Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1908 — AMPAIGN PUBLICITY. [ARTICLE]

AMPAIGN PUBLICITY.

een states of the Union have squiring publicity for camontrlbutions. It was not to these States that the Demosnt for a treasurer for their i. committee* The Republiliberately put their campaign r under the strictest law of t of New York. —Buffalo Exls what one might call ope ) crass, regulation, routine, party arguments that surely *

must assume an awful stupidity in those to whom they are addressed. No; the Democrats did not go to any of the nineteen States that have publicity laws for campaign contributions to get a treasurer. They could and did provide for such publicity without being compelled to do it by law. The Republicans peremptorily refused In their platform to make any such provision. The Democrats not only did so, but have carried their declaration Into effect and will make public all contributions before' the election. More than this they will not receive contributions from corporations nor accept from any one any more than SIO.OOO. After this—do not forget this — the Republicans chose a treasurer from one of the nineteen States that have laws compelling publicity for campaign funds. But they chose the State where such publicity is compelled only after the election, which for the practical moral effect that it may have might as well be never. If the party Is defeated, nobody will care who gave to It nor how much. If It wins, It can afford to laugh at anything and everybody. So we have the Republicans simply crawling into New York State to do what the law compels them to do as to publishing campaign funds, while the Democrats did all, and more, voluntarily in advance, and by so doing compelled the Republicans to imitate them to jome extent at least. All this is the very a b c of events, and ohe would think that a Republican organ would be highly content to let it fall Into oblivion. The Republican record on this publicity matter is so distinctly discreditable beside the Democratic that the least said the better. But you can never guess the shallows of the party intellect or imagine in what foolish things it may think it thinks it has an argument.—lndianapolis News.