The Cordova daily times., 1920-06-19
SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1920
SOME OLD-FASHIONED "BUNk" FROM AN OLD LINE POLITICIAN

FROM AN OLD LINE POLITICIAN
 Former Governor James E. Camp bell, of Ohio, chairman of the Ohio delegation to the Democratic nation al convention, has issued from that cornor of the political graveyard which he inhabits an hysterical and demagogical open letter urging that the senate investigate the advance campaign fund which had been raised by the Republican National Chairman Hays preliminary to the national cam paign. Protesting to be opposed to "debauchery in politics." MT. Camp bell alleges that people have been held up and forced to contribute to a colosal and unheard of campaign fund for the election of 192O,' These unwilling contributors, Governor Campbell complains, were told that the very safety of their business de- pended upon the raising of enormous sums to be at the disposition of MT. Will H. Hays and his lieutenants in the Republican national committee allied state organizations. "Not prin- ciple, not policy, but pOcketbOOk only was to win" Warming up to his sub ject as it's campaign possibilities grew upon him MT. Campbell referred to the Republican campaign fund as conspiracy fund" and alleged that the Corruption" involved in raising a Republican national campaign fund had "bred corruption" How unfor- tunate it is," laments MT. Campbell, ready to burst into tears as he reaches his climax ''that the faith of the American people in their govern ment should be blasted by the spec tacle of a presidency upon the auction block" cts, etc.
 This is the o1d-fashioned bunk" once so popular as campaign mater ia1, sweeping charges based upon newspaper gossip coupled with loud protestations of outraged virtue on behalf of the politicians by their op- ponents to corrupt the electorate and ruin the republic. It was another dis tinguished Ohio Democratic states man who, explaining a Democratic de- feat many years ago, exclaimed, "- - 'em; they bought us!"
 The truth if, of course, that the methods employed by the Republican national organization under Chairman Hays for raising funds necessary for the conduct of the national campaign, have differed from those employed in the past principally in their open, above board and thoroughly clean and conscientious character. It is the party in power, with it's tremen- dous control over American business, that has the chance to terrorize men and institutions out of sympathy with it into making contributions to the cause. It has gone so far as to threaten banking institutions depen- dent upon the federal system, po1i- tical1y controlled, with the conse- quences that might follow to pay an assessment
 After a disgracefu1 era of profiteer- ing and imposition upon the public by contractors and others a small per- centage of whose i'll gotten gains would furnish the Democratic organ ization with the most tremendous campaign fund in history, it might be wise for Democratic politicians to maintain a discreet silence relative and corruption and campaign funds. There is absolutely nothing to war rant except the desire to procure partisan advantage by the utterance of campaign libels for the assertion by Governor Campbell or any other demagogic Democratic politician that there has been anything corrupt or irregular about the colIection or dis bursement of campaign funds under the present Republican national or ganization.
 The Republican national organiza- tion has pursued, and will continue