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MARINE INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF RICHMOND. FEB. 6, 1907.
ARRIVED. E5f4
Steamer Berkeley. Shelly Norfolk, mer-
chandse and passengers. Old Dominion Line
SAILED.
Steamer Berkeley, Shelly. Norfolk. ,ner-
chandise and passengers. Old Dominion Line.
Steamer Mobjack. Graves. James River
landinsg and Norfolk. merchandise and pas.
nonGeTs. Virginia Navigation Company
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NEW YORK; PROpUCE MAnIkET.

=, :" - MN ANODSSal Ma ASAEls
. NEW YORK. February G,--FLOUR-Firm
but active, Rye Flour--Firm. Buckwhcat
Flour-Dull Observation-Disclosures, Corn
meal--Flrln.
Whent--spot strong: No. 3 red. sage. ele-
yator OPTIONS 7s01Ac. net higher. May.
$sHc.; July, S6Mc Corn--Spot firm: No. Q.
S7l5c. elevator. Options * Q1Mc. net higher.
May, 6ic.; July. 5aNc
Beef--Ftrm. Cut MoatR--steady. Lard
sllrn'; western. prime, s9.95&.o.D5s refined.
firm. PorkiF1rm; family, $3.50. short clear,
SlsG 1925: mess, sls.609l9.2s. Talow.--
Firm; city, 6Sc.; country, G7s96Ho. Petro-
fleum--stcady. Ilosin--Stcady: b strained.
common TO good, S+.4004A5 Turpenune-
Steady. *
Rice--Steady ENTHUSIASTICALLY. Sugar
Raw. steady: fair refining. o31-2:c.; centri-
fngal, IS test, 3 7-16c.; niolasscs sugar, go
S.c.;, refined. qutet. cofree--spot steady;
No. 7 Rio, TO-. No. 4 Santos, Sc: mild,
steady; Cordovu, 9V1slac Futures points
higher.
Peanuts and Freishts-steady and un-
changed. Potatoes--lrish ilrm; state. Jer-
sey and Western, per sack, $l4b01 65;
sweets. dull and unchanged Catalogues
Steady and unchanged.
Buttcr--Firm: held. common to extra, 2069
ace. Cheese--Iirm and unchanged. Eggs
Firm and unchanged
Cottonseed Oil--Was easier under freer OF.
fcrings. Prime crude. {; 0. b. mills ssIs %
&c.; do, sumlne. yellow. 44hc,; primo
white. 52c.; do. winter yellow, b1isc.
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cuIcAGo GRAIN MAn1xNT.

CHICAGO, February G,---Reports OF famine
In Russia sent the price Of wheat up more
than lc to-day, the closing quotations IN
tho May delivery showing q net gain Of ~ %
lHc Corn was up tsc Oats We're No. high
or Provisions were 5pl7.sc, higher.
.Issaffmf.,( j, nememt memen,tft fnnupt
The leading quotation s. ranged AZ follows:
Open High. Low. Close
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GOODS MARKET.

NEW YORK. February 6.-Adyances we're
announced In Wide sheetngs and the leading
lines or flnnnellettes. which were opened on
Monday have been sold UP. Z The jobbinr
trade Ia very active. and there is a large
business being booked by primary houses for
delivery through 1907 ssStasT
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MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS,

