Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-09

oNL1 NoI piOO,VoO, HUH tfE
SPENT-TELLS HOW CORTELYoU
WAS REWARDED FOR HIS LABOR IN
THE ROOSEVELT CAMPAIGN.
Baltimore Sun of Tuesday,
In the presence of an audience that
packed Market Hall TO its utmost ca
| pacity and overlooked into the street,
where an Open-air meeting was held,
Judge Alton B. Parker of New York,
four years ago the Democratic candi-
date for the Presidency made his first
public appearance in Baltimore last
night.
Aside from the size of the crowd and
its great enthusiasm, Judge Parker
made the meeting notable one by a
direct and deliberate attack upon Pres
ident Roosevelt and an accusation,
never before made, that in the CAM
paign of 1904, when Mr.. Roosevelt was
candidate, his committee, through
Mr.. Geo. b. Cortelyou, solicited and
received from the Standard Oil Com
pany 100000, which was not only
kept but spent to elect Mr. Roosevelt.
He declared that the President, know
ing that this money had been received,
| whence it came and that it had been
spent, not only did not punish Mr..
COrtelyOu nor announce that he was
|
"unfit to hold public office of any
kind" as he has done in reference to
Gov. Haskell, but had made him, first,
Postmaster General and later Secreta-
ry of the Treasury, which position he
now holds
Judge Parker said he expected that
the charge he now made would bring
forth another letter from the President,
but that the facts were as he stated
them, and this was not all. He reiter-
ated the charges he made in October,
1904, and reviewed the Hartman
Roosevelt correspondence as evidence
that what he said then was true and
had been substantiated since.
QUOTING THE FIGURES.
He charged that Mr.. Cortelyou had
gone to the Standard Oil Building in
New York soliciting contribution and
had been given 100000. This was not
near as much as had been expected,
Judge Parker said, and Mr.. Cortelyou
and the committee were greatly dissat-
isfed. Mr.. Roosevelt was commune
Gated with and wrote letter to Mr..
Cortelyou denouncing the Standard
Oil and telling him to take the money
back
"But," said Judge Parker, ''they did
not take it back. They kept it. They
not only kept it, but they spent it.
And after that letter Of the President
they went back again and asked for
S25O,000, but they did not get it. This
will bring forth another letter from the
President, + have no doubt, but these
are the facts.'
This charge was the real feature Of
the Parker speech, the keynote OF
which was his arraignment of the Re
publican party as being in league with
great com binations of capital that ex-
ercise corrupting influence upon the
Government and upon public officials.
OF all the issues before the American
people, he declared. not one was so vi
tai as the relation between capital and
politics. To Republicans as well as
Democrats, to all classes of men and
women in this country, he asserted,
this was of the greatest concern. The
Republican party, he held, was respon-
sible for the conditions, and it could
not be trusted to end them.
WHEN THE OUTBURST CAME.
While Judge Parker was given fine
reception from the start and his attack
upon Mr. Roosevelt seemed to thrill
the crowd, the great demonstration of
the evening occurred when, after stat
ing that the President, by the use of
an old trick, had endeavored to cast
suspicion upon Mr.. Bryan because of
| the allegations against Gov. Haskell
of relations with Standard Oil, he used
these words:
| OFF THERE is ONE MAN IN THE
COUNTRY WHO HAS EARNED THE
RIGHT TO BE SAVED FOOM SUCH AN
INSULT AS THIS, THAT MAN Is VII
LIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
At this the crowd jumped To its feet
like one man, and for two or three min
utes there was the widest kind of en-
thusiasm, in which the women in The
gallery joined.
After making his charges against
Messrs. Roosevelt and COrtelyou, Judg,
Parker took shot at MI Sherman
the Vice Presidential candidate of tn,
Republicans, who, he declared, in th'
campaign of 1906 had gone down int
Wall street for the purpose of getting
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