Editorial Observer - A Century-Old Principle - Keep Corporate Money Out of Elections - NYTimes.com
Tue, 08/11/2009 - 7:09am — Mike
The origins of the ban lie in the 1896 presidential race, which pitted the Republican William McKinley against William Jennings Bryan, the farm-belt populist. Bryan was a peerless orator, but McKinley had Mark Hanna — the premier political operative of his day — extracting so-called assessments from the nation’s biggest corporations and funneling them into a vast marketing campaign.
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