Smyrna times., 1904-11-02
R|DDLED BY KNOX
Illogical Character of Democratic
Trust Position Shown.
Both Cleveland and Parker Change Front
on QuestiOn-DemOcratic Nominee
Created by Trust Agents.

Senator Knox formerly attorney gen
eral in President ROOseveltS cabinet,
has issued a statement riddling the
speech made by Judge Parker at ESQ
pus last week. When Senator Knox's
attention was called to Judge Parker's
utterance he expressed amaZement at
the looseness of argument and disre-
gard of fact exhibited. That a man
honored with the presidential candi-
dacy by a great party should have so
far forgotten himself as to charge
the president with conniving with the
trusts to delude the people of the coun-
try Mr.. Knox declared to be ineXplica-
BILE on any ground other than the reck-
lesSness of despair. Mr.. Knox proceed
ed TO demonstrate the illogical and un-
tenable character of the entire Demo
cratic attitude toward the trusts. He
said:
"In the early part Of this campaign
Judge Parker stated, The common law
as developed affords complete legal
remedy against mOnOpolies,' and eX-
President Cleveland, in commenting up
on the decision in the Northern Securl-
ties case, said: There is distinct diff
ference drawn between railroads and
purely producing corporations. 1t could
not be said that the sugar trust or the
beef trust or the Standard Oil COM
pany was directly engaged in inter
state transportation. They were en-
gagged in the manufacture and sale OF
products
., ''Within the last few days Mr.. Cleve-
Ind in a public speech criticised 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
criticises the president for not dashing
wildly at everything in sight and de-
stroying the guilty and innocent alike,
while Judge Parker only yesterday be-
walls the fact that corporations are
permitted to violate the law and that
they are contributing to the Republican
cause.
"What can be the reason for this
change of front? Mr.. Cleveland on
March II, notwithstanding the decree
of the circuit court pronouncing the
beef trust unlawful says it was not
within the prohibition of the law, thus
throwing the weight of his opinion in
favor of the beef trust and against the
United States at a time when the case
was pending and undecided IN the high
est court, while on Oct. 21 he inferen-
TALLY demanded that an Incorporated
w l'ess should be wantonly assailed.
Is Nils there any connection between
Judge Parker's abandonment of his flu
tile common law panaeea, which meant
immunity to the trusts, and the fact, as
he alleges, that the trusts contribute to
the success of the Republican Party7
Do the principles of law which Mr..
Cleveland thought last March protected
manufacturing monopoies change in
October, and, il so, does the change af-
feet the Belmont trusts, or only those
which are suspected Of seeing in the
perpetuation Of Republican administra-
tion the continued general prosperity OF
the country?
"Judge Parker in his speech on Mon.
day also said:
"Many years have passed since my ac-
tive participation in politics. In the
meantime a startling change has taken
place in the method Of conducting cam
paigns; a change not for the better, but
for the worse; change that has intro
duced debasing and corrupt methods
which threaten the integrity Of our gov.
ernmcnt
~ ling that Judge Parker
81 to challenge the com
lis statement inevita
hen Judge Parker last
tcd in politics off the
hartman of the New
.5emocratic committe,
,e- g.. David b. Hill as govern
u. .., u.,, . cog in the Hill machine
There never rave been in our politica
history methods more debasing and cor
rupt than those of the Hill machine il
New York, and, they eliminated in tn
steal Of the state by the Maynard
frauds and the overthrow Of the Hill
machine in consequence. This was tn
machine which Mr.. Parker ran until, a
a reward for running it, he was made
judge by Hill. And these are the meth
DDS he dePIores.
"Again, Judge Parker speaks of tn
campaign contributions by great col
pOratiOns. He states that some of tn
enterprises which have unduly thrive
through favoritism have become s
rich and strong that they can and d
contribute vast sums when it is mad
clear that it will advantage them
Judge Parker is describing precis,
iy and exactly the sources which Civ
Tammany Hall it's strength, and th
cutting off of which in the present ele
tion would remove every chance of b
carrying New York state. There is NJ
an honest man in political life WI
does not know that this is the cas-
and that Judge Parker is now seekin
to be the beneficiary of the very met
DDS which he affects to denounce.
"Again, Judge Parker says:
Political contributions by corporation