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Influenza and other ills were in the chilly breath of a pestilential slush-storm on Franklin Field, Philadelphia. Yet 54,000 hardy perennials sat by to watch Penn and Penn State struggle through a punting duel in the mud. Back and forth sailed the slimy ball, each team trying a field goal now and then. The mud won. Score: Penn 0, Penn State...
Factional strife among the Kansas Third Party leaders occupied his attention a moment then he was off for much-stumped Illinois, speaking in Chicago ("The Dawes' Plan means economic servitude for Germany!") and in Rockford ("Watch Washington for startling 'slush fund' disclosures...
...Charge. A fortnight ago, warming up on his stump tour, Candidate LaFollette thrust an accusing finger at the moneybags of the Repub- lican Party. Cried he, in effect: "Huge slush fund ! Corruption ! A desperate attempt to buy the election...
...Case. On these grounds Candidate LaFollette erected a case maintaining that: 1) If Pennsylvania's quota is $600,000, the National Republican treasure trove must be $4,000,000 or $5,000,000; 2) "Use elsewhere" meant use in the Middle West; 3) "This campaign to raise enormous slush fund is based on malicious slander and libel. The New York Times says this conspiracy was initiated by William M. Butler, Chairman Republican National Committee, in conference with W. T. Mellon, brother of Secretary of Treasury, and Edward T. Stotesbury, partner of J. P. Morgan...
...Rochester, N. Y., where he set forth his program in detail, he swung south to Scranton where, on the basis of a report that the Republicans were trying to raise $600,000 for their campaign fund in Pennsylvania, he charged them with trying to raise a huge "corruption" or "slush" fund to buy the election...