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Show CAMPAIGN EXPENSES ' r;',,,-, Pincliot, the noted muck-r.-Aun; is out with an extensive arti-! arti-! on legitimate campaign expendi-lu expendi-lu f. a, which he has succeeded in hav-iii;t hav-iii;t Willed in quite a number of ) :i" i , in different parts of the com. try. Mr. Pinchot admits spend-in spend-in .,.vi nil times the term salary in In I. -. , ill. campaign for Senator of !', :i. lv -inia, and he got defeated by it candidate who spent more than he did. Consequently he argues that what lie spent was 0. K., while the an . unt spent by his opponent was graft or rather, purchase money. In summing up his argument he say a that candidate should be allow- i., In n cum I l Ifl, ,. vol.., Tin- every voter belonging to the candidate's political party or ralher 10c for every vote polled by his A i the bt---t election and as he esti-ranl's esti-ranl's that there are 1,200,000 re-;inl,:iinn re-;inl,:iinn votes in Pennsylvania, con-sc.irtilly, con-sc.irtilly, $120,000.00 is a reasonable reason-able amount to spend in that state, while in Nevada, where there are only about 11,000 republican votes, $1,100 is a reasonable amount for a Uepidiliean candidate for Senator toj SlH'Ild vet t.hpv are hnth mnninnr fnr I Senator and in both cases the salary is the same. The great weakness or one of the great weaknesses in his argument, is that a Democratic candidate in Pennsylvania basing his expenditures expendi-tures on the democratic vote in that stale, would not have enough to send even a postal card to the Republican Re-publican voters and without Republican Republi-can votes he would stand no more show of election than that proverbial prover-bial snowball. If campaign expenses are to be regulated by the vote of the state, it' surely should be the entire vote and not the vote of anv nop nnliKioll y. A candidate is just as anxious an-xious of even more anxious, to put his arguments in the hands of voters of the opposite party than in the hands of his own party voter. That attitude of the "News" is that it does not matter so m,uch "how much," is spent as it does "how spent" There is room in Pennsylvania or Illinois for the expenditure of large amounts of money in a legitimate way without being corrupt. It reminds us of the 1920 campaign cam-paign when Hi Johnson put out the cry of money, money, and when the committee appointed by Congress to investigate campaign expenditures, got through, they had found where Mr. Johnson had spent $128,000 in only a few states and the only reason he had not spent more, was because he could not get any more to spend-hence spend-hence his cry. |