The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-18
I TOLD YOU SO.'
 SAYS JUDGE PARKER
VIGOROUSLY SCORES USE OF CORPORATE FUNDS IN
 CAMPAIGNS.

S~Au tAe Ssu1e AnlnS many LlmeS OVer Last Fall, but Recent Developments Regarding Contribution of s5OyOOO by New York Life Insurance Company to Help Elect Roosevelt Lead Him to Repetition, With Snapping Post script.
 Esopus, N. r., Sept. 17.-Former Chief Nudge Alton B. Parker, last year the nemoeratic candidate for president of the United States, to-day referred to the charges made by him in the presi- dential campaign last fall, that corpo- ration funds were being used in aid of khe republican campaign.
 To a correspondent of The Associat- ed Press who called at Rosemont,Judge .Parker's home. and asked him if he had anything to say iA relation to the state ment of Vice President George W. Per kins of the New York Life Insurance company, made before the legislative committee Investigating life insurance affairs, to the effect that President John A. Mccall of that company had caused g contribution of about $50,OO0 to be made last year to the republican national campaign fund, Judge Parker said:
 ''Yes, believe ought to say, now that there Is no political excitement to distract the public attention, that the president of the New York Life was not the only such contributor. The of- ficers of other great life insurance com panies, such as the Equitable and the Mutual, also contributed of the policy holders fund for campaign purposes last year. What has been proved in the case of the New York Life will un- doubtedly 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 rail- road, manufacturing and other corpora lions, it would be found that these life. insurance officers were not the only corporation officers who put their hands Into the treasury and took out moneys belonging to widows and orphans to help secure a partisan triumph
 That their acts were unlawful, and their purposes corrupt, goes without saying. They intended to have the money used, as it was, in corrupting the electorate. MT. Perkins makes the point that MT, John A. Mccall, the president of the New York Life is a. democrat. Apparently he would have the public assume that when MT. Me- Call unlawfully and wrongfully contrib uted these funds-the companys share probably as member of the under writing syndicate--it was evidence of political virtue, rather than misconduct.
 "The truth about it is, and I say 1t without feeling, but emphatically, that men like Mccall have no political con- victions that stand in the way of their personal advantage. That party they espouse in the board room, and contrib ute to 1t of the moneys they hold in trust, and occasionally a little of their own. The underlying principles which divide the great mass of the people ir- to parties have no effect upon such men. Their one inquiry is, will the party organization in it's hour of tri- umph, remember our generosity and respond to our demands?
 HThere is, however, something worse if possible, than the escape of such of- lenders from justice. It is the gradual denaoralization of voters and the dull. ing of the public conscience, caused by the efforts to make these vast sums of money procure the ballots they were intended to procure, corruptly and oth- erwise.
 '"It is not my purpose to claim that the democratic party, subjected to the temptation which has overcome the party during the last few years, would have acted different Mere party ad- vantage should not be sought from the disclosures made in this investigation But the facts should be diligently sought, that the people may become SC aroused that they will insist upon legis. lation making it criminal offense for officers to contributet corporate funds for political purposes and depriving the apparently successful candidate of their offices"