Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1912-03-28

siisE nseshss 81 pcliticai shoft n
will writ into i story sll stfsets q
has been Il sort 81 & i1r m nsany
may yeara yeta aall tlhes mi Heal virs 81
pulling svidentI tIy does rot abtd ds ifl that
short tharoug and the ind ess
ground passages have been extenda
since Uncle Mark Ianna was ID
SADDLE and shook down tthhe stSeet,
for stx millions of dollars to insure
success Four years ago the amonny
ma
nomination was made, was said
have been q MI liton doliars but then
again there we're rumors 81 outside
expenses, not moulded Id The work
of coninlitt that ii regular party
Icommittee III New ork and other
big ce,,ters hich adsii tIonal mi
lions were covered up, p's to say moth.
Ing Of Brother Henry' 'ss' long purse.
The country has been scandal ized ~
the alleged purchase of a seat In
senate nv uncle Ike stephenson of
Wisconsin but II 1 comparison of the
prices of votes per ca pita paid BY these
millionaire senators coul be made
with The cost direct ctsy and Indirectly of
the presidency the contrast would
make Uncle Ike,s tsga look Ike psir.
|chases from q Ave ana ten cent conuts
er.
Just now Washing gtonS II the head
quarters Of nominating managers.
The Taft rganization occupies sun:
ptous quarters III one of the big lso.
tells. and sfs reported To be paying in
the nsighborhopd OF 81 900 a rdontis
rent mere agatell aa an Item 81
d presidential campai ign. The Roose-
veltss people occupy eaualiy spacious
though less elegant uarters, but get I
rent free. LaFolie site s bMrsa unit
building Ksas aallas
|nish literat ture, that MD their cam
! didates, to every person Of any poiitss
lical consegue nee in the copntry here
lare about q, 900 newspa per Offices M
1.-The United States, and these editors
1hmust be told at least once q week VII ys
MI. Taft, or Colonel RooEeyslt, oT SEN
ator LaFollette should be nominated y
A small army of clerks are required toS
j handle all this work, and It kes stass
tionery by the ton, and postage stamps
my the yard. to say nothing OF the car
loads Of contributions made at the
4 lexpense of Uncle Sam, and sent toI
4 lIdestination under the franking priyi-
Ileges Of senators and representati ives
4 Over on the other side or the fence.
Mr. Champ Clark, Oscar Underwood
and other presidential candi idates are
playing the same game
Necessarily at least a barrel Of
money must be unloaded at each head
quarters every morning or there would
i be bankruptcy before night and the
American people would go short on
/, laeducation' and the country editors
!, waste baskets would look hungry. OF
!, course none Of these head daaarters
a would nse tainted money and yet W
!, the credit Of the American people, IT
may be said that all the presidential
candidates, unless possibly Colonel
= Roosevelt may heexcepted Is far from
4 !, rich. No one supposes any Of the
candidates are personally footing the
/. bills. and there ism a word said di
rectly as the source OF the piles
!, lof bullion that are going into the cam
!. paign, except by occasional inference
,ssi But few people concern themselves
a about the natter+why should thsl
! carer Yet, why shouldn't the conn
Z try be interested, since the Who'll.
Z, story Is known to be tn the keeping o
q Ia handful of men, any one Of hon
8 could tell Just who touches up tn,
railroads, the trusts, the interests, tn,
4 Carnegies, the Rockefellers. the MOI
I. gans, and the money trust. TIL
bare facts, If known, would help th
voters to decide upon the worthines
/. OF their candidates, and to Judge 3
& the probability OF connections mad
I. prior to nominations, that might Il
e & fuence the future. When the Amer
Il can people hoIler loud enough they a
ways bring these things to the SUI
i, face, and sometimes political cond