Bisbee daily review., 1906-04-06
BISBEE DAILY REVIEW, BISBEE, ARIZONA.
A SOLD-OUT PARTY.

Mir. David Graham Phillips makes few pointed remarks on the subiec. of campaign funds. Says he.
 Did you ever think where the mi lions for watchers, spell binders. halls. processions, posters, pamphlets, that are spent in national, state and local campaigns, come from? Who payy the big election expenses of yoar Cen gressman, of the men you send to the legislature to elect SenatorsG Do you imagine those who foot the bills are fools? Don't you know that they make sure of getting their money bact, with interest. compound upon coraLouad: :: Your candidates get most of the money for their campaigns from the party committees; and the central party committee is the national committee with which congressional and state and local committees are affiliated Thue bulk of the money for the "polit- ical trusf' comes from the interests"
 The partnership of the political trust and the interests happens to be particularly evident at this moment of exposure, when the dealings of Bliss, Cortelyou and other big leaders with the big corporations and insurance heads come under the spotlight, says the St. Louis Repablic.
 The source of republican campaign funds is as plain as day, with the re- ceipts of the treasurer in evidence And the reason why, the consideration of the payments, is equally plain. It is the consideration rather than the payments which should interest the people.
 If the big monopolies contribute to the republican party in vast sums, that fact is portentious. It means that the monopolized interests get their moneys worth from the party. It means that they virtually own the party, tc use it as they please, to make and unmake legislation, to enforce or not enforce the laws already made. The powers of the republican party are in the hire of the interests. and we observe them at present in Wash ington serving the interests. IL is worth millions upon millions to the trusts to keep the standpatters stand ing pat on Dingley schedules which mulct the people of many millions mere.
 It is through the campaign contri- buttons that the real and the big bood- ling of the country is done. It is the big politicians at the head of the re- publican machine who are the real and the dangerous boodlers of the country. The bribery of a petty 0fl- cer is nothing to the buying of the national legislature. to the downright hiring of the Senate.
 Putting the sum of the bribe-the expenses of a national campaign and of numerous state and local campaigns at millions is no exaggeration. If the three or four principal life josur- ance companies gave quarter of a million between them, what must the aggregate collections amount to?I What could the interests converging in Wall Street afford to give for the sort of protection, the license to or ganized robbery, which they have re- ceived at the hands of the republican party during the evil decade of Din gleyism?
 The price has been sufficient to buy the republican party, body and soul. Tn future it will hardly be sufficient to buy success for that party. Ex, posures of the direct criminal relation ship between the machine and the mo
 polies cannot have other than an and profound political ef- feet.