The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1924-04-04
LOOKS LIKE MILLIONS
TO VANQUISH BAILEY
$l,5OO, The Price Offered This Newspaper To
Support Mclean, Indicate That Millions
Are Available to Nominate the Cor
poration Candidate
by w. o. SAUNDERS.

A man came in my office the
other night, closed the door
behind him, pulled a chair up
close and in a soft and pleas
ing voice made a proposition
to buy $4,000 copies of THE
INDEPENDENT il would
write "a nice piece about Mr..
Angus w. Mclean candidate
for the Democratic guberna-
torial nomination. .rf
The man who made me that pro.
position IL not the sort Of man tn
put out 81 800 for piece Of political
propaganda for some one else.
asked him how could he manage To
distribute 10000 copies OF single
issue of this newspaper! He said
that would be attended to. indicating
that Il would Ike no bother to him.
| suspect that neither would the
matter Of paying for the J0,OO0
papers be any bother to him.
So the reports that barrels Of
money will he spent to force the
nomination Of Angus W. McLeun
upon the Democrats Of North Caro-.
lima. are not without Justification.
When friends Of Mr.. Mclean talk
carclessly Of buying $4,000 copies
Of one little weekly newspaper mt Il
cost of $1,000. there must be LOT
of money available TO buy mp all
the papers IN the Stnte; money too
Ia buy district managers, county
managers. township managers aud
two or three workers in every pre-.
cinct. II IL indicated that those
who work for the nomination Of
Mr.. Mclean will he literally paid.
Where Is all this money To come
from? There can he but one
answer: II must come from large
money interests that will benefit
by the nomination mud election o.
Mclean and the rOlit OF the humble
forces who would like TO seq j. "
Bailey nominated.
josiah ". Bailey In his speech a
Charlotte last Saturday naneL
those interests. naming the five biz
multl.milllOnalre corporations H.
North Carolina to whom the election
Of u friendly administration vii!
mean millions In taxes saved for
them. How these corporations con.
tributrd to tdhibaiGh icxlFns"s thru
the Office Of the Commissioner ot
Revenue a. ID. Waits and the fact
that they received fnvors In turn
from Watts Office has been fully
exposed. Waits. who tried tu settle
the race question over night. Das
, been eliminated: but the corpora.
tiOns are still with us. II h ca.y
to seq that these corporations can
very well afford to spend 80 much
ns five million dollars TO defeat Il
man like Bailey who threatens t0
mike them pay seven TO ten mil.
lion dollurs per annum more In tax.
cs thun they have been paying.
IL IL u fnct that the rich do not
think they should be taxed. and
they have u nice way of making
! themselves think that they are actu.
ally helping humanity by dOdginc
riirir tnxcs. Hear Henry Ford. the
richest man IN the world, the other
day telling Golfers Weekly that
"IIigh taxes on the rich do not taxi
burdens Off the poor" And the
this rich nalUb unctiously said: 81
believe that I can put my money to
better public use than the Govern.
mcnt cnn." Ford believes that
this man whose fortune IL now 81
big that Il Is only u question
time when he may own the who
United States! All rich men fe
that way. Mr.. J. B. Duke feels ~
talks that way. With their nlOm s.
the rich elect lot Of profcssioni'
politicians to run tho Government
for them. and then tell us that they
ran put their money to better pub.
liz Use than the Government cIn.
They have ~ little, confidence Ia
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