Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-02
PARKER AT NEW ARK
Presidential Candidates First
 Speech Tn New Jersey.
TRUSTS FURNISH CAMPAIGN FUNDS
"We Favor HealthfuI Prosperity That All May Share, but Will
 Fight All Powers That Oppress the Masses"

Fight All Powers. That
 Cypress the Masses,
 NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 2.-Thousands of enthusiastic New Jerseyites crowded into the Roseville Riding academy here last night to listen to Judge Alton B. state. His audience, which was an enormous one, was one of the most en-, thusiastic that has assembled in New Jersey this campaign.
 Judge Parker chose the state which most of the great combinations of capi- l tai have made their home for the most direct and forcible denunciation of the trusts. He denounced them as tend ing to throttle competition and de- manded enforcement of the laws against them. He challenged Presi- dent Roosevelt and George B. Cortel- you, chairman of the Republican na- nonal committee. to deny the charge that the trusts had provided the Re publican campaign fund.
 In no speech previously delivered during the campaign did Judge Par ker devote so much of his time to scoring the trusts as he did last night. In his speech he directly accused the Republican party of fostering the cor porations, naming the beef trust and the coal trust in his charges.
 Judge Parker said in part:
 Tt has given me great pleasure to accept the invitation of your commit tee. I have come to your city to make in this campaign the first speech which 1t has been my fortune to de liver outside of my native state.
 There is no parallel in history for a development like ours Tn former times population spread slowly and gradually over the forests and plains of Europe, but it was not composed of people all moved by the same ideas and inspired by common purpose.
 '.But there are several directions in which we have departed widely from our early traditions and which now menace our people industrially. We all know that during the last quarter of a century vast changes have taken place in our industrial condition changes that have tended to do away with competition and have placed the leading industries of the country in the control of few men. We have been warned against this tendency from time to time by thoughtful and farseeing men, but the warning has not been needed.
 Because we are opposed to the pur- chase of the electorate and have felt it our duty to say so those who would corrupt 1t to the end that their power to piunder the people may continue cry out in these closing hours of the campaign that the business interests would not be safe with Democratic administration. This cry is false, and those who utter it know it. We favor a healthful prosperity in which all the people may share. We would encour- age the accumulation of property and would protect the present possessors of it in that possession under all cir cumstances. But we would do all we could to take away from the combina- tions and trusts that power to oppress the people which they now exercise. Tn other words, we would put forth every effort to thwart their illegal methods of collecting tribute. Illegal methods of making money do not con- etitute legitimate business, although those who resort to them may pose as business men. Our purpose is to de- prive so far as possible these illegal combinations of their present illegiti- mate advantage.
 z saAs I have taken occasion to say be- fore and deem it my duty to say again the trusts are furnishing the money with which they hope to control the election. am sorry to be obliged to say it. If it were not true would not say 1t to gain the presidency or any other earthly reward. But 1t is true, and, that being so, 1t became my duty to warn the people of it. This did in an address to the people on the 24th day of October, more than week ago. What happened7 The president summoned Senator Knox to his pres ence. From that consultation Knox l emerged to give an interview which, l he said, the president had approved. i It was not sparing, to say the least, in its criticism of myself: He did not. however, meet the charge. He did not deny it. He could not, nor could the other party to the consultation.
 "On Friday last in a public address called attention to the fact that it had T not been met and could not be. Prompt ly it was given out that MT. Cortelyou would make answer to the charge Cortelyou, the chairman of the Repub- lican national committee; the one time private secretary to the president, later a member of the cabinet as head of the bureau of commerce and labor, and as such having the right to obtain the secrets of the so called trusts. Se- crets which under the statute may not go beyond the president if he so desires And then it was almost as promptly denied that he had any such purpose
 '"The New York Tribune publishes a dispatch from Washington under the head of 'Cortelyou falsely accused, with subhead saying that he has not extorted campaign contributions from corporations It gives what purports to be the statement of man who with | b~JAs hic poypo HA 10 doSoribcd in fbn