Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-07
WELLMAN MADE
SAME CHARGES
Charles r. Whiten1an in Record.
Herald Shows That Papers
Inconsistency.
WENT FURTHER THAN PARKER
Roosevelt Made Play to Gain Votes and
Another to Get Campaign
Funds.

In yesterdays Chicago Record-Her-
aid Charles r. Whitman is gwen space
for the following communication:
To the Editor: In the RecOrd-Herald
of today you editOrially take Judge
Parker to task because Df his al geo
insinuation. in his speech at Madison
Square garden Monday night, that Cor
telyou. as chairman of the republican
campaign committee, is using infOrma-
ton that he secured as secretary of
the department of commerce and labor
to force contributions from the trusts.
In conclusion You say.
THAT he (thC pTesident is the ben
eficiary. as Il candidate. of large cam
paign contributions from capitalists
who control trusts is undoubtedly true
bm the same is true also OfsJudse
Parker This however. is beside the
point. The unwarranted thing is the
suggestion of corrupt bargaining.
which must react against those who
made it,"
Evidently the sting in Judge Park
ers words lies in the intimation that
some favors can be obtained by the
capitalists who control trusts through
liberal contributions to the republican
campaign funds. 30 one imagines
that such bargains are put in writing
The giving and acceptance of money
under proper. or rather improper. con
ditions make a bargain though no
words are spoken, whether it be for
the bribery of a judge. or of q juror, or
of a great political party.
Quotes Walter WcIInun.
nn,r hgfpr. . ba ppD,ip ti,r, of Ir.Io.,
Parker. your readers had been made
aware from your columns that the ben
eficiaries of the tariff were to be milk
ed in the interest of the republican
party. While the republican national
convention was in session in this city
Walter Wcllman. in a letter to the
Record-HeraId. after commenting upon
the tariff plank, which he declared
was drafted by Senator Lodge. discuss
ed by President Roosevelt and his
council of elder statesmen of the re-
publican party at Washington, and af-
ter final revision brought to Chicago
in the pocket of Senator Lodge,
states:
And as II is the duty of your cor
respondent to write the history of the
day as he finds il. regardless of whom
il hurts or helps. il is also necessary
to record the fact that a part of the
program of the republican leaders is
to place before the manufacturers of
the country this suggestion: We are
going to revise the tariff, at least in
part. DO you want revision on those
schedules YOU are interested in? And
if you do want them revised. do you
want them revised upward or down
ward? We beg leave TO remind you
in this connection that now is the time
10 subscribe TO the republican cam
paign fund
Mr.. Wellman cannot be charged wAh
Partially for democracy. Yet Mr..
Wellman. your chosen political CORE
spondent. says that a part of the pro-
gram of the republican leaders is to |
place before the manufacturers of the !
country suggestion that the size of
their subscriptions TO the republican
campaign fund will determine whether |
the schedules in which they are inter
ested shall be revised upward or
downward"
same Charge Parker Makes.
Is this charge against the "republi- /
can leaders" any less severe than the |
charge which Judge Parker makes /
against them? Is the president or Sec {
rotary Cortelyou any more immaculate
than the republican leaders," Appar-
emily not. if Mr.. Wellman is TO be &C
cepted as authority. In a Washington
letter which appeared in the Record
Herald Feb. /, ult., Mr.. Wellman told