Abstract

Editorials

The Republicans have admitted virtually every one of the Senator's charges about the attempt to buy the election. National Treasurer William V. Hodges admits that Pennsylvania's quota for the Republican campaign fund is $600,000, and adds that Illinois's is $400,000. The campaign manager, William M. Butler, admits that the total will be at least $3,000,000, but with the Pennsylvania and Illinois figures in mind it is difficult to take that figure seriously. It used to be reckoned that three-fourths of the campaign funds came out of New York City. The Republican National Committee admits raising and spending $1,714,317—and every one knows that the vast built of campaign expenditures, including the expensive full-page newspaper advertisements, come in the last month of the campaign.