Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-31
PAID FOR FAvoRS
CORPORATION CONTRIBUTIONS
TO REPUBLICAN PARTY.
In Spite of RooseveIt's Denial, Recent
Facts Show He Must Have
Been Cognizant of the
Nefarious Scheme.

Nefarious Scheme.
The determination Of President
Roosevelt to reward Mr.. Cortelyou
by appointing him secretary of the
treasury naturally brings to mind
what Mr.. Cortelyou did in the cam.
paign of 1904. He was then secretary
Of the department of and
labor and also chairman of the Re-
publican national committee, to which
office he was elected by the request
OF the president. He managed the
campaign for the election Of President
Roosevelt and, it was stated at the
time. was in daily communication by
telephone and otherwise with the
president and that no important steps
were taken in that campaign until tie
president was consulted, so that W =
tually Mr., Roosevelt ran his own cal \.
paign. He was successful. But ~
what means? The means were de.
scribed by Judge Parker, the Demo
cratic candidate, in his address deliv-
cred at Madison Square Garden in
New York city on October 81, 1904.
in which he said:
congress creates a new department
of commerce and labor. OF that de-
partment the president of the United
States appoints a secretary. That sec
rotary was his private secretary.
Within the department provision is
made for the collection, from large
corporations, including the ~so-called
trusts, of information which, it is to
be borne in mind, is to be submitted
to the president for public or private
use, as he may direct. By grace of
the same executive this secretary,
through whose department this infor-
nation is collected, becomes chairman
of the Republican national committee.
His chief duty it has been, and still
is, to collect funds for the purpose Of
securing the election of the president.
And it is now notorious that there has
resulted from this organized impor-
tunity-whatever may be the precise
way in which it is made effective-an
overlooking treasury to the committee,
OIL which boast is openly and continu.
ally made. Although this may be sat
1sfactory to the conscience of Repub-
lfcan leaders, 1t must, l firmly believe,
be condemned as nothing short of
scandalous, not alone by myself or the
Democratic party, but by the Ameri.
can people as we'll"
The same charge had been made by
Judge Parker on October gath, but not
until November 4, 1904, IL days after
the first utterance of Judge Parker on
this question, did President Roosevelt
deign to publicly take cognizance Of
the charges by Judge Parker, at which
time he gave out a public statement,
in which he said:
But there Is not one particle Of
truth in the statement as regards any
thing that has gone on in the man
agement of the Republican campaign.
Mr.. ParEer's accusations against Mr..
Cortelyot and me are monstrous. If
true, they would brand both of us for
ever with infamy; and inasmuch as
they are false, heavy must be the
condemnation of the man making
them"
On November 9Th Judge Parker
made another speech and took occa-
sion to reply to President Roosevelt's
statement. He said:
He is in a position to know what
contributions have been made to the
Republican national committee by the
trusts; if there have been no trust
contributions he could easily have said
so. He did not say so. He cannot
say so. He has waited until the clos
ing hour of the campaign to make
easier the pretense of an answer. But
it is not an answer. 1t is a confession
with a plea in avoidance addressed to
a kindly and generous people"
But the proof of Judge Parker's
charges was not long in forthcoming,
for on September 20, 1905, the evil
dence of John A. Mccall, president of
tho New York Life Insurance com.
pany, who testified before the legisla.
tive insurance investigating commit
tee that he knew of $4,000 paid to
Mr.. Bliss, treasurer of the Republican
national committee, and approved it.
Who can honestly doubt or deny
that the managers of railroads, banks.
trust companies and other corpora
lions contributed in the same surrep-
t1tious manner to the Republican cam.
paign fund of 1904 and that Mr.. Cor
telyou as well as Senator Platt might
have had some influence with his
party" and would exert that influence
in the interest of the contributors?
President Roosevelt rewarded Mr.
Cortelyou for his services in that cam
palgn by giving him the much more
important position of postmaster gen
eral and now in return for his actiyi-
ty in the late campaign has again re.
warded him by making him secretary
Of the treas ury, where in view of his
knowledge gained about the corpora
tons in his former positions he can,
II need be, favor those who have fay.
ored the Roosevelt administration.
Politicians Not Giants.
The Republicans are talking about
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