Arizona republican., 1908-07-10

have so abused his power in dictatin, to a great party his choice of sue cessor and regret that that party should have submitted so cowardly to humiliation that was so manifest as it was degrading.
 What are the policies which consti- ute the capital of the republican party in this campaign and that are relied upon to support the candidacy of MT. Taft?
 To recall democratic platforms, speeches, and measured is to convince any man that many of the presidents
 public utterances were derived from an avowed familiarity with the teachings of our party. His utterances that are democratic have given him his only claim to be a reformer and have con
 tributed more than all else to the pop
 ularity he has enjoyed. The heir and the party are committed to "unfalter- ] ing adherence to the policies of the president. What are these policies and what are the achievements of the president and party?
 Campaign Contributions. It must be admitted that the republic cannot long survive if fraud and cor ruption become material factors in our elections. No man has said more than the president about the corruption of elections. You recall his message to congress in December, 1905, where he said that:
 Tt has been only too clearly shown that certain men at the head of these large corporations take but small note of the ethical distinction between hon esty and dishonesty; they draw the line only this side of what may be called law honesty. the kind of honesty nee
 essary in order to avoid falling into | the clutches of the law"
 We have here the condemnation of the practice. Has he proved his faith by his works? Is it true or not that four years ago he selected for his cam paign manager a novice in politics whose principal qualification for the position was the power he held over the corporation of the land? Is it true or not that the official place as secre- tary of commerce and labor gave full knowledge of these business secrets and relations of corporations to this cam paign manager and clothed him with power, with the assent of the presi- dent. to punish or reward them by publishing or withholding their secrets that he had cOllecJd as such secretary. Is it true or not that, with this pow CT held in terror over the corporations, he solicited or had his agents solicit campaign contributions from them? Is it true or not that such request un- der such circumstances was a demal nd upon the corporations-a demand that they acceeded to, knowing that the man who made it had the power to punish them in case they refused? Can | if be doubted that in this way vast sums were raised? If so, how much 1 of these contributions were used for | legitimate expenses and how much for corruption purposes we do not know. Notwithstanding savage ante-elcctiOn denial we know that a subsequent in lvestigation of certain insurance com panies uncovered the fact that large amounts were contributed by these corporations to the republican cam paign fund-not the money of the men who gave it, but money covertly taken | without consent of stockholders or pol i icy holders and entered on the books
  lbezzlement. All this was done in the ! interest of the republican candidate | for president. The money was used, ! the candidate was elected and he con tinues to deliver lectures on decency and for honesty in elections, sending messages to congress, on publicity of campaign contributions but at times when these were certain to be unavail- l ing The Chicago convention has met, | has transacted its business, and has ladjourned. The question of publicity bill was mooted there, was defeated, and it would never have seen the light of day except through the unaided ef- forts of one solitary member of the committee on platform and resolutions, who dragged it out only to witness it's deep entombment by the body of lconvention. Thus died one of my policies" to which that convention in effusive. if dictated language declared in it's platform their "unfaltering ad- herence"
 | Injunction and Contempts of Courts. Let me go on. There has been and | is now a public demand for legislation lregulating, not abolishing, the process of injunction and the power to punish for alleged indirect or constructive con tempts of court. Ever since 1896 the democratic party have protested against hasty and ill-cOnsidered use of injunctions and has been insisting on the right of fair trial in all cases of constructive contempts. The republi- lean party have been avoiding this