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Show 1" sfei-W&iii h ' - - - - a You have a right to know who the people are that are serving in government govern-ment offices. Political power can have a tremendous influence on the value of your earning power, the place where you live, and the types of schools your children attend. You hold the power to elect people to government offices, and candidates must ask you to vote for them. So important im-portant is the information about candidates can-didates that you receive from a free press, that Chief Justice Arthur J. Vanderbuilt of the U.S. Supreme Court said in 1951: "Honest elections, unbought by money, jobs, or promises, and an intelligent, in-telligent, educated, and vigilant electorate are as essential to the survival sur-vival of a representative republican government as are peace within the country and security from enemies abroad." |