River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-01
Judge Parker's Campaign Con-
Quoted by Members Of Big
Corporations.
QUEER FLOP or A NEWSPAPER
IncOntestible Proof that the Democratic
Candidate Is Allied with Corpora
tons Which His Party Platform
DemagOg ally DenOunCes.
From the New York Press.


The New York World again discovers
for campaign purposes that President
Roosevelt is a 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 diligent-
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 to supervise and curb corpora
tions." The New York World again
reaches the solemn conviction, for cam
paign purposes, that the continuation IN
power Of the Republican party Will FUR
+her enlarge the rule of corrupt corpora
tions in politics and their controlling in
fucnce III 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 dissolving the
Northern Securities merger:
FACTS.
81 The antitrust law was framed by
Republican, was passed by a Republican
House and Republican SENATE was
signed by a Republican President
90 The law remained dead letter on
the statute books during the entire second
term of Grover Cleveland a Democratlcs
President Through those four years o!
Democratic administration all Appeals ana
all efforts of the World to have the law
enforced were met with sneers, Jeers ana
open contempt from a Democratic Atto5'
ney- General, Richard Olney, who pretend,
ed that the law was unconstitutional ana
who would do nothing toward prosecuting
W." q. = The first effort to enforce the law
was made by Theodore Roosevelt, Re
publican President The first Attorney
General to vigorously prosecute 9menoe e+
and to test the law was Republican AT
torney- General, Philander c. Knox. g..
"a The decision of the Supreme Court
of the United States, given as hn IaI1y
from which there is no appeal, upnolulns
the law as perfectly constitutional ana
absolutely impregnable in every respect,
as the World for twelve years constantly
insisted, was due to FIVE judges, every one
of whom is Republican. g..
% The dissenting minority of the Court
included every Democratic judge OF that
tribunal to-wit: Chief Justice Fuller OF
Illinois. Mr. Justice White of Louisiana,
and Mr. Justice Peckham of New York.
All these distinguished Democrats not only
law. but denounced it as danger to the
s'G Under these circumstances IL does
not seem probable that the Democrats can
make great capital in seeking to monopo-
lize the ant-tr issue and charging the
Republican party with the crime OF being
owned BODY and soul by the trusts.
''It is lust as well to record some pam
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 coun-
try from the trusts;
Treasurer of the National Committee
George Foster Peabody.
George Foster Peabody is Interested
largely I'm trusts and is vice president
md director of the Alvares Land and
Lumber Company; director Of the Amer
lean Beet Sugar Company; second vice
president and director of the Compana
Metalurgica MeXiCRna; director OF the
Conouesta Coal Railway Companyi 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 presi-
dent and director Of the Montezuma
Lead Company and of the Potosi & Rio
Verde Railway Company, and director of
the Southern Improvement Company of