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Show BOTH PARTIES REPORT ON ELECTION FUNDS O HAR0IN6 CAMPAIGN COSTS j ! TO EXCEED THREE MILLION; ! DEMOCRATS RAISE $878,831 I i i 'New York About the Only City, Giving Much Toward Election of Cox NEW YORK, Oct. 28. Total receipts re-ceipts by the Democratic national committee to October 25 for the con- duct of the preesnt campaign amount to $$78,831.24. according to an an- nouncement today by Wlibur W. Ifarehi the party's national treasurer. j This figure. Mr Marsh said, wosj today submitted according to the requirements of the corrupt practices law to the Kenyon committee Investigating Investi-gating campaign contribution-- and ex- pndltures In Chicago. The sum collected, th lfnioratie , treasurer stated, is constituted elmosjt I entirely of contributions to the cam-; I paign fund, with the exception of' 150,00p which was borrowed Other sources, which aggregated collections I of only few hundred dollars, in- eluded the sale of the campaign text book, refunds from adxertising, und, 'such small items. si in; st lis ' H I B TED The statement Itemizes moneys received re-ceived by the headquarters in New I York, Chicago and San Francisco uls I ; well as thf women's bureau. Of the total $660,481 .33 was collected in New 1 York, while San Francisco showed an ! aggregate fund of but IlbfiT.. The wo-' men's bureau was responsible for the collection of $sr.4i."0. Chicago col-1 lested S8. 041.51. Disbursement b the entire organiitlon up to the same' j time, as shown by the statement. amount to 8ft8,34B.09, with New York I bearing; by far the heaiest burden, Chicasjo a sum slightly less than Its, ; receipts and rian FrunclBco nJi expense i i pproxirnatel) i ipht times th amount ! yj, fin,0s KaoaLwad. Kupnlng the wo men's burenu for Lbe entire "nmpaign( u daiM com but $io3? so. the statement state-ment add- tMK)K OPJENED. A( count books of the tresurer's of- fice also shdw contributions up to j October as follows: Nat urai'.zed citizens' . bureau $.rjl 19; organization bureau $23-18 6". women's bureau $12,022.80: tree jrer's statis-tii statis-tii i! $1403.26; general $2210 10; pnb-; licit - $il 1.10.0.34 ; total commitments i $13H. 851. CP. In addition to funds already re-, celved, Mr. Marsh s statement included includ-ed a ineniorahcHiui to the effect that two individuals had pledged $25,000 each, to pay tho expanses of advertis- j ing books relating to the , league of nation Individual eontrlVitlons. Including that Of President Wilson for $500 and I Mrs. Wilson for $100, ranged from $12.500.by Thomas L,. Cliuiiuoumo, of; New Lork. to five cents by John Duncan, Dun-can, of Woodsville, N. fl Thousands I of contrlb itors are listed in the Demo-1 cratic statefnont. and Include persons' in all stations of life. i OX GIVES 5oOOo Governor i 'ox. Democratic candidate for president, contributed I6S0Q while his running mate. Franklin V. Roose-1 VOlt, gave $3000 Other contributions: included : William (-. M. Adoo $1000 August ' Belmont. New York. $S0O0, James W. j Gerard, former ambassador to Crer-' nian . $2000; John W. DaVla, ambassa- Idor to Great Britain. $1000; Bernard M. Barnch $j000; Alton B. Parker, onco Democratic candidate for presi-dent, presi-dent, $100. Vance C McCormlck. for-) mer ch.Lirman of the Democratic na-' nonal committee, $3500. Homer a. CummlngS, another former chairnxan, $6".2 r,6; Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, Ne-braska, $1000; Ralph r'ulltaer. pub-' lisber of the New York World. $1000, W L. Douglas, mlllionatre shoe rnanu-' facturer of Brookllne, Mass.. $3000, : Remembr-andt Baele. Canolltown Pa ' $10,000 Charles R. Crane, New York, j $7500; Francis Burton Harrison, go -ernor general of the Philippines. $5000, Cleveland H Dodge. New York, $5000 Thomas I Chadhourne. jr J $"500; Thomas Fortune Rvan ?5000 Allan A Ryan $5000; Nathan Straus $5000; Cyrus McCormick. Sr.. Chi-1 cago. $5000 Mrs. Crus McCormlck -V . $4000; Mrs. Franklin D Rooe-' velt $100 Ira Morris. Chicago. $5000., Many contributions of $500 each, were received to "match tho pre.si-dent.' pre.si-dent.' Mr. Marsh ald. uddlng that these subscriptions had materially increased in-creased the Democratic fund. oo Fully 50,000 Persons Contrib- j ute to Republican Committee, i Upham Report Shows CHICAGO. Oct. 28 The Republican national ommittee's campaign to elect Warren G Ilardinj; president will cost $3.442.8?2.32. Fred W. I'pharn. na-j tlonal treasurer of the party, notified I the senate committee appointed to in- j et:gate earn paign expenditures ln a' report filed with the committee here toda Of this sum, $3.U42.J2 32 had been spent up lo the close of buslnc.-s Sunday, Sun-day, uctober 24. and Mr. L'pham estimated esti-mated the expenditures in the closing wees of the campaign at fOO,000 additional. ad-ditional. The report shows that $301.