The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-11-04
Mr.. CORTELYOUIS
TOOL OF MORGAN
Great FInanCisf Insisted ] UpOl
His Appointment
REPUBLICANS ARE ALARMED
News of the Last Twenty-four Hours
Has Had Very Dlsquietlng Effect
On Party Men In New
York.
REPUBLICANS ARE ALARMED

made by Judge Parker on the stump
concerning the shamelessness of the pres
ent republican administration in making
Mr.. Cortelyou chairman of the republican
national committee, in order to hold up
the trusts by Withholding the information
possessed by him, l desire to give
little history of how Mr.. Cortelyou be-
came secretary of the department of
commerce and labor" said Charles A.
Edwards secretary of the democratic
national committee.
"I know 1t to be a fact that ]. Pier
pont Morgan wanted and demanded
friend as the head of this department.
When the bill for the creation of the
new cabinet position, secretary Of COM
merce and labor, was before congress, ].
Pierpont Morgan insisted upon promise
point Mr. Cortelyou to the place. He
knew Mr.. Cortelyou and knew he could
depend upon his silence with regard to
the knowledge of corporations when
would be acquired by him in his new
position. After the promise was made
them, Mr.. Morgan put his lobby to work.
and his partner. Mr.. Perkins. of the
New York Life Insurance company, and
Mr.. Perkins Washington representative,
William C. Beer, used every known in
fluence they could command to secure
the passage of .4.e bill. If the promise
had not been given the bill would never
have seer, daylight In congress. These
| know to-h,a the facts.
Only Seen BY President.
I'm this connection it may be stated
that very few pef4e in this country
know that the evidsrke obtained by the
bureau of corporations under this depart
ment can only be seen by the President
of the United States and used by him
as he may see fit. The President has ex-
elusive control of the information OBJ
tanned concerning corporations. note
that the republican papers say that this
information is not secret and that 1t Is
open to everybody In the libraries of the
country, and that 1t is from that source
that the bureau of corporations has OBJ
tained its knowledge of the corporations
"Concedng, for the sake of argument
that the facts are correctly stated by the
republican journals, their conclusions are
manifestly unsound. Even though 1t be
true that the matter which has been gath
cred in the department of commerce and
labor came entirely from the public libra
ries, It is also true that it has never been
compiled In useful shape except by that
department 1t will be apparent that al
of the contents of the libraries on this
point is useless, unless 1t is collected by
careful continued and laborious re
search, and then compiled, tabulated and
placed in such shape as to be ineligible
and to convey some idea of the true sit
uation to the reader
At Considerable Expense.
This has been done only by the de-
'partment of commerce and labor and al
considerable expense. Its chief and EN-
ployes are therefore perhaps the only
persons in the country posted as to the
matter concerning corporations, for Its
records are not open to public inspection
The selection of this man, (whose In
formation has been acquired while tht
chief of a great government bureau, and
at the governments expense), because ol
his knowledge thus acquired, and by the
aid thereof to lay the hand Of blackmai
on the corporations is manifestly as
culpabe as il the information were 8
part of the secret archives of his office
Republicans Growing Alarmed.
A special tonight to the Star, repub
lican, from New York says: "Disquiet
ing news from up state has reached re
publican headquarters in the past TWEEN
ty-four hours, the result of secret poll
and estimates of local managers. Thes
reports show that heavy cutting of Hig
gins, the "epublican candidate for gov
10 lflra1xr n nj stat
counties that heretofore have given goot
republican p1uralities. Albany county Il
especially weak. For some years the feut
between Herrick and Hill has enabled
the republicans to maintain an effectiv'
organization in Albany. The Herrick ant
Hill forces are now working together
and the republican plurality will b
seriously reduced Similar conditions pre-
vail in several other counties.
"It is well known, of course, that th'
republicans must get a heavy vote up
state to offset the prospective phenome
nal democratic majority in greater New
York. Indications point to that vote in
creasing daily. Recent inquiries amonl
the Germans show that the German yot'
is standing strongly toward Herrick
Herman Ridder of the Stats zeitung
who is an Influential German politician
is confident that Herrick will have a tire
mendous plurality in Greater New York
Democrats Get More Money.
1.-THE democratic national committee go
more money yesterday, the sum beint
very substantial, according to reliable in
formation which reaches me. The ma
tional committee is dealing 1t out liber
ally to the state committee and the lat
ter organization is also doing well In itl
collections. From Brooklyn comes {
howl Of anguish from the republican dis
trict leaders, complaining that Governor
| Odell is not supplying them with funds
| I know to a certainty that the governor
is not short of campaign funds by any
means, and the inference is that the ex
penses of the upstate campaign are max
ing heavy drains upon the war chest"
Another Candidate for Congress.
Macon, Ga. November S.-David B
Fsigdon, postmaster at Statesboro, Ga.
has announced his candidacy In opposition