The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-20
Going Out of Town?
There lis better thing than the
crent man who is always speaking,
and TINT is the great man who only
.ucaks when he has n great word
to sny.-NiIliam Winter.
pARKEn AND ROOSEVELT.

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The News Leader notes that Judge
[CNlton B. Parker joins in the outcry
against President Roosevelt for having
solicited or helped to obtain heavy con-
tributions to the Republican campaign
fund in 1905" and characterizes 1t as
Debated twaddle.
We do not quite see the justice Of
this criticism. Judge Parker is not
Joining in belated cutlery. What he
said in his Jamestown speech was but
q repetition of the ..outcry" he himself
raised in the campaign of 1904 against
President Roosevelt and his right-hand
man. Corteiyou. for having solicited
campaign funds from the trusts and
the railroads-from Hartman and the
Standard Oil men, as it turns out,
whom the administration is now prose
cutting.
I'VE do not suppose adds the News
Leader, that Judge Parker or his
friends will deny that he used all his
personal and political influence to in
duce liberal contributions, combining
DDS
But Judge Parker did not solicit
funds from the trusts, and If his party
managers did so, it was against his
earnest protest. In a speech delivered
in Brooklyn just before the election of
1904, Judge Parker said
81 requested the Democratic national
campaign managers that they should
not receive, directly or Indirectly, from
any trust, money for campaign pur-
poses. notified them that 1 proposed.
If elected. to enter upon the discharge
of the duties of the great Office unham-
pered by any obligation to interests
mr. to men. said. to. theln would
prefer to be defcnted than to be fet-
scred In the effort 10 accomplish re-
advised by them that my request was
scrnpulOusly respected
This shows that Judge Parker wa!
aware of the community of interest eX.
listing between the Republican party
snd the "protected" corporations, ant
~,
administration should he entirely FREE
from any such entangling alliances
And in so doing he showed foresight
Ind discretion which did credit to hi
eense OF honor, as we'll as to his in
}ellect President Roosevelts entan
element with Hartman & Co. is EN-
barrassing. in spite of any and a
explanations which he may make. Q
Which may be made by others on III
behalf. SO much for that aspect {
tiia subject.
IF Mr.. Hartman did secure $500
600" proceeds the News Leader, q
help the Republicans carry New Yor
IN 1904, he did it presumably becau!
he believed that Republican victo,
would mean safety and prosperity Fl
the interests he controlled or repr
fented.'
Undoubtedly. lie and the standa
Dill men and other contributors to /
campaign fund had been enjoyi,
Safety and prosperity for years Ii
der a Republican administration.
spite of the Sherman law, and VIII
called upon to contribute again in 10
they had sufficient reason to feel IL
they would continue to nave "safet
under the second administration
Roosevelt. They did not get it, as
prosecutions which are now going
sbundantly prove. But Messrs. Har
man & Co. have doubtless asked the
selves more than once whether or l.
sfter paying In. they got square d.