Show I AVE MONEY TO BURN t Laananites Throwing Cash at a Great Rate BARREL IS WIDE OPEN I ETCHNOB KEEPS TWO DBAWEBS FULL Enormous Outlay Contemplated By the Backers of the Widely Known Editors Man Ezra Small Army of Paid Workers Will Be Put Out Next Registration Day At the rate the Republican committee money these days it tee spending wont take long to reach the bottom of even Ezras barrel Evidences of a free distribution of cash are plentiful everywhere T3ip boys are burning it up as if It was hay A twentydollar note doesnt look any bigger to Dennis Elchnor these days than a wickel used to look Realizing that the only earthly chance to elect Thompson is Democratic 1 apathy and the getting out of the entire en-tire Republican vote the committee has I concluded to put small army of hired I workers out on the next registration day as well as on election day To do this will require an amount of cash sufficient to cause the ordinary man to gasp Colonel Up to Snuff But it doesnt worry Dennis a little bit He knew that Colonel Lannan was up to snuff when he Insisted first that a Gentile candidate be named by his convention and second that that candidate can-didate be the possessor of a barrel The search was long and at times discouraging dis-couraging There were some Gentiles who would have accepted the nomination but they i didnt have the barrel Others had the barrel but not the desire to sacrifice themselves in the cause of Colonel Lannan Finally Ezra Who combined bpth requisites was hit upon He tried hard to break away but he couldnt withstand the colonels pressure Now what they are doing to that I barrel is a gorgeous sufficiency As has been said before a small army of hired men will be put to work on the next day for registration and on election elec-tion day Fifteen pluggers at 3 per day each will be used Oct 31 in each voting district This means an army if 780 men at an expense of 2340 Heavy Livery Bills In addition there will be the cost of carriages which Dennis has openly boasted about securing The livery bill alone on Oct 31 will reach the tidy sum of 350 That is only a meager part of the expense however On election day 520 men will be employed em-ployed at a cost of 1560 There will be another big livery bill and it can be seen that the various items will quickly run into a large amount of money Five thousand dollars is considered con-sidered a very moderate estimate of the total cost of thie feature There is another little 55000 item i hich will go down in Dennis books as incidentals In it will come such things as beer for the faithful cigars by the hundred campaign material and supplies of a more or less necessary character and other things that will suggest themselves to a manager who has been instructed to run his game without a limit None of the items detailed can properly prop-erly be classed under the head of legitimate le-gitimate campaign expenses Under this classification will come the rent of halls for rallies the hiring of bands printing of campaign literature and clerical help around headquarters Headquarters at 5000 That item of headquarters expenses will cost somebody not less than 5000 The committee doesnt consider one room big enough for it Instead of being contented with something mod tst Dennis has rented a threestory block and he occupies all of it There Is an army of clerks and stenographers and an array of men whose duty it is to make callers happy Everything is furnished up to the handle There are carpets on the floors handsome desks big comfortable comfort-able lounging chairs and desk Chairs and other things that cost money ll man who knows what it costs to run a campaign after a visit to Republican headquarters estimated that the committee com-mittee couldnt possibly get out for less than 15000 This is considered a moderate guess for anything the boys ask for they are getting Eichnor has a wad of bills in one drawer of his desk and enough coin to sink a skiff in another It is there for anybody and everybody who evinces the slightest desire for it |