The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-25
Legitimate oampaign Expenses.

Legitimate Campaign Expenses.
Secretary Charles Foster, the best poll
ticinn in the cabinet" is well informed con-
corning campaign expenses. Only recently,
according to report, he furnished the money
to carry on Kolb's campaign In Alabama,
so that be is able TO view the matter from the
standpoint of heavy contributor, as well
as from the standpoint Of . beneficiary Of
campaign funds.
He counts in the Legitimate expenses
Of campaign the money paid to saloon
keepers to take care Of "aosters." The
money ia given the barkeeper ''ostensibly
70 buy drinks in honor Of the candidate"
says Mr.. Foster, "but in reality 1t drops
into the till" From $40 to S25 per block
OF five he names as the usual price paid by
the republican party, and the information,
made public in the form OF an interview,
may be taken as Tip by saloonkeepers
with lot OF buns at their disposal.
I'm my own state. Ohio, !" says the secre-
tary, there are Z, 600 voting precincts.
regular canvass is made Of every one OF
these before the election, and poll OF the
voters is made. The record shows the pol
ltlcs OF each man, and il be is doubtful gives
some reason why or suggests how be can be
approached" II be is to be approached"
most readily by a heller with - In
his hand, the s. given in exchange for his
vote would be regarded as Legitimate ex-
pense.n Mr.. Foster doesn't say SO In as
many words, but, as be discussed 'legiti-
mate expenses" in bis interview. the infer
ence is natural, especially as 1t is superin- |
duced by the conduct Of the partY's man |
ayers.
Speaking Of the people and organizations |
that are 10 be influenced by the use Of |
money in campaign times, Mr. Foster says;
" Then there is the German who has great
influence with his race and who wants to |
be paid to 60 around and make speeches
And then there is the Irishman who can in
huence the Irish, and then there Is the
Swede and the Pole, aud then there is the
Catholic and the Lutheran and, yes, the
Methodist, too. I've been approached in
almost every campaign by churches and
asked to subscribe TO funds on the assurance
that it would help me politically. And it
does help a man, too, to cultivate the |
church" This latter assertion is apt to |
arouse resentment on the part Of church peo- |
pie. They are usually very "touchy" on |
political matters, and when a politician |
places donations to the church and dona-
tons to saloons In the same category, as be- |
ing good politics and sure to catch votes,
something lie likely TO be heard from il.
Another useful man in politics, to whom |
money paid is legitimate expense, Is "the |
labor fellow who may be useful to you in |
this missionary work but who says, I can't |
leave my regular occupation unless you pay |
me for my time. can't afford to. l must |
earn my bread II he is paid, he gets per-
haps twice as much as he would earn at any
other occupation The 'Iabor fellow" re-
ferred to by the secretary is ostensibly the
day laborer. But there are some other
labor fellows" whose actions of late would
seem to indicate that they have profted by
the Legitimate campaign expenses" Of the
Republican party.
One prominent Tabor fellow" who set
out not SO very long ago to reform the
whole labor world; to make the condition
of the workingmen better and elevate labor
has recently capitnlated the posi-
tion he has heretofore held aud declared in
favor of the republican candidates He was
a democrat in principle for years; and
because the reforms he advo-
Gated were in line with democratic policy.
1t may be that there were some Legitimate
campaign expensesn concealed somewhere
there.