The Monitor., 1890-04-11

sclf-respectng American citizen with
shame. ave. more, to doubt even whether
tie boastcd prctence Of great Democracy
for this country be not delusion ana
sham. That the statement is true, unfer-
| tnuately too true, admits OF no DOUBT
| There are names, places, persons ana
| papers bought, the amount paid and other
specifications made in plaiu black ana
| " lite, with no attempt at concealment or
| dodeiug the responsibility Of authorship
| They are not given either in the midst oil
| a heated canvass for political effect. but at
a time when men may carefully consider
the matter FOR themselves, and read and
think and inwardly digest the subject un-
der consideration.
No one claims that the facts as furnished
by the Voice are entirely new, or we're not
well understood SO far back as the amend
ment campaign in Pennsylvania last year,
but they did not reach the public ear at
the time. because withheld from the public
by the great papers of the country and
only known to com paratively few Trough
Prohibition sources We BOW hagc facts,
figures. dates. etc, from 4 representative
and authoritative source that will be ac-
eepted as conclusive. What is the show
ing? Just this: A few men under the
powerful leadership Of q select member
and with all unlimited amount OF money
at command, buy up senators, members OF
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ministers. las men. ev.ls body, and through
them G, ,eutually lie ffaiel.isc Of The State
of Pennsvls aria Il don't affect the mat
ter in controversy that it vas prohibition
this time. At another time it might be
something elsc, something more vital, if
possible, To the veal or v oe OF people
than a constitutional amendment proyid
ing for the Suppression of the liquor traffic
in a great commonm ealth Ii might be
that. or might ia something else, but We
are not new discussing the object to be at
tainf d but tic Ieprcbcnsihle means nsed to
secure That object How does any one
know that iiese sane poieIt and baneful
agencies viii not lie biGught into play
again and again, if allowed TO go unre-
bukcti this tinn? Just look at this picture:
ssSuch State leaders as BIZ Leeds,
Charlie Porter, " ho is chairman Gi the city
Republican Committee, Cooper and Dave
Martin. and others, and q LOT Of Demo
cratic leaders we paid S500apiece, and $500
apiece to local leaders, and s. apiece TO
men who worked and manned tie polls on
the day Of elections. Did | pay Quay any
money? Yes; for three years he bied us.
This is the Matthew Quay, mind you,
Chairman of the Republican National Gem
mittce during tic late Harrison campaign,
who had the mana cement at that time and
bled the anti amendment party for three
years, bled it SO we'll that 300, COO was
secured through this source 10 turn over
to the Republican Finance Committee to
debaucll the voters of the STATE. Farther
on Mr. Croweil says:
ave paid the County Commissioners of
this Philadelphia) )county to let us have the
pol-list exclusively for our use with the
understanding that We were not 10 return
the list until after election. So The Prohi-
bitionists, with no window books, no
money, no organization, had 10 show
whatever against us.
But the nest humiiatrg feature Of tins
unsarory mess is shown in the follow ing:
"Mr. Ciowell, how did yon manage to
get the newspapers pretty much all on your
sidt?'
"Why, we bought them by paying down
so much cash. visited the editors in per-
sen or had some good man 10 do 50, and
arranged TO pay each paper for its support
a certain amount of money. Throughout
the State We paid weekly papers from 900
to $500 TO publish such matter rs We might
furnish either news OF editorial, but the
city daily papers we had to pay from
81 900 10 81 600, " hicl latter amount was
paid to the Times Of this city. Other papers
we cGu!d not buy straight ont, consequently
we had to pay from so to GO cents per line
fol all matter published for us according
TO the circulation and ability OF the paper.
We paid the Ledger 40 cents per line and
the Record nc paid 60 cents per line, though
it did some good work for MS for nothing.
1t was understood with most all of the
papers that we would furnish tie matter,
and SO We employed man to write for us
and prepare articles for publication which
would be furnished to the papers to be
printed as news or editorial matter, as we
HtlGDt ulEtEl. / Ic ttitSb tItcilEt ndLlNE
we could get up in the influencing ofSotes
was that Prohibition did not prohibit and
the revenue, taxation, and how Prohibition
would hurt the farmers. We would have
these articles printed in different papers
and then buy thousands of copies Of the
paper and send them to thc farmers. If
you work the farmers on ilc tax question
you Can catch them every time.
Newspaper publishers, with means suf-
ficient to place them above a temptation of
this kind, were, according 10 tie testimony
Of Mr.. Cfowell, bought like sheep for the
shambles. OF farmers and ministers Mr..
Crewel says;
''Ilow did get the names OF farmer?
Why | got the poll book in each toH II and
hired some man who WAS we'll posted to
select the names of every farmer and send
them to me- and it was here y got in our
best work; for with the politicians, the
! papers and the farmers, You can always
win. c. c. Turner, secretary Of the liquor
dealers publishing house at Louisville,
will mail you Il list Of the farmers in Ne
braska. He is q bright fellow, and can do
| you much good in some ways, but don't
let him try to manage the ne" "spapers for
you"
How did you manage, Mr.. CrOwcll,
to get SO many ministers on your sido?'
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