The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-28

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ment, without investigation.
you present an indictment
against our platform declarations
on the trust question but you do
not refer to all of the planks and
do not deal justly with those to
which you do refer. Our platform
declares in favor of the vigorous
enforcement of the criminal law
against guilty trust magnates and
officials. Your platform does not
contain any such demands. Our
platform demands that corporations
beyond certain size be compelled
to sell at the same price in all
parts of the country, due allow.
ance being made for the cost of
transportation. Will you deny that
this Is in the interest of the small
err competitors? 1t has been stated
that the United States Steel cor
poration, with your express con
sent, purchased one of it's largest
rivals and thus obtained control of
more than so per cent of the total
output. Will you insist that in per-
hitting this you showed less favor
to the monopolistic corporations
than l do in opposing it?
You quote at length from a
speech made by Governor Hughes
in which he ridiculed one of our
antitrust remedies. Did Governor
Hughes have the support of the
New York delegation in the conven-
ton and is not New York city the
home of many of the republicans
most conspicuous in their connec.
ton with the law-defying corpora.
tons? You are certainly aware of
the fact that in the statement filed
by George r. Sheldon, then treas.
urer of the republican state com
mittee two years ago. after Mr..
Hughes election, it appeared that
the following contributions were
made to the campaign fund.-
u. p. Morgan, $4,000; John d.
Rockefeller, $4,000; Andrew Carne
gle, $4,000; Charles NJ Schwabe,
$4,000; John w. Gates, $4,000; W..
e. Corey. $4,000; w. Nelson Crom
well. $1,000; w. F. Havemeyer,
$500; b. f. Duke, $500
Several of these gentlemen 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 reasonableness of our anti
trust remedies?
LAS you quote from Governor
Hughes | take it for granted that
Mr.. Taft has not yet expressed
himself in as satisfactory a manner
ON the subject, or you would natur-
ally prefer to quote from the presi-
Dental candidate wherever posi-
BILE. You say, Let us repeat that
no law-defying corporation has any
other reason to fear from you save
what it will suffer in general
paralysis of business etc.
Referring to the last part of
the sentence first | might question
your ability to act as an expert as
to panic preventives, since you now
have one on your hands, but as to
your charge that no law defying
trust has reason to fear the direct
effect of the antitrust remedies
which | favor permit me to sug
gest that your testimony on this
subject Is not conclusive. You are
a witness, to be sure. but your in
must be taken into consideration in
weighing your testimony There is
better evidence and the trust mag
mates know their own interests and
they are supporting Judge Taft,
Not one of the trust magnates help
ed to secure my nomination, while
it is matter of common notoriety
that they were conspicuous in the
republican convention. and it is
really matter of common no
toriety that they are supporting
your party in this campaign.
IF you will name a single Of
fetal connected with "a law-defying
corporation monopoly or trust
who has declared or will declare
that he Is supporting me will pub
licly warn him that | will enforce
against him the present criminal
law and will enforce against him
also the laws demanded in the
democratic platform as soon as
these laws can be enacted.
But there is another fact
which raises a presumption In ia
vor of our party and against your
party, referred to 1t in my for
mer letter to you, but you mad.
vertently overlooked 1t in your re.
ply. and the members of your
cabinet, called in for consultation,
evidently did not notice 1t.
stated we had not knowingly re-
ceived dollar from any official
connected with corporation
known as a trust, and that any
money 50 received would be re.
turned as soon as we received