Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-05
Judue Parker's Campaign Con-
Quoted by Members of Big
Corporations.
OUEERFLOP OF A NEWSPAPER
InContestible Proof that the Democratic
Candidate Is Allied with Corpora
tons Which His Party Platform
DemagogiCally Denounces.
From the New York Press.

The New York World again discovers
for campaign purposes that President
Roosevelt is a tool Of the trusts, as
demonstrated by his Kidding himself
of the Que successful trust prosecutor IN
order to placate the corporations; IN max
ing his former private secretary ana
head of the Department Of Commerce
campaign fund solicitor from the very
corporations he was appointed to dlIlgent-
ly investigate; in appointing a ral4roao
corporation official Secretary OF the Navy
and a political agent of the Southern
Pacific Railway to be head of the de-
partnent 10 supervise and curb corpora
tions." The New York World again
reaches the solemn conviction, for cam
Daign purposes that the continuation ID
power of the Republican party will FUR
Their enlarge the rule of corrupt corpora
tions in politics and their controlling in
fuence in government"
1t gives us pleasure, therefore, 10 pub
lish again. as incontestible proof OF the
sincerity and honesty of the New York
World, the following editorial printed by
the New York World Immediately after
the Supreme Court decision dissolving the
Northern Securities merger:
FACTS.
81 The antitrust law was framed 1eN5hi Ry
Republican, was passed by Repuphcan
House and Republican senate was
signed by a Republican President
10 The law remained a dead letter on
the statute books during the entire SECOND
term of Grover Cleveland, a democracy
President Through those four years OF
Democratic administration all appeals and
eli efforts OF the World to have the law
enforced were met with sneers, 9eers ana
open contempt from Demo ,cnn nre atrU5
ed that the law was unconstitutional sOo
who would do nothing toward prosecuting
vioIators of 1t. 49, low
was made by Theodore Roosevelt, He-
publican President. The first Attorney
General to vigorously prosecute, oHenoers
and to test ser the P lbW an wes f KPoI
"a The decision of the Supreme Court
of the United States given as hna1nty
from which there Is no appeal upn ni nIls
absolutely impregnable IN every respect,
as the World for twelve years constantly
insisted, was due to i've i've JUDGES every one
u ~ Y The dissenting minority of the Court
included every Democratic Judge OF Inas
tribunal, to-wit: Chief Justice ruler OF
and Mr. Justice Peckham of New YORK
All these distinguished Democrats not only
voted against the const1tut1onanty Oh tne
law. but denounced it as danger to the
sc. Under these circumstances 1t does
not seem probable that the Democrats can
make great capital in seeking to monopo-
lie the antitrust issue and charging the
Republican party with the CRIME Oh pelhg
owned body and soul by the trusts
cit is lust as well to record some pam
Truths however unpleasant or surprising. ,
We further submit the following nst
end description of the gentlemen who
have been selected to assist Tom Tag
CART, chairman of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, in Saving the coun-
try from the trusts:
Treasurer of the National Committee
George Foster Peabody.
George Foster Peabody is interested
largely in trusts and is vice president
and director of the Alvares Land and
Lumber Company; director Of the Amer
lean Beet Sugar Company; SECOND vice
president and director of the Compana
MetaIurgica MeXicana; director OF the
Conquesta Coal Railway Company; treas
urerand director Of the Genera! Electric
Comuany: vice president and director OF
the Mexican Coal and Coke Company
director Of the McXican Mineral Railway
Company; director Of the Mexican Ma
tional Construction Company; first vice
president and director of the Mexican
Northern Railway Company; vice preSa-
dent and director of the MonteEuma
Lead Company and of the Potos1 Rio
Verde Railway Company, and director OF
the Southern Improvement Company OF
VnrIY