Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-21
HOW IT ls KELLOGG

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 ger Allied to the Trusts-The Mime.
 sota National Committeeman Attos.
 ncy for the Steel Trust Some Cues
 tions That Indicate Why the Rspub.
 licans Need Not Be Expected to Sap.
 press Trusts.
 Every day there are new develop ments to show that the Republican party is in the control of the trusts. Tho head of the powder trust, under indictment, has been bounced from the committed, but the house cleaning has just begun. During the week the Chicago Journal and other papers have shown that Acting Chairman Nagel, of the Republican national committee, was the attorney for the Standard oil trust in the big suit Republican At torney General Hadley, of Missouri, brought to drive that trust out 0f Mis- souri. The New York World has shown that the Republicans In New York refused to nominate George R. Sheldon as lieutenant governor of that state because his trust connections were 90 notorious that the people would not stand for him, and yet he is the treasurer of the Republican na- tional committee. In Chicago, the as- sistant treasurer of the Republican committee Is 6 member of the board of review. As such he passes upon tax assessments. A few weeks ago he scandalized the country by sending letters to corporations, upon whose ns- sessments for taxation he must pass, asking them to contribute to tue Re- publican campaign fund. Nearly all the advisory committee" has close trust affiliations, and were appointed to "fry the fat" out of the trusts.
 And now, by way of Seattle, come questions disclosing the fact tat Frank B. Kellogg, the member of the national Republican executive commit tee from Minnesota, who, as 0 mem- Der of the platform committee in the convention that nominated Tat, is said to have drafted the evasive labor plank in the Taft platform, Is so re- lated to the steel trust as to disIUalify him to represent the people in the coR- test between the trusts and the people, The Seattle Times, after showing that the trust magnates control the Repub- lican party, adds another dark chapter to trust domination of that party in the following questions prepared by citizen of Seattle:
 Was not Frank B. Kellogg, the at- torney whom President Roosevelt ap- pointed to fight the Standard oil com pany, the general counsel of the Oliver Mining company of Minnesota for a period of ten years? But the Oliver Mining company of Minnesota is only another name for Standard Oil.
 'Is not Kellogg even now the gen. eral counsel for the United States Steel company of Minnesota? Is he not paid very large salary by that corporation, and been so paid for many years? And yet the United States Steel company of Minnesota is abso- lutely owned by the Standard Oil. When the Merritt Bros., of Duluth, were obliged to sue John D. Rockefel- Ter to obtain their rights in a mining deal located on the Mesaba range in Minnesota-was not Frank B. Kellogg | the attorney for the oil king? Not only that, but did not Kellogg carry the case to the circuit court of appeals and secure the reversal of judgment for about one million dollars?
 Do not the Rockefellers and their associates control the Great Western Railroad company, running from Chi cago to St. Paul and Kansas City? But is not Kellogg the attorney for that road? Y Assuming that these questions must be answered in the affirmative, how can the department of justice en- ploy MT. Kellogg to prosecute the Standard Oil company in behalf of the people and still allow him to act for the Standard Oil company in the cases mentioned?
 "Is not Kellogg also the trusted ad- wiser of Judge Taft? If so, what will Judge Taft likely do, if he should sue ceed to the presidency, so far as en- forcing the law against Standard Oil?" The truth is--and everybody knows :t-that the Standard Oil trust owes it's power and wealth to favorlng legls- lation and immunity granted by the Republican party. and that the trusts or generation have put up, for the Republican campaign fund. They will 10 go again this year, and they are % smart to put their money in con arn without getting value received. aft does not promise to take the ,riff on of trust controlled articles or put the officers of trusts in jail. hy? The trust magnates own the aer circle that, under Aldrich and mon, controls legislation, and when ,y pay for legislation and for free m from prosecution they know they