Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-10-07
FRIDAY EVENING. OCT. 7, 1904.
rnr ,ennhlicans are old hands at buy.

The repuOlICdhS "iO VI" H''
ing elections, city, State and national,
and are firm believers that money is
potential in such matters and that the
average voter can be bribed and corrupted
Gov. Odell of New York, according to
statement published in the Brooklyn
EAGLE Yesterday, asserted at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel less than a week ago that
he had been assured, as State chairman,
OF $500, 600 for election expenses. This
sum, the governor stated, according to
The report, was to be entirely expended
in the State of New York. 1t is further
asserted by the Eagle that the governor,
as head of the State campaign commit
tee had demanded $3.50, 900 from the
republican national committee. The
governor is said to have given assur-
rance that with this sum he would be
able to carry New York State for RooSe'
welt and Higgins The Eagle continues !;
That the republican national COM
mittee is in a position to respond to
such a demand is undoubted. Every
trust and every moneyed corporation OF
the country has been pouring treas
ure into the Golfers Of the committee.
II $500, 600 or $3.50, 600 shall be avail
able for republican use in New YORK
State as Odell has boosted, there cannot
he the least doubt that it is the republl-
can plan to buy all of the corruptlble vote
of the State OF New York, for which
vote the euphonsm is the floating vote.
The assertion was made in the Wall
street district that the understanding of
the dominant factors in finance Is that the
President had surrendered tn the money
interests of the country. The assertion
was positively made that the large and re-
sponsible quantities Ofthe financial world
had received assurance in such form and
way as to be wholly satisfactory to them
that, if elected, the new administration
will not engage 10 any attacks on vested
interests, on financial lines, or on indus
trial lines without consultation with them
and their scquescence. This week
financiers, who three months ago were
denouncing Roosevelt and declaring they
would not support him, are declaring in
their offices and places of resort that
Mr.. Roosevelt is very adroit man,
and this thing THAT is, the relations of
the financial Interests to the admins
tration) is settled for eight years. These
statements are made on the authority OF
a great financial figure aud are confirmed
by two others of equal prominence.
1t is further alleged that the word has
been passed that with the reelection OF
Roosevelt the work of promotion and the
employment ofcapital, which was brought
to a sudden cessation by the attack OF
the government on the Northern Securi
ties Company, can again be engaged
upon with the surety and with the prom
Use that there will be no sudden and |
cratic attacks by the government on
the vested interests of the country. In
yOlved in the attitude is the implied |
assurance that not only is Mr.. Roosevelt |
to be elected in 1904, but in 1908. In
this frame of mind and state of satisfac-
ton, the money is pouring in steady
contributions to the republican national
committee treasury from the moneyed
interests, the corporations and the trusts.
Such a statement as the above should
put all honest democrats and independ-
ent voters on their mettle and inspire
them with the determination to defeat
Mr.. Roosevelt, and in their effort they
should also be joined by all honest re-
publicans who hold their country in |
higher esteem than their party.