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Show 1 i i i m. in i i , I Cox Wiggles and Wobbles A $ '. BY SCOTT C. BONE ,' t timj Candidate Cox, recklessly charging that the Republican j' party had sot out to corrupt the electorate by raising a fund ot m 15,000,000 with which to "buy tho presidency," has been utterly confuted by the facta. Instead, It has boen completely established that tho goal fixed by Chairman Hays was only one-fifth that amount, or 98,090,000, with contributions rigidly limited to $1000, and that never before has a campaign fund boon so freo from tho taint ot corporate, slnlstor or sordid influences. That an over-taxed, over-burdened and weary country, pay- I log the cost of incompotenco, Incapacity and extravaganco In gov-! ernmontal affairs and mal-admlnlstratlon at Washington, would welcome relief at any prlco legitimately oxpondod may bo takon (or granted. But only In tho wild dreams of Candidate Cox who stands committed (o Wllsonlsm and the wastefulness ot Wllsonlsm, .with everything that Wllsonlsm typifies and Implies has any such expenditure as Candidate Cox chargod over boon remotely conceived con-ceived or for a moment contemplated. Even his foremost newspaper champions organs of tho International In-ternational banking crowd which favor bis candidacy becauso, with equal rashness, he promlsos, that It elected, be will go Into the, Wilson Leaguo of Nations editorially admit that his slush fund charges havo proven groundless. Candidate Cox's credibility as a wltncts has similarly boen damagod by the wet and dry Issuo confronting him. To tho Indisputable proof that tho Now Jersey Liquor Dealers' Deal-ers' Association Is appealing for funds to elect him as a "pronounced "pro-nounced wet," ho replies that the liquor interests of Ohio never contributed to any of bis campaigns. Yot a sworn statement, signed bv tho secretary ot tho Ohio Liquor Dealers' Association and on fllo In tho socrotary of stato's &r offlco, shows that that organization contributed a substantial sum if out of Its treasury to tho Cox campaign of 1916. vjj And In tho faco ot It all, having withstood for months, In fj sllonco, William Jennings Bryan's denunciation of him as a '-'wet" m and unfit to run for prosldont, Candidate Cox. with characteristic audacity, now assures a North Dakota crowd that, "I havo always voted dry"! Imaglno Boss Murphy, Boss Tnggart. Boss Hrennan and that Youngstown .Aposllo of Light and Uplift, Ed Mooro, contriving tho nomination at San Francisco ot a candidato who had "always voted dry"! Imaglno it. if you can! Shado of John Barloycornt What a spectaclo is presented in American politics! c t M - " m ! Jr'J,'. i v.-iJ6biis--'-' - -7 - --'- & w. 1 1 .mi imm lm-inBTlwFHi |