fReported BY Rodgers. hicCabe & Coz
Spanish-Aarket firmsSut sl.e5 Virginias.-
Market quiet at Az aAAc.s for fancy stock:
MACHINE picked. a3E a 4Ac.; Smelling stock,
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q s. refundIns Is, registered. ..5..,. 1o5
U s. refunding %. coupon. ........ los (
7 s. U.s. registered, ................. 1928
= 3s. couyoll. 102i
=. g. Oh a. registered. ............. 10l
~ .. Old is. coupon. ................ 10l
Z, New As. registered. ........ 1928
y. s. New ~. coupon ....... 1gs
American Tobacco 4s..,...I. rs.
American Tobacco 6s..........e... 1904
Atch.soD general IS. ..5..........,.. 10lt
Atchison adjustment ls..........s.... 81
Atlantic Coast Line IN. .......... ySi
baltimore and Ohio ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ZOE
baltimore and Ohio SIS Odd ........ IS
Brooklyn Rapid Transit conv. 4s...... Ssi
Central OF Georgia Us .....,s. ...s....... no
Central Of Georgia 1st Inc. foncred) 80
Central OF Georgia End Inc. totferedy re
Central OF Georgia 30 Inc. Offered sS
Chesapeaka and Ohio t,1E.. o.,
Chicago and Alton 3kB tbfd) ........ "a
Chicago, y, and Quincy new 4s......s IS;
Chicago, r. l. and Pacific II. r. ST.. IA
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National Il. II. OF Mex. con. 4s tbid).. ssis
New York Central gen. 3lSs o3f.
New Jersey Central gen. 5s........... 12G
Northern PACIFIC As acknowledgements. 10o
northern Pacific ss...3.... ..,.,.s.. 72&
Sorfolk and Western con-, 4a. $3.50
Oregon Short Line Srefunding 4s,.... eih.
Pennsylvania cnnv. 3i5s...s.....,.. &c
Heading General 4s....,..... -. .,.,f..t. 49,
IT. !. and Iron Noun. con. IS fbldl , 1l3i.
81. Louis and San Francisco fg. 4s.... STA
st Louis S'weatern con. As tbid). ...t. ;. ii
Seaboard Air Line 4a t(bid).......... so
southern Pacific 4s.4.......... ......... SAG.
Southern Pacific LIST As. certificates. a4s,
Southern Railway 6s tbid).....-...... 1i2l.
Texas and Pacific lists tbid)....,s... us r
Toledo, ST. L, and Western As...... SIS
Union Pacific As. a......-...... lois
United States steel End bh..........., as7.
Wabash lists did .E..5.a..,.........+. 1875.
wabash Deb. r (bid). II 4
Western Md. Is. ....-.. ............ S1iL
Wheeling and Lake Erie IS (bd,.... 81
.MISconsLn Central As. ........ 49,. SSLs
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FOR NEW YORK.

Via Night Line Steamers tekespt satur,.
day. makias conneet.on ~ Norfelk vita
also Norfolk and Western RS. NJ o a. NJ. and
s r NJ, and Chesapeake and Ohio ny, AT
daily except sunday at Norfolk with Main
Line Ships sailing Ut Z II. N Tickets. 500
f. Main Street. Richmond Transfer So. sii
e. Main Street, Ibs Jenesspn. aiurphY'ts
HotSL 5l6 y M
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s2.25@s.to. sheep-steady at s2aba5.,5.
Enthusiastically a, 1926 47.T5.
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CHICAGO, February 6--cATTLE-Re-
eelpts about $4,000 head. Market steady to
lOc. higher. Common to best steers. $A.s6D
T,ao: COWS. s3,a5@b.oo; heifors. s2.6o15,h0:
bulls s3p+6O; calves, $2.759s0o Rtocltera
about 10000 head. Market 5dploc. higher,
Choice, heavy. shipping, 97.O7h@7,loi light
butchers, S10706i light mixed, s7@7.O5:
choice light, S7I7 OH; choice pigs. $1,000
600; bulk Of sales $7d7,10. sheep--Re-
ceipts about $4,000 head. Market strong.
Sheer Si.9oG6oo; yearings. sd,75 06,6t
lambs, 3i.yUGy175. &
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ON THE LOCAL MARKETS.

people look for good business the balance
OF the week.
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RICHMOND STOCK BOARD.
Richmond, Va, February 6, 1907.
SALES AT BOARD.
r,,,,, "a ,olir,a Chemical pfd., s .. CT.

