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' COST OF ELECTING PRESIDENT. i.*Estimated That Over $50,000,001 Will Be Spent in 1916 Campaign. w Fifty million dollars, at lowest estimate, will be spent in 1916 on oui quadrennial political jag, says th* New York Herald. It is a moderate estimate, for, by being a little fai fetched, it could be doubled. It may indeed, amount to a cool hundrec million. ' * - 1 ?mil. But a totai sxpciiuuuic ua mij uin lions means an expense of $3.50 pei voter and 50 cents per capita for th? entire population. It can be defended on the Tom Reed theory that this is a fifty-million-dollar country. Laws of recent years enacted bj congress and most of the States requiring the filing of sworn statements of the origin and disposition of campaign funds have lately for the first time in the history of the nation made available fairly accurate data on the high cost of politics in this country. Politics come highest in presidential election years, not only because of the large expenditures of the national committees, but because three fourths of the 100,000 and more elective officers?national, State, county and municipal?are fill ed at or about the same time, mdeed, scarcely more than 5 per cent, of the total cost of politics for the ? country as a whole this year will be ^ borne by the big party committees. - Some 200,000 individuals are now, ' or soon will be, seeking offices in the ' United States. All will spend some money, and money will be spent by others for a great many of them. There will be several thousand "campaign committees" of various kinds and quality. The taxpayers directly will have to take care of the largest single item of expense, that for the election machinery. In New York State alone the cost of registering the voters and conducting the November election will be about $2,500,000. For all the States it will amount to not less than $25,000;000. Several hold their State elections on dates other | than for selecting a president; one, T Maine, has a different day for choosing representatives in congress. This makes the election machinery almost doubly costly in those States. Most of the town and city elections, which p j, will take place in three-fourths of all , the municipalities this year, will be on other dates. / If you were to add to the direct expenses the indirect losses caused by ''election year," such as the dep.ressing effect on business and the loss r from industry of the time of the thousands who will give several months of their time to politics !>) alone, not omitting the celebration of election night?a half million dollar item in New York city alone?in ?jJ:V other words, if you were to figure the "cost" as many figure that of the 5 European war, the expense of our leap year political exercises would . reach a total of more than a half-bilgh lion dollars. Some of the election reform legisfe'" lation of late years has tended to i lower the high cost of politics, while other legislation has increased it. The necessity for filing statements ot expenditures, now almost universal, makes candidates and committees more circumspect in soliciting and disposing of funds. In quite a number of instances expenditures are limited by law, and to exceed the legal maximum disqualifies the guilty candidate and makes committeemen subject to indictment. The extension of the primary election idea has increased the expense because it necessitates an extra election and forces many candidates to make two popular campaigns where one sufficed before. About half as much money is spent in the pre-convention as in the post-convention contests. The expenses of the national committees of the two big parties rarely fall below $2,000,000, and frequently go beyond $5,000,000 in a presidential year. It is generally admitted that the Republican national committee of 1896, under the leadership of Mark Hanna, first made "the roof the limit" in spending money. The funds used to elect McKinley have been es# timated at from $3,000,000 to $7,AAA AAA Thpv nrnhnhlv wprp npar V r est the last figures. However, memoranda left by Cornelius N. Bliss, who was treasurer of the committee, indicate that the funds passing officially through the committee's hands aggregated only $3,500,000. According to the same data the fund employed to reelect McKinley in 1900 was a "trifle below" $3,000,000. The Republican national committee usually disposes of the most funds. But some Democratic national committees have been supert spenders. In 1892 not less than $2,000,000, perhaps a great deal more: was used in electing Cleveland, all ol whose races were engineered by men who were adepts in raising and generous in contributing political funds There are no authoritative data or Democratic expenditures except foi the campaigns of 1908 and 1912 1 when the expenses of the committee 1 approximated $1,000,000 for each r > year. George B. Cortelyou, who was I chairman, is authority for the state- r . ment that the Republican national c committee disposed of a little more c > than $2,000,000 to elect Roosevelt in I i 1904. The election of President Taft s in 1908 cost nearly as much. c There are good data on all the i [ campaigns of 1912 both before and 1 following the cenventions. 