Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1912 — LOOK FOR THE READY CASH [ARTICLE]

LOOK FOR THE READY CASH

Voters in Corsica Can Never Be Aocused of Not Having Eye to the Main Chance. The island of Corsica, although a part of the republic of Prance, is quite different In its customs from the republic and never ceases to furnish reading matter out of the ordinary for the "Parisian journals. The Corsicans have, it appear?, a decided penchant for millionaire candidates for the chamber of deputies and are always on the lookout for this admirable material. Yet there is between them and the millionaire a singular mlsapnprehension. The islanders desire that millionaires be candidates because of the manna that falls upon their country during an electoral campaign, hut they do not desire to "elect them. 1 As for the millionaires, they are perfectly willing to spread the manna, but they also wish to be elected. “Recently,” says a Paris journal "one of our most successful money makers went to Corsica to visit his future department. At his USBSfia-' tion several dozens of Corsicans received him with ‘hourrahs’ and guns were fired, which, down there, is the last word of enthusiasm. He undertook a tour of the country. At each village, Corsicans, magnificent in local color, acclaimfd him and wakened the echoes with gunpowder. “At the third village, however, he had something of a sensation. He had a vigit from a farmer who- said to him: "We are four brothers, all voters, ready to vote for you. Buy for me the meadow that is on the other side of the village and you have our votes.’ “‘How much is this meadow?’ “ ‘A trifle, 12,000 francs.’ “After a tour of eight days the millionaire calculated that to pay for all the votes that had been offered to him would require five or six million francs. And- even after ture he would not be certain of election. “He withdrew from the canvass, but he had already expended some hundred thousand francs, of which his enthusiastic welcomes had their full share. They really would like to have him come again.”