Show Revelations as to fo Campaign Funds Certain to Be Helpful T Is s be beginning to dawn upon the people of oC the thc I IT United States that the presidential campaigns of or ortho S Slie the lie past have haye cost money money somebody's somebody's money Whether those who are arc becoming so excited labored heretofore un under ol the impression that all who did L anything for the thc various headquarters donated their services ices that printers obligingly lr gave campaign literature that speakers paid their own expenses that stenographers and clerks contributed their time for tor the good of the cause or whether some of ol S the agitation they arc are exhibiting exhibiting- Is merely assumed baffles comprehension A visitor from Mars lIstening listening listen listen- ing amazed to the discussions and reading with mouth agape the thc newspaper por reports of or what has been done and what is yet et to be done would fancy Americans to be the most gullible of mankind and the mOst absurd The effect of the tho exposures concerning the contributions contributions contri contri- of rich men to the tho campaign funds of oC the past and present cannot but be helpful to the purification purification puri purl of American politics despite the amusing 5 lengths to which the tho matter is going The results that ma may r be expected upon the political ambitions of oC oCr those who arc are concerned in the revelations must be r left to the thc future The unmaking unmaking- of reputations is isone isI isono ono one of or the recognized activities of ot our political and andI I I social life and the process will continue merrily until the end of time or at lea least t until the poop people Ie learn to separate the wheat from the chaff and to refuse to take at face value anything that is of offered to them b by r the oil oily tongue or conscienceless pen of the demagogue The public mind Is scarcely at this time in the proper condition of mental health to consider justly the stories which have been told concerning the campaign contributions of 1904 1908 and 1912 and the further facts that arc are to be he set forth The blatant blatant blatant blat blat- ant clamor of ot the demagogue Is heard in the land and the trend of oC his argument is to prove that he alone is honest and veracious and that every rich richman richman richman man is a thief and a liar tiar The number of or those who give Sho credence to these outpourings of or an overheated overheated over over- heated imagination is growing fewer and beautifully less each da day clay yet the company of oC those who can be befooled befooled befooled fooled all the time b by a hypocritical appearance of oC righteousness is la still sufficiently large to render that being being being be be- dangerous the inflammatory statements are ing scattered broadcast l by br those who should know better Public sentiment is righting itself an and is beginning beginning beginning be be- ginning to see that the tho conditions of oC the past are the fault of ot f no particular man or party l' l ly that the they were the natural outgrowths of a system that would woul better be bo c changed and that the people themselves wish vish to see changed The people are ale not dispo disposed e eto to acquit Colonel Roosevelt elt o of full fult knowledge l of the source of contributions to his campaign fund In 1004 The They know him to be a practical politician with all the strength and weakness of or that class and amI I consider him no better and no flO worse than he ho is HeIs lieIs He lie HeIs HeI I Is Is not adding to the defensibility of his attitude by bY professing ignorance of or those things of or which he should ha have been fully informed 1 l. l 4 4 X sharp contrast contra t with wilh the I treatment formerly accorded ac ac- ac- ac Marvelous I cor corded ed Salvation Arm Army soldiers sol sol- sol sol- Change in diers was the tribute paid to toS to S' S Sentiment ci en t. t imen t I the memory of General William Wilen Wil Wil- n- n liam Booth late commander of Public I I of the army at his funeral in fn Lon London on It is only a a. few n years ars since Salvation Army evangelists c were driven from the streets when they attempted to hold open air meet- meet Ings lags Thirty four thousand persons among them high civic and religious dignitaries attended the funeral of General Booth in the tho worlds world's metropolis This great slum slum- slum saving a religious organization ha has had a wonderful growth since it was started in b by William Booth then thirty six six years cars old and a Methodist minister who had won success as an evan evan- gelist He Hc recognized the fact that it was impossible to reach a considerable proportion of or the people inthe In the tho slums through the tho churches So he lie abandoned his church and went to them Thousands s of drunkards have ha been reclaimed b by this organization It is asserted that In England alone about fallen women are restored to lives 11 of virtue annually through its escue homes And there thero are other avenues through which the arm army directs ft its Ile energies It is estimated that there thero Is an attendance of not less than l persons each year at the Salvation Army meetings held In this country alone The funeral of oC General Booth was without ostentation ostentation osten osten- tation as befitted tho the simple life he le led Iso No o more imposing monument could be erected b by man than that which he has left in the work worle he accomplished 1 il I BRYANS BRYAN'S ap- ap Bryan Br F I Is s hi COLONEL upon the stump should not be taken as asan Playing in in an indication th that t he has at Democratic last Jast consented to play second Orchestra fiddle to Professor Wilson in inthe I I the Ue Bourbon orchestra that is isnow isnow now playing loudl loudly in or order er to I drown the discordant bra bray of ot tho the Democratic Jackass Much curiosity has been displayed ed as to the sage of or Lincoln's probable attitude attitude attitude atti atti- tude during the campaign the impression being general general gen gen- eral oral that tho the habit of being at tho the head of or the table could not easil easily be brol broken en by one who can now have no more than the second seat But Mr Br Bryan an has answered his critics an and presumably satisfied their curiosity by delivering a political address at atthe atthe atthe the Nebraska state fair tair said to be the first of a number Those who imagined that the Nebraskan l would forego th the opportunities for that applause which is isas isas isas as sweet incense to his nostrils betra betray a meager knowledge e of the thc Bryan Bran nature Idolized b by thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands for tor man many years the plau plaudits its of or audiences are areas areas ares as s necessary nry to him as they are aro to the matinee actor He is well welt aware that wherever ho ma may go he will willbe willbe be the center of attraction for tor his own party and that the professor although he ho Is the party's candidate can can- for President cannot inspire the 1 loyalty o t which still sUB burns in the breasts of or millions of or Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- cra ts for tor the man who led them to three disastrous defeats Let us hope that the Minneapolis pastor who predicts pre pre- lct the return of ot the fig leaf skirt for tor women omen Is not a true prophet Remember some home of or the days last winter sinter when the temperature was fifteen degrees degrees de de- de- de grees below zero r s A k Denver er preacher says it is s a sin to swat vat a tl fly But not all of ot us have the time to to- catch them and strangle them to death cleath I m Perhaps c everybody has hns observed that thc trust magnates brought to trial has has deemed deeme it ft nc es wy sary to call in the the a. a alienists J J |