The San Francisco call., 1908-09-27

national committee, and no fairminded
person can decide upon the merits OF
Your charge without an examination
OF the provisions OF the enabling act
passed by The republican congress, and
The provisions of the license Of fran
chise issued to the oil company by your
administration.
HAS GREAT RESPECT
FOR THE OUTLOOK
I need hardly refer to the newly
found evidence upon which you lay so
Outlook Of September g. My attention
was never called 10 that article until
] read the published copy OF your let
ter. and while have great respect for
the Outlook, and I suppose / have for
the writer (although you Go not give
his nane), ] would hardly feel justified
IN deciding as promptly as you DO, on
cation.
You present an indictment against
our Platform declarations on the trust
OF the planks and do not deal Justly
with those to which you do refer. Our
platform declares in favor OF the Wig
orous enforcement OF the criminal law
against guilty trust fnagnates and ON
cials. Your platform does not contain
any such demand. VIII you say shat
your platform is better than ours in
tnat respect2 Our platform demands
that corporations beyond a certain size
be compelled 10 sell at the same price
m all parts OF the country, due allow
ante DelDS maze Tor the cost OF lIdIlS-
portation- VIII you deny that this is
IN the interest of the consumer and in
the interest Of the smaller competitor?
We present plan under which no cor
more than a half of the total product
IT has been stated that the steel COM
pany with your expires consent, pur-
chased one of its largest rivals and
thus obtained control Of more than
SO per cent of the total output Will
you insist that in permitting this you
showed less favor 10 the monopolistic
corporations than ] do in opposing
them?
ATTACKS HUGHES
As ALLY OF CAPITAL
You quote at length from speech
MADE by Governor Hughes. in which
ne rldlculeS one Of our antitrust rene
dies. Is this the same Governor
Hughes who was counted as one Of
the allies" who endeavored to defeat
Mr.. Taft, when. as you insisted, Mr..
your party and his opponents the re-
dictionary element? Did not Governor
Hughes have the support of the New
York delegation in the convention, and
IS not New York the home of many
republicans most conspicuous in their
connection with the law defying cor
porauons? You are certainly aware
of the fact that in the statement filed
by George r. Sheldon, treasurer Of the
republican state committee, two years
ago, after Mr.. Hughes election, IT ap-
were made TO the campaign fund: j.
p Morgan, $4,000; John D. Rookie
Charles NJ. Schwab. Se.eoO; John W.
Gates, $1,000; ". E. Corey. $4,000; W.
Nelson Cromwell, $1,000; W. F. Have
meyer, $500; B. NJ Duke, $500-
Several Of these men are known to
be officially connected with the trusts.
Would the fact that these gentlemen
contributed to his campaign fund
strengthen or weaken his testimony
against the "a blaraSS ~ or1r
trust remedy2
You can not have failed to notice
that Governor Hughes in his speech
assumed the role of the critic and not
that of the constructive statesman. Any
one possessing vivid imagination and a
pen can find objections to remedial
measures. Lord Macca ulay is quoted as
saying that eloquent and learned men
could be found TO dispute the law of
gravitation if there were any advant-
age TO be gained by it. But when
known abuses" are TO be cured, an ounce
of remedy is worth a pound of fault
finding.
SEES A REFLECTION
IN TAFT'S OPINIONS
Ah you quote from Governor Hughes,
= take II for granted that Mr.. Taft has
not yet expressed himself in a salts
factory manner on the subject, for you
would naturally prefer to quote from
the presidential candidate wherever
possible.
defying corporation has any other rea-
son for fear from you save what it
VIII suffer in the general paralysis of
business" etc Referring to the last
part Of the sentence, first I might Ques-
tion your ability TO act as an expert as
20 panic preVentlves, since you now
have one on your hands. but as to your
charges that no law defying corpora
tion has reason 10 fear the direct eff
feet of the antitrust remedies which
favor permit me TO suggest that your
testimony on this subject is not con-
SluslNe- You are q witness, TO be sure,
but your interest in the result OF the
election must be taken into consider
atIon sII IN weighing your testimony.
magnates know their own interests
ana they are supporting Judge Taft
Not one of the trust magnates helped
10 secure my nomination, while it is
q matter of common notoriety'' that
they were conspicuous in the republican
convention, and IL is equally q matter
OF common netOriety' that they are
supporting your party in this cam
paign. If you will name a single of
nclal connected with "a law defving
corporation, monopoly or trust who
mas declared or viii declare that he is
supporting me, will publicly warn
MIN that I will enforce against him
the present criminal law and will en-
torce against him also the laws de-
soon as these laws can be enacted.
FAVORS PUBLICITY
OF CAMPAIGN OFFERINGS
But there is another fact which
raised a presumption in favor of our
party ana against your party l re-
ierreo TO II in my former letter to Won
but you Inadvertently overlooked it in
your reply, and the members of your
capineI called in for consultation, evi-
dently did not notice IT, i stated that
We had not knowingly received a dollar
from any official connected with q cor
porauon known as trust and that anv
money so received would be returned as
sion as we received knowledge of the
TACT 1 now remind you that your con-
fenuon deliberately rejected, by a vote
OF , 70 1, the plank favoring publicity
- 70 campaign contributions Mr.
datt mas repudiated the action of the
convention and rebuked the members Of
me convention by declaring himself in
laNor or publicity law but he favors
publicity after the election. while we
1aEor publicity before the election.
w men 90 you regard as the better plan
10 let the people know before the
erection what influences are at work
or to let them know after the -elecffon7
Are You willing to say that any puh
hc interest was served in 1904 bv con-
ceallng until after the elections the
contributions made 10 the republican
campaign committee by Mr.. Hartman
sno those collected by him from Others?
are you willing TO say that the publi-
cation before the election of the contri-
buttons then made would have no ef
we shall publish the names of contrib
utors above 500. VIII you ask vour
national committee to publish before
the election the c0ufrihuffono