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Show I THE PRICE OF THE PRESIDENCY. "; " 'A speaker at the Flag day services of the Elks of Ogden declared' de-clared' that the most hopeful thing .in American j)oliti&s was' jibe, de: feat of those who would nace the' stamp of the dollar on a presidential presi-dential nomination. Up to the present, Ihe big feature-of the campaign is the rebuke of the men who would make the price of a candidacy for , the presidency presi-dency so'high as to be obtainable only by the expenditure of millions in a most cpiestionable manner. , Nicholas Murray Butler, who is a consistent advocate of his party's cause, says on this subject: . , "The forces defeated in their insolent attempt to buy the nomination nomi-nation represent all that is worst in American business and American Ameri-can political life. It is really too bad they hit upon General Wood as their choice. They should have found someone to support for whom the country has less respect and less regard. "The chief task of the convention was to prevent the sale of ! presidential nominations at auction to the highest bidder. Had this not been done, the party faced not only certain defeat, but crushing dishonor. The sixty-eight New York delegates who voted for me on the first ballot were the chief factor in stopping the Ilindenbur drive to overwhelm the convention by the power of unlimited money and by strong-arm methods in preferential primaries,' Jt is generally conceded that had Wood won at Chicago. afte.-Johnson afte.-Johnson and Borah made their disclosures of the slush funds, the Republicans would have been handicapped to such an extent as to make success most doubtful. |