The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-10-29
Makes Vigorous Address to DEL
tgatiOn Of Orange County
Farmers at RosemOunt
CONDEMNS TARIFF p'llCY
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Answers Rec 0 8 lack Made BY Sen
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In Uncertain Lam
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Esopus, N Y, October 2s.-Judge
Parker today made his first prediction as
to the outcome of the election. In his
speech to delegations composed largely of
farmers from Orange and Rockland coun-
ties, New York, he interpolated the fol-
lowing:
Before taking up the subject l wish to
discuss want to assure you that IL we
work hard enough, If we each do our part.
we can win this fight. have not felt like
saying so until lately, but we are grow
ing so rapidly that If our people do their
best. do believe victory will be ours.
mo more satisfactory evidence of the
widespread public interest in the attempt
to control the election by moneys of great
corporations and trusts need be looked for
than that furnished by the President and
his late Attorney General Knox. Knox
was hidden to the presence of the Pres
ident for a consultation. About what?
About the iniquity of the large contri-
buttons? Contributions being made by
gigantic corporations and trusts? Not at
the force of the statement of this COM
monty accepted fact could be parried.
The outcome was an interview by Senator
Knox
"Care was taken to preface the inter-
view with the statement that it met the
approval of the President. 1t may be
treated therefore, as administrative.
There are many of them these days. To
two or three of them | shall make refer
ence to today.
Nothing to Do With Question.
Now this long statement of Senator
Knox has nothing whatever to do with
the question uppermost in the public
mind.
"ShalI the creations of government
many of which pursue illegal methods
control our elections control them by
moneys belonging to their stockholders
moneys not given in the open and charged
on the books as money paid for political
purposes, but hidden away by false book
keeping?
Senator Knox has been at some pains
hitherto to prove that with all his learn
ing. he does not know all about the COM
mon law. 1t hardly seems possible, how
ever, that he does not know the rule that
allegations of the complaint not denied
by the ansyer are thereby admitted. III
he could have done so, of course he would.
If he can do so now he is invited.
THE interview was inteded to create
a cloud of dust behind which he hoped
to hide the charge he did not answer and
could not answer That charge is that
vast sums of money have been contribut-
ed for the purpose of this election in aid
of the administration by corporations
and trusts.
Adequate Remedy in Existing Law.
IN passing it should be said that Sena-
tor Knox on this occasion, as on Others
referred to the fact. l am of the opn-
ion and have said so, that existing law
affords an adequate remedy against ille-
gal combinations. He says the law is IN
sufficient, and argues, therefore, I am
not in favor of breaking up illegal combi-
nations
1.-The senator is not ingenious. Had he
been, he would have said that in every
instance in which | have expressed the
belief that the law it stands Is suffi-
cient to protect the people and that moth
ing is lacking except public officials will
ling to enforce the law, | have added in
terms or in substance, that If my view
in that respect is a mistaken one. then
L
stitutional limitations as will give the peo-
pie a just and full measure of protec-
| tion.
What the few plain, unambiguous SEN
| tences uttered by me on the subject of IL
| legal combinations mean, and what they
are understood to mean by those who con-
| troll the combinations, is evidenced in part
| by the great activity of their leading Of
| ficers in favor of the election of my OPP
ponents That activity may perhaps ac-
! count in no small measure for the ability
| of both the populist and socialist parties
| to prosecute expensive campaigns-eam-
paigns that appear to be prosecuted large
| ly in aid of the republican party.
CabIegram From Wright.
THE administration also puts out a
| cablegram from Governor Wright from
| the Philippine commission in reply to
| some quotations made by me in speech
| delivered on the 10Th of October. The
| words were the careful utterances of a
man who has spent four months in the
| Philippines studying the conditions there.
THE evidence upon which conclusions
were based will be found in the Evening
Post of today and probably in other pa
| pers.
''The article is too long to be quoted
| from in this brief address, but | ask you
and through you the American people to
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| connection with that report and then
| answer these questions:
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| for by six of the best citizens in this
| country? Which is likely to be prejudiced
| The man having no motive but to learn
| the truth or the governor who may be in
| some measure responsible for unfortunate
| conditions?
| lis the governors report of such a
| character as to justify an expenditure
| by the government of several hundred
| dollars to cable a part of my speech to
| Manila and to receive his reply by cable?'
Was Not Government Business.
| ut was not government business. 1t was
| political business. The cablegram to Gov
ernor Wright and his reply were intend
| ed to aid the republican campaign. The
| message to him began: The democratic
/ candidate for President on the 18th of the
present month, in a public address said;
IF a few hundred dollars may be taken
! out of the public funds to thus assist the
prosecution of political campaign, why
| not the money in the treasury be en-
| ployed for any purpose that will help