The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-26
MIR. KNOX TO
 THE RESCUE Answers Parker'S Attack
 on Trusts. ' HE ALLEGES NSINCERITY Says Judge Was Nominated by Corporation Agents. Ex-Attorney General Also Accuses Cleveland of Changing Front in
 tho Matter of Prosecution
 of Trade Combinations.
 
HE ALLEGES INSINCERITY

recently Attorney Generat under Fresi- dent Roosevelt. tonight issued the fol- lowing statement in answer to MT. Parker's speech on trusts and former President Cleveland's remarks on the same topic;
 Tn the early part of this campaign Judge Parker stated The common law affords complete legal remedy against monopolies' and ex-President Cleveland in commenting on the decls- ion In the Northern Securities case said: There is a distinct difference drawn between railroads and purely producing corporations. It could not be said that the sugar trust or the beef trust or the Standard oil Company was directly en- gagged in interstate transportation. They were engaged in the manufacture and sale of products
 within the past few days Mir. Cleye- land in a public speech criticized the Republican administration for not run ming amuck' in the business interests of the country which so eminent a philologist as he, knows means that he Is criticizing the President for not dashing wildly at everything in sight and destroying the guilty and innocent alike; while Judge Parker yesterday bewails the fact that corporations are permitted to violate the law and that they are contributing to the Republican cause.
 A Change of Front.
 ''what can be the reason for this change of front? Mir. Cleveland, March 1T, 1904, notwithstanding the decree of the Circuit Court pronouncing the beef trust unlawful, says 1t was not within the prohibition of the law, thus throw ing the weight of his opinion in favor .C2 |. kwt.. 7 .l..s,A n States at a time when the case was pending and undecided in the highest court; while October 2t, 1904. he i'm ferentially demanded that all incorpor- ated business should be wantoniy as- sailed.
 "Is thera any connection between Judge Parker's abandonnent of his futile common law panacea, which meant immunity to the trusts, and the fact, as he alleges. that the trusts contribute to the success of the Repub- lican party? Do the principles of law which MT. Cleveland thought last March protected manufacturing mono polies change in October. and if SO, does the change affect the Belmont trusts, or only those which are sus- pected of seeing in the perpetuation of Republican administration the con tinued general prosperity of the coun- try?
 Judge Parker in his speech Monday also said: Many years have passed since my active participation in poII- ties. In the meantime startling change has taken place in the method of conducting campaigns. a change not for the better. but for the worse. a change that has introduced debauching and corrupt methods which threaten the integrity of our government
 Parker and the Hill MachIne.
 Tt is astounding that Judge Parker should be willing to chance the com parison which this statement inevita- bly calls out. When Judge Parker last participated in politics off the bench he was Chairman of New York State Democratic Committee which elected David B. Hill as Governor. He was A cog in the Hill wheel. There have never been in our history methods which were more debasing and cor rupt than those of the Hill machine in New York and they culminated in the steal of the State by the Maynard frauds and the overthrow of the Hill machine in consequence. This was the machine which Mir. Parken ran until, as reward for running it. he was made a Judge by Hill: and these dT6 lHt HlCtnOuS HG uCplOEtds
 Again, Judge Parker speaks of the campaign contributions by great cor porations. He states that some of the enterprises which have unduly thrived through favoritism have be- come so rich and strong that they can and do contribute vast sums when 1t is made clear that 1t will be advan- tageous to them
 Judge Parker Is describing precise ly and exactly the sources which givo Tammany Hall its strength and the cutting off of which in the pending election would remove every chance of his carrying New York State. There Is not an honest man in political life who does not know that this is the case, and know that Judge Parker is now seeking to be the beneficiary of the very methods which he affects to denounce.
 Trust and Campaign Fund.
 Again Judge Parker says: 'Politi- cal contributions by corporations and trusts mean corruption. They cannot be honest. A corporation will subscribe to d political party only be- cause the corporation expects that par ty through it's control of public offices. executive or legislative. to do some- thing for the benefit of the corpora tion or to refrain from doing something to it's injury. No other motive can be imagined in the nature of things; no other motive can exist.
 Tt is astonishing that Judge Parker should have the temerlty to say this when his own associates. the men who conducted the campaign for his nom ination and are now conducting the for his election, represent these corporations which he effects to denounce, or either owe their political strength solely to the contributions they have received from them in the past and expect to receive from them in the future.
 Cord Myer, Patrick McCarren, Au- gust Belmont. William F. Sheehan, Thomas F, Ryan, John B. Mcdonald, David B. Hill and Thomas Taggart, one and all owe their whole power in pol itics to the intimate connection they have established between the manage ment of corporations and the manage ment of public business. Mir. Parker was created by them. would never have