Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1912 — IT’S YOUR CAMPAIGN; IT NEEDS YOUR HELP [ARTICLE]

IT’S YOUR CAMPAIGN; IT NEEDS YOUR HELP

If the Democratic campaign fund were being drawn from multimillion aire contributors anxious to purchase legislative favors at the expense of the people there would be no need to appeal to the voters at large for the means to finance the campaign. The sinews of war in a contest between the victims and the beneficiaries of tariff extortion and trust monopoly, however, must be furnished in the main by persons of comparatively small means, and the contributors to the Democratic campaign fund must make up by strength of numbers what they individually lack in length of purse. The recent statement of the chairman of the Democratic .general finance committee showed that 17.116 individ uals have contributed in the aggregate about $300,000, and that about $750,000 more is needed for the legitimate ex penses of the campaign. That would be a small sum to a candidate who could pass around the hat among four trust magnates and get it back with $450,000. but it is a large sum to the supporters of Woodrow Wilson's can didacy. and everybody should chip in according to his means without wait ing to see what his neighbor is going to do about it