Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-08

"Once more the barrel becomes great
American ISSUE" says the NEWARK EVEN
ING NEWS (IndO, apropos of Senator 30
rah's charge that Governor Lowden, General
Wood and certain unnamed Democratic can
didates are spending doubtful money too
lavishly in the pre-convention campaigns for
the presidency. "He Declares" adds the
SCHENECTADY GAZETTE (Dem.), that
their campaign managers and hackers nave
already spent fortunes to secure pledges in
the primaries, much OF it corruptlJ or In
way which he calls as bad as corruption.
Many regard Borah's charges grave.
The HOUSTON POST (Dem.) thinks it ''evi-
dent that conditions throughout the entire
country are calculated to invest the present
campaign with more political corruption than
the nation 'has ever known" and that the
country lis facing it's supreme crisis" The
SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN Ind) re-
marks that 1.-The American people will not
tolerate Newberrying for the presidency,
and the OMAHA BEE (Rep.) has this to say:
Suspicion attaches to any individual nom
-&..I... or elecCeu after large sums of money
ave been expended in his behalf. The feel
&, just or unjust, as the case may be. exists
hat somewhere or in some way the candidate
dominated or elected at the close of a cam
Ign of liberal expenditure is either corrupt
y has received financial aid from sources
which will exact repayment later at public
expense, or will WELD undue influence over
the official chosen, to the detriment of the
peoples interests"
Governor Lowden has met promptly and
directly the charges of Senator Borah," says
the CHICAGO DAILY NEWS (Ind.), by Of
fering ''to submit the list of contributors to
his campaign fund and the amounts contrib
uted by EACH" and the NEWS hopes for the
passage of the Kenyon resolution, under
which call candidates for the presidential
nomination will be required to present such
| j.etcn cnts" But Senator Borah attaches
Greater guilt" according to the PHILADEL-
PHIA RECORD (Ind. Dem.), to the Wood
managers, 'for he says bluntly hat the men
| who are managing General Woods cam
paign propose to control the Republican con-
| vention through the use of money" a
charge which, the RECORD thinks, cannot
be ignored or laughed away" General Woods
| retort that he is Convinced that Senator
Borah's attack at this time is for the pur-
pose Of influencing adversely the primary
vote in Michigan on April So seems, to the
BALTIMORE SUN (Ind. Dem.) beside the
point, for the point is not what Borah's pur-
! pose and motive may be, but what is the
| truth. The correct answer, the SUN de-
clares, is to "open the books" and the PORT
LAND (Me.) EXPRESS (Rep.) agrees that
! ''the charges must be refuted or the lack
of that refutation will proveSthat he CWood)
should not be the party candidate"
! But no 'moneyless campaign method" has
yet been invented, and "if money is not tC
be spent" asks the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS
! CInd.), chow. is a campaign to be carried
on?" t'No candidate can be nominated" the
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER (Rep.) points
out, without the expenditure of a good deal
of money for legitimate purposes" And the
LOS ANGELES TIMES lind. Rep notes:
eff a man is an actual candidate and has
| to go through any number of state prima
ries it will take fortune for the most ordi
nary expense . If the candidate doesn'