The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-16
CHANLER NAMED.
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as in those states under Republican
control.
1--WE need not be astonished." he
said. "to find that the Republican
party in order to obtain the vast sums
of money necessary to meet the de-
mands of its extravagances has will
fully through it's PRONUNCIATION and
enforcement of excessive tariffs aided
in and brought about the upbuilding
of the majority of those giant for
tunes which the president has de-
nounced so vehemently.
No Trusts in Democratic States.
Judge Taft in his letter of accept
ance admits that the great majority
of the combinations in restraint of
trade, the formation of which the
high tariff especially invites, have
arisen within the last 10 years. Dur
ing all that time the Republican party
has controlled both the federal gov
eminent and the government of
substantially all those states which
have created or tolerated them for
we have yet to hear of their creation
or liberation in the southern states
which are under Democratic rule
Judge Parker declared that the
beneficiaries of the tariff had long
been looked to fill the Republican
chest He said the contributing cor
porations had grown in number,
"swelled in aff1uence and gained in
influence uIilll lIIt punt was ItdCltu
of a practical working business alli-
ance between the Republican party
and the favor-seeking corporations"
He continued: 1T is not only the
highest desire of all good citizens of
all parties whatsoever that our politi-
cal life should be clean, but it is es-
sential to the liberties of the people.
That result will not be accomplished
until business and politics are divorced
by statutes the violation of which will
result in Imprisonment. We can never
hope for that result while the Repub-
its frankenstein. The creature must
be fed. 1t has created a system of cor
ruption which has now progressed to
the point of controlling the power
which created it. The Republican
party has reached a point where ii
dare not pause"
1t was at this point that Judge Park
er made his attack on Mr.. Sherman
and from that he turned to President
Roosevelt and Mr.. Hartman, saying:
Attacks Roosevelt.
Here we see a man of great ambi
ton, and, as we are told, of lofty
ideals become so accustomed to this
party custom that he does not hesitate
to invite Mr.. Hartman to Washington
to secure his good offices for money
raising purposes taking indeed the
precaution absolutely to assure his
coming by suggesting in a letter that
after the election he desired to consult
him about the railroad feature of his
message What may have occurred at
that meeting we do not know, but that
it was sufficiently agreeable to Mr..
Hartman to lead to his contributing
and raising Immediately upon his re-
turn to New York the sum of $265,00O
we do know as also that quarter of
million of that money was scattered
over this state of New York for 'practf-
cal uses by practical men, Are we to
assume that the shifting of the stock
holders of Mr.. Harriman's and the
Standard Oil magnates' corporation by
the president was because his eyes at
last were opened and he had attained
an appreciation of the serious charac-
ter of the offense which they had COM
mitted in helping to swell his cam
paign fund? 1t may be so. but it is
equally true that Harrimans corpora
lions were not the first victims of an
aroused conscience, nor did Mr.. Harri-
man attain to eminence on the list of
undesirable citizens for some two
years. When he was finally singled
out from other great contributors for
communication can not be absolute
" proved. But the letters which the
president wrote to Mr.. Sherman upon
Mr.. Harrimans refusal to help elect
another Republican congress afford
food for reflection.
Assurances are said to have been
quietly given, that the Republican
party will in the future continue to
foster and protect, as it has in the past
the interests which in return for the
benefits afforded have supported it and
continued it in power
Judge Parker in closing said the
people must 'ook to the Democratic
party for relief.
1.-The election of Mr.. Bryan and Mr..
Kern through the assistance of the
electoral vote of the state of New
York" declared he, will go very far
| to secure this underlying, earliest and
most important of all the many needed
reforms.
| 'It will do more. 1t will assure it:
for once 1t becomes apparent that the
people recognize the grarity of the