The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-08-03
LOOKING FORWARD
By FRANKLIN MAILMAN
Publicity Director, Republican National Committee

1t is fact well known to detectives
and law enforcement officers that
criminals frequently return to the
scene of their crimes. Psychiatrists
find that many of their patients talk
constantly about their ailments and
maladies and see their own defects in
others. SO it is not strange to find the
spokesman for the Democratic Ma
tional Committee devoting one of his
recent weekly statements to the fl
nancing of political parties.
Of course he selected as his text the
financing of the Republican National
Committee. 1t was horrible, he eX-
claimed, that during the first five
months of this year thirteen contribu-
tors-yes, all of thirteen, just count
them-should give $4,000 each to the
Republican National Committee. All
ha, he exclaimed, there was the evil
dence that wealthy men owned the Re-
publican Party! Think of it-thirteen
men in five months gave as much as
$4,000 each to the Republican Party!
Well, we guess it must be pretty
bad. But let US say word in eXtenua-
ton of ourselves. The Democratic
spokesman naturally said nothing
! about the thousands and ten of thous-
ands of small contributions received
by the Republican National Commit
tee He failed to mention that in the
1886 campaign 100000 persons con-
tributed to the Republican National
Committee; that in 1888 the total was
$4,000 persons and that during the
first five months of this year a total
of 1880 contributions were received by
the Republican National Committee.
Little People Give
These contributions came from peo-
pie in all walks of life-lawyers, ply
sicians, teachers, Mechanics, business
men, laborers and farmers. Their con-
tributions were as small as 81. But
each, let it be said, gave willingly, in
proportion to his OF her own stake in
this land in an effort to end an Ad-
ministration that is menacing jobs
and livelihoods.
Perhaps they were all selfish, as the
Democratic spokesman suggested
Perhaps they all gave in order to get
something back, but that something
is an assurance of a job, preservation
of their business and liberty under an
American form of government. They
are investing in America for their chill
dren's sake. Such is the selfshness
which motivated these contributors
whether they be big business men OF
just plain, every day folk in the fac
tory or on the farm.
Since the Democratic spokesman
brought the subject up, let's ask what
individual gave the largest sum of
money in the 1886 campaign. Was it
not Walter A. Jones, of Pittsburgh,
whose name recently was mentioned in
the press in connection with a Mexi-
can oil deal? Did he not give $104,500
to the Democratic Party in that year
How About Sit-Down Strikes?
Did not the radical wing Of organ
give or '1end" 100000 to the Demo
give or "lend" 100000 to tn eDemo-
cratic war chest in the 1886 cam
paign? Was not this money, for the
most part, wlung in the form Of dues
from workers who earned it sweating
in mines and factories and had nc
thought that their money would be
used for partisan political purposes
Did not the Roosevelt Administration
remain silent, because of this finan-
cial assistance, when John L. Lewis
staged his sit-down strikes through
out the country in 1887?
Is it not fact that a large part of
the Democratic National Committed
finances have been raised by levying
on Federal and State jobholders, with
even Civil Service and relief workers
being threatened and coerced? Art not