Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1912 — Might Auction Its Favors. [ARTICLE]

Might Auction Its Favors.

The honester method would be for the Republican party to offer its fa'ors at auction. It could raise an unlimited campaign fund by selling in Pittsburg the right to fix the steel duties, and in Fall River the right to fix the duties on cotton goods, and id Lawrence the right to name the duties on woolens. The present method is the same in substance, but it is not businesslike. Immunity from prosecution under the Sherman law would be worth a good deal of money to the big combinations, but they ought to have some assurance that if they give $125,000 they will not be prosecuted because they refused to be “touched" for an additional >150,000. s