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Show ASKS COLONEL FOR EXPENSE ACCOUNT MADISON. Wis , July a United Slates Senator La Kollette, in a printed statement, today asks Colonel Roosevelt for tho second time to publish his expense ex-pense account, or else "a candid statement state-ment of his reasons for thus spurning one of the basic principles of public morality mo-rality and political decency." When La FoHdle made ptibllc a statement state-ment of his campaign receipts during the Ohio primary contest he called upon Roosevelt to do likewise. There has been no response. La Follctte says in pari: Big business, with big money derived de-rived from unfair privileges. Is ever In politics and ever Is ready to placo its funds back of a likely winner, who either is subservient, in the sense that a chisel Is subservient to the hand of the carpenter, or serviceable ser-viceable to the extent thl.t lie Is "harmless" In performance-Special performance-Special privilege puts money Into political campaigns by way of Investment. In-vestment. For such Investments it demands substantial rewards. It Is lo protect the public Interest from rewards such as these, conserved In twilight and consummated In secret, that the people demand publicity of campaign contributions. Theodore Roo.jcvII entered the contest con-test for the presidential nomination as a "progressive " He made a strenuous campaign for votes and a noisy scramble for southern delegates dele-gates 611 the ground thnt he represented repre-sented progressive doctrine. In this light he had the backing of the "steel trust" and the "harvester trust." Financial giants like Perkins, Ilan-na Ilan-na and Munsey contributed to his cause. Ills campaign was characterized charac-terized by a riotous expenditure of money. Yet he has made no public accounting. He has not taken the American people Into his confidence. I He has Ignored the progressive prln-1 prln-1 clple of publicity. |