The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-09-18
HELP wilson FUND
EACH CONTRIBUTOR WILL BE
GIVEN A RECEIPT.
This Receipt Has the Semblance Of a
Finely Executed Bond and viii Be
Souvenir.

There have been engraved hand
some certificates, bearing excellent
likenesses Of Woodrow Wilson and
Thos. B. Marshall, one Of which,
properly executed to fit the individ-
ual case, OF course, will be issued
from the New York Office as a re-
ceipt for every contribution of 81
or more to the Democratic national
campaign fund.
Each of the South Carolinians
who have made contributions Of 81
or more to the fund through The
Times and Democrat will in due
course receive his receipt in this
form, except in cases where lump
sums were transmitted to The State
without a list Of the individual con-
tributors therein represented.
These receipts, having the SEM
blance Of finely executed bond, are
suitable for framing and doubtless
will be carefully preserved by hold
ers as handsome souvenirs Of their
participation in a popular movement
that is unique and important in the
political history of the country.
Gov. Wilson has positively pro-
claimed that he relies chiefly for the
financing Of his campaign upon rela-
lively small subscriptions from the
rank and file Of his party. Tainted
money" is not desired and will not
be accepted. The Democratic nomi-
nee purposes to avoid even the ap-
pearance Of evil. He intends to de-
termine by actual test whether it is
possible to elect a man president OF
the United States without forcing
him into a situation humiIiating to
himself and compromising to his par
ty, where he must seek funds from
{. few magnates or from corporate
interests, which naturally would af-
forwards consider him deeply oblig-
ed to them.
Formerly it was the custom in
planning a national campaign, to So
licit contributions from the rank and
file more or less half-heartedly, but
to depend for funds upon rela-
lively few persons, these being al
most exclusively representatives OF
great corporate terests. Quay and
Dudley were adopts in the collection
of campaign funds after this fashion,
and Mark Hanna reduced their meth
DDS to marvellous system. Standard
Oil, the New York Life Insurance
company and the great corporations
operating in the protected industries
these were the sources on which
the party managers depended. Sums
represented by at least six figures
were received from the principal con-
tributorS.
There have been within the past
16 years various efforts on the part
of candidates and their managers to
break away from this practice. Most
Of these efforts were by the Demo-
Gratis. Some were successful to
considerable extent. in the Cleve-
land campaign of 1892 the sinews
of war were supplied by a host Of
small contributors and the nominee
was carried to victory mainly through
the active support of these subscrib-
ers. In 1908 William Jenning Bryan
suggested an appeal to the people
for funds and much of the money
in the campaign of that year was
thus raised, mainly through news
papers. The people Of South Caro-
lima made liberal contributions.
Gov. Wilson has gone further than
any presidential candidate before
him, further than either Of his op-
ponents, in the matter Of disassocia-
ting a campaign for the presidency
from corporation influence or the
suspicion thereof, and, on the other
hand, of enlisting in the campaign
the active support Of the rank and
file of the party. Presumably he has
had in mind not merely avoidance of
the perils and embarrassments in
seperable from corporation support,
but also the desirability Of develop
ing in the generality OF voters
sense of individual responsibility and
of wholesome personal interest.
Personal sharing in the burdens
and responsibilities of his party IS
the normal, healthy and proper part
Of the individual citizen. So belieV-
ing, Gov. Wilson, has, colloquially
speaking, "put it up to the people"
He Graves election to the presidency
but would 90 into the White House
free of obligation to special interests.
He wishes to feel himself obligated
to the people. This condition he be-
lieyes essential to preservation of a
pure Demoeratcy. Henry Morgenthau