Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-08
"To Much Money. Says Borah

furnish it, it must come from his friends or
the interests behind his candidacy
The BURLINGTON (VtJ NEWS Qnd.
Rep is inclined to discount the Borah
charges as lone of the Oldest political
moves on the board resortcd to when can
didate is making progress and little else can
be developed to impede that progress" The
KANSAS CITY TIMES Gnd.), strongly for
Wood, declares:
There has not been the slightest evidence
adduced by Senator Borah or any one else Of
any improper use of money in the Wood
campaign. Doubtless there are Re-
publican men of means contributing to-
ward the Wood campaign because they be-
lieve he is the best man for the presidency.
In the same way Democratic men of means
contributed to Woodrow Wilson's campaign
fund in 1912, because they had confidence in
his ability. 1t is just as gratu:tous to sup
pose that the contributors to the Wood fund
have sinister designs a. it would be to sup
pose that the men who financed the Wilson
fund in 1912, or contributed to his election
| in 1916, had sinister designs"
Come on with the proofs, Mr.. Borah, or
admit that your senate speech was to the
| gallery is the challenge of the PEG RIA
JOURNAL (Ind.), and the NEW YORK
! TRIBUNE (Rep.), while it agrees with b.
rah that the ''books should be opened" sug
| gests that there are offenses other than
that of overgenerous gifts to campaigns,
| and one of these is a SANDER" and the ST.
LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT (Rep.), taking
| up Borahs phrase, "a saturnala of corrup
tion," holds that "if there are any promises
of saturnalias in this campaign a saturnalia
of SANDER would appear to be the most
promising" .-s'-
The NEW YORK GLOBE (Ind.) takes a
tolerant view Of both sides.
| zone need not believe" it says, chat
General Wood, Colonel Proctor, Governor
Lowden, or the Mexican oil companies have
done anything consciously wrong in order to
be certain that the spending of large sums
of money in a pre-convention campaign,
without full and public accounting, is All
| evil"
Yet the GLOBE believes it doubtful if
/ any law can prevent money from having as
| ZACH power in politics as the character of
| le electorate allows. If the voters can be
1attered or corrupted, they will be, law or no
| aw,' and the BUFFALO NEWS (Rep.) OBJ
serves with satisfaction that Sin recent years
| the practice has been to finance campaigns by
means of small contributions. This is
| he proper Observation-Disclosures representing
opuar interest rather than subscriptions
representing any special interest, or group OF
}Gc.al interests"
presidential nominations are too much
| Ike auction sales at present. the QUINCY
w JOURNAL rInd. Dem.) believes, and
the SYRACUSE HERALD Qnd) declares
nat 'primaries are a farce, and the worst
Il it there is reason to believe they are far
from being innocent farce The ST.
LOUIS STAR (Ind.) calls for thorough in
vestigaton before the White House is
leased for four years to the man whose
friends can pay the highest price for it"
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The official height of the American soldier
at the time of his discharge was 67.72 inches.
| or three feet less than he looked to the Ger
mans-INDIANAPOLIS NEWS.