The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-09
"OnIy" 100000

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1t is reported along the Rialto that thru
some sort of telepathic arrangement the DEM
ocrat and republican parties have set So, 100000
as the limit of their expenditures in the cleo
ton campaign.
$3,0OO,OOO each!
What kind of beggarly campaign is this
going to be?" ask the horde of willing work
ers" in one voice and with bated breadth. This
sum could not purchase enough votes to elect
dog-catchers for the state of Rhode Island, not
to speak of bringing the unpurchasable gang
sters of New York, Pennsylvania, and Illinois
to the polls to cast their bullets for their most
generous favorites.
We saw this in the papers, as Hennessy might
say to Dooley. We also read that individual
contributions would be limited to $4,000.
This information brought tears from the
eyes of Mr.. William F. Kenny, New York con-
tractor and APs favorite pal. Kenny is said to
be willing to back Al to the tune of millions,
and "Bill' Todd, the millionaire ship-builder, is
also reported ready to throw millions of his
Doodle into AIS campaign chest.
But all this is to laugh with a scornful and
skeptical chuckle Back of the headlines and
the text of the story we can see Al putting on
a supe~ grin and tossing his brown derby in the
air and 'Erbert Dover developing laugh wrn-
kles around his chin.
In other words, this is the bunk. Anybody
who would believe this is fit candidate for
the Elks.
The capitalist parties will spend more money
in this campaign than ever before. Many mil
lionaires and plutocrats believe there is a
chance of electing Smith, and they will plunge
their millions on him.
The coterie of capitalist br;gands that use
the G. o. P. as base of operations will defend
their positions and their graft with their gold
cohorts. 1t will be a prosperous campaign for
the hangers-on and the touts of the two parties.
The Workers (Communist) Party is not af-
flicted with the scruples that seem to weigh
so heavily on the SCARED consciences of Wall
Streets two parties. The Workers (Commun-
ist) Party wants 100000 campaign fund
and does not care who knows it. In fact it
wants the whole world and the working-class
housewives to know it.
The Workers Communist Party would ask
for 100000 campaign fund, if it only knew
how to get it from the working class. But the
workers are at the short end of the golden
flood, and are lucky if they can spare few
dollars after supplying the necessities of life
for their families. So 100000 is all the Com
munist Party asks for its election campaign.
The Workers (Communist) Party will not
purchase votes; neither will it promise federal
and state jobs to its active election workers.
With the 100000 it expects to raise in this
campaign it will flood the country with Com
munist literature, send out hundreds of speak
ers, and through it's propaganda bring thou
sands of new members into the Party.
In this election campaign of 1925 the great
est campaign to mobilize the working class ever
undertaken by the Workers (Communist)
Party, finances are of extreme Importance The
Communist message to the workers and ex-
plotted farmers and to build the Party A
strong Communist Party is the best guarantee
for strong, fighting, virile labor movement
When contributing to the 100000 Communist
Party Election Campaign Fund you are strik.
ing blow in behalf of the striking miners of
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, and West Virginia,
and for the textile strikers of New Bedford
you are protesting effectively against the I'M
holy war Of Wall Street against the people of
Nicaragua; you are striking blow at wage
cuts, injunctions, and the many other evils that
the capitalist government visits on the workers,
and you are driving nail into the coffin of
American Imperialism
Every Communist and Communist sympa-
thizer is expected to do his duty in raising the
100000 campaign fund.