Show HOW THE BATTLE IS FOUGHT 1 The efforts of Republican party to carry the election last year were tremendous tremend-ous and the amount of money that was I spent was enormous It was well known 1 1 i last year that the voluntary contribution J contribu-tion system was in vogu and that in the interests of good government only the I employes of the Government were called t upon to make voluntary contributions If to the Republican campaign fund and that they always responded They ret re-t sponded because the request for subscriptions r r I i subscrip-tions was equal to a demand accompanied 1 by a threat of dismissal The contributions J contribu-tions this year tire boiiis solicited on a different plan a plan devised to evade the law against Government employes being I j called upon to contribute to campaign I ti funds The telegraph brings an account of the new method It is i from the Headquarters Head-quarters Republican State Committee St i Cloud Hotel Parlor C Philadelphia and L is signed by Thos V Cooper as Chairman and is addressed to T Frank Miller I Pension Office Department of the Interior j Inte-rior Washington D C It is desired i that the subscription should be as liberal i oa possible in this respect being different from the regular per cent contributions in ti vogue last year Among the reasons tt which Chairman Cooper urges in favor of i a liberal subscription is this ono If the I Republicans of Pennsylvania win a decisive deci-sive victory this year it will prevent any agitation or disastrous change of the tariff by the incoming Congress and pave the way for the overthrow t of the Democrats ofthe State and National Administrations We propose to push the work of the State committee with the 1 I utmost vigor until election day At I 1 least there is something fresh and confiding t con-fiding in such a request and shows more f plainly than anything else that tho Republican f Re-publican party is still devoted to tho spoils system and the ways of the machine ma-chine and being still so devoted they 1l II desire to pave tho way for the overthrow r over-throw of tho Democrats of the State L I and National Administrations It is t I well that this letter of Chairman I f Coopers has been made public that tho people may know that the Ii Republicans are not so intensely bent on civilservicoroform as they protest This letter nhm shows how fortunate tho country coun-try was in its escape from the clutches of the master spoilsman James G Elaine No one doubts that had Elaine been elected in place of Cleveland that every employe of the Government who did not contribute often and so liberally to the campaign funds as he was requested 1 I I would have been dismissed the service I j no matter how competent or how faithful i t j t he might have been in the discharge of his official duties The whole system j i of requiring employes to contribute I i to campaign funds is wrong no matter by I i I whom nor by what party it is practiced 1 It is a system of espionage and bulldozing bulldoz-ing and that men whose support fort for-t themselves and their families is depend ont upon their salaries submit to it is i but f k natural and such men should not be branded as cowards The cowards are the men who having the power to deprive Jr de-prive a man of the means of earning a i livelihood use that power to oppress a 4 man and make him further their schemes S It is to be hoped that these men who f have been requesting early subscriptions It subscrip-tions may be punished and if any Democrats follow tho example of Chairman Chair-man Cooper of Penn may they be pun I S ti hed too I |