The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-11-02
RIDDLED 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 Roosrxelt.s cabinet,
has issued statement Kidding the
speech made by Judge Parker n ESQ
pus last week When senator KuoN.s
attention was called to Judge Pa1ker's
utterance he expressed amazemeHt 1T
the looseness of argument ana disre-
gard of fact exhibited That man
honorei with the presidential candi-
dacy by Il great party should have 50
far forgotten himself us 10 charge
the president with couniving with the
trusts 10 delude the people Of the conu
Try Mr.. Knox declared to be mcNpllca-
ble on any ground other than the rcvk-
lesSnesS of despair. Mr.. knoX proceed
ed 10 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 a complete legal
remedy against monopolieS. and eN
President cleveland in commenting up
On the decision in the Northern Securi
ties ease said There is distinct diff
ference drawn between railroads and
purol, producing corporations. It 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 We're en-
gagged in the manufacture nhd sale of
products.
within the last few days Mr. Cleve
land in public speech criticised the
Republican administration for not run
ming amuck iii the business interests
of the country which 50 eminent Il
phlologiSt rs he knows means that lie
criticscs the president for not dashins
wildly ut everything in sight and de-
stroAing the guilty and innocent alike.
while Judge Parker only yesterday be-
walls the fact that corporations are
permitted Ia violate the law and that
they are contributing to the Republican
cause.
what can he the reason for this
change of 'front.' Mr.. Cleveland on
March, II, notwithstanding the decree
of the circuit court pronouncng the
beef trust unlawful, says il 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 n time when the case
was pending and undecided in the high
est court, while ON oct, p he infercn-
TALLY dcmaaded that an Incorporated
business should be wantonly assuiled.
as 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 party?
Do the principles of law which Mr..
Cleveland thought last March protected
manufacturing monopoies change in
October, and, if SO, does the change af-
feet the Belmont trusts, or only those
which are suspected Of seeing in the
perpetuation of Republican administra-
ton the continued general prosperity of
the country?
Judge Parker in his speech on Mon
day also said:
MANY years have passed since my ae-
tive participation in politics. In the
meantime startling change has taken
place in the method OF conducting cam
palgns; n CHI uge not for the better. but
for the worse. change that has intro
daeed debasing and corrupt methods
which threaten the integrity Of our gov
eminent
at is astounding that Judge Parker
should be willing to challenge the com
parison which this statement inevita-
bly, calls out When Judge Parker last
actively participated i'm politics off the
bench he was chairman of the New
York state Democratic committee
which elected David b. Hill as govern
or. He was cog in the Hill machine.
There never have been in our political
history methods more debasine and cor
rupt than those Of the Hill machine in
New York, and they eliminated in the
steal of the state by the Maynard
frauds and the overthrow of the Hill
machine in consequence. This was the
machine which Mr.. Parker ran until, as
judge by Hill. And these are the meth
DDS he depIores.
Again Judge Parker speaks of the
campaign contributions by great cor
porations. He states that some Of the
enterprises which have unduly thrived
through favoritism have become SO
rich and strong that they can and do
fpi1 10 l1Ha
clear that it will advantage them.
Judge Parker is describing precise
ly and exactly the sources which give
Tammany Hall its strength, and the
cutting off of which in the present cleo
ton would remove every chance of his
carrying New York state. There is not
an honest man in political life who
does not know that this is the case
and that Judge Parker is now seeking
to be the beneficiary of the very meth
DDS which he affects to denounce.
Again Judge Parker says:
political contributions by corporations
and trusts mean corruption. They can
not be honest. corporation will sub
scribe to political party only because
the corporation expects that party,
through Its control Of public officers, ex-
ecuttve or legislative, to do something
for the benefit Of the corporation or to
refrain from doing something to its In
Jury. No other motive can be imagined.
In the nature Of things. no other motive
can exist.
ut is astonishing that Judge Parker
should have the temerity to say this
when his own intimate associates and
supporters. the men who conducted his
campaign for the nomination and who
are now conducting the campaign for
his election, represent these very cor
porations which he affects to denounce
or else owe their political strength sole
ly to the contributions they have re-
ceivel from them in the past and ex-
pect to receive from them in the future.