Show M W r M ow P Y goo I 1 ILI f resi aft FA both democratic and T parties spent near y each or expenses no longer able to gouge corpora eions both st des appealed to the people for huge fun ds and succeeded f 31 L P 4 i al W A IT I 1 ia 0 J i u r q V I 1 I 1 f 41 i F I 1 if ol 01 t 1 A S W TIPI rz ri if 11 4 31 go a fit DV orn eligi A fd I 1 4 0 1 HK 4 11 r pit w I 1 I 1 r I 1 V f g y i MV ligi r 1 I 1 it X J vero calic C alic ace O OW CW that its nil all settled for another four years you may be interested to know how the money was raised to conduct the worlds greatest political show well here Is the whole story with everything exposed secret passages family ghosts mystery intrigue lights shadows trapdoors and the rest of the stage property as s told by a writer wilter in the nw new york sun sui 1 presidential campaigns cost a great deal of m money oney the job of getting this money they call raising the wind when the amount required alred la Is between and 2000 OW one can see that the office of treasurer of 0 a national committee Is no sinecure it was stated publicly the other day by henry mor who as eb chairman airman ot of the democratic finance committee was a sort of afi financial overlord of this end of the game for th the democrats that thai the irreducible minimum of democratic needs this year had been placed at four years ago it was the republicans did not make public their own estimate of expenses when the campaign was la in its infancy they figured it out as aa about later the amount was raised to 1 and at et a still later gathering of republicans public ans to discuss this question certain gentlemen of great political experience Inform informed bd young mr bliss that the high cost of campaigns would probably make it necessary this y year ar to spend iose close to before november J the reason why it costs cost s more now to run a campaign Is because everything la Is higher the cost of printing has tripled tor for one thing campaign buttons cost twice as much railroad fares farea are higher and so it goes when the republicans were looking around for someone to raise the wind this year their eyes fell upon young mr bliss for a good reason 11 bis father was the republican treasurer in three national campaigns after some hesitation mr bliss took the job in which he be has ever since displayed the one quality consi dereda prerequisite to a successful republican treasurer mod esty 1 nobody but the campaign managers themselves ever heard much of mr air bliss around notional national 11 headquarters e ad quarters his office was on a floor below the ch airmans people w who ho got oft off there by M mistake IS thought they had wandered into the offices of a big up to date mercantile corporation there were ronny clerks many adding machines and ninny nany typewriters it was from cheso of offices flees where oberd scarce a footfall wils was heard alint treasurer bliss raked the country for Ri republican publican mon money ey not only in the form of large subscriptions when a he could get them but also in the form of 10 subscriptions to what he called his sustaining membership fund the contributor to this got a nice little certificate showing that lie he had been enrolled as a sustain ing member of the G 0 P this was mr bliss popular subscription plan the scheme mr bliss brought ou out t was a development v elop ment of one tried successfully by william 13 barncs arn es W when hen he was head of the state this plan was to invite 10 subscriptions to a special fund and in return hand out imme some little honorarium mr air barnes succeeded in raising by this plan in the state of 0 new york alone when everybody was hard up mr air bliss raised about half a million under the bliss plan local committees were formed in every town in the country these committees did the work of collecting the 10 subscriptions to get these committees mr bliss made up the biggest mailing list ever seen he corresponded with every state chairman and through these officials got the county chairmen to draw up lists of possible contributors when the lists were turned in appeals were made direct to those on the lists the result Is that shortly before je election selection mr bliss was getting frequently vis as much as in a single days mail of course under this plan contributions were not Ilmi limited teil to 10 nor were contributions of a smaller amount spurned all were welcomed but it required 10 at least to become enrolled as a sustaining member whatever may have been the success achieved by mr bliss there were persons around democratic headquarters in new york just around the corner from the republican shop who were willing to bet that mr marsh would beat mr bliss to a frazzle in collecting money from the real pee pul out in iowa mr marshs marahs home state he has a record of being one of the greatest money raisers ever seen the marsh plan soon in full fall swing was nothing more than the good old every member can vass scheme which the churches out in iowa resort to when they are falling behind in current expenses or want to make a bonfire of the mortgage marsh and ills his young men some of them church workers believed that if it could be worked successfully success fally folly tor for a church it could be worked in the country as a whole for the democratic party an essential feature of the every can vass plan Is team work anyone who has bas ever been waited upon