The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-30
Bill to Publish Campaign
Contributions Should Be Made Law.

The Senate did good days work when it passed unan
ous Senator Borahs bill to publish campaign contributions
IN all contests for Federal offices.
Certainly those who died at Bunker Hill will not think rs
shutters Of politics and far resolve that seats
public life shall not be sold seats on the Stock Exchange
YET only little while ago, those who asked daylight
government were called radicals"
The Bourbon thinks all radicals who do not relish all
existing evil his conception Of an ideal United States ia King
Tut multiplied by one hundred million.
Ihe unanimous passage Of the Borah bill promising not
that 1t denotes better Senate but public sentiment which
demands better things and this bill should become law
sucn law long years ago. would have saved many
das and much Improvement.
Posery will marvel at political methods when it reads
that we let the Presidency be exploited as it were an oil
field.
Postery will regard relations with the ten command
ments as having been most formal when it learns that the
political atmosphere Of national conventions was dizzy
with dollar signs when it learns that the investment of
millions in Presidential candidates. aroused years. little
resentment.
Thanks to radicals" we are improving
Not long ago American elections were great auctions at
which men were bought like CATTLE oaters were as staple
On article as sugar.
They sat the fence thick as blackbds waiting for the
highest bidder and the bid did not equal the excellence Of
se merchandise the foat sat the fence until after
the polls closed.
City easements and rural hayows were filled with i'm;
ported voting Hessan the shock troops political deprav
M who at the strategic hour sailed forth and carried the
election.
The repeater everywhere breveed for galantrv at
he ballot box and the ordinary citizen casting but one vote
was mere retailer and relatively unmporan in our national
destiny.
The Australian election law changed this in most places
yet this law fought by reaconares as desperately as
had been an assault upon the right private property
were for the first time proposed today the reacionaries
would doubtless ascribe it to TrotzAy
The Borah bill should become law but it does not 90 far
enough way should be found to close the patronage
bucketshop Both parties bad enough by reason Of
that parys status in the South national Republican
hons resemble the stocyards rather the deliberations
OF free men, determining the leadership Of greatest nation
In the world.
Rank fumes arise from convention plots where political
heardmen traffic in their hand delegates with those
who have offices to dispense By this corrupt method nom
nations are determined and Northern Republicans dsran
chised as efectually as denied all representation
The National Republican Committee removed several
Of the roots of this malignant ulcer last winter it nut
them all back again. and at Cleveland there will be an arrav
Of rotten bcrcughs 100 per cent un-American
It is as corrupt to buy ncmnaon with an office as with
money 49,
The buying Of the office bad enough but the worst Of IL
Is the drugging of the nations sense of decency
The Republican party boasts that took the coored man
from the auction block Of slavery but not boast about
placing him upon the auction block Of politics.
Until this party ends this evil its national conventions will
Gbel the name Of Lincoln.