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Show I .-v.. DOLLAR NOMINATIONS . ' 1 Unheard of expenditures; in pre-convention campaigns are being 1 J disclosed by the senate investigation. On Saturday The Standard-Examiner carried the news that Gen- eral Wood's outlay to date had been not. less than $1,170,000. These 4 figures arc startling. Even Hiram Johnson's distribution of $200,000 and the alleged expenditure of $300,000 by the friends of Hoover are ( beyond the limits of justification. I .j The motto on the coins of America should be changed from If ( "In God We Trust" to "The Almighty Dollar Is Our God." I : 1 ': The moment it becomes accepted that to be nominated for the If , presidency, a man must pend a million, we disfranchise the man and I give suffrage to the dollar. We exclude from the race all who are not I j millionaires or the favorites of millionaires. We allow the plutocrat II to name, and, thereby, we acknowledge plutocracy. I J The motives of the very rich who do the giving, hoping to dictate I . the. big conventions, may be none other than good, but the effect, I ! nevertheless, will prove distinctive of propular government, if long I persisted in. 1 ' It is just possible the "slush fund'' scandals in the Republbican I ' and Democratic parties will change the attitude of the leaders and I cause an entire realignment of forces. I .,tJsTo party can afford to go into the national election tainted. |