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Show J L CAMPAIGN FUNDS BA1SE0 BY HAYS ' . METHOD ' ' fl ' "Members of thu Itepubllcan Naff Na-ff Hossl committee who ro la a post-'1 post-'1 lion lo speak authoritatively, pro-J pro-J claim the complete success of the i S! . '' pttuT devised by National Chairmen ' j, l Hay for financing the 'coming Frej-S Frej-S i idmtlal. campaign "without accepting B V favors from rorpotatlons and wealthy P 4 individuals." HR ., .. ' The statement la interpreted to Eg raea that the favors hare already S 'f been accepted and1 la supplemented & Hk iBj.rqilttllr reliable Intelligent:) jj ":' that "there will' be' moaey enough to $ ri ' MX H legitimate expenses) of' the yi !-' -" battle on-hand the da? (he candidal H? ' ' selected by ;the'Chlcago convention. EL ,. $.' Tfwre Is oo reason to doubt It. '-For.llir" month agents' of the con i mitte have benn appearing before ' .ritupn of bitalni-Ha'men and soliciting ,j 3 from wealthy! Individuals ontrlbil- & I loo limited to r,000 from eaeh - classified Industr and "fl.OOO from . ,' any . Individual. Just what la the Bat aggregate, amount of money actual!? '' raised to date and turned over' (o . Af i thn finance committee of the nation- L ' committee in uncertain. Tho mo.U. S ' ;)'. , definite estimate to be obtained It F ; i. i that. "It exceeds $2,000,000. and tun..1 ' Ro to K, 000, 000." WILL TKM, 6tf IlKi DONKKH flP ' " When he announced his scheme ' '-y for recruiting the sinews of poljtlcu! fC-, "warfare tho national .chairman .pa.1,1 ,J' ho would make public nmioiincmnnnc lt ' , imnicdlatoly after (lie uomlnntlon of y r. U" 'prcaldentlnl'caldldate at Clilcx- , ' fco o'r the full amount collected aM Si..'. ' he nume.i of tlio larger contrl- i ;;,h'- '; . The money will b dlabumod, n( ftkr'--. course,' ' under the direction of. th) 5 Jfiffi. national committee, of which Mr. VI m " 1Ura pro,,1,,,1 ,,t"1 uo continued i3 1 ftM " clialnuan. His nguntM have attaurcd Hjjr M "II contrlbutorn that '"not one ilol- I ' Ir has been" or will bn expended l.( i I.. rramotlng thu ,lnteruHl of any con !f" "MjK' leader for the nomination." No ort- ' W-j dnt to the contrary la available, fx iM though Individual members of tho ' ' m committee has not only worked in & if':" brloe- about the indorHement of their . I, . i . r rrepectrre' f ayorte,'btil"' ttre ioi tributed liberally to the" fund's" oaed In dolnp so. . ' ' 4. i , Some of the old' timers have viewed view-ed the Hays plaa for floaoelag,. tbn. presidential campaign as A'Mt -of Inoffensive, In-offensive, altruism thai might "oaae the burdewon,the.pM,'lrellable metl tickets who arc, nlwara called on toward to-ward the vq.4 of Klght, bat that can. not be expected to raise all we Heed" Mr. Hays and his advisers bc4d contrary Oplolpn,r Thear do not jss. that "all ths money, needed sj ajsrev Identlal canipolf n, wlllbo. actually on hand the dav after the Chkago Cpo; Teatlpn,"but hoy,do sathftjenongU will bo pledged to overeomfl objec; tlons and criticisms of method that have been In rogue half a century airt which, they say. will be discarded, discard-ed, ' By this, ja, meant, thatjlheni will be no "passing' p? xtt?.?bt'L.la f.n street sndj among ths corporations at tho start and. thejr. 'hope. at. h' finish of the flghl,. ., ,,. T': The leaders of both sides sgre3 that the high cost of everything !wn extended to politics and that . cre-U. deal more money will be required to place the case pf each party befqrq the people of the country tnan err before.. The, primary campaigns oov advancing to the final stage furnish vlnclng proof, of tho tact.. Whllo there Is no way of actually determining determin-ing thn cost of complying with tho eccentricities of the various primdry laws,, at. least Jl,OpO,Q00 probabl, has been spent by the score or more aspirants for the Iftpubllcan, ajiil Democratic no)ilnatlon, (he outlay of the financial syndicate promoting the canvas.qf Onueral Leonard Wood belnK-Kenernlly estimate at .one-halt .one-halt but sum .an apparenty .cpnscjr-Yatlvp .cpnscjr-Yatlvp estimate. ,, v, ,. ., . . j. The' campaign, to follow, the nominations nom-inations will he easier. to handle, lo far as the candidates are. conccrnejl. The financing yll be. attended li by the national committees and llL candidates probably-wjll know, HI l( (or nothing of (he qctual details ni theory, folate cqmmlttees. will pay ";i large percentage of the, cost of th national fight, because it will help I their local Interests. The Hays plan for rounding np the money with which to fight for tho presidency was designed with two objects In view: Tho first an-l most important was to re'move the Veil "of s4erethatlwijriT''lnVeta the financing of politic! campaign. psnioolarhj'.tbe.Kepubllcainj which It always credited' to-'secreL coatrlbu-tioas coatrlbu-tioas of "Big Business? aad wealthy men who hope to beaeftt la tho ev-eat ev-eat of stteeess. " hassa fvitd AMOtiT s.eee.oee The McKlnley csrapalg'o fun-l. raised by the: lata Mark, Haaaafna estimated by persona who claimed to know to hare exceeded. $8,000,000, fa, the coatcst aft veeatbe, late Col. Roosevelt aad Alloa D. Parker, la 1911. the. late K. H. "Harrlmio dumped $250,000 Into the New Ydrt stntn campaign in the last week aad Incidentally, won twice; aa. much .by betting on the Colonel and. Mr. Hlg-gins, Hlg-gins, the candidate for governor. Tho 'WlUoa Hughes coatesf fpur years g& cost each side $1,090,000 aad was uot regarded aa aa.expettatr venture by either. 'But there Is even' ev-en' reason to credit the; statsmeoU of "the exBerU of. the preseat day that atilsJs tcprag,,td'b. a costly fight:' All signs polat to It. j So far as can be figured, theOem-ocrata theOem-ocrata bare no inooeytto apeak of; nor hare they devised so aUborato and apparently satlsfaetory a aiao for feting aay as bare their rivals. It Is true of course that the army of officeholders, through the favor of the Wilson administration, wilt.attest their loyalty In a substantial manner man-ner but the results from thla.aour.vs or supply' are speculative and will bo governed by tho developments of the campaign. V Wilbur Marsh, the Iowa member I of the Democratic national committee ndoted n plan something like that put into operation by Itcpubllcan Chairman Chair-man Hays and considerable money was raised under It a couple of?yeain ago. There 'Is probably some Jet. At present It Is easier lo raise monq for Itepubllcan than Democratic partisan par-tisan purposes because of thp gene--ally prevailing opinion that tho -He' publicans stand the best chance or electing their presidential ticket. TOOK DOVGHBAG BVFOUKMWK That impression mar be. changed by subsequeut eventst or may not hi At any rate., the admirers ofMifv Hays contend that ho has "takea the doughbag by the forelock" as )t wera and will hare less trouble In raising money and need less than had h displayed less prescience. Ho probably pro-bably will hare eonugh to meet any demands .eren If luck should rua against his ticket. The manner In wlilch tho contributions contri-butions were solicited by the Republican Repub-lican national committee was mojt systematic ant thorough. Kach sta. was divided into dlstrictH, the im chlnery devised to exploit Liberty war loans and Ited Cross and othe" "drives" being used. Cities like New York were divided Into zones, trndij, Industries and professions, organized Into groups, each headed by a ma.j I of recognl.ed Htandlng and high ! cal prominence In the llepublllrsui (' partv An agenl of the national commit I tee wob sent to the meetings or those I groups to explain the Hnys plan ani I answer questions. JMfly per cent of I the amounts contributed at thfti I meetings was to be psld over to thi I finance committee of thtf national I com ml fee 'at once and the other half Immediately after the nominations c t when called. A pledge was glreu In each Instanco that none of tho money j contributed berore tho nominating eoventlpns would be used In'tho nominating nom-inating campaigns. Louis Seibold 'm tho No York World (Demi) May' U. 1920. |