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History of the Champaign "Elephant" The Griggs subvention Commission, profit and loss, say Total cost LEGISLATIVE FUNDS, 511 500 3,000 $200,200 Now, we will get at the amount of legislative expenses, or corruption fund if you will, by ascertaining the difference of the cost of the bid and the sums voted or to be voted: There was voted at the October election They are called on to vote in March and April Total voted and to be voted Cost of bid as above Total corruption fund . $100,000 130,000 $230,000 200,200 $ 29,800 There old man Turner, put that in your pipe and smoke it; and you, fellows at Bloomington and Lincoln, learn from this how you are to deal with radical legislatures in future.—Some say the corruption fund comes nearer to $50,000 than $30,000; and that "the ring" intends to wring this out of the voters of Champaign county one of these days. Such a statement is a slander. ARGUMENTS TO BE USED IN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY. But some outsiders, perhaps, will ask, Will the people of Champaign county vote this $130,000 ? Of course they will, for we have " a dead-fair' on them, which they can't avoid; and I will tell you how—Tom B. Macauley says, somewhere, "That never was a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic church. | i I think if Tom knew of the Champaign county " r i n g " organization, he would "go back" on that statement. In order to carry the scheme through, we have got ready the following arguments, and they are to be used there, in town and country, according as they will touch the tender spots of voters:
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