Evening star., 1924-10-26
SURVEY REVEALS PARTY
WITH LARGEST FUND WINS
Rule Upset Twice Only-Both Times
by Wilson-Plurality Winner Not
Always Made President.

lands 16S, because, while the Repub-
hcans continued to support their
campaign fund, giving Harrison
backing of s1,35O,000, the Democrats
dropped back to sS55,O00. But the
Democrats profited by this lesson for
four years later they gave Cleveland
the biggest fund the Democratic
party has ever raised, s2,350,00O. with
which he went out and beat Harri-
son, 277 to 145, in the electoral COL
lege, for Harrison had only $3.50, 900.
Mckinley Fund Vast.
Just to show how true this story
runs-the Republicans were so i'm
pressed with the fact that the big
pot wins that in the next election,
1895, they gave William Mckinley
the greatest financial backing ever
given any candidate in a presidential
race, the amazing record of SIS
100000. OF course, William Jennins.
Bryan couldn't do much, even with
silver tongue. against that gold
standard when he had only s4e5,ooo.
SO Mckinley won, Ell to 17e, in the
electoral college. In 1900 the Repub-
Means again gave Mckinley strong
backing with ss,5O0,OOo, while Bryan
had to worry along with only s425.OOO
toral college, 292 to 1855.
Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 had q
fund of s3,5oo,ooO, and while the
Democratic party loosened up to the
extent of s1,250,000, it was not enough
to make the mare go fast and far
enough. SO the Rough Rider" won
with 336 electoral votes His opponent
got 140, preserving about the same
ratlo TO their respective campaign
funds
William Howard Taft had a cam.
paign fund of $1,7o0.00o in 1908, and
Bryan had a s750,0O0 fund, quite in
proportion to the vote in the electoral
college which was 321 for Taft and 1So
for Bryan.
Wilson Breaks System.
Woodrow Wilson broke the rule
twice running. OF course, in 1872
the opposition fund was split between
Taft and Roosevelt ($75o, 900 and
s52o,ooo), while Wilson had ss50,00o
so you might argue fairly that the
rule of the big pot held even then
Wilson got 455 electoral votes, Roose-
welt SIS and Taft g. But in 1916 Will
son kicked the big campaign fund
habit all to smithereens, just as he
broke down so many other precedents
The Republicans backed Charles F.
HugheS 10 the limit of S2,012, 5S5
while Wilson had the unusually large
Democratic support of $1,400.22s. And
at that Hughes almost won, in fact, il
was thought at first that he had
actually won. The final count was
PIT electoral votes for Wilson and 254
for Hughes.
The Republicans had had another
lesson, SO in the 1920 campaign they
dug deeper into their pockets again
and backed Warren G. Harding with
$5.319,729, while James NJ. Cox had
practically the same amount that
Wilson won with. $1,31S,274, but Cox
lost by a vote of 404 to 127 in the
electoral college.
Precedent Followed.
In the light of these facts it is
not at all contrary to precedent OF
policy that the Republican national
campaign committee is collecting up
wards of $3,o0O,000 to put Coolidge
"over the top"
Now briefly in proof Of our second
fact-that not always does the ma.
jority vote Of the people rule: In
1924 Andrew Jackson got 1851
popular votes, against 1o5,321 fo,
John Quincy Adams. and in the e1ec-