Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-01-20
The Menace Of the Social Bloc
Delivered by United States Senator Kenyon Exposing the Manner Which
and the Social Bloc Directs and Dictates Legislation

ed out to secure the republican presi-
Dental nomination for them will
not say to buy the nomination, be-
cause there were some senators who
helped to manage certain campaigns
but to use money for influence it could
secure.
The Presidency Was Not For Sale
Last Year.
The friends Of one candidate expen-
ded over a million dollars; another
expended one-half of that amount;
and before our committee inyestiga-
ting campaign expenditures we had
two precious scoundrels Of che Mis-
souri, delegation who were fof Eow-
den for president and who had $4,000
apiece of the Lowden money in their
pockets or in the bank They did not
seem to see anything unusual or very
strange about that. They sat there
with brazen effrontery and bland
countenances; they had violated no
statute
The republicans did not dare to no
inmate either Gen. Wood or Gov. Low
den, because of the enormous expen-
ditures in their campaigns. Senator
Harding was nominated, and one Of
the great contributing causes was the
clean account sheet that he had in his
campaign. Everything he spent was
put before the committee by Mr.. Dau-
gherty, and the country was impress
ed with the fact that the Harding cam
paign was clean one; that there was
no attempt to buy his nomination,
and he sits in the White House today
partially because Of the cleanness of
his campaign. If it had not been for
for the light of publicity shining into
the money chest of the Wood and the
Lowden committees, it is probable
that one of them would have been
nominated for president. No one can
tell me that the republican party
stands for corruption in elections.
In connection with the Michigan
senatorial election the majority of the.
Committee on Privileges and Elec-
tons say the money was spent for
proper and legal purposes" Every
thing was "open and above board"
we are told and there was mo con-
cealment." These statements can not
be sustained by the record. Senators
could spend hours here reading the
evidence of workers employed, from
the beginning of the campaign to the
end, setting forth conversations, and
statements, lists of names showing
the enormous numbers of people en-
ployed to buy influence. Members of
travelling mems associations, lodges
and labor rganizations-th big
workers-were to be secured, as King
wrote to Newberry. Prosecuting at
torneys in some counties received
funds, which may account for the
fact that there have been no prose
cutions for violation of these Michi-
gan laws. County road commissioners
were corralled because they travel
around the counties. Luncheons and
banquets were given and cigars dis
tributed here and there and every
where. Bankers were securd for their
influence; different nationalities were
worked through lawyers of the nation
ality being employed; men were en-
ployed to line up the marines, fisher
men and life-savers Other sickening
and disgusting practices were follow
ed. Sealed envelopes were laid on ta-
bles to be opened up by gentlemen
with whom the conversations were
held; f1fty-dollar bills we're left under
books on tables. The president of the
Railroad Mems Relief Association,
with his monthly magazine, was brot
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