Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 7, 15 November 1908 — Page 13

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PAGE TWELVE.

PROHIS HAVE ! HOVEL IDEA

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Lead Way for New System of

Campaign Contributions.

PARTY MEMBERS GIVE.

FOR NEXT FOUR YEARS MONEY WILL BE TURNED INTO GENERAL CAMPAIGN FUND TO BE USED NEXT ELECTION.

Washington, Nov. 14. The prohibitionists have given the country a new Idea in. the, matter of campaign contri

butions. One thousand members of that party have pledged themselves to pay Into the party treasury a certain um each year for the next four years. This means that the prohibitionists will beerin- their next national cam

paign with a nucleus of $2,000 toward an adequate campaign fund. The idea has interested prominent ... , j t W7V.tr

repuDiicans anui ueuiuunio. "j they ask, should not the older parties begin now raising funds for the campaign of 1912? A high official of the administration, who has had much ex

perience in the collection of campaign funds, is enthusiastic over the idea. It ought not to be difficult, he declared, to find 10,000 republicans who would pledge themselves to pay $10 a Tear: 20.000 who would pay $5 a year;

60,000 who would pay $2 a year, and 100,000 who would pay $1 a year. This

would mean an income or $4uu,uuu aj year. The collection of the money, of course, would Involve a lot of clerical work and considerable expense and it would be necessary to maintain a considerable force of employes at Permanent party headquarters. The ost of the headquarters, the official figures, would be in the neighborhood &f $100,000 a year, but there would remain more than a million dollars in the party's war chest with which to fcegin the campaign of 1912. ' If both parties were to adopt this Inethod, the scandal of campaign contributions would be at an end. It would help then, if congress would pass a law requiring each party to jnake a financial statement on, say, ihe first day of July of each presidential year, forbidding the acceptance of ( iontributions after that date and for(idding also the contracting of oblivions beyond the ability of the comuittee to pay out of the total amount mblished as its campaign, fund. Unler thia system not only would the amnaien managers know just how

iiur-h they were going to have to

IiMnd but the public also would know,

And campaigns would be cleaner than

I . 1 V. a n(ict

Iney ever nave uccu iu iuo )'' As the two great parties are approx

jmately equal in numbers neither Vonld have any marked advantage un-

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per mis system, mm . i-j uik-j

,ould : be an accompanying feature with probably official audit of each farty's books, the scheme ought to put In end to the quadrennial cry that predatory wealth was debauching the : lectorate. v. , It would be interesting to know

jiow mucn money was tsrem. nf the camDaisn ended last

Tuesday. The total should include, of course, that expended by all national, congressional, state, county and local committees and personally by candidates both before and after their

nominations1 and by. seekers of nominations who failed to get them. No doubt the grand total of it would be absolutely staggering; but as there is no possibility of such information being forthcoming so the public will be spared the blow. a 1 .1,1 a iri1iiah!A 1M r

statistical information to know the average cost of being elected to congress and of holding a seat there. At the time the salaries of congressmen

v raised from $5,000 to $7,500. a

voteran member of the house express

ed the opinion that the average mem

ber did not have $2,500 a year left out

of his old salary of $5,000. In other words, that it took half his salary to secure and hold his scat. The London Spectator not long ago published th statement that It cost members

of the British parliament from $5,000 to $10,000 to hold their seats. As no salary attaches to membership in the

British parliament, the sums repre

sent a pure outlay for the honor of serving in that body. The use of mon

ey in parliamentary elections in t-ng

land is much more flagrant than in

conerresslonal elections in this coun

try. There la no apportionment according to the population and some of

the. rinstitunties have only a nana

ful of voters. Some of these small constituencies have been debauched

for so many years that votes have a

fixed and well-recognized price. No

man has any hope of being elected to

parliament who is not able and war

ine to nav the price.

The matter of raising campaign

funds is coming in for a lot of atten

tion just now, and numerous sugges

tions as to methods have been made.

President , Roosevelt and some of his advisers are known to have favorably

considered a plan under which the na

tional committee would look to the

state committees for its .funds; the

state committees looking to the coun

tv committees, and the letter to what

ever minor organizations the county

mav haoDen to be divided into.

This plan, however, was open to a

number of serious objections. The as

'sessment against the state could not

be made on the basis of population,

for in Iowa there are ten or twelve

times as many republicans to look to for funds as there are in Georgia, though the population of the two ! intAt.es are approximately the same. On

the other hand, were the assessment

made according to the party vote in

cor.Vi state wrvii Idn't there be a ten

dency amone the republicans of Penn

sylvania and democrats la lexas w e.nt down instead of build up the par

ty majorities? The question in all its

phases is a perplexing one, but mere

is almost unanimity of opinion tnai

some solution ought to be found be

fore another presidential election.

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MRS. RUSSEL SAGE HAS

FAMOUSJNCESTOBS

Ancestral Home Built by Wm.,

The Conqueror.

New York, . Nov. 14. Wm. Henry

Whittemore of 678 Argj'le Road,

Brooklyn, has just completed a gen

ealogical record of Mrs. Russell Sage's

ancestors, which tends to show the

ancient lineage and high standing of

her mother's family.

Through the Dukes of Sandwich and Manchester Lady Mary Wortley Montague and the Duke of Salisbury,

Mrs. Russell Sage claims connection with the progenitor of those great

families. Drogo de Monte Acuto, a

warrior in the train of Robert, Earl of

Mm-etnn. durinc the conquest. The

famous castle. Battle Abbey, which

was built by William the Conqueror,!

in commemoration of the battle 01 Hastings, is the ancestral home of Mrs. Sage. These bioe:raDhical facts will be

published in book form next year and ,

distributed among the libraries and Mrs. Sage's friends. It is a costly volume, beautifully bound. Mrs. Sage has spared no expense in the matter

of contents and covers.

The Rev. Robert H. Dunaway of the

Second Presbyterian church has received $200 to add to the building

fund of the new Presbyterian church I

that is being erected in Earlham Heights. This makes a total of $700

for the building fund. Mr. Dunaway

stated that a large per cent of the

money had been given by Indianapolis people and the additional $700 or SSOO will be secured in Richmond. It

is planned to make a personal can

vass in the near future, it is tnougni

the solicitors will meet with but lit

tle difficulty owing to the generally

recognized advantage of a church in

the extreme western portion oi me

city.

At. Dresent there are some sixty

families within a half mile of where

the new church is being erected and before services were held in the ,

school house near by, these people j had no chance to attend services without coming into Richmond. The

Sunday school attendance is from sixtv to seventy and at the church ser

vices the average attendance is be

tween forty and fifty, which is very good for the percent of the people in

this neighborhood.

The building has already been start

ed. The foundation has been put in and is made of cement. From the

level of the ground to a height or four feet cement blocks are used. The

building will be about fifty-five feet

square. The first floor will have two large rooms and the basement will

be fitted up as one large room. It is

hoped that the new building will ne

completed before next March. The people in the district are showing a

great interest, in the new edltice.

Literary Difficulties. "She has been talking about writing

a novel for years," said one woman. "Yes," answered the other, "but I don't think she'll ever get it completed. She has followed the plan of those authors who study their personal acquaintances for types of character.' "Isn't the method a good one?" "Not in her case. When her husband refuses her anything she wants to put him in as the villain, and when he does as she wishes she wants to make him the hero. It keeps her continually rewriting the first chapter." Washington Star.

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