Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-09-25
Marks of the Cl0ven Foot.
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Honorable Wesley l.. Jones figures
up his donation to what used TO b,
called the political corruption fund,
at s.. SO 90. Part OF this. br il noted.
is accredited IL Il donation TO the
Jones Ciub, Spokane organiAd-
ton. which it must be- admitted. was
i better way than keeping money IN
different pockets for several, and it
might be diverse specific uses. The
friends composing the club. are not ,
of CON 81, required To file a state
urut. under oath. or even to re
frAin from letting the right hand
know what the left hand doct!.. And
/ be il remembered. the primary act
. Was passed, OStcnsibly and avowedly.
to keep campaign funds from passing
into the hands OF rascally news
paper mem. Now, he it noted, men
OF any class cannot be reformed or
converted by legislation. 1t is safe
to say, as much or more money found
It's way into the old channel as be
fore. There has never been remedial
legislation undertaken but inventive
genius has at once set about means
for lodging or subverting. its proviS-
ions, and in this instance they find
foxy allies in the professional poll
ticianS.
Gov. Mead plan was to establish
headquarters in several cities, q
term which might be made to cover
all sorts of methods involving " ad-
dition, division and silence"
The Secretary of the Republican
Campaign Committees letter 20 the
Aberdeen World, scarcely makes an
effort to disguise the intent to sway
the influence of purchasable news
papers, by inclosing a small fee $50 |
with cuts of candidates and fulsome,
machine-made editorials, which APP
peared simultaneously in the small
fry papers, who, if they were not |
caught by the ten-dollar bill enclosed.
were controlled by the intimation
given by Mr.. Lysons, that one of the
nOn-partlsan candidates who was the
subject of eulOgy in the matter sub
United, had magnanimously contrib
uted 5000 for increasing the sub
scriptiOnS to Republican newSp,-
pers. BE it further noted, the bait
was swallowed. hook and line, by all
the selected list, except the Uorld.
which had doubtless been accident
ally misgraded.
To see what a transparent subter-
fugc was adopted to defeat the oper-
alton of the law involved, we give
quotations from Republican Secre-
tary Lyson's letter under date of
August 18th:
"Under separate cover ] am sending
YOU cuts and biographical sketches of
two or three of the State candidates who :
are especially deserving of endorsement
IF loyalty and service to the party in
his State, and who have always shown
! friendly interest in party newspapers. ;
One of them recently advanced the sum ,
)f 300 to the committee to subscribe for
The Republican newspapers during the
present campaign. 1t is understood that {
i the sketches and cuts are used the
service must be gratis"
But here is the clause containing
the little joker:
liam sending you herewith $40 to pay
or the subscription or additional copies
)f your paper, formal order for which l
will send to you later ,
The formal order" is reserved for ,
only one purpOse-to see how much {
Of the stuff" sent is published, and {
ascertain the spirit in which it was {
received. Everything seems to have {
worked like a charm, except in the
Ease of the World, which had the
dignity and self-respect to
refuse the pittance offered, and would
have rejected such proffer
t accompanied by many times that
and a proportional increase
)f expectation in the syndicate pool I
with an admitted 5000 in view. L
Who will for the moment believe
that the State candidates. who by
being under oath, are forced to ad-
nit the expenditure of from two to
three thousand dollars each, for
postage stamps and circulars" can
hide the patent fact that other ten
1ers equally as direct as the enclos-
IRE OF a greenback had been paid and
as an earnest of what is ex-
pected, to laud and not censure, GER
tain candidates? If this be true, it is
simply infamous?
Let the good work 60 on. Let us
see how many aspirants for high
position have adopted the most
subterfuges for evading
the law which was their own party
for perverting its meaning
and bringing it into merited con-
tempt.