Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-02
Judge Parker's Campaign Con-
Quoted by Members of Big
Corporations.
QUEER FLOP or ANEWSPAPER
lucontestible Proof that the Democratic
Candidate Is Allied with Corpora
lions Which His Party Platform
DemagogicaIly Denounces.
From the New York Press.

The New York World again discovers
for campaign purposes that President
Roosevelt is tool of the trusts, as
demonstrated by his Kidding himself
of the one successful trust prosecutor IN
order to placate the corporations' in max
ing his former private secretary and
head of the Department of Commerce
campaign fund solicitor from the very
corporations he was appointed to diiigent-
ly investigate; in appointing railroad
corporation official Secretary of the Navy
and a political agent OF the Southern
Pacific Railway TO be head of the de-
partment 10 supervise and curb corpora
tons" The New York World again
reaches the solemn conviction, for cam
paign purposes, that the continuation IN
power Of the Republican party will fur
Their enlarge the rule of corrupt corpora
tons in politics and their controlling IN
fuence III 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 by a
Republican, was passed by Republican
House and a Republican senate, was
signed by Republican President;
80 The law remained a dead letter on
the statute books during the entire second
term of Grover cleveland, Dello mo- as
Democratic administration all appeals ana
all efforts OF the World TO have the law
enforced were met with sneers Jeers ana
open contempt from q Democratic AitoI
ney- General Richard Olney. who pretend.
ed that the law was unconstitutional seo
who would do nothing toward prosecuting
~. The first effort to enforce the law
was made by Theodore Roosevelt, ke
publican President. The FIRST Attorney
General to vigorously prosecute onehders
and TO fest the law was a Republican At
torney- General, Philander c. Knox
"a The decision of the Supreme court
of the United States, given as a hnan.s
from which there is no appeal, upholding
the law as perfectly constitutional ano
absolutely impregnable In every respect,
as the World for twelve years constantly nr nns
insisted, was due to nve Judges, every one
of whom is Republican 60.
's5 The dissenting minority Of the Court
included every Democratic Judge OF tna az
Illinois Mr.. Justice White of Louisiana
and Mr. Justice Peckham of New York
All these distinguished Democrats not oniy
voted against the constitutionality OF Inc
law, but denounced it as danger to the
1.6 Under these circumstances IL does
not seem probab BILE that the Democrats can
make great capital In seeking to monopo-
lie the auti-tr issue and charging the
Republican party with the crime OF being
owned body and soul by the trusts
at Is inst as we'll to record some pihn
Truths however unpleasant or surprising.
We further submit the following list
and description of the gentlemen who
have been selected to assist Tom Tag
CART, chairman of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, in Saving" the eoun-
try from the trusts:
Treasurer of the National Committee
George Foster Peabody.
George Foster Peabody Is Interested
largely in trusts and Is vice prcsic"nt
and director of the Aivares Land and
Lumber Company; director OF the Amer
lean Beet Sugar Company; second vice
president and director of the Compana
MetalurGica Mexicana; director or the
Conuuesta Coal Railway Company: treas
urerand director Of the General Electric
Company; vice president and director or
the Mexican Coal and Coke Company;
director Of the Mexican Mineral Railway
COMPANY; director of the Mexican Ma
tional Construction Company; first vice
president and director Of the Mexican
Northern Railway Company; vice prcsi-
dent and director of the Montezuma
Lead Company and Of the Potosi < Rio
Verde Railway Company, and director OF
the Southern Improvement Company OF
New York