Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-10
GRAPES AND FIGS

n Mr.. Taft is the legitimate sue
cessor to the Roosevelt reform policies,
and will carry out those policies as
they relate to predatory wealth and
criminal business, a review of some of
the names upon the Republican ma
tional executive committee should be
illuminating.
The Republican national campaign is
being managed by an executive COM
mittee of nine, which is supposed to
be in immediate charge OF all campaign
matters. A leading light in this COM
mittee is Gen. T. Coleman Du Pont Of
| Delaware, the head of the powder
trust which is now being prosecuted
by the United States government un-
der the direction of Mr.. Roosevelt's
attorney general
So valuable were Gen. Du Points
services esteemed that he was made
chairman of the special committee on
speakers. This committee has charge
of sending out all speakers under the
auspices Of the national committee and
Of instructing them as to what lines
the issues Of the campaign.
We can, of course, fully understand
that Gen. Du Pont, as the chairman
of this committee, would instruct the
speakers whom he sends out to in
dulge In unlimited phillippics against
the wealth which is so criminal that
it attracts the attention of the law de-
partment Of the government and re-
suits in the prosecution of its own
ers.
It is true that when Gen. Du Points
connection with law-breaking cor
poration was exploited by the Demo-
cratic press, he was compelled to re-
sign his position as chairman of the
speakers committee, but nobody has
learned of his being disassociated from
the national executive committee of
which he is a member.
Next on the list comes Mr. Charles
F. Brooker, a director and vice presi-
dent of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railway company, against
which an action brought by Mr.. Roose-
velt's attorney general is pending for
violation Of law.
Next is the Hon. Frank o. Lowden
of Illinois. multi-millionatre son-in-law
of the late George NJ. Pullman and
vice president and heavily interested in
that most absolute of all monopolies,
the Pullman Palace Car company.
Next in this constellation of REFORM
ers is the Hon. Boies Penrose, senator
from Pennsylvania, the political heir
of that most Infamous boss. Matt
Quay, and the present head of the most
corrupt political machine in Phila6el-
phia and Pennsylvania that has ever
dishonored any part of the United
States. One of the chapters of recent
political history which has been made
by members of this machine is the
state capitol scandals of Pennsylvania
the public press.
Another member is Edward c. Dun
can, a director of the Atlantic & North
Carolina railway, receiver of the Sea-
board Air line and connected with
other prominent corporations.
These five constitute a majority of
the members of the executive commit
tee, and two of them are at the head
of corporations which, judging from
the prosecutions instituted by Mr..
Roosevelt's attorney general. and now
pending against them, would seem to
be pretty fair examples OF the presi-
dents idea of "malefactors of great
wealth"
Intimately associated with these gen.
tlemen in the management of the cam
paign is Mr.. William Nelson Cromwell,
the New York attorney Of Panama
canal fame, whose influence with the
Republican national committee was
such as to permit him to dictate the
appointment of Mr.. George .Rumsey
Sheldon of No. 2 Wall street, a director
of more than twenty corporations, as
treasurer of the Republican national
committee.
Mr.. Cromwell has the distinction of
being the personal attorney of Mr..
Edward H. Hartman, whom Mr..
Roosevelt has denounced as IAN un-
desirable CITIZEN" and it was Mr..
Cromwell who, in public meeting
some time ago, as our readers may re-
call, said of Mr.. Hartman: HE ex-
lists in an atmosphere so exalted, so
high above that breathed by such or
binary individuals as ourselves, that
we are not capable of passing judg-
ment upon his actions"
The foregoing is fair exhibit of the
members of the machine into whose
hands has .Hbeen committed the cam
paign for the election OF a president
to succeed to and carry out the policies
of Mr.. Roosevelt.
do men gather grapes of thorns, or
figs of thistles?"
ARIZONA