The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-08
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have been presented and fire.
quauIy discussed fy large newspapers
in this city and til $ country following
tne or aotment OF tan statute
ing he creation Of sac bureau OF abc
ard a discussion which DC
gan as long g as the first day OF
Cs lober.
Now let me recite them here as !
have reoited them IefUre:
"a row department was created
the CaI aItment of To tnst
department was intGCSted inqulsitorfal
Ipowcr over the great trusts and corpo-
of the country. It's head.the sSc-
l-eIary III commerce. was made a caoi-
met officer. \ half r.iliion dollars was
.riated for its work, Of which
Isurl veIy little has been expended.
"Thc President paced at the head os
ithi< deps rtment-eclDowered to PROBE
1.-The ceertts Of all The trusts and corpo-
l-ationS engaged in j. terstate
his LIivate secrecy. who held tina;
for some mcaths. when he re-
icigisl end was made chairman of the
national committee.
/ Now these facts are not challenged Ia
khe statement of the President, nor can
ttney lie. The statute was passed anu
Imoney was appropriated to probe TIE
trusts so C~ortelyou was appointed at
1.-The i,cao of it. He was without expo
irlence in national politics and yet the
lpresijent says in his statement: -
ichose Mr.. Cortelyou as chairman 81
1.-THE rational committee"
Now that this intended crime against
the franchise has been exposed in time,
now tina the contributions of this
money by these great monopolies look
ling for the continuance of old favors,
lor seeking new ones, stands admitted
now that these contributions have been
)made in such sums as to induce ard
lpermit the most lavish expenditure
lever made, we, as a people, Will Idli
lin our duty if we shall not rebuke at
the polls his latest and most flagrant
attempt to control the e~lection-not for
legitimate business Tor
1nroper ends-but in order that the few
lmav further strengthen their hold upon
lOur Industries. We shall rue 1t, if, as
Ia people. we do not make this rebuke
$50 emphatic that the offense Will never
lagain be repeated. -,
But this is not enough. We shoult
take every possible precaut1on to Sc
Icure both Congress n the PRESIDENCY
remove this illegal business from poll
ltics All along the line of our life the
i~nurpose should be avowed and it should
he pursued, with ~unrelenting fidelity,
ITO nrocure legislation which shall make
h. crime for the officers of a trust o.
lcorporation to contribute money for
lthe control of an election OF any kinG'
land # it should do so to provide 1oE
their punishment in the most elIecli'c
lway.
This is not the time to consider tn.
"details of such a remedy. but one is
needed which will be so f~ar-reachlh2
land so drastic as to dissolve a
partnerships between corrupt business
Interests and the government, ana &c
make their renewal forever Impossible
AS this is a government Oh laws, an
mot of men, it does not seriously Inaltei
whether one man or another holds the
Great office of President of h Unite9
States. but the opportunities in tina
Iplaoe for doing a great good, are ..
lapparent that they should be empioyee
for the highest purposes.
Great as are the problems before u
i'm the near future, POLITICAL, lnouslria
land social, in my none 4
ESQ messing as this, the greatest y
moral questions. In includes all otne
;ssnes If lies at the foundation OF a.
iotber problems, and it's settlement %.
the absolute and final y
hriherv. or the threat Of bribery, or U
the raising of money, for TINS lou puI
pose, is to my mind the most lp
liant question that can colle pehoo
free and moral people. !,
t.Ke M this work, 1 will, God helpll
, me- use every faculty of my mind, an
will employ every power that legail
and constitutionally inheres TO Tn. ns
: lgreat office to 'hs ~
Ibeneficent result. nov
? Following the speech lines weI
l formed and Judge Parker hano
: With those who had gathered to me,
: him. The doors of the club were throw
open and Brooklyn Democrats stream
5 IeS through the club rooms Tor mo:
: Etban an hour. The judge returneo
!, Hotel Seville for the night oeIore go
. Ito his home at Esopus tomorro"
: oaa;n until after the election. -