Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1912 — PAY UP AND SAVE TROUBLE [ARTICLE]

PAY UP AND SAVE TROUBLE

"Malefactors of Great Wealth" Should Take Warning From Harrlman’s Experience. It is time for the malefactors of great wealth to look out The Roosevelt committee is advertising "a popular one-dollar subscription fund to defray the necessary and legitimate expense of securing the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt for president on the Republican ticket at the Chicago convention.” This is the same scheme "Bunny Jim” Sherman started in 1906, and it had serious consequenoes for some people. Any malefactor of great wealth wio ever supported Mr. Roosevelt would do well to dig up a dollar at onoe and deliver it in person to the Roosevelt committee treasurer. If he is wise he will not refer to any persona] dealings with Mr. Roosevelt In the past. That is the mistake Mr. Harriman made in 1906. -He refused to give Mr. Sherman a dollar to help elect a Roosevelt congress, and he talked ' about having raised |260,000 tor the Roosevelt campaign fund in 1804 and being sorry for it. It was indiscreet In Mr. Harriman, and very poor economy. If he had paid over his dollar or something more to Mr. Sherman he might not have been branded as an “undesirable citizen” along with Haywood and Moyer. It would have been cheap at a dollar not to be belabored with the big stick. It 1b worth a dollar of the money of a malefactor of great wealth any time to escape Mr. Harriman's experience. Ab a matter of it is safer to call on the committee and save trouble.