Show CORRUPTION FUND Six million Dollars Will Be Spent to Put McKinley in the White House The following article is taken from the St Louis Republic one of the oldest old-est and most reliable newspapers in I the United States I Before it was finally agreed between i be-tween the chief men of the Republican Republi-can party to respond to the desire of I the bankers and the sentiment of the cast for the insertion of a clear demand de-mand for the maintenance of the gold standard in the platform they cast up accounts and reckoned what they could rU I It was agreed that in view of the unpopularity of the gold standard in the western states it would require a i eamsaiirn fund of 6000000 to put Ivlc Kinley in the White House The men j who were insistent upon the insertion j of the word gold in the platform were I asked what they could do towards rais j ing this fund The wires were kept hot Wall street was communicated with all the great centers of finance were hastily interviewed the representatives represen-tatives on the ground of the great moneyed concerns were asked what they had to offer And the responses were so satisfactory that Hanna and his associate managersif he has associate II as-sociate managers asssiited to the insertion inser-tion of gold I Mr Hanna is chairman of the national na-tional committee and he is to conduct the campaign on the same plane amplified I am-plified of course that he has heretofore I hereto-fore put in force during the campaign for the nomination The leaders figure I up that they could surely rely npon 155 electoral votes coming from these states Connecticut 6 Delaware 3 Maine 6 Massachusetts 15 New Hampshire 4 New Jersey 10 New York 36 Ohio 24 Pennsylvania 32 Rhode Island 4 Vermont Ver-mont 4 Wisconsin 12Total 155 it requires 224 electoral votes to elect the president It was thought that under the Hanna management and with plenty of money these states could I be captured Illinois 24 Indiana 15 Iowa 13 Maryland I Mary-land S Michigan 14 Minnesota 9total I t I These six states will be the battleground battle-ground They have 83 electoral votes I among them These 83 votes added to the 155 surely Republican votes make I a total of 238 This would be 1 votes more than necessary to elect The state of Michigan could be lost and still the Republicans would be successful or the states of Minnesota and Delaware could go Democratic if the Republicans win held Michigan and McKinley could winThe The managers concluded that with the probability of the Democrats declaring de-claring for free coinage at Chicago New York and New Jersey would be sure for the Republicans Maryland they regard as a doubtful state At any rate they put gold in the platform on the basis of the bankers and manufacturers manu-facturers raising the money to buy the votes of the states of Illinois Indiana Iowa Maryland Michigan and Minnesota Minne-sota This is the Republican scheme of conquest con-quest This is what the managers had in view when they concluded to commit the party irretrievably to the gold standard |