The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-10-23
Roosevelt Appeals
10 the Corporations
For Campaign Funds
HE Letter TO Senator Knox Easily
Read Between the Llnes-Taft.
You Know, 10 Soon to En-
ter New York.

letter to
En- ter New York. In that letter he charges Mr.
Bryan the Democratic plat
form with egalze the secondary boycott
~ Which charge
Bryan syllable which could be con-
in any such light by prejudiced president
The platform place declares for such
h ding
The corporations warmed up to Judge Taft
The Judge nevertheless looks good to them
q They like his ways
He's there isn't anything IN his record as
4 judge which they take exception.
His nature and his training rather recommend him.
But $ Roosevet's candidate.
S where the corporations stop
The platform is all right-coudn't be better
vice-presdent-Joe Cannors nan-hne and
dandy.
And Tafta
N. Well he would do if it wasn't for thing
%s HE'S ROOSEvELTS CANDIDATE.
M There where they their hands on their pocketoooks
$2a That's il, gentle reader
corporations the Republican cam
pagn this time and with an especially snsy
hand compared former years.
The hasn't contributed too frnoy
word
One of the reasons this of Roosevelt is another
letter Roosevelt weeks ago.
Montana and in this the corporations
didn't get look-n
But they get JOLT devoted entirely to
appeal support Taft the friend union labor
The president waxed most enthusiastc-too enthusiastic
great farther than Taft had in asking
support body and the letter was altogether
employers who would prefer to support
Taft as of by Injunction" which he is.
Roosevelt made a great mistake in this letter.
capitalists by putting Taft his knees to those
whom the capitalists prefer keep THEIR knees.
wokngmn of the by presuning that
they looking him how they should vote
He offended great American citizens who look to
represent all his position for which he il paid
the dignity the Office and to keep his hands on when
Il politics
q "A In two instances his meddlng votes.
In the third it money capitalists padocks on
5 their money drawers
Disrupted in many states through of its posi-
o further through the dsasteful activity OF the president
the Republican party is in distress
And the letter Senator Knox
avs only too plainly neas plainly said
IA many H. Hartman in the White House four years
ago:
4 THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NEEDS MONEY.
And President Judge Taft their knees in
for campaign contributions from those maeiacors
Roosevelt has hitherto pur-ued and whom Judge TAFT viii
pursue given to understand
This says the corporations:
supposing did say Judge would prove the friend
- I,hor and the enemy rich that have been whom
do YOU prefer Judge platform which every
thing and nothing Mr. Bryan whose platform grants
you nothing and union labor eeaized secondary Doyco
In presenting which claim President Roosevelt has out
aide Of the platform which BRYAN has repeatedly said
/, binding as to well what it contains
In so doing cunnngly, like the politician that he is
t,ced on to platform demand made
by because Samuel Com
pers as president Federation of Labor ndorsng
che platform said: 1T pledges its officers to those rem
edies already submitted to congress"
Union the Democratic convention
anything like the authorization OF primary boycott
Il did demand square the of law which it
promised
And which is that got from the Republican
which fact the president has clevey called
n che attention of the backward corporations
that the corporations protected against
= aousre deal for labor" his letter says.
their first he we interpret him.
and failing need your money"
"A ~We ag'in you while we sumping the West
1--WE ARE WITH YOU NOW, FOR WE ARE ABOUT TO
~ STUMP THE EAST"
And Judge will proceed New York with better
hearing would have his had the presi
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