The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-02-01
PAID FOR FAVoRs
CORPORATION CONTRIBUTIONS
TO REPUBLICAN PARTY
In Spite OF Roosevelts Denial, Ree,u
Facts Show He Must Have
Been cognizant OF the 4
Nefarious Scheme.

1
Roosevelt to reward Mr.. Cortelyou
by appointing him secretary OF Tho
treasury naturally brings TO min
what Mr.. Cortelyou did in the cam.
paign OF 1904. lie was then secretary
or the department OF commerce ana
labor and also chairman of the Re-.
publican national committee. to which
ONCE he was elected by the request
OF the president He managed tba
campaign for the election of President
Roosevelt and. 1t was stated at the
ume, was in daily communication by
telephone and otherwise with the
president and that no important stems
We're taken in that campaign until the
president was consulted, so that yir.
tually Mr.. Roosevelt ran his own cam.
paign. He was successful. But hf
what means? The means were DO.
scribed by Judge Parker. the Demo
cratic candidate, In his address deliy.
cred at Madison Square Garden IN
New York city on October 81, 1904
in which he said
Congress creates n new departmen,
or commerce and labor OF that de
partment the president OF the United
States appoints secretary. That sec.
rotary was his private secretary
Within the department provision is
made for the collection, from large
corporations. including the so-caned
trusts. of information which. IL is to
be borne in mind. is to be submitted
70 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 II has been, and still
Is, TO collect funds for the purpose OF
securing the election Of the president
And il is now notorious that there has
resulted from this organized impor-
tunity-vnatever may be the precise
way n which IL is made effective-an
OVERLOOKING treasury TO the committee.
OF which boast is openly and continu-
ally made. Although this may be sat
isfactory TO the conscience OF Repub-
lican leaders, il must, | 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 cath, but not
until November 4, 1904. IL days after
the first utterance of Judge Parker on.
this question. did President Roosevelt
deign 10 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.. Parker's accusations against Mr..
Cortelyou and me are monstrous. II
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 Roosevelts
statement. He said:
He is in a position to know what
contributions have been made 10 the
Republican national committee by the
trusts: II there have been no trust
contributions he could easily have said
Cn IIn ala
say SO. He has waited until the clos
ing hour OF the campaign to make.
easier the pretense OF an answer put
IL is not an answer. II 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
the 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 H.
On October 10th DR. Gillette, vice
president Of the Mutual Life Insurance
company, testified that about" $40
600 was contributed; on November
l4th James III. Hyde. vice-president OF
the Equitable Life Assurance society.
testified that $4,000 was contributed
Senator Plat testified that he had
been paid $4,000 a year. and the res-
son that he gave for these contribu-
lions to the Republican campaign fund
was: Il suppose that they thought
/ might have some little influence
with my party"
Who can honestly doubt or deny
that the managers of railroads. banks,
trust companies and other corpora
lions contributed in the same surrep-
titious manner to the Republican cam
paign fund of 1904 and that Mr. Cor
teiyou as we'll as Senator Plat 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