Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1908 — TAFT AFRAID TO TRUST THE PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

TAFT AFRAID TO TRUST THE PEOPLE.

President Roosevelt declared in a public letter to Mr. Bryan that he opposes the publication of campaign contributions before the election because the people might giver* the sources of the contributions an undue importance in casting their votes —in other words, that they might be influenced against a man who was being financially sup* ported by the trusts and other oenary and suspicious interests. This was an amazing position for Mr. Roosevelt x to take, but when Roosevelt had given him his cue, Taft took the same ground and undertook to * fortify himself by the statement that there is no law in either Europe or America compelling the publication of contributions and expenditures before the election. Mr. Taft ought to know that when a thing Is right it should be done, whether there is a law oompeTHng it or not. The trouble with Mr. Taft and his campaign managers is that they do not dare publish the names of the men who are furnishing them with money. They are determined that the people shall not know who are making the fight against them.