Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1918 — That Big Republican Slush Fond of 1916 [ARTICLE]

That Big Republican Slush Fond of 1916

Indiana Democrats are making rapid progress with their *lan to build a fire under Will H. Hays, Republican State chairman and Republican national chairman, on the subject of the enormous campaign expenditures of the Republican organization in Indiana for the election of 1916, when Hays was the head of the Republican State organization. They are gathering up all possible information along that line, and the} say they will be able to show not only that the Republican statement of $250,000 spent by the Republicans in that campaign was enough to buy the entire State, but that the statement does not set out all of the money spent by them in that .campaign. The Democrats are preparing to show a number >f discrepancies- between the amounts actually spent and the amount reported by the Republicans. They expect to be able to show that this gigantic slush fund was responsible for the fact that the Republicans carried Indiana by a small plural::/. Statements filed in compliance with the law show that the Democratic State organization spent about $75,000 in the campaign, as against the $250,000 which it is known the Republicans spent and the half million which it is believed they spent. The Democrats will insist on the Republicans telling what they did with all of this money. They say that if they force truthful answers to this question it will produce entertaining and interesting information.