The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-01-25
On the Changes Made During the
Late Campaign That
THE TRUSTS MONEY
Vas Freely Contributed to the Republic
eaH Campaign Fun6 to Buy the
Election. Senator Stone Said
the Charge Renaiaed :
Unanswered.
Unanswered.


connection with the campaigns Of
1896 and 1904 we're for a tims We'd
nesday revived and made the subject
cf discussion in the United States
Senate. The question was raised by
Mr.. Stone in q speech In support Of
his resolution providing for an inves-
tigation Of the charges. He used with
much freedom the names Of President
Roosevelt, Judge Parker<and Chai1-
man Cortelyou and again traversed
the allegations that Mr.. Cortelyou had
used the information secured by him
as secretary OF commerce and labor to
secure money from the trusts.
Taking up the charges made during
the campaign that Mr.. Corlelyou had
used his secret official information as
q cabinet officer to secure contribu-
tions, Mr.. Stone said he could neither
affirm nor deny this terrible indict-
ment," because he did not know. IT
only know" ne said, tthat the damn.
ing admission stands that the trusts
did supply Mr.. Cortelyou campaign
funds. Moreover, MI. Cortelyou has
never made answer to this charge. Il
is hard to believe that Nj. Cortelyou,
or that any man OF character, would
prostitute official opportunities to par
tisan ends 50 base. am loath to be-
ieve IL, and yet charge so specific
as this and which SO deeply concerns z
the public honor and welfare cannot
be sil lenced by contemptuously pooh.
poohing and ignoring it."
Senator Stone said MI. Cortelyou
twas clothed with inquisitorial au-
thority to spy into the secrets Of the
trusts and powe, also was given to
make his discoveries public at the dis
cretiol OF the president. This man and
this official the PRESIDENT himself se-
lected for chairman Of the Republican
natioral committee. The circum-
stances Of this appointment were GU
riously signi icant, il not sinister, and
the suspicious inevitably excited by
them have provoked situation great
ly to he regretted. This accusing tact
will not down that the trusts did fill
Mr.. Cortelyou's campaign Golfers to
ove1huwing. Happily we have the
comforting assurance, youchsafed both
by MI. Root and the president, that
the trusts had no improper motive In
making those contributions, and that
no improper means were used to In
duce them. These, indeed, were vir-
tuous trusts, and theirs and idealistie
self sacrificing patriotism. They
scorned all base expectation Of favors
to come, and secuted the very thought
that their gold would he used to cor
rupt." He said the senate could not
accept these assurances without Ques-
tion and that the resolution Of inquiry
therefore should be adopted. BE also
expressed the opinion that the presi.
dents charges against the Democrat
ic campaign management should be In
Quired into. Mr.. Stone based his de-
mand for an Inquiry into the campaign
of 1896 on the allegations Of Thomas
W. lawson, made in recent maga-
zine article. The senator was himself
vie chairman OF the Democratic ns-
tional committee during the cam
paign, but he said that he did not pro-
pose to testify. Many thousand people
be said believe that election to have
been bought, and that fact alone
would justify an inquiry.
SOUTHERN REPRESENTATION.
Referring incidentally to the bill
introduced by Mr.. Platt OF New York
to reduce the congressional represen-
tation of Southern States because Of
the imposition Of qualification On the
right Of suffrage, he said: The con-
spirac;es are not only crime against
the suffrage, but crime immediate
ly fJrmed in New York to debauch
the electorate subversive Of represent
ative government, and to it's suppress
sion the senator from New York
might prohtably devote his so!iciuous
attention