Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — ROOSEVELT CONTRIBUTES. [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT CONTRIBUTES.

Theodore Boosevelt and Hugh Thompson, members of the Civil Servioa Commission, have each contributed SSO to the campaign funds of their respective parties. Mr. Roosevelt is a Republican and MrThompson a Democrat. In an interview Mr. Roosevelt said: “There is no reason why. under a Repnb lican administration, all the contributions should be made to the Republican campaign fund, and undor a Democratic administration they should all be to the Democratic fund. The clerks are as much at liberty to contribute to one party as another, and they are perfectly safe and free to make no contribution if they so prefer. Within the classified service the employes are under obligations, to no party. No one can foroe a government employe to contribute, nor, if he desires to bon tribute, compel him to contribute to this party rather than thkt. That is all there is in the question, except that no employe shall solicit, directly or Indirectly, from any other employe, and none shall give to or take from another employe.”