Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1920 — MCCRAY CAMPAIGN EXPENSES [ARTICLE]

MCCRAY CAMPAIGN EXPENSES

Report Shows Surprisingly Small Sum —Who Furnished the Balance? A dispatch from Kentland under date of June 5 says: “Warrbn T. McCray of Kentland, successful candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of Indiana in primaries held May 4, spent $31,368.82 in his campaign, according to his report filed here yesterday with the Newton county clerk. The sum, according to Mr. McCray, includes the expenses of Fred B. Robinson, Lawrence E. Lyons and other political agents.”. Of course this report is required to be sworn to—the same as a tax assessment sheet —and it must be accepted as correct. However, if Mr. Toner expended $21,000 and Mr. Fesler over $60,000 in the campaigns made by them, it is astonishing that Mr. McCray got through his long and aggressive campaign tor the small amount given in his sworn statement. He had expensive headquarters in Indianapolis for many months and It is said that every county but two were organized for him. He had numerous assistant managers all over the state and many weeks’ work was put in by his henchmen in all the larger cities. In one of the district meetings during the recent Republican statu convention, one delegate charged a McCray worker of his district with bringing into the district thousands of dollars of another gubernatorial candidate’s money to help defeat a candidate for governor from that district, according to published reports in the Indianapolis papers, the assumption being that these thousands of dollars was “McCray money.” It is very evident that Mr. McCray must have secured bargain rates or else much of the cost of the campaign put up for him was paid for by other parties than himself.