Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-05-15

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venient to buy enough of the delegates
to Republican conventions to make a
majority after they have been elected,
than TO bother with caucuses and the
minor conventions.
The corporations and trusts may be
reRed upon in the future as in the past
to furnish the money to elect the Re
publican candidate for President, who
ever he may be, they did 1t in 1896
and In 1900 for President Mckinley
and in 1904 for President Roosevelt.
The latter may deny it forever and a
day, but the sworn evidence in the
life insurance investigation shoEs that
the corporation magnates paid large
sums in 1904 to the chairman and
treasurer of the Republican national
committee and we have the admission
of Mr.. Hartman that he gave check
for $4,000 and some friends of Sena-i
tor Depew paid in the aggregate $780,
600 more, less than ten days before
election.
II 1t was considered morally right
according to Republican ethics for the
corporation magnates to pay these
large sums Into the Roosevelt cam
paign fund, which Doodle we are as
sured by Mr.. Hartman turned $4,000
votes in New York City alone, why
Is 1t crime to be raved Mt, to sub
scribe money to secure safe and sane
candidate TO be elected by the use of
even more Doodle?
The President should quit talking of
Doodle to defeat him until he has caus-
ed his committee to make restitution.
of the trust funds of the widows and
orphans that were collected in 1904.
Political Corruption.
What did Mr.. Cortelyou do with the
100000 that Mr.. Hartman and others
Interested in railroads contributed
within the last week of the campaign
of 1904? President Roosevelt must
have known of these contributions. for
according TO his own statement and
letters, he was the most interested
participant in the campaign, especially
about the fight in New York State.
Hartman says the President asked him
to raise the money which was used in
New York and turned $4,000 votes In
the capital of the Empire State. How
much greater the. corruption fund was
is still an uncertainty, though we know
from the sworn evidence before the
life Insurance Investigation that yery
large sums were provided by the life
insurance magnates. We also know that
Mr. Perkins, the partner OF ]. Pierpont
Morgan, repaid over $4,000, but the
other large sums filched from the trust
funds for the widows and orphans of
the policyholders have never been re
turned. How much was contributed by
the other frenzied financlers of Wall,
street and the tariff protected trust,
magnates has never been told, or what
chairpan. Gentslyou.i did with the
money. = ,v.g.i - No.; s3.S..5 n;
The anxiety expressed by President
Roosevelt about the result in New York
and the fact that the money Hartman
raised was expended there indicates
that much of the other funds were
used In a similar way to corrupt those
voters of New York who were venal
enough to accept IT. What is Presi-
dent Roosevelt and his selected agent
Cortelyou going to do to clear their
skirts from this political pollution and
whether restitution will ever be made
Of the trust funds? is the serious uues.
ton that the public are asking.
The Spells of ONCE.
How Republican politicians will
abuse each other and fight over few
petty federal offices. 1t appears that
President Roosevelt has turned down
the henchmen of Hon. James Wolcott
Wadsworth who for twenty years has
been the most influential Republican
leader of Eastern New York and for
the same period representing the Thir.
ty-fourth District in Congress. The re-
fusal to continue his friends In office
has led him to declare: THE whole
thing stamps the President as unre.
liable, a faker and humbug. For
yenrs he has INDUCED In lofty senti.
ments and violates them all for the
sake of gratifying petty spite. II
| is apparent that he intends to perse.
cute in like manner every federal
lofficeholder who is so Unfortunate as to
be my friend. But, he can't fool all
the people all the time, and the coun.
try is fast awakening to the real char.
acter5 of this bloody hero of Kettle
HILL"
The reply to this should make the
recent volcanic outbursts tame in com.
parison and that Wadsworth will be
relegated to the Annanias class goes
without saying.
AS Wadsworths scn is speaker Of
| the lower house of the New York Legis.
lature there are immense political
possibilities lurking in the near future.
In the meantime the atmosphere of tho
/ White House has assumed ruddy tint
that bodies discomfort for Secretary
Loeb and the Tennis Court Cabinet"
Initiative and Referendum.
Mr.. Bryan has declared for the
Initiative and referendum, which is the
right Of the people to initiate legisla-
ton and the power to veto or approve
laws when demanded by ten per cent
of the voters. After all we have suf-
fered by the sins of commission and
omission of the Republican politicians,
who will be bold enough to saw the
people shall not have this power to
initiate laws or to veto or approve
them?
Republicans Criticize President.
Senator Perkins, of California, de-
clares ''that some people talk too much
and this Is the fault of our President y
Andrew Carnegie thinks that President
Roosevelt draws wrong conclusions in
talking about ethology. The members
of the Ananias Club have not yet is
sued an official opinion, but they are