The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-27
REPEATING AN OLD GAME.

| Mr. Taft's eastern newspaper sup
porters deride Mr.. Bryanss charge that
money is 10 be poured into New York,
Ohio ana Indiana and other doubtful
states by the Republicans this week. TO
save their candidate as it was in 1901
With Jaunty assurance they say Bryan
/ is advancing this charge to explain the
defeat he sees is. inevitable
What is there in the record to make
the people believe the charge is not
true? Didn't Roosevelt himself get Mr..
Hartman TO raise s2eO,O in 1904 for
use in New York the day of election-a
sum almost as great as the entire cam
paign fund at the disposal of the Par
ker committee?
Didn't Roosevelt and COrtelyou deny
Judge Parker's charge that .Cortelyou
was holding up the New York corpor-
atoms In the closing days Of the cam
paign? And didn't the Insurance ex-
ker's arraignment?
Didn't the Corteiyou committee &C
cept $500 900 from the Standard Oil
and keep it for use in that campaign?
Isn't the Republican committee keep
ing the record OF it's campaign con-
tribgtions secret until after election
day so that publication then may do
them no harm I'm the country at large?
Isn't the memory of Hsnna's methods
fresh enough in the minds of the peo-
pie to show what Republican methods
haYe been and are. still?
Even the Republican newspapers.
such as are independent enough to
print the truth. say openly that the
president himself has superseded
Hitchcock in the management of the
campaign and collection of funds; and
that he has succeeded in shaking down
contributors who could not otherwise
be reached so that amp Is have
been secured for the final q tuehery
of the electorate?-
Mr.. Bryan has ample justification for
his charge that ar effort viii be made
to turn the tide in doubtful states by
the use. the Illegal use, of large sums
of money. AS he says. the legitimate
expenses OF the campaign have already
been met. The literature has been
printed and circulated, the speakers ar
ranged for, the ordinary honest obliga-
tons all disposed of. There can be no
other purpose in. the collection of ex-
traordinary sums at this Juncture ex-
eept the defeat of the Democratic can
didate by dishonest means
Not only is this intended, but the
Republican congressional committee,
which is under no obligation TO publish
its contributions, is using large sums
in doubtful congressional districts.
Much of this comes from the National
Manufacturers association, which is
in defeating the tariff reform
and labor legislation. Knowing what
is to come before congress in the way
OF tariff discussion, il is not difficult to
guess where the congressional COM
mittee is getting it's funds from, nor
does it take q seer to imagine the
promises the committee is making to
its fairfield trust doners.
Knowing what tie Republican ma
tional committee has done in past cam
Eaigns and the crisis which confronts it
now, Mr.. Bryan is right in his assertion
that money is to be poured out like
water to accomplish his defeat. Unless
more voters are venal than is credible
the effort will fail, and Bryan will win.
but it is right for him to give warning
in advance and place the responsibility
where it belongs.