Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-07
Judge Parker's Campaign Con-
Quoted by Members of Big
Corporations.
QUEER FLOP OF NEWSPAPER
lncOntestible Proof that the Democratic
Candidate Is Allied with Corpora
tiOns Which His Party Platform
DemagOgicalIy DeHOunCes.
From the New York Press.

The New York World again discover"
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; III max
ing his former private secretary and
head of the Department of Commerce
campaign fund solicitor from the very
corporations he was appointed To dill2eht-
~ investigate; iii appointing railroad
corporation official Secretary of the Navy
and political agent of the Southern
Pacific Railway to be head Of the de
partment t) supervise and curb corpora
tione" The New York World again
reaches the solemn conviction. for cam
paign purposes, that the continuation in
power of the Republican party will fur
Their enlarge the rule Of corrupt corpora
lions in politics and their controlling in
fuence i'll government
1t gives us pleasure. therefore to pub
fish again, as incontestihle 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 ilssolving the
Northern Securities merger:
FACTS.
al The anti trust law was framed ny
Republican, was passed by a Republican
House and a Republican Senate was
signed by a Republican PresideI1;
80 The law remained dead letter on
the statute books during the entire second
term Of Grover cleveland, 4 Democratic
President. Through those four years "i
Democratic administration all appeals ana
al efforts of the World TO have the law
enforced were met with sneerS, leefS dpd
open contempt from Democratic Attor-
richard fllupE. who pretend
ed that the law was unconstitutional anu
who would do nothing toward prosecuting
20 The first effort to enforce the law
waS made by Theodore Roosevelt, lie
publican President Tho first Attorney
General to vigorously prosecute Offenders
and to test the law was a Repubilcah AT
torney q eneral, Philander c. Knox
- The decision of the supreme Court
Of the United states, given as nlG1nty
from which there is no appeal uphoidihg
the law as perfectly constitutional ana
absolutely imprcgnable in every respect.
as the World for twelve years constantly i,s ndS
insisted was due to five judges, every one
of whom Is Republican,.
''5 The dissenting minority Of the court
included every Democratic judge o. thar
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 "hly
voted against the consritutl"nalty OF the
law, hut denounced it as danger TO the
IS Under these circumstances 1t does
not seem probable that the Democrats can
make great capital in seeking TO uonop"-
lie the antitrust issue ami charging the
Repuhlican party with the crime of being
owned body and soul by the trusts.
at is Just as well to record some plain
Truths however unpleasant or surprising
We further ADMIT 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 in trusts and is Vicc-presldent
and director of the Alvarcs Land and
lumber Company: director of the Amer
lean Beet Sugar Company; second vice
president and director of the Compana
Metalurcica Mexicana; director of the
ConOuesta Coal Railway Company: treas
nrprand director of the General Electric
Company; vice president and director of
the Mexican Coal and Coke Company;
director Of the Mexican Mineral Railway
Tompany; 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 " tio
verde Railway Company. and director of
the Southern Improvement Company of
New York.