The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-10-28
KNOX MAKES
FIERCE ATTACK
ON PARKER !.
GIVES INTERVIEW APPROVED BY
THE PRESIDENT
Charges the Democratic Candidate
With Inconsistency on Trust and
Corruption Questions.


rived in the city at noon today, and
went into conference Immediately
with the president at the White House,
1t was the general impression that he
had been sent for to discuss the meas
ure of reply that should be made to
Judge Parkers recent speech on the
trust question. y
Tonight the former member OF
President Roosevelt's cabinet, gave out
with the presidents approval, an in
terview, in which he savagely criti-
cized Judge Parker's utterances, and
his former political methods.
After referring to what he declared
to be Inconsistencies in the trust at
titude Of ex-President Cleveland and
Judge Parker, he continues: Judge
Parker, in his speech on Monday, said
Many years have passed since my ac-
tive participation in politics. In the
meantime startling change has taken
place in the method Of conducting cam
paigns; change not for the better, but
for the worse; a change that has In
troduced debasing and corruptive
methods which threaten the integrity
of our government.
"It is astounding that Judge Parker
should be willing to challenge the
comparison which this statement in
evitably calls out Wnen Judge Park
or last actively participated in politics
off the bench, he was chairman of the
New York state Democra.-, committee,
which elected David B. Hill, as COVER
nor. He was a cog in the Hill machine.
There never have been in our political
history, methods more debasing and
corrupt than those of the Hill machine
in New York, and they eliminated in
the steal of the state by the Maynard
frauds, and the overthrow of the Hill
machine in consequence. This was the
machine which Mr.. Parker ran until,
as a reward for running it, he was
made judge by Hill; and those are
methods he deplores.
Again Judge Parker speaks of the
campaign contributions by great oor-
porations. He states that some OF the
enterprises which have unduly thriyed
through favoritism, have become SO
rich and strong that they can and dc
contribute vast sums when it is made
clear that it will advantage them.
Judge Parker is describing precisely
and exactly the sources which give
Tammany Hall its strength. and the
cutting of OF which in the present cleo
ton, would remove every chance Of hie
carrying New Yo.k state. There is
not an honest man in political life who
does not know that this is the case and
know that Judge Parker Is now seeking
to be the beneficiary Of the very
methods which he affects to denounce.' y
Again Judge Parker says: Pofiti-
cal contributions by corporations
and trusts mean corruption. They can
not be honest. A corporation will
subscribe to a political party only be-
cause the corporation expects that
party through it's control Of public ON
GERS, executive or legislative, to dc
something for the benent of the cor
poration, or to refrain from doing
something to its injury. No other mo-
tive can be imagined; in the nature
of things, no other motive can exist. y
1T is astonishing that Judge Park
er should have the temerity to say .Aif
when his own intimate associates and
supporters, the men who conducted his
campaign for the Nomination. and who
are now conducting the campaign foI
his election, represent these very cor
porations which he affects to denounce
or else owe their political strength
solely TO the contributions they have
received from them In the past, and
expect 10 receive from them in the
future. Mr.. Cordmeyer, Mr.. Patrick
| McCarren, Mr.. August Belmont, Mr.
William f. sheehan. Mr.. Thomas F.
Ryan, Mr.. John b. Mcdonald, Mr.
David b. Hill ana Mr.. Thomas Tag
CART, one and all owe their whoa<
power in politics to the intimate con.
nection they have established between
the management Of corporations ant
the management Of public business
Mr.. Parker was created by them
would never have been thought Of ex
cept for them and has not now on
chance of success save what they giv'
him.
when Mr. Hill, last appeared ,. IL
the New York state convention, whici
put Judge Parker forward for tn
presidential nomination. he declares
that trusts should be regulated by tn
state and not by the nation; and whel
Judge Parker himself declared that tn
common law was sufficient for thei
regulation, knowing full well that thi
meant the abandonment Of every effor
to regulate them by the federal gov
ernment, Mr.. Hill and Judge Parke
were bidding for the support Of tn
great corporations, and bidding fo
this support with reckless disregar'
of the interests Of the public. Now, a
a last despairing effort, he inveigh