The Springfield herald., 1904-09-02
Judge Parker's Campaign Con-
Quoted by Members Of Big
Corporations.
QuEERFLoPoF ANEwsPAPER
lncontestible Proof that the Democratic
Candidate Is Allied with Corpora.
tions Which His Party Platform
Dcmagogically 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 "riddins himself
of the one successful trust prosecutor IN
order to placate 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 diligent-
ly investigate: in appointing railroad
corporation official Secretary Of the Navy
md a political agent of the Southern
Pacific Railway to be head of the de-
partment 10 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 VIII fur-
ther cularge the rule Of corrupt corpora
tions in politics and their controiiih2 ih-
fuence in government
II gives MS 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 dissolvihS the
Northern Securities merger:
FACTS.
81. The antitrust law was framed ~
Republican,, was pnSsed by hcnnOli'ah
House and n Republican Senate, was
signed by Republican President
The law s,. .e"rnss GmrIms N. 'e entire % second
President Through those four years OF
Democratic administration all appeais ana
ali Efforts OF the World 10 have the law
enforced were met with sneers. 1eers anu
open contempt from n,nsY pem"sl"'% wI" orcten. M
ed that the law was unconstitutional nnd
who would do nothing toward prosecuting
'o!s'0rr as. The e nrst M crort to enforce the law
publican President. The nrst Attorney
General to vigorously prosecute "nsnders T
torney General Phiinnder c. Knox
"a. The decision Of the supreme u1ur.
of the Quilted States. given as nnsnty
from which there is no appeal. nph"idinS
the law as perfectly constitutional and
s'sey World feI .ssy. ,eas Ssfy
Insisted, wns due to nve Judges. every one
Of whom is II Republican. c,,..
included every Democratic Judge Of that
tribunal. to-wit: Chief Justice Fuller of
illinois. Mr.. Justice White OF Lonisinnn' Ynns
All these distinguished Democrats not only
voted against the constltutionahty Of thr
law. but denounced 1t AZ danger 10 'he
20 Under these circumstances 1t does
not seem probable that the Democrats can
make great capital In seeking to monopo-
ilhe the antitrust Issue and charging the
RepublIcan party with the crime OF being
owned body and soul by the trusts.
at IL 1ust as well to record some plain
truths. however unpleasant or surprising
We further submit the following list
and description OF the gentlemen VIII"
have been selected to assist Tom Tag
cart, chairman OF the Democratic Ma
tional COMMITTEES, 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 vic, Irrs'r":'i
and director OF the Alvares Land and
Lumber Company; director of the Amer
lean Beet Sugar Company; second Vice
president and director Of the Compnna
MctaIurgica Me1icand: director OF the
Conuucsta Coal Railway Company treas
urersnd director of the General Electric
Company; vice president and director of
the Mexican Coal and Coke Compsny;
director Of the Mexican Mineral Railway
Company; director Of the Mexican Ma
tional Construction Company: nrst vice
president and director Of the Mexican
Northern Railway Company; vice prrsi-
dent and director of the MonteEuna
Lead Company and Of the Potosi & Rio
Verde Railway Company. and director OF
the Southern Improvement Company of
New York.