The Delta independent., 1900-10-05


lions are primary state Questions. III"
nation. hope. will be able to Srapple
with them AN going to take up the
national side later.
Two years ago | ran for governor
OF New York and WAS elected. My
opponent was "x-judg- Van Wyck-
that Is my nominal opponent: my real
opponent was a gentleman OF mnrc
Than local fame. the Honorable Rich
ard Croker. daughter and applause
You seem to have heard Of him tM0rc
laugh;crJ Mr. Van wyck and Mr..
Croker announced among other things
their deadly hostility to corporations:
how they were going To down trusts: :
what werr they going to do with cor
I'urations. They made mnch more
because ] WAS hamIsr.'l by the fact
that l did not intend TO say anything
on the stump that ! did not intend 10
snake gnsi. and at that l have not
ir.,.fi able to make good Oh the stump.
Cheers
Well. | got iu started to look into
differ, nj qn"~ii"ns 'r'noIp'nI corpora
lions. The needs are different In dif
fcrrnt : atrs ! found that there w"r'
i'll ny stale certain real abuses. the
grossCst abuses for | found thai
there wcre a numls'r Of larE" corpora
lions enjoying sis.cial franchises OF
great va!u". which were gifts to them
OF the stat" muuic. lality. who wer"
making certain men enormous for
tunes. for which they paid as'sur,fly
inadequate sums Ia the state. As tha
was the grrat-~t evil. l attacked thai
first. and we put through what we call
q franchise lax law. under which
there have ,@-.n put on the assessment
rolls OF my state nearly sH0.HH.s.'
worth Of proIsrty-the property Of
corporations. which had hitherto c~-
.alsed taxation. applause That was
"A big stride In advance. but IL wac
not an easy stride to take. II wa~
done only at the cost Of Inrurring th"
bitter hostility Of many men. who's"
hostility one would not liz" 20 incur
There may he .lefcr,s In I'll" law. bu,
the Law hls come I" stay Now nj
the very time that ! was putting
through that franchise tax law. Mr.
Van Wyck af q dinner of the Ameri-
can Traveller assOciation. and Mt
Croker In interviews-he takes TO IN
i"rriew~ more kindly than to speak
ing were making statements and wers
Attacking trusts with q frrocity Of ex
r~sion to " hich could not gu. Rut
while they were doing that. within
OF. wCrk of ih. time " hen they were
MAJ 'ng such lruhnciaiions OF trusts.
they were becoming TWO Of the largest
shareholders In the most infamous
trust In our state loud applause
Rsady so B-~s the TRIAL os Cosnv,.rt.~".
Now. gentlemen. I want you to com
parr our promises and performances
with their promises aud Ixrf"rman"cs
and see which stands the rUnI,a ri son
is->i Sine. | have ts.rn oui un this
Western trip. the lrmrraiic stale
convention nf New York has hcrn held
The prmocrat- have put in their plat
form n plank against expansion and
n plank for ialsNr. and "n that plat
form they have nominated n gentle
man who has ts-rn In the Iast Il pro
noun,Cd cxIansinni>i and = feroci"us
anti-trus; and lairr union man. That
Is such . trfiinE inSons I~trncy that
Il Is hardly n'S-S~ary to alludc I" II.
Laughter and appiauseh In their
platform they stated - Mr.. Croker
stated. for hc spoke >imgiy through the
del, gatrs-Nr. Croker. through his
delegates. !,r,r,s,is<i to ienouncr the
ice trust. U.auShicr and apria us"'. At
the iinc of making this state
cx-Ju,ir~ Van wyck anil Mr.. Corpora
ticu Counsel Whalrn. and President
of the board of Aldrrmen GuEgcn-
heimcr. and other mcnberu Of the
board at that time. white stou;iy
tenouncinr the icr irust in their pub
Ne capacity. in their private capacity
~erc fighting as har,i a. they could
and taking advantage Of every tech
nicalIty to prevent the attorney gen
cral of the state of New York from
bringing about n dissolution Of that
trust. tApplausrl Now that is what
h being done in New York. Yon nerd
not take my word for Il. Look through
any fle Of papers. look through New
York Journal and though you will find
those factr .et forth In the New York
Journal. nevertheless ihcy will be true.
tGreat laughter and aprlause.)
Now let % turn from the state to
the nation A. thinea are now, under
the 0eciaion. Of the supreme court. an
action against . trust Of any kind
muat come throagh the state. There
are obvious reasons why that no onr
should have The power other than the
state. Therc are rcasoaa against n
slso, hus there are siso ssroeeer rea-
spos for u. IIast June ihe Rep1batraA
parry In the lswer Aooae oS Cuaervss
preNeateA Q cossstifNtbuoal ame21ment
which waa Ss~iGsed 10 Rive 10 the -
tlsoal a1skcstties an the powcra Osw
ps0sasA ~ sAe saat~ auth.ri,iea and
deAsla6 TIE Regulating trUsas snA 90.
pusasisaD q say kioA u Waa Q Sssss-
sic a1e2tlWeat. Z IN ~ SOW tS.roa-
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wss . jerelAraesoa fsr that a0eSa-
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