The Penn's Grove record., 1904-04-08
CLEVELAND AND TRUSTS.
Salem Standard March 2Sd.

De6n uSou 10 corrupt the pOlltlcS VI lHc
country
CLEVELAND AND TRUSTS.
Salem Standard March 23d.
So much has been said by the oppon-
ents of the Republican party about the
attitude of our party on the question
of Trusts that the following important
facts from the Democratic New York
World ought to be interesting reading
for our Democratic friends.
/. The antitrust law was framed by
a Republican, was passed by a Repub-
lican Senate, was signed by a Republi-
can President.
2. The law remained a dead letter
on the Statute books during the entire
second term of Grover Cleveland, a
Democratic President. Through those
four years of Democratic administra-
tion all appeals and all efforts of the
World to have the law enforced were
met with sneers, leers and open con-
tempt from a Democratic Attorney
General Richard Olney, who pretended
that the law was unconstitutional and
who would do nothing toward p%rosecut-
ing the vwiolators of it.
8. The first effort to enforce the law
was made by Theodore Roosevelt, a Re-
publican President. The first Attor-
ney General to vigorously prosecute Of
tenders and to test the law was a Re
publican Attorney General, Philander
G. Knox.
4. The decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States, given as a
fnality from which there is no appeal
upholding the law as perfectly constitu-
tional and absolutely impregnable in
every respect, as the World for twelve
years constantly insisted, was due to
the five Judges, every one of whom is a
Republican.
S. The dissenting minority of the
Court included every Democratic Judge
of that tribunal, to-wit: Chief Justice
Fuller, of Illinois; MI. Justice White,
of Louisiana; and Mr.. Justice Peck
ham, of New York. All these distin-
guished Democrats not only voted
against the constitutionality of the law
but denounced it as a danger to the Re
public.
6. Under these circumstances it
| does not seem probable that the Demo-
Gratis can make great capital in seeking
to monopolize the antitrust issue and
| charging the Republican party with the
| crime of being owned body and soul by
the trusts.
1t is just as well to record some plain
truths, however unpleasant or surpris-
ing.
JUDGE ALTON b. PARKER
who is most prominently mentioned by
| the Wall Street forces in the Democrat
ic party as Cleveland's availability les
sons. w. j. Bryan two weeks ago in
an interview on Judge Parker said:
"Any nan who is not in a position to
let the people know where he stands on
vital matters, has no right to be a can
didate for the Presidency. He has no
right to aspire to that Office unless he is
willing to let the people know what he
stands for. This has become all the
more important since the decision in
the Northern Securities merger case.
We should like very much to know now
whether Judge Parker, if elected Presi-
dent, would appoint Justices of the
United States Supreme Court after the
stamp of the men that President Cleve-
land appointed, or if he would appoint
men who will aid in the destruction of
trusts and illegal combinations of capt.
tai. That certainly is a vital question
at this time, and one on which Ishould
like to hear from Judge Parker. Ger
tainly, the fact that ex-senator Hill is
advocating the candidacy of Judge
Parker is not at all reassuring on this
point. 1t does not make it look as
though Parker would appoint any trust
busting Judges"
This weeks Commoner says: eff
Mr.. Parker is nominated it must not be
rs a harmony candidate. 1t must be
with the knowledge that he represents
the same element, the same influence
and the same methods which during
Cleveland's second administration let
the Democratic party through the Val
ley Of the Shadow of Death"
VIM. R. HEARST,
Of New York, publisher of the Ameri-
can and N. Y. Journal, which did more
for the Democratic ticket in 1896 and
1900 than all other papers in the East,
is a most formidable candidate and is
getting his support from the Bryan
followers, because of that support. His
views are publicly known. He is the
greatest "Trust Buster'' in the United
States.
The decision of the U. S. Supreme
Court on Monday against the Coal
Trust was a proceeding instituted not
by the Attorney General, but by a pri-
vate individual, Mr.. Hearst. Judge
Judson G. Clements, member of the
Interstate Commerce Commission said:
SIT is due to Mr. Hearst that the coal
carrying railways have been brought to
the bar of judgment and been compell-
ed to make public their contracts. The
Courts decision may be rightly regarded
as a land mark in American %Jurispru-
dence."
The solid delegations from Rhode Is.
land, South Dakota and Arkansas, have
been elected in favor of Mr.. Hearst.
Some district delegates have been elected
in Ohio for him and the present prospect
is that the two delegates from this dis
trict will favor him.