The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-09-27
By the Confessions OF Geo, W.
Perkins and J. A. Mccall.
WHAT PARKER SAYS.
All the Big Corporations Contribute
Money to the Republican Campaign
Fund Last Year, and the Men
Who did II Should be
Punished.

EOImcI OulSl d uUSS Aluou d. = c4
ker, last year the Demcc:atic candi-
date for President OF the United
States, In al interview at E;opus, n.
Y, recently, referred to the charges
made by him in tine Presidential cam
paign last fall, that corporation funds
we're being used in aid Of the Republi.
can campaign. 10 correspondent
OF the Associated Press who called at
Rosemount, Juoge Parker'S home, and
asked him il be had anything to say
ia relation to the statement made by
vice President Gsorge W. Perkins, Of
the New York Lie Insurance Com
pany, before the Legislature cola
mite Investigating the insurance
business, to the effect that President
John 4. Mccall, CT that company,
had caused a contribution Of about
$4,000 to be made last year to the
Republican national campaign fund,
Judge Parker said:
Eyes, 7 believe I ought to say, Iow
that there is no political excitement
to distract the public attention, that
the president OF the New York Lie
was not the only such contributor.
The officers Of other great life iDsur-
ance companies, such as the Equitable
and the Mutual, also contributed
from the policy holders fund for the
campaign purposes last year. The
u derlying principals which divide
the great mass OF the people into par
ties have no effect upon such men.
Their one inquiry is, will the party
organization IN its hour Of triumph
remember our generosity and respond
to our demands? OF course, the Or
ganization Goes remember, for 1t ex-
poets a similar contribution next
time. And the expectation is not In
vain. Last year was not the first
time. Such contributions had been
made before in national, State and
municipal elections.
1.-The Off GERS responsible for these
raids upon the treasures OF corpora
.ions have received their reward In
unfettered management Of diffsrent
insurance corporations; in unembar.
rassed raids upon the public through
5rusts-condemned by both common
and statute law; in refusal to punish
criminslly the officers Of railroad and
other corporations violating the laws;
and in statutory permission to manu-
facture corporations and to levy tri.
butte on the people.
There can be no hope OF checking
the unlawful aggressions Of officers OF
great corporations SO long as they may
thus form a quasi craftsmanship with
the organization OF the dominant po.
litical party. For in the hour when
the administrative official seeks to
punish the offender, be is reminded by
the head OF the organization OF the
magnitude CT the contributions OF the
corporation.
There Is, however, something
worse, If possible, than the escape OF
such offenders from Justice. 1t is the
gradual demoralization Of voters and
The dulling OF the public conscience by
cSe efforts to make these vast sums OF
money procure ths ballot they were
intended to procure, ccrruptly and
otherwise.
What has been proved in the case
of the New York Life will undoubt-
edly be proved In the other cases.
The facts exist and honest and able
counsel backed by an honest commit
tee will undoubtedly bring them out
for the public good.
''Were there an Investigation OF
railroad, manufacturing and other
corporations it would be found that
bhese corporation officers who pu:
their hands into tie t1easury and
took cut moneys belonging to widows
and orphans to help secure a partisan
triumph.
THAT their acts were unlawful
and their purposes corrupt goes With.
yut saying. They intended to have
the, money used, as it was, In corrupt.
ING the electorate. Mr.. Perkins
makes the point that Mr. John A.
Mccall, the president OF the New
York Lite, is Democrat. Appar-
emily be would have the public as
sune that when Mr.. Mccall un!aw-
fully and wrongtully contributed
these furds-the conpany's share
probably as member Of the uncer'
writing syndicate-it was evidence OF
political virtue, rather than niscon-
duet.
1.-THE trusa aboutit is, and l say
it without feeling, but enphattc1lly,
that men Ike Mccall have 20 polioi
cal convictions that stand in the way
Of their personal advantage. Such
men desire the triumph Of that party
which will better serve their personal
financial interests and witl-for con-
tributions, past, present AID future
continne to protect these interests by
lenient legislation and By pretense ct
execution Of law which shall be ten
derly blind to al their offenses. That
party they espouse in the court room.
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