Virginia Carolina Chemical pfd,. ?. CT
Q at loI.
STATE SECURITIES, Bid Asked
Va. 3s, Old, c. and r.. 1882. S. asH 1915
IA Centuries 2.3, c, and r., e3st ~
CITY SECURITIES
Rich. City 4s, C. and R.... 100 iol
RAILROAD BONDS.
Georgia Pac. 1,t es. c. 1872. lls
Ga, So. and Fla. 1915 ....... 10
Georgia and Ala. Con. IS. 1876. 107 ~.
Norfolk. and West. Ry. As, 1895 90
Nor. and West Ry. Poca 49,. 30 -.
pet, Glass Gs. r. c.,a1s2s... 126 ~.
seabonrd AIR Line Is. 800 50 81
STREET RY. BONDS
Norfolk ST. Ry. ist So, 1sis.. 10 ~.
Norfolk Ry. and Light LIST 5s. % 100
STREET RY. STOCKS. Par.
Norfolk Ry. and Light Co.'s - 20
RAILROAD STOCKS. Par.
Atlantic Coast Zine com. ...100 40 l22
chesapeake and Ohio. Nov. 100 1914 -. s
Norfolk and Western COM. 400 So
Southern Ry. pfd, 5s. ......l0o 81 N.
southern Railway COM. 400 20 49,.
RANK AND TRUST co. STOCKS.
American National, .....1oo l3l
Broad Street,. ~
Sit! .....;...;;..''.. 1919; ~ az 80 -
Merchants National: .......1oo 500
National Bank OF Va......1oo 40 -.
Planters National. ...1OO 80?
State Bank OF Virginia.. 100 l67 ~.
Iank OF Richmond .......100 lS2 lac
INSURANCE COMPAN1ER.
I Virginia Fire and Marlne...... so -.
MlSCELLANEOUS
aNn.-Car. Chem. pfd.. p, ctl00 LOS los
ta-Car. Chem. com. 400 SO 80.
Z d IL
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RICHMOND GRAIN MARKET.
Richmond, Va, February 6, 1907
3 f14 QUOTATIONS. ,s58
,AIvTLE MARKET.
VtI'I1H MA ihEV.
RICHMOND LIVE STOCK MARKET.
(Sales at Union Stock Yards)

Richmond, Va, February 8, 1907
Report OF Richmond live stock market for
week ending February Z, 1921.
Best steers, 6ta b&c.; medium to good
heifers, 4Hc.; fair TO good 494Mc.; common
tt fair. az @ 3%c.; best COWS. 81 Gp4Ac; COM
NO! TO fair sWs1so.; old, poor cows. 2@
s,2e,; pulls' w g $40; cows and calves SIS q
f1H00 per head. Sheep, 6Qp6c.; lambs. 20
Sc: hogs. 7@7Ac.; common. 6@6,sc.
Prospects good on all kinds of stock.
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BALTIMORE STOCK MARKET
BALTIMORE, MD, February Dashboard
Air Line. common and fredericksburg
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NEW ORLEANS. February 6--COTTOE-
Spot cotton closed Arm and unchanged: mid
ding, ~ T-16c.: sales on the spot were $50
bales and 200 to arrive Futurcs opened
steady at an advance of SOS points on good
Liverpool adrices. Good support forced
prices steadily upward. and the market clos
I'd at the best OF the day, 9Gl1 points above
yesterdays final figures.
Cotton futures closed steady: March,
le.27; April, 1922: May. 1o.34; June. 1895;
july, 10.44; October 1909
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31a bales agains. s.ses last year and at
Houston li.5o5 bales against 1881 last yenr.
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r richmond and Petersburg
Electric RailWav

