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Show 1 eaaa bbm iBMBaoMasg! AS TO THE USE OF MONEY. H i The charge made by the Ncav York papers, that a giant corrup- W tiou fund was used by the Roosevelt people in the primary campaign, K is answered by the Philadelphia North American, as follows: g j Nearly 40,000 was spent for Roosevelt In Allegheny county; more than & $70,000 for Taft. What was spent for Taft elsewhere we do not know posi- l tlvely. But, with the exception of th e cost of postal cards, the money & spent for Roosevelt In Pittsburgh was far and away more than all used In the entire remainder of the state. ' t In Philadelphia all the money that could be scraped together for the L. last week of the campaign did not aggregate $2500, including the cost of ,' the Roosevelt meeting. And on elec tlon day there was not one penny to :, i distribute nor one paid worker nor ivatcher, "'' Tho truth about the arrayed bossos, about Taft's Wall street contrib- uiors, aDout toe actual lacts or tne harvester trust prosecution all are withheld by the newspapers that find ample space for long discussion of poor, old Watter6on'B maunderlngs ibout Roosevelt being a congenital 1 j maniac and the foul, annoymous slander that he Is a drunkard. And today they are seeking to broed panic in this country and aro 30 directly accused by one of their own contemporaries, whom we thus quote: "The world, not satisfied with the judgment that Roosevelt is Insane, ' ' advances a step further and says, in substances, that the American people peo-ple are insane. "The Times says that Roosevelt's quarrel with the constitution Is that it protects property from confiscation without due process of law It invites in-vites panic by expressing surprise at the composure of the owners of se-I se-I curlties when receiving news of the Roosevelt victories and implies that if Roosevelt succeeds fundamental property rights will be lossoned If not destroyed. "The Sun Is too incoherent to be definite, but It Is to bo gathered that If the Democrats do not come to the rescue with a conservative candidate can-didate and platform (and manifestly there is no prospect of this) everything will go to smash red ruin's plowshare will be driven through a once happy country." These newspapers have the thanks of honest Americans in so far as they have aided in placing Theodore Roosevelt in his present commanding position, by their conscienceless abuse. But they have earned the con- temptuous reprobation of every honorablo newspaper by their antipatriotic ; and unprofessional conduct. ' The misrepresentation by the reactionary press' has not been confined to the East, but has extended to the West, including Utah. |