The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-09-02
Judge Parker's Campaign Con-
Quoted by Members Of Big
Corporations.
QUEER FLOPOF ANEWSPAPER
fncOntestibIe Proof that the Democratic
Candidate Is Allied with Corpora.
tons Which His Party Platform
Demagogical!y D%enOunces.
From the New York Press.

The New York World again discovers
Tor campaign purposes that President
Roosevelt is a tool Of the trusts, as
demonstrated by his "ridding 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 a
campaign Juno solicitor from the very
corporations he was appointed to diligent'
" investigate; in appointing a railroad
corporation official Secretary OF the Navy
and a political agent of the Southern
Pacific Railway to be head Of the de-
partment to 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
ther enlarge the rule Of corrupt corpora
lions In politics and their controlling in
auence in government"
1t gives us pleasure, therefore, to pub
fish 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 dissolvinS the
Northern Securities merger:
II. The antitrust law was framed by a
House and a Republican Senate, was
signed by a Republican President.
7"2. The law remained a dead letter on
the statute books during the entire second
term of Grover Cleveland. a Democratic
Democratic administration all appeals and
all efforts of the World to have the law
enforced We're met with sneers, 1eers ana
open contempt from q Democratic Attor'
C.nou Dtah,r n1nnu who nrptpnn-
ed that the law was unconstitutlonal auu
who would do nothing toward prosecuting
violators Of 1t. .u
was made by Theodore Roosevelt. a ke-
publican President. The first Attorney
General to vigorously prosecute oHenueTs
and to test the lay was a a Kepophcah AT
"a. The decision of the Supreme Court
Of the United States, given as a hnaity
from which there is no appeal, uphoiding
absolutely impregnable In every respect,
as the World for twelve years constantly
Insisted, was due to five judges. every one
Of whom Is a Republican.
.b. The dissenting minority OF the Court
included every Democratic Judge of that
tribunal. to-wit: Chief Justice Fuller OF
and Mr.. Justice Peckham of New York.
All these distinguished Democrats not only
voted against the constitutlonallty OF the
law. but denounced 1T as a danger to the
Is. 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 OF being
ewned body and soul by the trusts.
'It Is Just as well to record some plain
truths, however unpleasant or surprising. y
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
eional Committee, in Saving" the coun-
try from the trusts:
Treasurer of the National Committee
George Foster Peabody. 3
George Foster Peabody Is interested
largely in trusts and 10 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
Metalurgtca Mexicana; director Of the
ConQuesta Coal Railway Company; treas
urerand director of the General Electric
Company; vice president and director OF
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.