| Show CAMPAIGN expenditures for the reaper by frank P litschert we have heard a V gleat teal deal 0 of f in the past about republican party deficits but following the election of 1928 strange to say it is the democratic deficit which is occupying the most space in the newspapers according to reports the deficit now faced by the democratic national organization is something over a million dollars it is estimated that 1 in I order to be square with the wor world lot by the time the 1932 presidential campaign rolls around mr raskob or whoever has charge of the democratic committee will li have ave to raise nearly two million dollars some of it of course cours se going to current expenses according to reports the republicans received in lound numbers and spent so that thai they closed the campaign with money in the bank the democrats collected and spent which shows a surplus but it is said that in the amount deceived were the proceeds of three bank loans of each which will have to be paid so that there is really a sizeable deficit although a great deal of mon money cn was spent by both parties there b have ave been so far no charges of corruption it may be said in passing passin that it costs a lot more to conduct a campaign now than it lid did a few years ago there are many more voters to be reached with literature general expenses of all kinds are higher due to the natural increase in the cost of living and the radio entering the arena has cost the political organizations enormous sums though doubtless worth all it has cost each party it is ig said spent in the neighborhood of in broadcasting during the campaign just closed probably the next biggest expense which goes into making up the democratic budget is the GOO which the organization is said to have expended x through george N peek western farm politician who is said to have convinced the democratic officials that lie he could carry the farn farm vote for governor smith that mr peek was mistaken is evidenced by the election figures from the farm states and it is further evident froni from the results that the farmers have riot not lost faith in the tariff as a farm remedy there is no charge that the money given to mr peek was improperly used although it was a total loss so far as insults were concerned it is said that democratic leaders rely on mr raskob to raise the money moncy to take up the deficit and they point 11 to the fact that lie he has always been a i very successful business man and financier that mr raskob is confronted with a task of some proportions however is not denied had the democrats won the election thel the raising of money to pay the deficit would have been much easier as leading democrats would na naturally tural ly have b been een in a more enthusiastic and I 1 generous frame of mind the election having gone against the party however it is expected that the result will make the raising of funds all the more difficult the democratic party has at always ways displayed a great deal of vitality however even in defeat and it is this fact coupled with smiths big popular vote which give the leaders the most encouragement in fact the political gossips are already beginning to talk about the prospective democratic candidate for 1932 in washington prominent democrats of the district of columbia in in spite of the fact that al smith says he is out of politics have already gotten together in an effort to make the new york governor their standard bearer in the next campaign others have suggested the grooming of franklin roosevelt the democratic governor elect but mr roosevelt has another hurdle to jump in order to become a formidable contender for the presidential nomination he must be elected governor again in 1930 while the gover nor elect is popular upstate up state in republican territory he is regarded as anti tammany and will not get the tremendous new york city vote on which governor smith has always been able to depend the republicans are of course sitting on top of the world at present but they are being advised that it will not do for them to get careless as political sentiment sometimes changes rather rapidly the leaders declare however that they are going to try to write a new record of pros and efficiency one which will justify the tremendous sweep which they enjoyed in november |