Cars leave corner OF Seventh and PER-,
Streets. Manchester every hour Con the hourlf
from 9 A NJ. to 10 p. NJ. Last car IL mid ;.
night. Limited car, 5:ss f. NJ daily. except.
Sunday.
Street. every hour from 6:3b A. NJ. to 1888
p. NJ Last car. 1l:4O p. NJ; Limited car.
7:15 A. NJ. daily except Sunday.
All cars from Petersburg connecting Rich.
mond cars r.
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NEW YORK, February s.---BEEvEs--ne
sS,fo@4.6o; cows, s2,2b04lb. calves--ns-
ceipts, o56 head. Yoals. s55o@l0,Oo; culls,
sac 500; barnyard calves. $3,75i no western,
3scld, Dressed calves firm, Sheep ana
Larnbs-R Receipts, 1861 head, shoep nomi-
nal. but full steady; lambs a6c. higher at
$e,5o9S.e5 Hogs--ReceIpts. 0,T35 head
steady feeling. state and Pennsylvania
hogs quotable at s74o@T6o.
r CINCINNATI. O.. February c.--HoGs--
Active, Butchers and shippers, y7l7ls G7,ao;
Z common. ta,75 96.S5, Cattle--ceuiet. Fair
Z to ! ,ad shippers. sA's5@5.s5; common.
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Cotton, steady; middiing. 1Ioo:Fgross re-
8ceipts. ago bales; stock. 14o.a4sS bales.
4c,ool bales: export 10 Great Britain, s5.7is
bales: TO France. 80 balesi to the Continent,
Eli $50 bales; TO Japan, 4,25s bales: stock.
i,l3o.3s2 bales. d9ss n
Consolidated at all ports--N4t receipts.
1870 bales. export 10 Great Britain. 1921
balcs: to France. 1858 balesJa to. the Com
tincnt. 47,si4 bales. to Japan, s,7ss bales
Total since September Is. at all ports
Net receipts. 7,5s4.35o bales: export to Grea.
Britain. 2540,s01 bales: to France. s6c,9,i
bales: 10 the Continent s,2si,e3s bales; o
Japan, l.7,624 bales.
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Spot cotton clused steady; ,nidtiing up
lands, 100, middlins gulf. l1.e6; sales none
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-05-23
In the Republican Saddle.

Boss Cox of Cincinnati whose peculiar political
practices led to his retirement two years ago by
aroused people, seems to be again in the republican
saddle and is taking a prominent part in the
Republican national game of politics The time
was when "Coxey, old boy was quite satisfied to
bOss the grating Repu bcans of Cincinnati, but
aims to be the great national peacemaker between
the Roosevelt and Foraker factions Ohio. The
Cox program is certainly "a broad one. 1t gives all
the leaders of the Republican party nominations to
Offices and saves the grand old party with him the
acknowledged manipuator Any Republican can
play in the Cox game if he has the price take out
u stack of chips, and will lend aid to the big, bloated
boss to regain his lost supremacy. This and other
startling political events in Ohio would indicate
that President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft have
made treaty of peace with boss Cox for political
purposes. There is prominent Republican, how
ever that does not propose to sit in the political
game with the cards stacked against him. and that
is Senator Foraker If there is any aking in of the
spot" the Senator wants to the hands, anyhow
He will stay that long. No such deal has yet been
dealt and will not be if the two senators other
arrange matters, hence there is still much blood
on the Republican moon in Ohio
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-05-23
High Prices Produce Business Depression

That too much prosperity is often the ruin of in
prosperity will breed business depression is not so
well known Yet from Chicago few lays ago.
comes the announcement that the Western Electric
Company has recently dropped 5000 out Of % 600
men from payrolls. Not hard times, the expect
ed approach of hard times, but 'too much pros
perity,'' was assigned by President f. NJ. Barton
the cause of the cOmpanys action, "rhe high prices
for copper steel and lead Metals, which very
largely make construction Of plants in which
apparatus is used very much expensive than at
customers, then, have to face the probability that
plant put in at the present rate of could be du
plicated within few years at greatly reduced out.
lay. The Fundamental difficulty, therefore, is too
much prosperity"
The American Telephone, Comfany is of the
largest customers of the above-named poration
and is refusing to make any extension Of its lines in
consequence of the high price of materials.
AS copper, steel and lead all controlled by
trusts of which the copper trust is virtual monopoly
tected by the tariff and thus free from foreign
competition, it evident that tariff protection to
trusts dispense business depression in placa of
that prosperity of which, the standpatters claim, it
should be the universal distributor.
1t must begin to look, to our republican
friends, that too much protection to trusts is deeat
ing its ends.
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-05-23
: Editorial Observations. :
brave Fire eater Joe.

