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On the Use of Money in Politics.
THE civil service gang is always howlin' about candidates and officeholders puttin' up money for campaigns and about corporations chippin' in.

They might as well howl about givin' contributions to churches.

A political organization has to have money for its business as well as a church, and who has more right to put up than the men who get the good things that are goin'?
Take, for instance, a great political concern like Tammany Hall It does missionary work like a church, it's got big expenses and it's got to be supported by the faithful.

If a corporation sends in a check to help the good work of the Tammany Society, why shouldn't we take it like other missionary societies?
Of course, the day may come when we'll reject the money of the rich as tainted, but it hadn't come when I left Tammany Hall at 11:25 A.M.
today.
Not long ago some newspapers had fits became the Assemblyman from my district said he had put up $500 when he was nominated for the Assembly last year.