-3S.1S $301.-3S.1S was .spent between October 18 When a report was filed with the clerk ot the house of representatives in Washington and October 2 4, the date of today's report. Bl lx. I l I l EDED The total estimated tost of the campaign cam-paign 13,442,893.82 is consld-rably in excess of the Republican budget of $.", 07?. 037. jo pre.-?. m.., i to the senate committee at a hearing berB last Aug ust. but Mr. 1 phani explained that the disbursements covered the period from June I t while the budget included only expenditures from July 1. About $200,- 000 was spent between June 14 and July 1, Mr. I'pham's office estimated, leaving the estimated disbursements from Jul 1 to November approximated approxi-mated 18218.000, iibout tljft.OOO In excess oCthe estimated budget. Contributions received since June 14 total $,31 vTOG.OS or SIJ.J,' - ' lesr, ithaii the amount expended, Mr l'p-ham's l'p-ham's re),or'. hows. Of the amount collected $1.793,554 .fi-i wti dexoled directly di-rectly to the national, Canipalgu under 1 the direction of the national committee. commit-tee. The remaining Ji. 121.14 9.5 1 was returned to the states, in which it ".us raised, in accordance with an agreement agree-ment whereby the national committee solicited all funds for boOi slato and national campaign purpose?. SOME GIVE Siooo. Since Mr. l'pham presented his last report to the senate comipJtieo here on August 3" In which he showed sixteen contributions exceeding the $1000 laid down by Chairman Will u Uas there have been sixteen such contributions fr-2in individuals and two from lubs, today's report shows. Yh" eighteen donation total $52,4 7Q . 56;and included: includ-ed: Hardinga 'oolldgc club Tulsa, Okla . $10,000; Hamilton Club, t'bl-..-,). $',.120 . James B. Smith. Sail K.-ancisco. $5000, S. G. Kenneth, Tulsa, ckla. $5000, William Sacks. Tulsa, kta. $2500; Percy K. Magee. Tulsa. ikla., $25o0. Thomas Vach, St. Louis Mo, $3500; ijeorge M Reydolds; Chicago, Chi-cago, $2000. Howaid and Hcdger. Aberdeen. Ab-erdeen. S. D.. $1500. Jqiui ( Gilllland. Tulsa, Ukla.. $1500. and It. S. Lewis, 1-argo. N D.. $1000 In sererul Instances members of the same famll nave given contributions of $1000 each. Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Crocker. San Francisco, and four other members of the Crocker family and four members of the Spreckela family. alAQ of San Francisco, are " this class HARDING OONTKIBIM l -s Senator Warren G Harding and Governor Calvin Coolldge. his running male, each gase $1000. as did Fred W Upham, the Republican nation il treasurer, and Charles p. Tali, ot Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, brother of ex-President Taft There are several hundred $1000 contributions. con-tributions. Mr. L'pham's office estimated there were approximate 150,000 contributors contribu-tors 'o the campaign chest. The smallest ontrlbutlons listed are of 86 ejents There are thousands of 25, 50; 7-5 cent and $1 donations. Kleven Chicago Chi-cago women give 6 2 cuts each. why. no one in Mr. L'pham's office knew. With his report Mr. l'pham filed a sworn affidavit answering a series of written questions put to him b the senatorial committee. The affidavit sets forth that ' the umount to be expended ex-pended by the national committee for the further purposes of the campaign does not exceed tne sun! ot $400,000 which Is the aggregate sum unexpended unexpend-ed of the appropriation provided for in II,. ,. . nf Ih.i nnmmillf i m ( N PAID ii 1. 1 B. The report shows no pledges of aid to make up any deficit that may exist after election, but the affidavit states that "the committee does, however, contemplate the continuation of its campaign for funds with which to discharge dis-charge Its unpaid debts." Answering Tne committee question "is there an agreement pertaining to the underwriting of obligations which ma be hereafter Incurred by the committee, com-mittee, or any of its officers or agents "' the treasurer said there way none. Jn response to another question, the treasurer .-aid "I know of no committee, associations, associa-tions, organizations or individuals who are contributing or who have promised or agreed to contribute to Ihe fu.an' UU aid and prosecution of the campaign for the election of a president, vice president or members of the United Stutes senate or of the hou.e of r.p-reOSntatiTCS r.p-reOSntatiTCS other than the Republican Republi-can national committee, tho national senatorial committee, the national congressional con-gressional committee and the individuals individ-uals who have contributed to the national na-tional committee and whose contributions contribu-tions have been detailed In the a-counts a-counts heretofore filed, except the regularly reg-ularly organized committees of the partv within the various stateis." |