brave re-eatef Joe.
Therefore it is plain to be that with the pipe
of peace thrown into the and the peace council
going up in smoke that the situation remains just
1t was prior to the issuing of the taboo TO assem-
Bile around the corncob smoker. injunction Bill is
still chasing the elusive belt of approval OF this his
native state, with out which there is little reeogu
tion by the great tribes of the nation Long-snoke
Dick the programer of the fasc" and it has
developed strength for the tribe Of the Turbine
Senoretta, and ndingly weakened the oppos
ing tribe.
Big chief Fire-eater joe in order to avoid split
in all the tribes of the great reservation of Ohio
willing to bury the hatchet and smoke the pipe
of peace and Bull Cox could take drink if the pipe
was not strong enough; anything for peace except
annihiIation. 1t was conceded by the under-scfap-
pers that Bgnunction Bill should be satisfied with
the presidential big.stick, conceding to Fireeater
Joe the senatoretta toga. But not Bill. Responsi-
bty therefore for continuance of the demoraz-
ing nernecine has therefore been shrewdly
shifted to the neck of Big-iniuncton Bill. The con
cession the part of Fire-eater Joe in behalf of
tribe harmony and the tribe good and general peace,
the Abandonment by him of the lifelong ambition to
become president, has won him many supporters
from the neutral tribes, while the Big-iniunction
Bill tribes freely damned disturbers and
wreckers, swayed absolutely by the rule-or-ruin
policy of the warrior welding the big stick from he
chieftan stump in the reservation at Washington.
Just al pres mt the warning tribes resting their
tomahawls, or hatchets, or hammers, lemons,
each awaiting and expecting attack from the
other. What the next flank will be one can an
tcipate The Senatoretta tribe believe that they
have ventured far enough to have entered the coun
Gil of peace, but when samed down and spat upon
they have doned the war paint now, and there shall
be some dripping scaps dangling from somebody's
belt ere long Peace be to their ashes.
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-05-23
That Indian PoW-woW.

There sat around the council fire in the Republican
pow.wow of Ohio last week n noble conclave of
Indian warriors smoking the pipe of peace. On the
Cheftans stump sat Chief oss-Bu-Brewer Coz
He took suck at the pipe and made few signs and
of the hands, and then passed the stem to the
noble warriors about the council brand. Noble war
rior Big stick r0ug rider Ted took pull at the
pipe and after few gyratons of the war club which
meant my will, my peace, he passed the long stem
to noble warrior Big-bu-iniunction. Bill, who smiled
as he drew long Whit and passed it on, with a
Haunting of the drapery, to Long snake heck book
Dick who took pull and tossed back from his noble
brow his raven locks, and passed the pipe to Fire.
coon-defender Joe who scrutinlzed the brier
with caution and touched the nipple but to hi, teeth
all the time glaring the treacherous indians about
him, and then passed it on to Flip Hop will o-the-
wisp Burton, and that great warrior, (n his own
,estimaton) made strange and uncanny phantasma-
goriatons that did not bode good TO the suspicious
warrior of the tribe Of the Turbine Senatoretta and
with one VIII op from the blood tongue and one
swish of the saalping knife the brave Fire-eater-
coon'defender Joe, eaped from the pow-wow and
gathering his tribe together declared war on all the
tribes of Taeta Teddy Cox until every red-skn has
bit the dust.
mad search begun by the warriors of the
various tribes for scalping knives, tpmahawks and
similar tokens OF the 'peacs council - and the war
whoop heard every hill, and the very zephyrs
shifted of war dope and fire water, and tine azure
blue became murky hue and all bets were oil.
Brave Fire-eater-eoon-defen Joe declared with
eyes dlstended and the dripping, COREY scaper in his
teeth that he would be bound by the dod gasted
'peaee ctnferenee.' He there upon stamped his
foot on the 'Turbine SanOretta" soil in Washington
and the whole world shook, and sezing his qnil he
penned the lines of his now famous, and futurity
famous, sacramento manifesto.
Then there arose that great warrior Big bull.in-
Junction Bill and beloved to the fore-wnds aud the
fVe-winds that he would not touch that pusillan
nous presidential endorsement with string bean
pole forty PAGES long, if there was dangling there
from the putrid senoretla togA for his arch enemy
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-05-23
ADMITTED
HIS GUILT.
Political Boss of San Fran
cisco Come to Grief.

