The Washington times., 1937-03-11
$4,000 TOPS
REPUBLICAN
GIFTS
Record Contributor to
Roosevelt Victory
Gave $4,000
International News Service

rnittee, with half as big a deficit
as its G. o. P. counterpart, is
twice as good a money-raiser on
the basis of official financial
statements filed with the clerk OF
the House today.
For the period January 1-Feb-
ruary 20, the Republican National
Committee reported contributions
totaling $90,969, but its deficit
still lowered near the million-dol-
lar mark-at $912,149.
The Democrats for the same
period showed collections OF
S173,004, which they added to a
$175,019 balance, and paid out
of this $250,000 to reduce their
deficit to $490,185.
Book Sales $73,133
Of the total Democratic in
come, $73,l33 was from the sale
of the 1896 Convention Book, !"
which included a $4,000 purchase
by American Radiator and Stan
dard Sanitary Corporation Of New
York, $2,500 by Bethlehem Steel
Corporation, $4,000 by Premier
PabSt Corporation Of Milwaukee,
$1,000 by Sharp Voting Machine
Corporation of Philadelphia, and
q $2,500 advertisement in the book
from the Marquette Cement Com
pany of Chicago.
First 1887 contributor to the
G o. P. cause was by the party'S
defeated presidential candidate,
Alfred M. Landon. He gave 1000.
Heaviest G. o. P. contributor
was Howard M. johnson. Of Pitts
burgh-$25,000
Biggest Republican creditors
were Erwin Wasey g. Co., $172, ,742.
and Roche williams g. Cunning
ham, $1O5, ,784, both Chicago ad.
vertiSing firms.
For the Democrats, Fred j.
Fisher of Detroit, was the largest
cash contributor with $4,000.
Biggest Democratic creditors
were the Chase National Bank and
the Manufacturers Trust Com
pany of New York, 100000 each.
Also included were the United
Mine Workers of America, $50, 900;
waiter Jones of Pittsburgh, $780,
600: Joseph Kennedy Of New
York, $36,876. and Samuel Kramer
Of New York, $25, ,00O-all loans.
The committee listed debt of $685.
S27 to CHS. for broadcasts and
$1,000 to the Wichita Kan0
Beacon for advertising.
$1,000 from Brinkley
Included among Democratic con-
tributors was John R. Brinkley Of
Del Rio, Texas, who, as Milford
(KanO goat gland specialist ran
against Landon and Secretary of
War Wodring for governor Of Kan
saS as an independent in 1882. He
gave $1,000 and paid $500 for a
convention book.
Under disbursements, the COM
mittee reported it had paid George
Sweeney, business manager for
J. B Gallagher. Of New York city, I"
commissions on the sale Of "de-
luxe books" amounting to $4,000
for the first week in February and
$500 for the week ending Feb
ruary q.
Also listed under disbursements
were $4,000 payments each to the
Chase National and the Manufac-
turers Trust on notes.
Included under Democratic in
come for the two months was
about $4,000 from the sale of in
augural badges, donkey" banks,
courier" emblems and convention
proceedings books" and $4,000
from the testimonial dinner last
month to the national chairman,
James A. Farley.
ID. G. Contributors
Principal Washington contribu-
tors to the Democratic fund are
Jesse Jones, Reconstruction Fl.
nance Corporation, chairman, $4,-
600; Lawrence Chip" Robert,
$500; Melvin D. Hildreth, $4,000;
Malcolm S. Conike and Oliver A.
Quayle, each $1,000.
Other Democratic contributors
Of $4,000 or more are:
Democratic National Finance
Committee Of Indiana, $4,000:
John F. Hickey of New York,
$4,000, and Democratic National
Finance Committee of Alabama,
$1,000.
Other Republican contributors
Of $1,000 and over are Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Barr Deans of New
York, $4,000; E. T. Weir, Howard
Heinz, Henry Oliver Rea, Mrs.
Anne Rea and Lorenz Iversen, all
Of Pittsburgh, $4,000 each; j. F..
Lincoln of Cleveland, $5, 900, and
Mrs. Wilton Lloyd-Smith of New
York, $4,000.
John D. M. Hamilton, Repub-
hcan national chairman, who was
voted a $20,000-a-year salary at
the last meeting of the committee,