The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-20

prosperity and ridiculing the Democratic
cry of Imperialism At Point Pleasant
Governor Roosevelt and party left the
train to address a large crowd from a
platform in the town. At Huntington
there was a large demonstration and
street parade.
At Charleston Governor Roosevelt
said:
MI Bryan has claimed to be against
trusts, yet Mr.. Bryan's own manager
Senator Jones, is not only the chief bene-
dciary of the cotton bale trust, but he
bubbles about 1t and says it is not
trust. Mr.. Bryan was the guest of Mr..
Croker in New York, and if he is cor
rectly quoted says Mr.. Croker is the
greatest man in the world and Tammany
hall the greatest organization in the
world. Let me tell you, though, that
the gentleman who presided over the
Bryan meeting in New York was Ed
ward NJ. Shepard, counsel for the great
sugar trust, one of whose prominent
members by the way, is reputed also to
be among the foremost promoters of the
cotton bale trust This counsel for the
sugar trust introduced Mr.. Bryan,
whose thesis is denunciation of trusts
Mr.. Croker. who is the only man through
whom Mr. Bryan can hope to be elect
ed, and who was the chief spirit on that
occasion, denounces trusts in his public
capacity, while in his private capacity
he promotes a trust that in my opinion
is an Ubiquitous one Ex-senator Hill,
who is also supporting Mr.. Bryan in
porations endeavOring to break down the
franchise tax law Mr.. Bryan is intro
duced and championed by these three
men and is being managed by Senator
Jones.
Now. understand me; 7 do not enter
into the merits of these trusts, save
that I believe the ice trust, not only
from the character of the commodity
in which it deals, but from it's connec-
ton with the leading local politicians,
can properly be denounced as iniqu1-
tous. Still, 1 have no question that
there are plenty Of fairly honest men
who have gone into these trusts SIMPLY
as a business matter, as they would go
into any corporation; but what I want
to emphasize is the utter hypocrisy of
using another trust as a party Shibbo-
Ieth in the Organized Democracy when
the prominent leaders of that party have
private ownership in the very trusts
which they ostentatiously denounce.
Mr. Bryan is making every effort to
carry New York, and he knows his sole
chance very small one, gentlemen
lies in the Crokerized Democracy of that
state using every means at its command
When Mr.. Bryan allies himself to MI
Croker and is the beneficiary of all for
which Mr.. Croker stands, he forfeits the
right to be treated as sincere in his OPP
position to trusts.
1--WE have often been told that Mr..
BRYAN must be pardoned for his crude
and raw theories of finance and econom-
les and even for his aiding and abettlng
the Malay bandits who are shooting
down our soldiers in the Philippines,
upon the ground that he has good inten-
lions. that he is sincere in his denun-
Citations of wrong. I do not see how
such a claim can be urged by the guest
of the Tammany Democracy, one or
the foundations of which is Matchmaking
the protected vice and infamy that in
New York city fiourishes with hideous
rankness under Tanmany's control MT
Croker is trying to help Mr.. Bryan to
a national success which would mean
the deepest stain upon our financial
honor at home, the deepest stain on the
honor of our flag abroad. In return,
Mr.. BRYAN is trying to help Mr.. Croker
to bring down the state of New York
to the level of the coarse and vicious
evil to which New York city has Oeen
already reduced"