Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-20

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that is they are doing today, and know
ingly doing today, what they are not
willing for you to know they are do
ing.
Democrats Above Board
1--WE have opened our books. We
Lave given names of the men who con-
tributed and the amounts and you can
therefore judge of the influences at
work.
1--WE have not only given you the
amounts contributed to the national
committee but we have given you the
amounts contributed to the congress
sional committee. They promise to
give you, after the elections. the
amounts contributed to the national
committee, but they have never prom
ised to let you know even after the
election what contributions they re-
ceive for the congressional committee,
and we have well-grounded suspicious
that they are using their congressional
committee to cover the refunds that
they do not intend to tell you about
at all.
st demand now, as I have before,
that they shall tell you now whether
they are going to announce after the
election the contributions to their con-
gressional campaign fund, and If they
are willing to announce after the cleo
tion the contributions to the national
committee and are not willing to an
nounce the contributions to their con-
gressional committee, what explanation
will they give and what inference will
you draw?
Are Getting Money Fast
'My friends, within the last few days
the money has commenced to pour into
the Republican committee. They told
you in August that / always carried
the country in August, but to wait until
I'VE waited until September, and I
carried the country in that month. Then
they said wait until October and we
waited until October and they had not
opened their campaign, and the tide
that has been running ever since the
convention named the Democratic
ticket continued to run.
"What do the straw votes that are
being taken say? They say that( not
in August, not in September, not the
first of October alone, but in the mid
die of October the tide is running our
way and that whether they take the
poll in New York city or in Iowa, the
poll taken by Republican papers shows
enormous gains for the Democratic
ticket.
"Now what? Now come out the con-
IrlDuIlOnS from Ine great cOfpOTdIlOIlS
that are interested in the campaign.
what can they do with this money
now? There are only two weeks more
The literature is out and paid for. They
cannot circulate literature any more
to amount to anything, for the time
has virtually passed. They can't have
many more meetings, only two weeks
more-what do they need money for
now?
Need 1t for Last Day
"They need it to use on election day,
as they have used 1t year after year,
and I charge that they are now prepar-
ing to purchase this election and dare
not tell you in advance how much
money they are going to have on hand
with which to purchase the election.
"I want to ask whether you are will
ing that this shall go on?
"Why is it they don't go to the labor
ing man and the farmer and the me-
chanic for contributions?
"Why is it they go to the trust mag
nate and to the man who gets the
benefit of the high tariff?
"Why do they go to these men who
get the benefit Of special legislation?
'It is because they put these men
under obligations to the Republican
party, and these men expect now to
put the Republican party under OBJ
legations to them by supplying the
sinews of war.
What will they do if they win by
the aid of these corporations?
"They will proceed to pay those men
back out of the pockets of the people
and they have laid foundation for it
in their platform"