The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-10-23
HANTA'S IVAN FRYING.
WHERE REPUBLICAN, CAMPAIGN
FUNDS ARE COMING PROM.

Mark Hanna admits that 10 will tako
much money 10 educate the people
sufficiently 10 insure tine election of
his candidate, and the fat-irying is
now IN full blast. Tho gigantic trusts
and combines, all OF which have been
benefited In the past By tho system
represented by Mr. Mckinley and fur
Their hope for future benefits. are e1-
pected to contribute literally 10 tho
Republican campaign fund and al.
ready the assessment necessary has
been decided upon.
The trusts arc expected 20 contri-
butte $4,000, 900 towards tho election
Of Mr.. Mckinley. As the total oapi-
talization Of the various trusts now do.
ing business in defiance OF law is about
81, 800, 100000, the enormous sum Of
ten million dollars can DO raised With
out heavy assessment. It will neces.
state a contribution Of one dollar
from each trust for each $3.50 Of capi-
tai stock, or about two-thirds Of one
per cent.
The largest check will have to come
from the Dressed Beef and Provision
Trust. This monopoly will have to
raise $500, 600, and If you are com
PEELED to pay few cents more on each
pound of beef, lard and bacon you
buy in the immediate future you may
know that you and other consumers
are paying this assessment and that
Messrs Armour, Cudahy, Swift, Fow-
Ter ct al are not losing anything in
their effort to protectthe credit Of the
United States.
The smallest amount will come from
the trust that controls the little
wooden skewers that bother you when
you try to carve your rib-roast. The
output of those wooden pins is con-
trolled by a trust WHICH has q capital
of but $50, 600, which is ample for the
purpose, however. The trust will as
sist Mr.. Hanna to the extent Of $500.
The two Coal Trusts, with an esti.
mated capital of 500. 200, 900, an es.
innate carefully and reliably made by
the Philadelphia Times, from which
the figures of capitalization are taken,
is probably too low. As the price of
coal has recently been advanced and
other advances are threatened, the
| $665, 600 the coal barons will contri-
butte to the election of their friend will
not be missed. That is, by the trust
But every consumer, and especially
the poor people who buy coal by the
basket or ton. will feel the extortion.
There are certain expenses Incl
dental to the conduct of a campaign
which are legitimate and must be met.
When money is used only for these
legitimate expenses the men having
the expenditure in charge can make an
accounting. But when the sum to be
expended is as enormous as the amount
which will be spent under the direc.
tion of Mark Hanna this year, no such
accounting can be made, is ever ex,
pected or desired. 1t Is asecret known
only to the men who handle the
Doodle, and contributors must trust 70
their ''honor"
A gentleman who is familiar will
the conduct of campaigns from ware
election to the struggle for the Presi
dencY is authority for the statement
that not one-half of the money con
tributed is ever expended for the pur
pose intended. 1t passes through 81
many hands, the fingers of which ar
sticky, that only a small percentag,
reaches the man who regards voting
as q commercial transaction.
This being the case, it will be seel
that the $40, 1000 to be raised b,
the trusts offers many advantages Il
the practical politician. It will offe
among other things chance to regair
the money which was paid for tn,
Southern and Western delegates VIII
} nominated Mr.. Mckinley in st. Louis
Ten million dollars is an enormou
sum of money. No one appreciate
this better than campaign managers
1t is so large that one half of it vii
make 100 men rich. Given the op
portunity to spend such sum with
e out having to show vouchers or re
ceipts and the Job becomes enhancing
a The trust managers who raise thi
e fund at the behest of Mr.. Hanna vii
never know what becomes oft. PEI
r haps they will not care. But hun
t dreds of palms are already itching t
a handle the sum, and architects hav
= already been asked to prepare plan
: for fine houses that viii be paid 70
e out of this fund
3 1t may interest the dishonest maj
S ayers of dishonest trusts to know thu
a Of the $10,000,O 900 which they are e.
d pected to contribute, So, 0C0, 600 wi
It be used to corrupt voters and So, 600
!. 600 will be stolen. This statement
= made on the authority of a Unite
States Senator, to whom the fac
were give4 by the secret agent
IS charge of Republican collections,
# New York World.
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