Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-04-02

a few pointed remarks on the sub- ject of campaign funds. Says he:
 Did you ever think where the
 millions for watchers, spell-bind
 CTS, halls, processions. posters,
 pamphlets that are spent in na-
 tional, state and local campaigns
 come from? Who pays the big
 election expenses of your con-
 gressman, of the men you send
 to the legislature to elect sena-
 tors? Do you imagine those who
 foot the bills are fools? Don't you
 know they are sure of getting
 their money back, with interest,
 compound? Your candidates get
 most of the money for their cam
 paigns from the party commit
 tees; and the central party con-
 mittee is the national committee
 with which congressional and
 state and local committees are
 affiliated. The bulk of the money
 for the political trust' comes
 from "the interests"
 The partnership of the political trust and the interests happens to De particularly evident at this moment of exposure when the dealings of Bliss, Cortelyou and other big lead CTS with the big corporate and in. surance heads come under the spot l:eht The source of Republican canl- paisn funds is as plain as day, with the receipts of the treasurer in evi- dence And the reason why, the con- sderation of the payents, is equally plain. It is the consideration rather than the payments which should in- terest the people.
 If the big monopolies contribute to the Republican party in vast sums, that fact is portentous. It means that worth from the party It means that they virtually own the party. 10 use il as they please, to make and un- make legislation, to enforce or not to enforce the laws already made. The powers of the Republican party are in the hire of the interests. and we ob- SCI ve them at present in Washing ton serving the interests. It is worth millions upon millions to the trusts 10 keep the standpatters standing pat on Dineley schedules which mulct the s.eople of many millions more.
 It is thought the campaign contri- hutton that the real and the big pol- ticians at the head of the Republican machine who are the real and the dangerous boodlers of the county. The bribery of a petty officer is nothing to the euying of the national legislature. to the downright hiring of the senate.
 Putting the sum of the bribe-the ey- penses of national campaign and of numerous state and local campaigns- at millions is no eXaggeration. Ii the three or four principal life insurance companies gave quartef-milliOn be- tween them, what must the aggregate collections amount to? What could the interests convergins in Wall street afford to give for the sort of protection, the license to organized robbery, which they have received at the hands of the Republican party dur ing the evil decade of Dingelyism? Here in Missouri we have seen how the monopolies "shelled out to cor rupt men when their interests were threatened. What could the aegre. gate of monopolies afford to pay for their principal source of profit, tariff legislation?
 The price has been sr:fce1t 70 buy the Republican party, body and soul In future it will hardly be suffcent to buy success for that party. Exposures of the direct criminal re,ationshio be. tween the machine ard tho monopo. lies can not have other thao an i'm. mediate and profound political effect.