The representative., 1900-03-15
CHAMPAIGN ASSIMILATION
COnsfdeFAtiOns That should Deter.
mine the Coming Campaign and
Turn Down Forever Both
Old Parties.

@AAe tne coming Campaign and
Turn Down Forever Both
Old Parties.
Why not unharness the facts in the
case of the senate? If Clark paved
his way to a seat with bribes-and 1t
looks foully as II he did-at least, he
may have the countenance of half
the senate. Every other seat in that
body is the harvest of corruption.
Where one senator came honestly, an
other come dishonesty Some are
white and some are black in their
origin; and as often as you find Cock
rell, whose source is pure, you will find
a Hanna who is the direct product Of
illicitism Turn out Clark, truly! but
turn out Hanna and those others;
Clark's own blood, senate brothers of
the bribe. The Verdict will tell you
the trouble with Clark. He is unfash-
ionable-comes from an questionable
region-the West, adheres to an un-
fashionable cause-free silver! And
there are even in Montana, with Marcus
DAILY offended and incensed, millions
armed against him. Clark is unfash-
ionable, both in religion and faith OF
finance. And so the money ring says:
Cast him OUT" And a servile press
ever yelping echo Of the money ring
repeats: Cast him OUT" But it was
nf vxyif
He was Republican. He was the ad-
ministration. At once he was the con-
structor, the owner, the keeper, of the
debt-fettered Mckinley. The money
ring could not fight Hanna if it would.
The money ring needed Hanna every
hour. There was shrewd difference be-
tween Clark, whom the money ring
hated, and whose vote was inimical to
its sordid interests, and Hanna, whom
the money ring loved-as an invest
ment as well as an ally-and from
whom, as In the instance of the Stand
ard Oil bank (head of the money ring),
1t was to derive a rich, sure, If not dirty
profit. And thus 1t comes that Clark
must go, while Hanna sits secure
And thus it comes that jackall press,
a sku1king follower Of the hunting of
the money lion, once mute in the mat
ter of Hanna, today bays at Clark with
fullest throat. And thus 1t comes that
a senate committee blinks owlishly
and as ones most pure and free and
sweet Of any bribe-taint, over the case
OF Clark. Doubtless they will find him
guilty and doubtless throw him out.
Which Is as II jury of courtesans
were brought to some rigorous and sup
pressive measures against the scarlet
evil. vi. Bribery is not confined
to Clark, nor even to the senate. Go
back bundle of years. It took nineteen
millions of money to elect Mckinley;
that was the round and swollen
treasure chest of the Republican cam
paign of 1S96-nineteen millions! What
was done with it? Was it used to
print and put in voting hands the Ten
Communicates Or circulate the
Sermon on the Mount?" Could the
Legitimate" claims of the campaign alb
sorb it? Nineteen millions! The Dem
Ocrats held as many meetings, drove
as brisk a war, SO far as the "legiti-
mate might be concerned, and the ag-
gregate Democratic fund never lowered
to $20O,000. And yet, nineteen millions!
What was done with it? Corruption,
double distilled-that was the destiny
of those reeking millions! Registra-
tion was brbed. Ballots were bribed!
Voters were bought to cast them. Eleo-
tion judges were purchased to stuff |
them in the boxes and count them
afterwards Who doubts It? Not a !
man in 20 all over the land. Republl-
cans-the leaders-off their guard and |
callous, boast of it. And already Han
ma and the rest brag with a great boast |
that they will have forty millions in |
this year of ungrace to re-land McKin-
ley where he Is.
Doesn't that promise bribery and
corruption? There isn't pa
per now lashing Clark that is not filled
to the muzzle with these facts. These
papers know of the bribe-sown corrup-
tion OF 1896, they are equally aware of
the villainy to come. And are they
by It? No. The public itself
seems more than half Indifferent.
Why? Because corruption is the fash
ion in politics. The public, full of help
seems to accept it as newt
able The papers-which follow, but
never lead, a public-accept it because
the public accepts it. The first doesn't
know and the second doesn't care
And yet, it would strike The
Verdict to be more trea-
son and a blow to buy a seat in the
White House than seat in the SEN
ate. Wherefore, then, in the name of
safety. it not of decent justice, is there
This hue and cry over Clark and this
silence over Mckinley?
And talking Of corruption and red
laced excitement about a huckstered
toga-a garment, after all. of not much
power, and therefore NO vast threat
what should one call it when a presi-
lent gives member an Office and the
member gives the president his vote