1 Those who sought the Democratic i . nomination that year did so at a to? tal cost, in round figures, of $450,- i . 000, divided as follows: j Woodrow Wilson $202,000 j Champ Clark 50,000 i r Oscar Underwood 52,000 I . Judson Harmon 146,000 c The campaigns of Taft and Roose- c { velt for the Republican nomination c ? cost $100,000 or more, and the sum t L was divided about equally between 1 L them. c . Statements filed by all the commit- c tees of parties running presidential . candidates in 1912 show receipts and t . expenditures as follows: r , Disburse- I j Receipts ments. t Rep'b'n $1,076,391.51 $1,071,548.57 0 Demo. .. 1,159,440.33 1,134,848.00 ! Prog 676,672.73 665,500.00 d . So'l'st .. 54,580.96 66,597.82 f National politics so far this year 0 , have been rather inexpensive as com, pared with the preliminaries of 1912. I It is safe to predict that between $3,- C 000,000 and $4,000,000, and possi- p bly a great deal more, will be dis- t posed of in aiding the free and un- S trammelled voters to select a chief | o magistrate. But, as stated, the money employ- ti ed directly on behalf of the presiden- A tial candidates is a bagatelle as com- n ^ pared with the total cost of "election $ year." p Some idea of the individual expenditures by candidates can be gained b by the fact that candidates for con- ti gress spent a total of $138,566.88; o The expenses of committees and candidates as above did not include s municipal contests or preliminary r races. If everything could be includ- s ed the total probably would reach v $4,000,000 more. That for an off s year, socalled. o Further light on the subject of ex- fi penditures, aside rrom and in addition to those for the promotion of s; presidential candidacies, may be gain- p . ed from the statements filed by men r who were candidates for United si States senatorships in 1914, the first ti time federal senators were chosen by c ,popular vote. Only one-third of the senate was e chosen that year, yet candidates for h the thirty-odd places managed to get ii rid of $460,775.25 in impressing their senatorial qualifications on the fi voters of 31 States. 1 And half of it was their own c money! The rest was contributed by I adherents. t< Percapita expenditures averaged u $3,074.63 for Democratic and $2,- il 852.44 for Republican candidates. If t: all the senate had been up for elec- t tion the filling of 69 $7,500 jobs ? would have involved campaign ex- si penses of $1,384,000. a Large as the figures seem, in all t: probability they represent less than $ one-half, possibly less than a third, of the actual expenses incurred by or v on behalf of candidates for places in r the senate. c While the method of using and d raising campaign funds on a large o scale is of modern invention, the n "campaign fund" as an institution is as old as popular government itself, i: Sir Robert Walpole was probably a b greater genius than Richard Croker b in handling such funds. He didn't p hesitate in using even public money for paving the way to Westminster i: for his adherents or for keeping p them his adherents after they reach- t ed parliament. n John Wilkes, while boasting vocif- d erously that he had never taken or t would never give a bribe, was paying 50 pounds a head for Berwick n freemen, who failed to elect him, p and 7,000 pounds in bulk for Ayesbury, which he won. Even the gov- a ernment could not outbid him. t Lord Chesterfield wrote that bor- t ough jobbers quoted him parliamen- o tary seats at from 3,000 pounds to e 5,000 pounds, and at a much later c date places in the English parliament g were advertised for sale openly in r | the public prints. d The noted "spendthrift election" i . in the county of Northhampton, England, cost three noble lords a total of c 1,500,000 pounds and broke the two t that lost. C i "Among the items of a bill of elec- E tion expenses incurred by George * . Washington in 1757 are one hogs- c ; head and one barrel of punch, 35 gal- * . Ions of wine and 43 gallons of hard ^ , cider," says Prof. Henry Jones Ford . in his "The Rise and Growth of Amer- ? ican Politics." t ' t In the early days of American polil tics, though candidates were put to - heavy expense for entertaining, the c . campaign fund in the modern sense . t was virtually unknown. 1 The committee which directed ^ , Abraham Lincoln's first race spent # I ess than $1,000, though his second ace cost $200,000. Grant's first campaign marked the )eginning of large campaign funds in lational elections, but Samuel J. Tillen, who most perfectly of all American public men had great genius for )Oth practical politics and statesman;hip, discovered the modern method )f organized begging and spending nirsued by the party committees. 