The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-05
Tariff and Trusts the Issue.

| great overshadowing issue of the nexi | campaign and if you are true to youl | trust we will see democratic administra- | ton in power. When he meet Tammany at the national convention Texas will be
 there holding up the banner of the greatest democrat who has lived since
 Jefferson-Wiliam J. Bryan. And then
 Texas will insist that his running mate the convention take your member Charles A. Towne. Such a ticket will sweep the country. Then your most representative
 and brilliant jurlst, Alton B. Parker shall be the chief justice of the United States supreme court"
 In his address of welcome, Mir. Cochran
 among other things said:
 "We hear that the democracy is nc
 longer needful In this country We are
 told that the government must now in- terfere in all matters. It is a proposal that socialism is to be submitted for democracy
 ''In the insurance fraud we find the rascals holding a stronger grip on their ill-gotten gains Moreover. when a lar
 ceny of s5O,O0O is admitted, we find the officers of the law not pursuing but pro- tecting and the whole country stands aghast at the spectacle"
 On Campaign Contributions. Mir Cochran declared that the cam
 paign contributions by the New York Life Insurance company which were ad-
 mitted by George W. Perkins. hal served merely to strengthen the firm of J. P
 Morgan & Co.,. of which Perkins is a
 member. and he declared the actions of the appellate division of the supreme court In declaring that the contributions
 were not criminal, had shocked the com
 munity.
 Continuing on the Subject of campaign contributions" by insurance companies
 Mr Cochran said:
 "A firm notorious for It's capacity in
 promoting swindling operations con-
 tributes s5OO00 to the republican cam
 paign fund, to give the firm of J. P Morgan x Co. weight and consequence
 with the republican managers when il
 comes to legislation to secure favor with
 the steel trust. and when the election is over those GOO are taken out of the funds of ah insurance company by an officer charged with the custody of them for the benefit of the helpless people, in capable of protecting themselves In- stead of being indicted like any other offender and allowed to offer any expla-
 nation that he could furnish, he is asked by the district attorney to furnish his
 own explanation not upon the facts re-
 Vedleu Dy lHNtstiEutlOt Dut upon HIS
 own explanation. which is the defense
 of his crime A farcical process is insti-
 tuted by a prosecuting officer who de-
 clares that no ground exists for prose
 cution, and when three judges overrule him, that process is carried before five judges sitting in solemn session. who
 tolerate the spectacle of a man appear
 ing before them to argue a proposition which she hal already denounced. The fact that we find here a district attor- ney shielding a man whom he has sworn to prosecute is spectacle shocking to civilization.
 Crime Does Not Excuse Crime. "We have seen out in Omaha a man had perpetrated against a child crime which every principle and instinct of ChrIstianized manhood considers most heinous. When arraigned before jury on evidence which he did not deny, including his own confession. acquitted for no other reason that the man aganist whose
 family the offense had been committed was himself an habitual vielator of the law. The jury declined to convict Pat Grove for one offense committed against Cudahv. who himself wa committing numerous offenses every hosir and every day of his life. I do not say this Is
 justice. It is a parody on justice. or rather it Is a paralysis of justice.
 But the paralysis is the result of cor ruption at the heart. The swindiing financiers need regulation If the choice should be between riot and rottenness. then I say rottenness is the lesses evil of the two"
 Must Be Above Suspicion.
 In discussing the approaching state campaign Mir. Crockran said that the