The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-13
WHO PAYS THE EXPENSES

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4 The Minneapolis committee Of 100,
with its paid secretary and headquar-
ters, is costly machine to run. Mr..
James McMullen, secretary, would not
d give his time and energies to such q
4 task for less than 800 a month, and he
probably gets $3.50. Rent in the Guar
anty Loan building, with light, heat,
and janitor service, comes high. Then
there are the printing, postage, tele-
phone and telegraph service, petition
solicitors, and general roustabouts to
take care of making general cost OF
5000 to $500 month at least for operat-
ing expenses.
But that is not all, by a good deal.
There is the Times which must be
| taken care of. It cannot afford to
print two or three columns of ssanti''
rot a day for nothing. Vandiver and
Mannix, the political editors of the
Times, do not spend their time gather
ing Eustis and anti Clough thunder for
pure love. The Times 'sdoes not come
cheap" It is not of that kind. It's
special staff writer's have to be paid
and its space is worth a hundred dol
lars or SO a column for advertising. It
is possible the Eustis- Evans McMullen
outfit is given special ''adv" rates on q
large contract for years term: but
even then the bill, it is plain to be seen
will be a 'swhopper.''
It probably costs somewhere between
$500 and 81, 900 month to run the Eus-
tis-Evans machine of 100. Who pays
the operating expenses? That is the
question.
We say this is the question rather
than what is the influence of the ma
chine; for its influence is already sized
up in the popular distrust of the cor.
poration 100, a distrust which has
sprung up over the whole State. It's
effect can be none other than to arouse
the opposition of the rank and file of
Minnesota voters, who do not believe
in unrepresentative and oligarchic
rule. With a State Republican league
and county and local Republican clubs,
Minnesota Republicans do not need a
self-created machine of 100 to dictate
their nominations. They do not pro-
pose to have set of silk-stocking cor
poration attorneys, elevator men,
bankers, and ward-heelers in Minneap-
oils or in any other city rise up and
tell them whom they shall nominate,
and whom not. The masses of the Re-
publican voters of Minnesota plain
Woodworking men, in the shops and
burrows, the mines and lum Der camps
are not built that way. They propose
to nominate whom they please, and the
machine of 100 that gets in their way
will have to take the consequences.
The question is--Who pays the oper-
ating expenses? The answer is impor-
tant for this reason: That we may
know what results the machine expects
to accomplish. If the numerous guber-
Material and senatorial candidates in
Minneapolis subscribe, we want to
know that: because we want to know
if the main aim of the alleged ANTI re-
FORM is the fat Offices for themselves
and following. If the elevator men
subscribe to the machine fund as liber-
ally as they sign the petitions, we want
to know that; because that has a bear
ing on future grain and warehouse leg
islation and appointments. If the
bankers subscribe to the machine fund
as they sign the ''anti'' petition, that
is Important as showing that the ma
chimes political influence will be for
national bank notes, bond issues, and
the single gold standard. If the cor
poration attorneys who figure so nu-
merously on the machine carry with
them the subscriptions of their corpor-
ate clients, that is important as show
ing what corporate interests are to be
favored in future political and legisla-
tive manipulations.
Who, therefore, pays the operating
expenses? Do not all speak at once,
but glance carefully down the list of
the committee of 100. Note their oc-
equations. Note the interest they rep
resent. Note their political and COM
mercial relations. A study of the list
may reward one with some valuable
Suggestions as to what the committee
of 100 ultimately aims to accomplish in
their ambition to control the State.
CONGRESSMAN TONNES famous sill
yer speech was delivered in the house
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