3ut it was left to Mark Hanna and rViAnioc r Piatt tn nerfprt thp H nethod by adding "fat frying" de- I rices and adopting spending meas- I ires Napoleonic in their boldness. B The day of the "big beggar" has I >assed, as late publicity compels cam- I jaign managers to depend for the I >ulk of their funds on the very public I m whom they are spent. In the old I lays when a campaign lagged some I me with talent for "shaking down I he plum trees" was appealed to, and fl le would grab the telephone and ex- B :hange conversation for $10,000 I ihecks. I Marshall Jewell, when chairman of I he Republican national committee, I aised $170,000 in a single day in B Boston, and Levi P. Morton once did fl letter in New York by raising. $300,- fl 00 in the same length of time. I The "big giver" also has seen his fl [ay. Committees are afraid to touch fl or contributions larger than $10,- B 00. ? A dozen men, including William I j. Scott, William C. Whitney and fl )liver H. Payne, gave out of their I rivate funds a total of $1,000,000 B o the Cleveland campaign of 1888. I irntt ic Raid tn hav? sriven S250.000 B f it. William K. Vanderbilt is supposed o have contributed $150,000 to the IcKinley campaign of 1896. A beevolent savings organization voted 25,000, to the same campaign "to rotect its depositors." Thomas F. Ryan was one of the est "givers" of late years. He viruallv financed the Parker campaign f 1914. He first gave $100,000. Many, however, give out of pure porting impulse or for sentimental easons. Some even give substantial ums anonymously, and widowed romen of means have been known to end checks for as much as $10,000 ut of pure and unalloyed sentiment or the party or candidate. "The work of collecting the funds," ays George B. Cortelyou, of the Reublican campaign of 1904, "was caried on by a force of 700 or 800 perons scattered throughout the counry, with organized bureaus in large ities." A subscription book scheme workd beautifully in that campaign and ? elped to induce some 4,000 different im v iuuaio iu wuuiuure. Perhaps the most popular of all unds was that raised for Bryan in 908. More than 100,000 persons ontributed. One man?Ewing, of Llinois?collected $3,000 in five and en cent pieces. Many other individals and some newspapers raised sim Ar funds, and many thousands conributed to the fund of a little more han $1,000,000, which was raised, lowever, the contribution was necesary after all. Several gave as much s $10,000, and Herman Ridder, reasurer of the committee, gave 37,000. National campaigns are organized rith infinite care and detail for both aising and dispensing funds. Though ollecting the "dough" calls for skill, iplomacy and ingenuity, getting rid f it most efficaciously demands a auch higher order of genius. A campaign headquarters is organsed as perfectly as the offices of a ank. But that is for detail. The ig work is done by men capable of olitical generalship. Campaign managers must be quick n discerning weak spots in the oponents' line-up and must attack hose spots with boldness and alertess. They must keep up a perfect efensive and anticipate attacks from he "enemy." A political campaign is run very tiuch on the same underlying princiiles as a military one. Managers must be original and, ,bove all, quick in decision and acion. They have little time to invesigate and are tormented by hordes f would-be advisers and petty graftrs. No two political fights can be onducted iri the same way. A slo;an never survives a contest, and arely does an issue. The public [emands novelty in its politcs ana nsists on being surprised. The other day when the Roosevelt ommittee sent 82,000 telegrams in o Massachusetts, at a cost ot $zz, 00, more good probably was accom>lished than would nave been done >y the expenditure of twice as much in speakers and literature. For the elegrams were novel and dramatic. ? rhey "went home." ^ Mark Hanna was a great political general. In 1896, twro weeks before he election, he became convinced hat Iowa was lost to the Repub- 1 icans. It was too late to save it by he usual campaign methods, so he lecided on a personal canvass?that ~ s, to have every voter visited in per- Be( ion. The understanding required Tr (Continued on page 7, column 2.) j ORE, SPECIAL CLEA FOR FIFTEEN BEGINNING SATUR AND ENDING SATU DURING THIS FIFTEEN DAYS SAL TICLE WE HAVE IN OUR LARGE ? This is your opportunity to buy goods, c-le fice from regular price. If you contemp] season now is your chance to do it at a grc sold a whole lot of goods this season, bu1 dise yet on hand, entirely too much for all the room in our store to fill up with fal start to come in. We must make room goods must go regardless of value. We goods back, or to point out to you a few each and EVERY ITEM IN OUR STOP during this 15 days sale. We have enouj wants. Shoes and slippers of all kinds and children, in all leathers, canvass' whi clothing. A special lot of Palm Beach Si The latest in dress goods, shirt waists,, ski broideries, silks, hats, ribbons, men's an( the line of notions, all go at Sacrifice Sal more you buy fro mus during this sale hats in our millinery store during this 15 Remember the Sale Starts Saturday, July H. K A * ' EHRHARDT, S. 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