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Show CAN TAFT BE SAVED BY MONEY? How is Taft to be elected? Here is one answer taken from the Chicago Inter-Ocean, a Taft paper: y To accomplish this task the Republican party must fight with confidence, con-fidence, with aggressiveness and with defiance. And to do that to preach afresh the old gospel of American freedom. American prosperity, tho i American opportunity and American law and ordor In overy comer of tho land the Republican pnrtv must have money. Speakers mi6t travel, hall owners must bo paid. Printers demnnd wages, and the postofflec listens only to the Bound of hard cash. The Republican party needs a campaign fund of $2,500,000. And If tho Republican Repub-lican party goes aftor it In the proper spirit it will get all tho money it needs. There is your answer! The Republican candidate needs a "fat-frier" "fat-frier" of the ability of Mark Hanna so that the American electorate may be brought under the influence of money, as it was in that most disgraceful campaign of 3896 when inonej- by the barrel was rolled into the doubtful states. We were congratulating the country on- having progressed beyond be-yond the corrupt use of money in eleolions when this article in the Tnter-Ocean wjis called to our attention by atfarmcr from Riverdale who was not. slow to sense the full meaning of this appeal for a big campaign fund Tho reactionaries have started out to threaten and bulldoze the country. ' They arc trying hard to work up a scare among the men of money in order to make them contribute liberally to a slush fund. Some day it will be a penitentiary offense for the leaders of tho great parties to use money in an attempt to debauch tho American voters. One step in that direction was taken when publicity of campaign cam-paign fluids was made mandatory. Another forward step will be made when the money to be spent shall be limited to a comparatively small figure so small as to preclude the possibility of widespread corruplion. The Inter-Ocean excuses its plea for a big campaign fund by sa- . ing that the money is required to maintain the Taft propaganda i With nine-tenths of the large dailies of the United States in the hands of the rich and absolutely obligated to labor with all their ability for i Taft, the Inter-Ocean's justification in the name of publicity can be nothing less than a shallow trick intended to deceive. |