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By GEORGE BOWLES
If an aspiring young public servant, possessed of the acknowledged philosophical depth of a Thomas Jefferson and the oratorical powers of a Patrick Henry, were to begin to test the political waters in his hometown or county, the first question he would likely be asked by his local party officials would be, “All that aside, how much money can you raise?”
Sadly, in the context of modem political methodology, it would be a perfectly appropriate inquiry. Bucks, not brains, are more and more becoming the prime concern of the engineers of our electoral process. Brains and ability are, of course, of value. They are desirable. But the bucks - the access to them or the ability to raise them - are an absolute imperative. The rest is, or often seems to be, incidental.
Indeed, concern for fund-raising has become so much a part of our political thinking that it bears heav
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