Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume IX, Number 31, 5 November 1936 — Sugar Planters Pay $250,000 Toward Landon "Slush Fund" [ARTICLE]

Sugar Planters Pay $250,000 Toward Landon "Slush Fund"

The Republican National Committee has admitted publicly the expenditure of $8,000,000 in ihe recent presidentiil campaign. Goverrior "What's-his-name— that fellow-from-Kansas?" received exactly eight electoral eollege votes. Iu other words, the Republiean naiional committee paid a eool million million dollars for every e!ect6ral college votc reeeived bv its cāndidate. Also, in other words, that meana Uiat if the Republicans ihope to elect their presidenUal I eandidate in 1940, they must be- ' gin now to collect a campaign [ slush fund of at least $266,000,(000, for 266 electoral college votes jare necessary to elect a Presijdent. I Noi the least by any means of the heavv contributors to th« Republican cainpalgn were the sugar planters anei the oUier in;dustrial barons of Hawali—that |impregnable stronghold of standpat Republie3tiism, where the misguided people still consider property rights superior to human rights. FliiUips Gei Job At the request of Rep\iblican naUonal head<juarters J. Tlce Phlllii», the HSPA '"kwmWe shooter", was given the unenviable job of collecUng Hawaii's quota of $250,000. Mr. Fhillips, who lias more bralns in lus Mt!e finger th.m are contnined in the coHectlve heads of hts employers, m«st have had hlfe tongvie wedged way up in his eiieek whiie he went on ai>ou'v lut& tfodk x cUU* Us>k, tor Mr, ri:illips his way around a whole l|t horc his bossos. Btit Mil Phillips did a good job of his cojecUng. basis of its $250,-

000 contribution to the rmtional Republican slush fund ( the sugar planters and other industrial tycoons In Hawaii have achieved the wonderful reputation of havīnp: pTirchased exact-ly one-quart-er of bne of the eight votes obtained by the RepubHcan presidenuai candidate — Govemor i"What's-his-name —that fellow!from Kansas?"