Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-07-23
NATIONAL POLITICS
an INTERESTING LETTER FROM
The NATIONAL CAPITAL,
Robert Miller Surveys the Political
Field From It's Center. The Fiaht
is Between fhe Money Power and
the People. Campaign Contribu.
tors.
Especial Correspondence, Washing

Especial Correspondence, Washing
ton, D. c., July 2O.)
The nomination of William Jen-
nings Bryan, of Nebraska, and John
Worth Kern, of Indiana, as the can
didates of the Democratic party.
means that the plan of campaign is to
be entirely changed from the old
proposition of fighting for the cleo
toral vote of New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut, Indiana, and the solid
South; but new plan has been de-
cided upon of transferring the fight
to the middle and Western States.
This involves the necessity of carry
ing the three great states of Ohio, In
diana and Illinois, or, in the event of
| losing either of them, securing some
other Western states to give the ne
cessary majority in the electoral COL
lege. My own opinion is that Mr..
Bryan showed good judgment in thus
| forming his line of battle, for the
| reason that the shadow of Hearst
looms up in the path to reaching the
electoral vote of New York and New
Jersey, and the large increase of the
Socialist vote, which will be mainly
drawn from those who have hereto
| fore voted the Democratic ticket, is
another lion in the path there.
&c, IL.
their eyes to the obstacles to be over
come, but to vigorously face them.
There are three lions in the path of
Democracy that must be conquered:
The Hearst vote.
The Socialist vote.
Republican Doodle.
The Hearst organization is reach
ing out into all the doubtful states,
but will be strongest in New York,
New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois and
California.
The Socialist vote will also be nu-
merous only in few states, but in
i some states, such as Wisconsin,, it
will probably be enough to offset the
LaFollette enthusiasts who are hear,
ready to knife the Republican ticket,
and but for the large Socialist vote
in Milwaukee, they might have turn
ed the state over to Mr.. Bryan.
The fight this year will be waged
between the money power and the
people, and there is no use in disguis-
ing the fact that the money power,
represented by the Republican party,
comes pretty close to having the ma
jority.
The Republican campaign fund
will be enormous, and will be divided
between that for the legitimate ex-
penses of the campaign, the items of
lished latter election" and another
secret campaign fund which will new
er see the light of day, but will be
distributed to the Republican ma
chimes of the doubtful states and
thence for the corruption of venal
voters. All the tariff-protected in
terests and the railroad corporations,
Iand all the Wall Street financiers, and
the malefactors of great wealth, will
lican campaign fund. The record of
their evasion of the laws of the land
have been carefully Investigated by
special agents of the Republican ad-
mnistration, and the evidence that
would convict them is in the archives
of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion or the Department of Commerce
and Labor. The chairman and treas
urer of the Republican National Com
mittee will have the list, and know
just how much to assess each male
factor. How much the magnates of
the Standard Oil Trust will pay for
immunity and for escape from the
large fines hanging over their heads,
will never be known to the public,
but that the amount will reach into
the millions does not need evidence to
prove it, nor that it will be paid when
called for.
But a small part of the amount so
contributed will reach the treasurer
of the Republican National Commit
tee; only enough to meet the legiti-
mate expenses, which he estimates at
$3,000,000. The much greater amount
will, by underground channels that
can easily be surmised, reach the Re-
publican workers and corruptionists.
There is one advantage of the DEM
ocratic campaign that will bother the
Republicans, and that is the large