People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1897 — Campaign Expenses. [ARTICLE]

Campaign Expenses.

Eugene V. Debs, in a recent letter, places the amount of blood money raised by Mark Hanna at $16,000,000. The Chicago Txdbune makes the statement that “the best information at Republican headqnarters fixed the sum at about or under one-fifth of what Debs names.” According to the most prejudiced of gold-bug organs then, the expenditures of the gold campaign amounted to three million two hundred thousand dollars—“according to the best information obtainable at headquarters. ” Now every one knows that the men in charge of the campaign wer© very loth to let the public know of their expenditures. They said with more force than politeness that it was nobody’s business but their own. But long and patient inquiry developed the fact that nearly three millfon were spent in the dissemination of literature alone. The other enormous outlays, including special trains to Canton, speakers in

every city and town in the land, some of whom were said to have received one thousand dollars for a single speech, etc., etc., according to the Tribune estimate must be covered by a beggarly $200,000. To our unprejudiced eye it would seem that Mr. Debs was nearer the truth in his estimate than the esteemed Tribune. Two hundred thousand dollars would hardly pay the postage bills of the big bureau in the Auditorium Hotel.—Farm, Field and Fireside. Dr. James Copeland, an eminent Englishman says that the use of tobacco limits the range cf the voice. Three Minnesota banks closed their doors Monday. The failure was due to the silver craze out in Colorado.—Fowler Leader. Richard Cornelius, cashier of the Farmers’ and Planters’ bank, of Baltimore, committed suicide at Druid Hall park by drowning. The Indianapolis News’ currency conference remind’s us very much of Greeley’s Peace Conference thirty-five years ago, and will have about the same effect.—Fowler Leader. Fairbanks wins the Republican caucus nomination United States Senator. This is as it ought to be. When a man buys a thing and pays for it he ought to have it. iNo one doubts Mr. Fairbanks’ profound ability to legislate for the interest of corporations.—Fowler Leader

The contest of Thos. E. Watson against Black, is having the attention of congress this week. The outcome is in doubt. There’s no question what the decision would be if justice prevailed, but with present day politicians justice is not a controling influence every time. —Chicago Sentinel. The Japanese have some curious ideas about their finger nails. One of them is to the effect that they must not be cut before starting on a journey, lest disgrace befall the person before he reaches his destination. Neither should they be cut at night, lest cat’s claws should grow out. To throw nail parings into the fire is to invite some great calamity. If, while trimming the nails, a piece should fall in the fire, the person will soon die.