The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-11-02
Presidential Candidates First
Speech In New Jersey.
TRUSTS FURNISH CAMPAIGN FUNDS"
"W- Favor HenIthfuI Prosperity
That All May share, but Will
Fight All Powers That
Oppress the Masses"


state. His audience, which was an
enormous one, was one of the most en-
thusiastic that has assembled in New
Jersey this campaign.
In no speech previously delivered
during the campaign did Judge Par.
| ker devote so much of his time to
scoring the trusts as he did last night.
In his speech he directly accused the
Republican party of fostering the cor
poratlons. naming the beef trust and
the coal trust in his charges.
Judge Parker said in part:
1T has given me great pleasure to
accept the invitation of your commit
tee. | have come'to your city to make
| in this campaign the first speech
which it has been my fortune 10 de-
| liver outside of my native state.
Another feature that adds to the
| pleasure of my coming among you is
! that of the population of New Jersey
] more than 100000 are natives of my
own state of New York. |, therefore,
not only feel that | come among you
to speak to you aud through you to
the people within your borders and TO
the people of the country, but my visit
/ has this still closer relation that after
all | am only speaking to my neigh
! bOrs and friends.
There is no parallel in history for
Il development like ours. In former
times population spread slowly and
! aInally tho fnraSfS md nluinS
! of Eerope, but ii was not composed of
! people all moved by the same ideas
and inspired by common purpose.
But there are other directions in
which we have departed widely from
our early traditions and which now
know that during the last quarter of
II century vast changes have taken
place In our industrial condition
changes that have tended to do away
with competition and have placed the
leading Industries of the country In
the control OF few men. We have
been warned against this tendency
from time to time by thoughtful and
farseeing men, but the warning has
not been needed.
Because we are opposed to the pur-
chase Of the electorate and have felt il
our duty to say so those who would
corrupt it to the end that their power
TO plumber the people may continue
cry out in these closing hours of the
campaign that the business interests
would not be safe with Democratic
administration. This cry is false, and
those who utter It know it. We favor
a heathful prosperity in which all the
people may share. We would encour-
age the accumulation of property and
would protect the present possessors
of il in that possession under all cir
cumstances. But we would do all we
could to take away from the combina
tons and trusts that power to Cypress
the people which they now exercise
In other words. we would put forth
every effort TO thwart their illegal
methods of collecting tribute. Illegal
methods Of making money do not CON
stitute legitimate business, although
those who resort to them may pose as
business men. Our purpose is to de
prive so far as possible these illegal
combinations of their present illegiti-
mate advantage.
'AS have taken occasion to say be
fore and I deem it my duty to say
again the trusts are furnishing the
money with which they hope to control
the election. | am sorry 10 be obliged
to say it. If it were not true | would
not say it to gain the presidency OF
any other earthly reward, But it Is
true, and. that being so, it became my
duty to warn the people of it, This
did in an address TO the people on the
oath day of October, more than a week
ago. What happened? The president
summoned Senator Knox TO his pres
ence From that consultation Knox
emerged TO give an interview which.
he said, the president had approved.
1t was not sparing, to say the least, in
its criticism of myself. He did not.
however, meet the charge. He did not
deny il. He could not nor could the
other party to the consultation
ION Friday last in public address
called attention to the fact that il had
not been met and could not be. Prompt
ly il was given out that Mr. Cortelyou
would make answer TO the charge
Cortelyou. the chairman of the Repub-
lican national committee; the one time
private secretary TO the president,
later member of the cabinet as head
of the bureau of commerce and labor,
and as such having the right to obtain
the secrets of the so called trusts. Sc
crets which under the statute may
not go beyond the president if he so
desires And then it was almost as
promptly denied that he had any such
purpose.
"The New York Tribune publishes a
dispatch from Washington under the
head of 'Cortelyou falsely accused
with a subhead saying that he has not
extorted campaign contributions from