with a request tto to subscribe to n church fund to burn the mortgage knows that not on one person eperson but two do the visiting confronted thus by superior numbers the prospect generally capitulates to organize such teams in every town and hamlet of the united states was the task which marsh and his iowa hustlers set themselves to do this Is the way they did it the name of it a good democrat in every town was first secured then a communication was sent to him asking him to forward at once to headquarters the names of six or eight men in the town who would feel it an honor to be named ns as an auxiliary finance committee of the democratic national committee designating one man on the list tobe to be appointed chairman by return mall mail each man so named rot got Ms his credential a little card bearing the pictures of wilson and marshall Mars liall and announcing that the democratic national nat tonal committee had been pleased to appoint lip point him a member of its finance committee with this card went a personal letter from treasurer marsh calculated to make the now member of the Demora democratic tic finance committee commit tae get busy here for example Is one paragraph from mr marshs marahs letter which as a whole sounds like the follow up campaign of a man selling patent c clothespins clothe lothe spins 1 11 I wish I 1 might visit with you face to face and impress I 1 you with the tremendous importance of this work to my wind roalnd it Is far reaching we are absolutely depend dependent eni upon u on it for the money to carry on the campaign moreover it Is irn im Per aUve lve because by having the citizen who love his country finance the campaign we are keeping the government absolutely y uninfluenced by persons who have ulterior motives through you and the alie other party leaders I 1 plan to make a personal solicit solicitation aaion of everyone who can afford to give and who feels an enthusiastic interest in the reelection election re of president wilson this Is a campaign for the people and it must be paid for by the people every patriotic and loyal person ought to give to the point where it really means something of a sacrifice to him to one this might mean a thousand dollars or more to another it might mean or 50 or a dollar this 1 Is th the spirit of giving which I 1 hope you will inspire I 1 want to know the names and amount each gives and will keep a por permanent manent card index record of this I 1 will classify cities by population and make a comparative record of the amount given by each I 1 feel certain you will see to it that your city Is well up in this roll of honor but the real details of mr marshs marahs every mem ber canvass scheme schem e were explained in still another communication from national headquarters printed on pink paper it was entitled how to do it and Is in mr marahs marshs liest best style here Is i what it said sad 1 success depends upon team work and upon getting into the game right away to this end you sou and ea eacle ch of the other members of your committee are urged to adopt the following plan and stick closely to it 1 I 1 on the day you receive tills this letter make a list of every person you know be he democrat republican progressive or independent every forward looking man aind woman whom you know or believe to be interested in the reelection election re of woodrow wilson and set opposite his name the amount you believe he can afford to give 2 trave have your sour committee meet at once compare notes and together prepare a complete list of every possible contributor with the amount your committee estimates he should give 3 transmit immediately to me personally n conservative estimate of the amount your corn com believes we we may count upon receiving through your efforts wo we need this estimate at once please see that it Is mailed within three I 1 days after you sou receive this letter 16 y 4 4 divide your committee into teams of two and three to canvass person personally ally and collect this money you can work more effectively in pairs than singly for it ls Is harder for a fellow to say no to a committee of his neighbors than to one person 5 App apportion your list of prospective contributors among your sour subcommittees and make it the business of your sour committee to call upon each one of these prospects in person do not let this be hit oi or miss work but do it systematically and do it without delay 11 As fast as these committees got any money they sent ent it directly to treasurer marsh ino no matter how small his contribution each contributor received nn an engraved receipt and his name went on mr air maises card index as a result of which honor he fie will probably get another appeal four years scars from now nov shorty before election mr marsh invited some J of ills doubting friends into his office to see what V tacie committees were doing plied high on his desk was the lass dayl mall mail from fram these finance committees mit tees pach letter either a check or v had pinned to it if real ral money some chairmen could hardly write legibly but attached to each letter there was the list in each case of the people who had contributed the amounts running from froin 25 cents to in one days anys mall mail the checks and cash contributions contribution mr p marsh said amounted to more than ID fact the ave average raga days receipts during par part of october were about 1 |