Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-01
Judge Parker's Campaign Con-
Quoted by Members of Bio
Corporations.
QUEERFL0P OF A NEWSPAPER
lncontestible Proof that the Democratic
Candidate Is Allied with Corpora.
tons Which His Party Platform
DemagogicaIIy 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 cue successful trust prosecutor in
order to placate the corporations; in max
ing his former private secretary and
head of the Department of Commerce a
campaign fund solicitor from the very
corporations he was appointed to diligent-
ly investigate; in appointing railroad
corporation official Secretary of the Navy
and political agent of the Southern
Pacific Railway to be head of the de-
partment to supervise and curb corpora
tons" 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
tons in politics and their controlling in
fluencet in government"
1t gives us pleasure, therefore, 10 pub
lish 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.
IL The antitrust law was framed by a
Republican, was passed by Republican
House and Republican Senate, was
signed by a Republican President;
SO. The law remained dead letter ON
the statute books during the entire second
term of Grover Cleveland, Democratic
President Through those four years of
Democratic administration all appeals and
all efforts of the World to have the law
enforced were met with sneers, jeers and
open contempt from Democratic ,nn ra attof-
ed that the law was unconstitutional aud
who would do nothing toward prosecuting
vioators of 1t.
was made by Theodore Roosevelt, Re-
publican President. The hrst Attorney
General to vigorously prosecute onenders
and to test the law was Republican At
torney- General, Philander c. Knox
"a The decision of the Supreme Court
of the United States, given as fnality
from which there Is no appeal, uphoidlng
the law as perfectly constitutional ana
as the World for twelve years constantly
insisted was due to five judges, every one
of whom is Republican.
80 The dissenting minority OF the Court
ifciuded 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
voted against the constitutionality OF the
law, but denounced it as danger to the
republic. q
Sc. Under these circumstances it does
not seem probable that the Democrats can
make great capital in seeking to monopo-
lie the antitrust 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 plain
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 Com mittee-
George Foster Peabody.
George Foster Peabody Is interested
largely In trusts and Is vice president
and director of the Alvares Land and
Lumber Company; director Of the Amer
lean Beet Sugar Company; second vice
president and director of the Compana
NctaIureica Mexicana; director of the
Conquesta Coal Railway Company: treas
urerand director Of the General Electric
COMPANY: vice president and director on
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 prcsi-
dent and director of the Montexuma
Lead Company and of the Potosi & Rio
Verde Railway Company, and director OF
the Southern Improvement Company OF