Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-05
FRYING THE FAT

ible), our morning Republican contem-
porary newspaper chooses this as the
psychical period in which to revive the
old stories--never denied--about George
B. Cortelyou and his fat-frying ex-
ploits, many details as to which are
recorded in the insurance investiga-
ton testimony. Judge Alton B. Parker
did not originally make, but repeated
the charge that Cortelyou, as the Re-
publican national treasurer. had ac-
cumulated funds for the Republican
party by a process known as Stat
irving"
We do not recollect that George has
ever denied the soft impeachment
We do not recollect who it was that
first used the phrase "fat-frying."
Perhaps it was Mr. Cortelyou, in a
iocular moment; perhaps it was some
one else, but that 1t is a Republican
phrase and that it was originated by
Republican campaign collectors (of
whom George Cortelyou was the chief
we have no more doubt than we have
that in the campaign which delivered
the country into the hands of Republi-
car Interests" Manley of Maine sold
out Tom Reed to those interests. which
were backing Mckinley, and that the
Blaine old guard sent q messenger to
Ohio with holograph letter from Man
ley in his inside pocket, conceding the
nomination to Major Mckinley on the
first ballot, with certain conditions
hxr oil
It was during that campaign that
the fat-frying process was begun, and
Cortelyou's unprece dentedly rapid pro-
motion in the Republican party was
due not merely to his great natural
abilities, but to the following indis-
putable fact repeated by Judge Parker
In Los Angeles and in other parts of
the country where he has addressed
meetings:
"The influence of the corporations Is
such that they control the government
through the controlling political party
Even the railroads are at the mercy
of the steel trust and pay 25 per cent
more for rails than the trust sells them
for abroad. This Is also true of sew
ing machines, wire and other steel
products. In Pennsylvania, for in
stance, we have men rolling in wealth
due to ore found right in the ground
near home, and the people have failed
to wrest from congress the rights that
are properly theirs. While it has been
very unfortunate for the people, many
of whom are struggling on a mere pit
tance, to pay tribute to the steel, coal
and wood trusts, the effort today is to
arouse the voters to change these con- |
ditions. How is it that the party which
has been practically in sole control has
been able to SHUT THE EYES OF
THE PEOPLE? 1T IS BECAUSE THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS MADE
AN ALLIANCE WITH THE PRO-
TECTED INTERESTS. TILL RE-
PUBLICAN PARTY MANAGERS
HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN FRYING
OUT THE CORPORATION FAT.
THEY HAVE GONE TO THE
TRUSTS AND BARONS AND COL
LECTED CAMPAIGN CONTRIBU-
TIONS (Cortelyou was chief collector).
AND WHAT IS THE IMPLIED
AGREEMENT? What is more natural
than that the corporations should ex-
ert influence TO HAVE LAWS
PASSED FAVORABLE TO THEM?
AS satisfying laws are passed for the
big companies, the smaller ones chip |
in and they, too, are taken under the
protecting wing. Only recently we
read of a federal official who said that
no promise was given to any of the
contributing corporations. None was
needed. The party has a record, un-
broken for years. of having passed the
hat and of barons dropping their thou
sands therein as campaign funds. In
season and out and at all seasons the
contributing goes on and the tariff |
wall grows higher"
And what in the ingenious opinion
of our unsophisticated contemporary
is done with this huge fund collected |
by Cortelyou and corps of trained
canVassers, who, when the barons do
not respond promptly, make personal
calls on them, even as one, upon a
celebrated occasion, made a personal
call on Hartman! Z, Is 1t spent ol
cigars for the boys at headquarters?
On drinks for the old Barney Rourke
crowd of godly Republican heelers and
spielers in the purlieus OF New York? Z?
Or on bound volumes of hymns for
little children, to be sung at Republic
can camp meetings?
After the fat was fried by George
Cortelyou, what did he do with it?
Accounted for it to the campaign man
ayers, of course-it is simply ridicu-
lous that any Republican organ should
try to make it appear that Judge Par
ker or the Democratic papers have at
any time made a personal attack on
Cortelyou. Not even the New York
World did that, and the World. we be-
lieve, went into the matter in more
detail than other papers. Cortelyou
did his duty. After he fried the fat
he applied the fat where it would do
most good. That's what he was there