Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-09-24
COP Taking In
81 To Demos 81
by Bradford v. Carter
LPA COIumnist


ceipts and expenditures records which appeared
last week gave highly misleading picture of
the relative financial positions of the two ma
jor parties.
They showed the Democratic Natl Commit
tee receiving $541 ,473 to $522455 for the Re-
publican Natl Committee The truth is that the
Republican high command, on the basis of
reports filed with the Clerk of the House of
Representatives last week, has at least $1084,-
288 to play around with, while the Democrats
appear to have only $547, 1897. That's nearly
So for Dewey and his pals to every 81 that the
Democrats have for President Truman'S cam
paign.
The catch, you see, is that many of the
COPS heaviest contributors didn't kick in to
the Natl Committee. They paid instead to the
Senatorial Committee, the Congressional Com
mittee, and to such high-powered local out
fits as the Republican Finance Committee for
Allegheny County, Pa, and the Northern Re-
publican Finance Committee Comparable Dem
ocratic groups took in only chicken feed.
The Allegheny Co. committee darling of the
steel and coal men, raked in cool quarter of
a million, and the Pennsylvania state commit
tee has another $250,000 in the bank for the
campaign windup.
Most spectacular contributions coming into
the Natl Committee direct were from the
DUPONT family, the boys and girls who dominate
several branches of the chemical industry and
The duPonts have invested at least $4,000 in
COP victory
Of course there are plenty of over $1,000
contributions to the Dewey campaign from the
business men and the corporation lawyers in
New York and in the industrial middle west
Ohio, Michigan Illinois and Minnesota. But
just how extensive big business stake in a
COP triumph is can be seen from the fact that
such contributions are listed from places like
South Carolina, Puerto Rico and Honolulu
where for various reasons few Republican votes
will be cast this November.
Among the really charming types contribut-
ing $1,000 each to the Dewey cause are: salt
man Sterling Morton, a wartime enemy Of
Hitler's enemies; Thomas E. Donnelly, anti
union proprietor of the shop which prints most
telephone books and mail order catalogues;
and that great open-shop crusader and movie
magnate Cecil B. DeMille.
Biggest Democratic contributors are w.
Averill Hartman who gave $4,000 as did w.
D. Pawley, and Mr.. and Mrs. Will Clayton, the
cotton Dealers who between them put up $4,000.
Soap man Charles Luckman has donated $1,000
to the Truman campaign as has former New
York Governor Herbert Lehman and Housing
EXpediter Tighe Woods. The only contribution
recorded in the name of union leader is on the
Democratic books-$250 from President George
Berry of the Intl Printing Pressmen-AFL.
Democratic Chairman Sen j. Howard Nc
treasury as against the $400 contributed by
Henry Wallace's campaign manager c. B.
Baldwin. But the Progressive Party's expendi-
lures ledger shows that Mrs. Baldwin is on the
payroll as we'll as her husband. Mrs Mc-Grath
is not. It's always easier when two in the fam
lily work All in all the common mans party
has received a cool $500000 in direct contribu-
tions to date.
Those who've been asking why a good busi- :
ness women like Mrs. Eleanor Gimbel should
give heavily to the Wallace crusade can find
an answer, perhaps, in these reports Mrs.
Gimbel between June l and August 81 con-
tributed $4,000 to the Progressves but during
he same period she received $11, 100 in rents
from the Progressive Natl Committee for the
Park Avenue mansion which houses Gideon's
Army.
Another crusader who is doing pretty well,
for himself anyway, is Gerald L. K. Smith,
leader of the fascistic Christian Nationalist
Crusade. This fleazy outfit has taken in only
S78, ,167 and over $1,000 of that has gone into
Gerald's pocket for salary and expenses.
The Dxiecrats, pardon me-StateS Rights
filed their papers yet.
Well let you know how much race prejudice
S selling for as soon as these reports are
lvailable.