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Show I v ' Mffn I mr lUA KriJ-ixCU LitfC r.is.'iiiCi o nUi UN a tin rniil I 0 ilLftJ i Charge Regarding Campaign Funds Flares Back and Singes Democrats. j THEY WANTED TEN MILLION. Jeople Willing to Contribute to Get Rid of Democrats, but Not to Keep Them in Power. By WILLIAM HOSTER. j "God In everything," sang the poet. . And this does not even exclude ths ainpaign speeches of Governor Cox. As a result of Mr. Cox's allegations , "f a big Republican Campaign Cor-I Cor-I rnption Fund, certaiD definite facts ; nave been demonstrated by the sworn '. testimony of the leaders f Governor Cox's own party. They may be summarized sum-marized as follows: It lias beeu demonstrated that .vliereas, In their most sanguine moods, the Republican managers never "meiiipliited a campaign fund of nure than $4,000,000, the Democratic party, at an expense of one half niil-ioQ niil-ioQ dollars, set up the machinery for :l:e collection of a campaigo fund of 10,000.000. It has been demons! rated that the onteniplaied 510.000,000 fund of the iV'inocrats did not materialize for the -ole reason that there aren't a sufficient suf-ficient cumber of plain people in the '.'nited States who want a continuance if Democratic rule, lo contribute even ne-tentb of 510,000,000. It has been demonstrated that .vliereas, the great body of the people peo-ple literally thousands of them nive willingly contributed from 50 flits to 51,00(1 to be rid of the present democratic administration, and to de- ' 'cat Governor Cox; on the other hand not thousands and not eveo hundreds ire willing to contribute 5 cents toward to-ward a continuance of Wilsonism. ; What Records Show. It has been shown by sworn records :bat whereas. In despite of Mr. Cox's outraged feelings over the disposition f thousands of ordinary American citi-.I'us citi-.I'us lo help pay the expenses of de-louting de-louting him In his campaign for the uesidency, Mr Cox in 1014 viewed with complacency Ihe criminal efforts ; i his campaign managers in Ohio to j "Xtort from the Civil Service em- ! ployees of the state contributions in- 'inded to further his personal polltl- ! al fortunes. It has been shown by j he testimony of Mr. Ox's own cam- j piiign managers that the $4,000,000 ! ivhlch the Republican managers hope ro raise for all political purposes this year Is not more than can legitimately be expended for this purpose, aDd that hese frank Democratic managers would also like lo have a similar j amount, hut don't sfe any way of get-ing get-ing It. It hns been shown tht the common, rdlnary rank and file of the American people, for the first time In American politics, are ready to contribute out of ihelr own pockets to defeat a candidacy candida-cy which represents all that Is repug-r. repug-r. ant, and hostile to American Instltn- i inns, and Ihat this willingness of the j American people to contribute to the expense of defeating the Democracy ! is the sole basis of Governor Cox's 'harsie of a conspiracy to buy the gov-, gov-, emment of the United States. Incl-j Incl-j dentally It required the candidacy of ! Governor Cox to Introduce Into a na- Monal campaign the doctrine that It : ! possible for the people of the United Elates to but their own frovernment, inless Mr. Cox unconsciously means n convey the Idea that In this campaign cam-paign the people arc to buy back their government from the autocracy which has seized It and refuses to let go. Finally It has been conclusively dem-j dem-j msinited that If the Democratic party j is to secure any .money to waste In a j ' n f n effort to achieve a Democratic j victory thai money must come excin-j excin-j slvely from men of the Colonel Deeds' ype and the Dayton aircraft Plunder-'und. Plunder-'und. and from the Wall street Inter-'intlonal Inter-'intlonal financiers, who alone will irofit through the participation of the I 'nited Slates In Wilson's League of Nations. All of these conclusions have been emonsi rated by sworn testimony be-j be-j . .re the Senate Committee with a mathematical precision which would have met the enthusiastic approbation of the late Mr. Euclid. Governor Cox's '.treat expose has petered out. It was 'i false alurm. Let's get back to the IssB.es of tilt i -ampaitn. What would I'osUnasiar Genaial Burleson do to the mother, wlf ca daughter of a postal employee 11 she expressed a leaning toward Harding and Conliilge? He would deprive tli8 family of support by dismissing the postal employee. His ukase, recently vssued from the Postoffiee Depart mont, at Washington, recalls th good old times when czars and kaisers flourished. |