| Show r nn CORRUPTION FUNDS AND THEIR USES USE Ambrose In lost I think I can understand And feel 1 some Bum with th the indignation of tIm man who h out the corrupt Ul ot Of meney b defeat his political Jarly It is III 1 a righteous True the mass ll not commonly kno know Anything about shet h he OUt ut un less ho he has hns himself taken some ot of the mone money s 0 Men In who us money corruptly are rogues but bul Q aIt rule not fools except the general sense nse that all rogues are I for tor tso no is III greater than that ot of dishonesty I the rascal nl who tries to cArl carry on an election by the iilo use ot of Inane money Is a dunce ot of magnitude but Indubitably his stupid stupidIty Ity lOA does not Ond expression In taking Into Inlo hi Isis confidence anybody but the per perSons Ju Juson Sons son who get rt the tho mon money And lId these thole do donot not tell How then hen excepting In rare instances lit planned or con n under pressure do the others I her know phout It Il They do not they Ihy merely suspect Almost all the talk of 01 the th purchase of votes and 50 0 forth has hAIl no foundatIon In known fact I do nut not say a that the tact flirt not nol exist ani only that It its I is III NI eel dom known to the who it if reo se to make Rood good hi he might lit be it If he had not the to be rather be missed fur for fura fora a season on from his customary ment The corrupt use ot of mone money to carrin carry an fh election is III a thing easy to It I is tile of f Ih the anti handiest argurn rn n against the opposing Anybody ran can Itse It no thought no kno 50 mental ability II is rf re required It Is III as serviceable to III the po hued peasant al a to the scholar holar and statesman Like ball bad end and those ugly nicknames which have havo nO II I personal approprIateness U ft I fre to lo all and nd like them hat has the merit of oC a general w b bUti Ills Uti it II for a as effective use Ule Against the i of one political IlIn artY as al I of another It II I is a dead ded cat eAI that Ihal fin any can an fling Into any ny crowd I say I cats and 1111 the indIgnation of a mn mats making that lie be is sin sincere cere r Whal J I do not understand I Is hi amazing choice or of a political parI party upon Ui n which to empty the vials of r hIs hili wrath he Is III always mall mad at al th the thes s rung on one It Ie be will 11 have good tood goodness n ness to III loan 1011 ml me hi his I will try Iry tu to m nII this II as dear clear to him all as the use UM lit of words of more than on one sills Iia bit wIll III permit Lt Let t OIl nie be frank The Th advantage of these thell remarks If the IIII ha have any will nf arll to 10 the part That ThaI has the mot most money abl the largest cam am campain pain funI That ThaI Ihl fund Is as great or lr nearly op grea s a tenth part III as great a as Ih the Im IHli i lit I i ant speakers fa say It ItI Itis I is thor t I I reason s I to sup poe n Th gentlemen have II fop es In eli 11 the I 4 jf t r I I them In It Its amount arI rt t of the books book which m might nil h Ih theft m to 10 state it II rl if Iho they w t to 10 and they or art In nt no I n d f Ils proof roof Ih thee It II i bp be I rail indeed Jr If dId not nol to tl II fly lIh a arc rc and In Nor fr 0 or rJ I they h In I if r any r that the motley ii II used or I Is t I he used uNdo I snore mort corruptly t than Ihan Ih the fUll foal I ot of own Patty is an u ump ton Uon bated based upon what whal they conceive to be the 10 lot morality or o those whom they believe to contribute most or of the anti AmI those honl they know to 10 handle It II For the purpose of 01 Ihle thi article If let I UY ti admit the truth ot of the assumption that th the mone money Is mainly contributed by th the wicked tru trusts ts and expended In such luch rascally ways a as the corruption of oC the press and nd th the purchase of votes to what class of editors and will it II naturally Jo go To Surl Surely Senator nanna and hi his pUce bad lIntl men as 88 I con concede d them to tobe tobe be a are not nol so 0 foolish liS eg to purchase I what will come to them without price stupidity of Is hard hardly I II so and as that Ibl When Hanna seeks purchasable vol volens 01 ers ens he will not go among voters whom lie he dot does not nol need to pUl purchase hue still he ha It If hi he bribes enough men to carry the presidential election tilt they will ta III mostly Democrats will they not Now Ness NessI I fancy all will that thai there Is II no moral difference between giving a bribe and amI accepting on the la law with its tendency being lb the work of lawyers to tine lint and Ind fanciful makes makell no distinction between them If Is 1 a felony and I is a brIber anti and th the bribed ar are impartially In danger If hell tint nn One Is as al great 1 a scours fl th the other Now not many men mets ar are engaged In handling u a campaign fund fun corruptly not nol many if f its contrIbutors have han guilty kno of oC It U use If Ie it II reo re ll II a million Republican rogues to buy the votes 01 of a DemocratIc rogues on one might SA ea the hono honore were wre easy Hut But that I is not nol so 10 we 1 all know that 11 or of sovereign n ell electors are re purchased th Ibl sellers ar are man and the buyers burno tw fast lust hM follows This Thill The severest Indict ment that Ibal one can lIn dra draw against ones onell own parI party is III ii Ih the other party parI of havIng ann on an by Ih the cot cor corrupt rupt UI use of money mony There Ther could lit be no corrupt tiN tie ot of money but bul for the Ihl lIre lence of rascals In the corrupted hales the party has hili man many times all as mn man nude RII as the party parly nu no should cx x press a er of Mr Ir lInna hili hI money mony ba bags for tol very every Demoors t pro prot t fes to In that Ihl It has bill an immense majorIty Yet all the Demo writers nd speakers do fear or toothy loul to In fear lb fund and are apparently n I I virtuously IY Indignant against those who handle it II t hilI they hM have not nOI 1 a word urd of disgust for tor the Democratic which snakes It profitable to do o so 80 That Is 18 what I do not nOl comprehend wh why In damnatIon round up upon upon on the sons of oC political corruption UI indignant patriot so the tho leaven ot of his hiM wrath I do tb not belong to all arty politIcal It If I 1 did ane and I had reason to fear its lis defeat b dishonesty or of the money I hops hope that thai heaven n would give Irhe inc strength h to execute ho quickest flop on record |