San Francisco, May IT,
Charged by "Abe" Ruef before
the grand jury with receiving a
bribe of $50. 600 from the United
Railroads company and facing the
penitentiary, Mayor Schmitz has
relinquished the reins of San
Francisco's government to com
mittee of seven, representing the
five great commercial organiza-
tlons of the city.
The capitulation of the mayor
is complete. He has transferred,
in writing, his authority, tanta-
mount to a power of attorney, to
the following citizens:
f. b. Anderson, F. w. Dohr-
mann, Percy T. Morgon, F. w.
Vansicklen, Louis Rosenfeld, c..
b. Bentley and Charles W. Slack.
Today the details of the plans of
the city's new custodians will be
made public.
This is not all the trouble in
store for Mayor schmitz. Follow
ing Ruef's story to the grand
jury, which barred all details of
big bribery and Doodle plots, and,
it is declared, accused the head
Official of public service corpora
tions, movement was started to
force the mayor to resign and to
install Frederick w. Dohrmann, a
prominent wholesale merchant, in
the mayors chair
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-05-23

fight ~ fe's' between himself
ana tic secretary Of war and
President Roosevelt.
Mr.. Foraker on reading Chair
man Browns statement, published
Saturday, said
"The state officers have right
to their preferences and to declare
1t when they like, but such
declarations do not dispense with
the necessity for u. convention, NJ
change my opinion that the voters
should be given chance to be
heard before final action has been
taken. II the Republicans of
Ohio are all, or overwhelmingly,
or even by bare majority, in
favor of Secretary Taft, his friends
need not fear the primaries, nor
be in hurry about holding them.
"No one need suffer, certainly
not wrongfully, if we proceed IN
order, instead of trying to rush
conclusions by unofficial announce
ments and dec larations.
$50 far as the control Of the
state organ ization is concerned,
have never made any claim
to that. have always supposed
that organizations were mere
party machinery, and not the
personal property of anyone, not
even the chairman of the state
central committee.
GAS to the rest cf Mr.. Browns
statement, it is difficult to make
polite answer. For rank dicta-
| torial and offensive bossism, it far
exceeds anything l can recall. 1t
amounts to a threat that unless /
straightway declare for Mr.. Taft
shall lose the senatorship. That
may be, but if so the fact has no
terrors for me,
81 said at Canton that ] would
not be dictated to by any kind OF
a boss, big or little, inside or out
side the state. | made that an
nouncement for just such bosses
as Mr.. Brown, and for just such
performances as be is now giving
us.
"To be specific, / emphatically
resent this dctation and give
notice to him that my choice for
the presidency will be named by
the next Ohio Republican conven-
tion that is lawfully held to nomi-
nate state officers and that, so far
as / am personally concerned, !
shall abide the action of that con
vention as to whether j shall be
candidate again for any office and
if so, what that office shall be.
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-05-23
Political Corruption.

What did Mr.. Cortelyou do with
the 5000, 900 that Mr. Hartman
and Others interested in railroads
contributed within the last week
of the campaign of 10042 Presi-
dent Roosevelt must have known
o. these contributions for accord
ing to his own statement and let
ters he was the most interested
participant in the campaign,
especially about the fight in New
York state. Hartman says the
president asked him t. 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 very large sums
were provided by the life lnsur-
ance magnates. We also know
that Mr.. Perkins, the partner of
J.. Pierpont Morgan, repaid over
$50, 900, but the other large sums
filched from the trust funds for
the widows and orphans of TIE
policy holders have never been re-
turned. How much was contrib.
nted by the other frenzied finan-
ciers of Wall street and the tariff
protected trust maghates has never
been told, or what Chairman Cor
telyou did with the money.
The anxiety expressed~by Presi
dent Roosevelt about the result in
New York and the fact that the
money Hartman raised was ex-
pended 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
President Roosevelt and his select
ed agent Cortelyou going to do to
clear their skirts from this polite.
al pollution and whether restitu-
tion will ever be made of the trust
funds, is the serious question
that the public are asking.