Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-08-31
Judge Parker's Campaign Con-
Quoted by Members of Big
Corporations.
QUEERFL0P OF A NEWSPAPER
fncontestible Proof that the Democratic
Candidate Is Allied with Corpora
tons Which His Party Platform
DeInagogically Denounces.
From the New York Press.

The New York World again discovers
for campaign purposes that President
Roosevelt is tool Of the trusts, as
demonstrated by his Kidding himself
of the one successful trust prosecutor III
order to p}acate the corporations; IN max
ing his former private secretary ana
head Of the Department OF Commerce
campaign fund solicitor. from the very
corporations he was appointed to dlllgent-
" investigate; in appointing a railroad
corporation official Secretary of the Navy
and political agent of the Southern
Pacific Railway to be head Of the de-
partment ID 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
tions in politics and their controlling IN
f1uence in government
1t gives US pleasure, therefore, to 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 ny
Republican, was passed by RepubHcan
House and Republican Senate, was
signed by Republican President:
- The law remained dead letter on
the statute books during the entire SECOND
term of Grover Cleveland, a Democratic
President Through those four years of
Democratic administration all appeals ana
all efforts of the World to have the law Jaw
open contempt from a Democratic Attor
ney-General, Richard Olney. who pretend,
ed that the law was unconstitutional ana
who would do nothing toward prosecuting
g The first effort to enforce the law
was made by Theodore Roosevelt, t. axe he,
General to vigorously prosecute offenders
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 hnaity
from which there is no appeal. upholding
the law as perfectly constitutional ana
absolutely impregnable in every respect.
as the World for twelve years constantly
insisted. was due to five judges, every one
of whom is Republican.
"a The dissenting minority of the court
included every Democratic judge of that
tribunai to-wit: Chief Justice Fuller or
Illinois, Mr.. Justice White of Louisiana,
and Mr. Justice Peckham Of New York.
All these distinguished Democrats not ouly
voted against the constitutionality OF the
law, but denounced it as a danger to the
republic i-.aau those 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 or being
owned body and soul by the trusts.
1T is lust as we'll to record some plain
truths however unpleasant or surprising. y
We further submit the following list
and description of the gentlemen who
have been selected to assist Tom rag
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 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 Lompana
Metalurgica Mexicana; director OF the
Conauesta Coal Railway Company: treas
urerand director Of the General Electric
Company: vice president and director OF
the Mexican Coal and Coke Company
director of the Mexican Mineral Railway
Company; director Of the Mexican Ma
tional Construction Company; first vice
president ard director of the Mexican
Northern Railway Company; vice prcsi
dent and director OF the Montezuma
Lead Company and Of the Potosi & Rio
Verde Railway Company, and director OF
the Southern improvement Company OF
Nory