The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-14
.ONGRESS SHOULD HAVE INVESTIGATED Eampaign Gifts of Corpora tions Should Have Been Probed. JUDGE PARKER TALKS Honey Obviously Raised to
 Corrupt the Floating Vote.
JUDGE PARKER TALKS.
Tx-Judge Alton B. Parker in New
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1x-Judge Alton B, Parker in New York World)
 I Senator Tillman introduced a reso- ton calling for an investigation of e charge that I deemed 1t my duty
 make in the campaign of 1904 aat resolution should have been ALssed and an opportunity afforded to AHove the amounts contributed by the any and various protected indus Hes of the country-the insurance |hd other gigantic corporations, in suding the great railroad corpora 2 pms.
 This should have been done, not Rr the purpose of proving whether M charge was we'll or i'll founded, for Erely an investigation was not need N for that purpose after the insur- sce investigation, which disclosed a &ntribution by three companies out
 many aggregating nearly $150,000 \ swell the Republican campaign Hest. Since that happened no man Tho reads and is both fair-minded Ma intelligent can doubt the accura- of my statements.
 Rhe Contributors Practical Men.'' &But further and broader investi- ! tion should have been made, cover g all the great corporations having *terests that the federal government &uld protect or advance, either by &e maintenance of existing protective *htutes, such as the so-called Dingley M, or by the non-enforcement of &W, and this to the end that the peo- Ne might determine whether federal
 litics and corporate interests shall ~ divorced or the wicked partner &ip of the past shall be continued
 q strengthened by further as- % mption of federal control
 TSuch an investigation would have 2 sclosed that contributions were :" ade by corporations whose officers
 ew that within year--perhaps
 thin thirty days-after election they E puld have to go to the postmaster
 neral for renewal of their mail- Frying contracts; and, being "prac- F al men" they realized that the at- M ude of that official might be af- @ Eted by the circumstances of a large 7 9@ntribution on the one hand or by Fusal to contribute at his request on
 other hand. They had reason to ieve that the request for a con >. button by the chosen representa- ' les of an administration implied an reement to treat them as they had 2 hn treated before.
 For years the tariff-fed corpora
 ms had been solicited for contribu-
 ns to Republican campaign funds,
 d they responded generously, and
 ewise for years the Republican ad-
 nistrations had protected them by ! Tiff duties that enabled them to ex-
 from our people larger price for
 eir products than they were de-
 hiding from foreigners.
 Beneficiary Has Kept Faith. E Both the solicitors and the contri-
 tors of these campaign funds re- ' rded the beneficiary as under obli- S ion to preserve their power to
 llct the people, and the beneficiary
 kept the faith That fact is
 own to all men.
 Y With this example before them the
 Operations began to respond to sim
 c solicitations and upon like im-
 ed agreement that they would eith-
 be helped or let alone as their sev-
 necessities should require. T Now, what was done with this
 hey? Much of it was employed
 corrupt the voters of doubtful
 tes, until in many of them man.
 bd suffrage has in considerable
 asure become chattel suffrage. It
 svident that it was for that purpose 5 y that this so-called Hartman
 d of $26O,0O0 was raised It was ! ured on the 29th and 90th days of
 Eober and turned over to the na- 'ssI hal committee on October 31 Two
 adred thousand dollars was then
 en to the State committee and for
 at purpose?
 Obviously in the closing hours of
 campaign but one practical use 4 Id be made of it, and that was to
 ell the fund already accumulated to