Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1905 — CAMPAIGN FUND SCANDAL. [ARTICLE]

CAMPAIGN FUND SCANDAL.

Voters of the Nation Should Refuse to Condone the Iniquity. Far greater disclosures of the Republican campaign fund graft from the Insurance companies are expected by Mr. Hughes, the attorney in charge of the New York investigation. The claim is made that the life Insurance companies contributed an aggregate of sl,000,000 in the campaigns of 1800, 1900 and 1904. Of all the Republican scandals exposed during the past few years this campaign fund scandal is the most disgraceful and disastrous to the Republican party. It was bad enough to receive donations from the trusts and corporations that were expecting to receive favors or to do business with the government, but to use the savings especially provided for the widow and orphan to debauch the voters of the close states Is beyond measure atrocious. The policy holders of these Insurance companies have a duty to perform for their families, and that is to Insist on the retirement of the management that plundered their savings, and the voters have their duty to perform, which is to “turn the rascals out" who secured the money. It is impossible now for the Republican party to make restitution to the Democrats for their purchase of the elections in 1896 and 1900, if not in

1904, with the money furnished by the corporations, trusts and insurancecompanies, but the voters of the United States can even matters up by refusing to condone the iniquity by defeating the party that accomplished it.