The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-31
BIG CONCERNS SULK;
 NO CAMPAIGN GIFTS
DIsGRUNTLED CORPORATIONS
 ssfELE AT s1 DONATIONS.
Hope f0 Teach Lesnem-~~kkepubIicans to Make Fight On Reeora-- ! BFyun May Take Stump
 for Dexm0ermta.
Washington Special to Chicago Record

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 Washington Special to Chicago Record
 Herald.
 Back of the s1 contribution popular subscription idea. to which the politi- cal managers have been driven by force of circumstances. fully as puis- sant as any moral awakening, there is q story of self-satisfactIon with which the big corporations are viewing pres ent conditions. If the popular sub scription proves successful t will go long way toward destroying the corr poration cemplacency as to tho futnrs. But the corporations think It will not ba a great success.
 The corporations are sulking. That is one of the big secrets of the novel movement inaugurated by the leaders of one of the great parties, and which will be taken up by the other if 1t hopes for any kind df success through methods that call for the expenditure Of money. and these methods are not all illegal by any means.
 The situation that confFonts the managing committees is exemplified by the attitude of certain trust magnates toward the public generally. Henry II. RoGers, q Standard oil notoriety, was quoted recently. following q fit of disgust over too much public interfer- ence with the rights of corporate wealth. as declaring his intention of never again "being so foolish as to en- gage in enterprise."
 This intimaticn that the country might go to the dogs-and probably would if the trusts be not permitted to continue their exploitation of the people for their own ends--is In con- formity with what Ia understood 10 have been told to the campaign man. agers this summer when they sounded e tm -aAa s4 NN.s k- ls.A what the prospects of catch would be the coming season.
 The corporations have settled into the sublime conviction that politics cannot be conducted without their as- sistanee. It perhaps IS only natural that they should feel that way in view of the manner in which national and state campaigns in the main have been carried on in the past Some of the captains of industry blantly have in- formed the eaptians of politics that the latter have been sowing the seed of reform for some time and that now they may go head and see what kind of harvest they will gather.
 These financial and Industrial mag mates who sheer at the tendency of the times, which was embodied to some sx- tent in legislation enacted by Congress at it's last session, think that after the experience of campaign conducted without help from the corporations, those who direct 1egis1atlon in large measure will feel inclined to be more conservative" when the lawmakiag branch of the government resumes it's labors. By su1king in 1906 they be- lieve that when more important cams paign comes in 1908 the need of the old-tlme aid will be apparent. while the retrospective period in the interval may furnish a chance for contemplation of the follies induiged in through giving too great heed to the public sentiment which the interests characterize as az itation.
 You have attacked us; you have started revolution; you think the pro- letariat is greater than we are" the corporate interests have said to the politicians: Now. Keep of the grass in your hunting for the sinews of war perhaps you will learn something and be good in the future"
 Both political parties are guiity--the one as much so as the other--in re- gard 10 batting hooks to catch coFpo- ration money In past eampaigns But 1t has been pointed out repeatedly since Chairman sherman issued his ap- peal for popular subscriptions that the Republican leaders would have been far more consistent in their present protestattons of virtue if they had ale lowed the Tillman anti-oorporation con- tribution bill to pass the House and be- come law last spring
 Senator Tillman and other Democrat is leaders predicted after the campaign contribution measure passed the Senate that 1t would be held up in the House and declared the Republicans wanted to get one more whack at the corporation barrel before former sources of supply were shut off entirely.
 '"The Republicans will not put this measure up 10 the President until after the Congressional elections next fall,' declared Senator Tillman on many oc- casions.
 But if the Republicans had hopes inI line with the charges of the pitchfork Senator recent developments seem to have blasted them. It now is declared that by failing to pass the Tlllman bill the Republican leaders played into the hands of the corporations in a manner that was not anticipated. Instead of returning thanks for the permission toI continue as contributors as heretofore, the corporations have sulked. as here- fin stated.
 As matters stand right now, the Re- publieans are regarded as having R bis advantage over their opponents byl making a fight before the people on