The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-02
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so Unfortunately, i can't Unfortunately aipo some local nUwupApefs which could dig out the faet donep
 Some people have asked why. have focused as. tentlon on the large amounts of cash thrown Into election districts by COP, leader Joe Pew, the big Pennsylvania oil man. isn't the money spent bs FAC, they ask, just as hadS
 The answer b. l. It was tremendous amounts of cash spent by the Meons the pews, the Rockefelers et ai which finally inspired labor unions to get Into political campaigns themselves. Labor didn't originate the idea g. While large amounts of money In any campaign are bad It's only fair to show what both sides are doing.
 in regard to this few people have the time and money to check on large personal campaign contri- tons To go overthe long st a oi names In ied in ,' ySr of Representatives takes days Of senographc work rts also difficult job to trace the relatives and in. laws of all the families who contribute The individual voter simply cannot do it.
 The last time this column did 1t, however tio40), the results were amazing. The GuPont family was shown to be contributing the grand total of elS87B0 to the Republican Party. The Hatch Act, of course makes t illegal for one individual to contribute more than eb0OO to one political group But violation of the law was avoided first by getting all the auns and unces and the cousins of the duPonts to contribute. second by contributing to different state campaigns
 The powerful Pennsylvania Pew family, which op- crates sun oil, the Sun Ship Company, the Path- finder, The Farm Journal and various other trade publications, donated the huge total of $i08525; the Alfred F. Sloan family of General Motors put up sS6O00; the wealthy Widener family of Philadelphia gave e24,7b0; the Queeny family ot St. LOUIS which operates Monsanto Chemical, dug up S42375; while the Pitcairn family of Pennsylvania which mantifac- lures auto-gros sweetened the Republican kitty with S20,il4n.
 All in all, about ten powerful Republican families tossed in about 100000 And you can take your pick as to whether it's healthier to have ten families dominate one party or to have $1 contributions from about 20000O00 families in organized labor dominate the other
 (NOTE-Donations by P.A.C. are openly record- ed not canouflaged under maze of relatives and in-laws)
 Congressman Karl Mundt South Dakota Repub- lcan, speaking before an AVG. group in Muron S. D., which qlizzed him about COP. money sent into South Dakota all the way from Pennsylvania and Delaware by the Pew and duPont families, Mundt asked specifically about references to Pew and duPont contributions previously reported in this col umn.
 Sometimes Drew Pearson tells the truth" the Congressman told the veterans "and sometimes he doesn't tell the truth President Roosevelt called him
 chronic liar but don't think he is quite that bad"
 Regardless of this columns veracity, however, the records of South Dakota contributions not subject to debate. They are matter Of official record in the files of the Speaker of the House of Representatives in which Congressman Mundt sits. As previously ported in this column these files show that in l042 the duPonts, Mellows, Pews, Col. Mccormick of the Chicago Tribune, Ira Copley of the Copey Press, Max E. Jarman of the General Shoe Company, con- tributed total of $5370O to Senator Bushfelds re- election in South Dakota.