slips away, it will be the fault of those good men and women of our party who take for granted that some one else will furnish the money necessary to do everything that ought to be done.
 am ashamed to admit that we have received to date at national headquar- ters practically no money from Ala bama less, in fact, than $4,000; while rOck-ribbed republican Pennsylvania has sent US $26,000 and very much larger number of individual contributors than democratic Alabama. Is it possible that the fair state of Alabama, great in traditions, resources and wealth, will not support the party of her choice in this crisis? Is it possible that there are no Well-tO-dO men and women in Alabama willing to contribute few hundred or even a few thousand dollars in times of such great need as this? Veryily, it is my belief if we lose this election, it will be our own fault, and our security in government will be greatly shaken before the end of an other four years.
 If graft. greed, corruption, and malad- minstriou in our national government of such fragrant sort can go unpunished md unrepudia ted not only, but instead, nieet with the stamp of approval at the aands of the voters of our country. aven though the vote be influenced as is being attempted, by enormous cam. laign funds literally given and freely spent by the party respOnSible--the
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