The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-15
HARD WORK
 FOR PARKER Democratic Headquarters
 Busy Scene. ALL PULLING TOGETHER Leaders of a Campaign New CT More Harmonious. The CorteIyou Scandal . Live Issue at Present--Bis Corporations MuIct- ed to Feed the Republicsn
 Fund.
ALL PULLING TOGETHER

great Democratic city and, stopping at his hotel. the Seville. half a block on Fifth Avenue and about four from the Democratic headquarters opposite the Waidorf-Astoria, he has been close to the Democratic storm center and in easy communication with the cam paign managers.
 If Judge Parker be not a winner in November. he looks 1t every inch. He has a cheerful and serene seIf-poise. n hearty handclasp and kindling hazel eyes that invariably attract all who meet nim. He seems not a man con- sumed with a great anxiety. un-bti, fight though he has, but bears himseIf like z man who continually hears good news. Indeed. 1t is said that of all the managers of the campaign--and ne IS one Of the most industrious Judge Parker is the most sanguine.
 There was constant stream of wis. itors to him at his modest partments in the Hotel Seville. Of course large proportion was made up of Democratic leaders from the State and elsewhere. while not few were visitors from a distance who called to pay their res- spects and to see what the Democratic cAm6 away from his presence sounding his praise in words that betoken agreeable surprise. They all like him--younx and oid--veteran politicians and hedg- lIngs in the strlfe.
 Busy Time is 0n.
 These are busy days at the head quarters of the National Committee. Millions of documents have been going out daily and this, particular business will soon be completed for the cam paign. Occupying about ten stories of q tweive-story building on Thirty fourth Street. 1t has been a seethtux hive of workers and visitors for the last several weeks. It presents d inaaked contfast to the Repu 3iscan headquarters. where Chairman cortel- you's extreme caution and secretiye- ness seem to be emulated by all asso- ciated with him.
 Newspaper men, of whom there arc many here from all the big newspapers of the country, have been much dlsap- pointed over the lack of real news de- velopments in the campaign. The chief trouble is that so far they have hardly induced anybody on either side to give them anything like a definite interesting talk. The Republican headquarters they say is the "dullest proposition ever," while the Democrat ic headquarters is but little better, ex- cept that 1t appears to have more ani- nation about 1t as far as business ap- pearances go.
 They have ceased to send out litera-' ture from the Republican headquar- ters. Chairman Cortelyou has lately been devoting himself to fat-frying exercises and, tSey say, to consider able effect. Down on Wall Street they say there has never been anything like the unblushing hold-up-.. methods by which the Republican Chairman has obtained campaign funds from the cor porations, regardless of whether their chiefs were Democrats Or Republicans. The independent and Democratic press of the city have scathingly assailed both Chairman Cortelyou and the ad- ministration for this nefarious work. but it goes on strenuously. just the same.
 The Disgrace Of COrteIyouism.
 Democratic literature now going forth points out that nothing could be moro disRraceful in politics than the taking of Cortelyou out of the Depart ment of Commerce where he had learn ed. with his bureau of corporations. the secrets of the trusts, and then placing him at the head of the cam paign management where he could use his knowledge of the affairs of the corporations for blackmailing pur- poses.
 With all of this no one Is presumed to he more shrewdly familiar than President Roosevelt himself. The CorteIyou collecting business and the cheerful responses of most of the big cornoratIons, particularly the large reiiwav systems of the East constitute. aa far as the two elements are con- cerned. what has been termed bribery m both sides--a kind of mutuaIity of degradation. c.., Is s,arted ant on his collecting mission. ssnstor Aldrich of Rhode Island. the chief representative of the trusts in the Senate. came over and instructed ,ha Chairman where he could best be- gin to do the most good. The unwil- ing contributors are those wno nave hosr blackmailed, not a few of them professing to be opposed to the eiec- tton of MT. Roosevelt. There Is no kind of doubt that the corporations have exacted terms of the adminlstra- tIor or 1t would not have gotten cent rom them. It Is recalled that 1t Ia considerably more than year ana a half since the creation of the bureau of corporations whose chiefest ousi- rass If Wns confidently promised by ths administration would be to open inc books of the trusts for the benent o1 the public. COrtelyou was head or that department mose than year. and to this date the public has seen not naee-not a line of the books Of any corporation.
 What a Change Has Come;
 Tn his last annual message of Decem- her T 1903. President Roosevelt refer rcd to the Bureau of Corporations In terms felicitating the country upon It's creation as "the clearing house for in formation" to say nothing of his al- iusions at length to provisions for the execution of the antitrust laws. The, President also said:
 "Publicity con do no harm to the hon. est corporation. The only corporation that has cause to dread 1t Is the corpo- ration which shrinks from the light, and about the welfare of such corpora tions we peed not be over-sensitive."
 These brave words of last December in the glare and stress of the campaign are now seen for what they are worth among the most blatant of all the pre-