Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1908 — AMAZING BLUNDER OF TAFT. [ARTICLE]

AMAZING BLUNDER OF TAFT.

In a speech at Lincoln, Neb., on Sept. 30th, Mr. Taft, the candidate of the officeholders' trust (and other trusts) for president, said this: "The chief objection to the publication of contributions before the election is that It makes certain that in the heat of the controversy the motives of those who contribute to pay the /legitimate expenses of the campaign will be misconstrued, perverted and misrepresented. The candidates In whose behalf the contributions are made will be charged In a most unfair wdg as being completely under the eontool of those who make the contributibM.” They will not be “charged in a most unfair way” If the contributions come from proper sources. The Democrats are not afraid of such a charge. The are going to make their contributions public before the election, but as all of their contributions will come from the people It will not hurt Mr. Bryan to ? > charged with being “under the contrc of those who make the contributions.' Mr. Taft admits that he dare not show to the people who It Io that is poytag the expenses c* hto campaign.