People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1895 — Money Talks in Old Party Ranks. [ARTICLE]

Money Talks in Old Party Ranks.

What is the difference between them? Nothing, though no/iinally one is labelled a democrat and the other a republican. Both are vastly rich—both are capitalists—and both use their money lavishly to accomplish their political aims and ends. Quay is a high tariff and gold standard advocate. So is Brice, though three-fourths of the democrats of Ohio are against him on both questions; yet he rules democratic conventions as with a rod of iron by the lavish use of money. The recent democratic convention in Ohio illustrates the fact. Brice won, and money did it. Quay, on Wednesday, achieved the greatest triumph of his life. Money did it, for it is estimated that more than $1,500 were spent in the election of the delegates to the Harrisburg convention, and Quay spent more than any one else or he could not have been victorious. Brice had nothing to recommend him but money and never had; but “money talks,” and Brice came out on top, as Quay did at Harrisburg. We would as soon be in the hands of one as the other. They use their money to achieve success, and the peopff? allow them to do it. But we hope the day is near at hand when merit will win and not money. Neither Brice nor Quay would have a seat in the United States senate if the honestly expressed will of the people could be heard. Tricksters rule and stifle the voice of the people, and corrupt men force themselves to the front by foul means.— Saturday Bulletin, Aurora, Ind.