Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-05-30
THE CAMPAIGN BILLS
Why Don't the Republicans
Pay as They Coz
A SACK or FIVE TH0USAhO2
A Record ofRepudiation and Dis
honest Finances.
A SACK or FIVE TH0USAH02

While admitting that there are a
great many unpaid Republican cam
paign bills OF two years ago, Chair.
man Hendricks says that he has no
funds to pay those bills. But he creates
an advisory board" or campaign
committee out Of the very men who
contracted those bills and then repu-
dated them. Is this honest? Is IL
fair to the Republican party to COO
duct brsiness thus In an alleged
Sound Money" organization -?
1t has been charged by Republl-
can paper at Salem that Mr.. Hen
bricks received the sum Of $1,000 from
the national committee aud has col
lected $1,000 more by assessing officials,
contractors. employees and candidates
Now discount this one half and
1t would leave hlm $500 to operate
with and surely he could pay UP his
old campaign bills before contracting
new onee. This is a question Of COM
mon business honesty and not Of poll.
tics at all. The lotegriiy nf the
Sound Money" party is best deteru.
ined by the honesty aud soundness Of
its campaign management. II Silver
man didn't pay his bill at r.Pa'trr.
sons o! Mr.. Hughes store. or his note
at Mr.. McCornack's bank, he would be
a repudiator. Yet these same gentle.
men act in an advisory capacity with
Mr.. Hendricks as campaign managers
and do not pay up.
Are these men honest? II men
will not conduct political campaign
honestly as business proposition,
can the people get common honesty
out of them in charge Of public af
fairs? Have the finances of the city
Of Salem and of Marion county been
honestly administrator? Are not
our city and county and school dis.
trict hopelessly In debtp Are not all
taxes for city, county, school district
and even the state feeced by the
warrant buyer9 Is not every dollar
Of public taxes milked of interest be-
fore 1t is applied to pay public bills?
Did not Republican supreme court
reverse itself in order to compel Sec
retary of State Kincaid to issue in
terest bearing warrants which the
treasurer is forbidden to pay? This
was done even against the dissent of
Justice Bean, and the people are pay
Ing interest on their taxes for 1897
lying idle Tor supposed to BEL in the
state treasury.
Thousands Of Republicans deplore
these things and would have il other
wise, and many Of them are going to
vote with the Reform party not be-
cause they endorse free silver, or the
referendum, but because they believe
In common honesty in public affairs.
These are matters that are far more
important in our home affairs than
national pc pClitics. 1t is very Import.
ant that our city, county, school dis
trict and state shall get on cash
basis, shall stop running deeper in
iebt. Will the politicians now con-
trolling the Republican party give us
honesty?
In Washington state the Renubli- |
IAN party was running the state in
iebt $1,000 day. The Union of Re-
orm forces whipped it at the polls,
md haye been paying of debts for
%o years at the rate of $1,000 il day.
'nich is the Sound Money party ?
= hIch is the party of reputation and
I.sorder, which is the party that pays
is honest bills in honest dollars?