The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-10
Speech of MT. Clayton
 To Denver Contention
FRIDAY MORNING.

ment of many high purposes, and that tf his work Is yet incomplete. 1t Is oulv because his undertakings were too vast to be carried to success dur ing his term of office. My policies must must continue. So the champion of tQ. his favorite cabinet minister, and his spear Is to have fellow. The pre- tense is that the .aght must go on until tba lsst Aqe fos shsis havs s,rrena- M % cred or lies inglorious in tho dust. The nomination ox his would-be successor was largely accomplished by the use machine methods and has delighted the chief apostle of strenuosity. and, at the same time. has not pcrturbed the conscience of the one-time civil service the bestowal of public plunder and for getful of all his resounding moral commonplaces. No fair-inded Amert- can could read the daily accounts, Of the recent political doings at Chicago without feeling modification and r~. gret. modification that the President should have so abused his powor in dictating to great party his choice ice party should have submitted so cow- ardly to a humiliation that was as manifest as it was degrading.
 stitute the capital of the Republiean Party in the campaign and that ars relied upon to support the candidacy
 -To recall Democratic platforms. speeches. and measures Is to convince any man that many of the Presidents public utterances were derived from an unavowed familiarity with the that are Democratic have given him his only claim to be a reformer and have contributed more than all else to the popularity he has enjoyed. The kt.x .rawW em1 ~. unfaitering adherence to the policies of the President. What are these poll icies and what are the achievements of President and party?
 Campaign Contribution.
 '.It must be admitted that the Ke- public not long survive if fraud and corruption become material fact0As in our elections No man has said more ion of elections. You recall his nies- sage to Congress in December, lS0E, where he said that:
 1t has been only too clearly shown large corporations take but small note of the ethical distinction between honesty and dishonesty: they draw the line only this side of what may be ty necessary in order to avoid falling into the clutches of the law
 We have here the condemnation Of the practice. Has he proved his faith py HIS WoIAss As ~ true ot Hot SHaS four years ago he selected for his campaign manager a novice in poli- tics whose principal qualification tor the position was the power he held over the corporations of the land? Is it true or not that the official place as Secretary of Commerce and Labor gave full knowledge of these business secrets and relations of corporations to this campaign manager. Nand clothed him with power. with the assent of the President. to punish or reward them by crets that he had collected as such secretary?
 "Is it true or not that, with this power held in terror over the corpora lions. he solicited or had his agents solicit campaign contributions from them? Is 1t true or not that such a request under such circumstances was a demand upon the corporations-a de- mand that they acceded to, knowing power to punish them in case they re- fused? Can 1t be doubted that in this way vast sums were raised? If so, how much of these contributions were used for legitimate expenses and how much for corruption purposes we do not know. Notwithstanding savage ante-election denial we know that a subsequent investigation of certain in surance companies uncovered the fact these companies to the Republican campaign fund-not the money of the men who gave it, but money covertly taken without consent of stockhold- CTS or policy holders and entered on the books in a way calculated to con. ceal the embezzlement.
 "All this was done in the interest of