Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1908-10-09
Upt Pearre; Has He a Magic Purse.

Now that U. s. Senator Foraker, Repub-
lican, has been exposed, and now that it has
been shown he used Standard Oil money to
put up Republican judges here, down there,
and some candidates for election to high
offices In his State and others and now that
| 1t has been exposed that he sat in the U. s.
Senate as the hired tool of the Standard Oil
Company, in the Halls of Legislation and
worked steadily against the people and for
his party and John d. Archbold citizens
are beginning to smell mice, to cast inno-
cent surmises around as to where other
monies came from and as to whence the
source OF lavish funds for election expenses
for other alleged representatives OF the peo-
pie.
A citizen said to Mail man: How about
Pearre Is he clean.
The Mail man said, No one has ever asked
him that question: Where did you get 1t ?
but no doubt the Colonel would be glad of
the chance to state clearly and fully where
he stands.
Colonel, are you in this Archbold deal
Tell Us.
That question the Colonel will answer
fully and completely when he comes again.
He will do 1t in his first speech.
Sometime ago II was stated and not denied
that Pearre had drawn from the U. s. Gov
eminent by the grace Of the vote of this
district some $55, 900, and that for his noble
services-and what those services are still
are problematical, but he rendered them as
we'll as he was able, which was not much.
Now, he used to have small private
income of his own, dissipated and gone
sometime ago, and 80 he had to live on the
$55, 900 for the ten years at the rate of at
least 1000 per year and save $1,000.
In ten years that thousand would amount
to the vast sum of $4,000 saved and put
away for rainy day.
It is true that this $4,000 left him moth
ing at all for election expenses. They are
considerable and the only way we can fill
them in is by supposing the $4,000 was elias
tic and that the elections did not cost him
over $4,000 each. That would be only
$4,000 and the estimate seems reason
able, any professional politician with $10,.
900 is as good as any other man with $780,
900, and so we suppose he made 1t reach,
partly bluff and partly debt.
We now come TO q place where reaching
and stretching will do little good. How
about his primary campaigns. His battle
with Lowndes cost him $4,000. That is
admitted. His battles with Wellington for
one year cost him $21 900, and for the next
some 81, 900 and all merely for his primary
nomination for Congress. There were others.
Does the reader think any one in the Dis
trict wanted Pearre In Congress that bad
In the first place he has spent total OF
over $50, 900 on his primary combats, many
thousands on election, $40, 500 on living In
the past ten years, and he drew in all that
time sos 900.
How do these politicians do itp 1t is won
drous, famous.
Foraker can tell. He got $4,000 In one
lump from the Standard Oil Go. to back up
a paper to be read by and to fool the people.
He got two sums of $4,000 each for pur-
poses not disclosed but of which he evident
ly is ashamed for he speaks not of them.
What other sums he put in Ohio politics
and his own nest Is not known, for he Is
rich man and has held high office and has
been Republican power, much admired by
TAFT and much feared by Roosevelt.
And the Standard Oil territory is in q
stones throw of our Sixth Congressional
District.
or course there is no evidence that John
d. Archbold defiled this territory with his
filthy lucre or that he has letters showing
how Pearre plead for borrow or so and
got them for no one knows, but the people,
putting that TO one side, would like our in
veterate and well.paid officeholdlng Con-
gresham to come to the open and explain
how he could have spent such large sums OF
money from such a small income, If for moth
ing else, then for the economic enlighten-
ment of the people, for If he received from
no greasy sources any OF the vast sums he
has spent, then he seems to be In possession
of magic purse Of q secret he should not
want to hide from his people, namely, how
to make q small sum stand up, wax strong
and do the work Of ten times as much money
and leave him plenty to sport on.
Col. Pearre has circulated and published
rumors about Mr.. Lewis, that he Is social.
ist, etc. Mr.. Lewis had published and cir
culated nothing about Col. Pearre and his
nearness to Archbold territory. But Mr..
Lewis never performed the feat that Col.
Pearre seems to be performing, namely,
spending endlessly and inexhaustiyely In
politics out OF q fixed limited source, and we
think that Col. Pearre ought to come right
out and talk 1t over with US. He gets his start
on expenditures by grace of votes from this
District, he really ought to take the people
into his confidence.
He might also, for the benefit OF Taft,
flourish that banner again: No Man, not
shall receive the votes OF the peo-
pie of this District.-Hagerstolon Mail.