Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-31
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
BEHIND REPUBLICANS
Startling of Oil and Steel
Magnates They Taft ElectedLae Is Betrayed
as Being the Candidate of the Predatory Combines

pie and put their extortion

pie and put their extortion upon
more permanent foundation.
"He says Mr.. Taft is not man in
clined to rash experiments. He might
have omitted the word rash for Mr..
Taft is not in favor of any kind OF
experiments in the way of remedial
legislation. He does not propose rem
edies. He simply glories in the past
and wants to leave conditions as they
are.
''Mr. Rockefeller says Mr.. Taft would
not advocate measures subversive or
industrial progress. But what is in
dustrial progress? Is it right to allow
one corporation to swallow up or bank
rupt all of the other corporations and
then hold the country at its mercy?
Progress or stagnation?
rs it Industrial progress to destroy
competition and close the door of OPP
portunity to the young men of the
country?
rs it industrial progress to destroy
industrial independence and establish
despotism of monopoly?
''The Democrats have reason to be
grateful to Mr.. Rockefeller for tearing
the mask off the Republican campaign
and revealing the dupltc1ty that mas
characterized it.
Instead of openly attacking the size
of the monopoly, the Republican or
ganization has kept up a pretense or
reform, and Mr.. Roosevelt rushed into
the arena and allowed the charge that
the trusts were opposed to Mr.. Taft to
stand.
81 challenged him to name one trust
official that was supporting me, and
not being able to find an official, ne
named a St Louis attorney who in one
case represented the president OF
branch of the Standard Oil company.
Would Remove Odium
'Mr. Roosevelt, in his eagerness to
relieve the Republican candidate of the
odium of trust support, accepted TINS
as proof that the Standard Oil COM
pany was supporting me.
Now Mr.. Rockefeller head of the
Standard Oil company, comes out open
ly in support of Mr.. Taft and gives
reasons that lay bare the false pre-
lenses upon which the Republican cam
paign has been conducted.
'If the Republican party were honest
1t would announce that, having made
arrangements with the trusts for the
funds to finance the campaign and
having pledged the Republican party
to protect the trusts from punishment,
it would release the rank and file or
the Republican party from further sup
port of the Republican ticket.
Master Unmasked
"The Republican party cannot serve
two masters. Its real master has now
stepped forth and asserted his claim to
the party's services"
mo Republican need be deceived any
longer as to the indissoluble bond that
binds the Republican organization to
the predatory wealth of the country.
1T will be noticed that this state
ment comes out too late to be used by
the weekly newspapers circulated
among the masses, but in time to be
used in the business centers to influence
those business men who look to the
big financiers for advice"
Before taking up another question,
he said, IT want to say that we have
had another favor granted us this
morning. Mr.. Carnegie has come out
for Mr.. Taft. Mr.. Carnegie holds the
largest block of steel bonds of any man
in the United States.
"He comes out with Mr.. Rockefeller.
1t was the steel trust that went to the
White House and got permission from
the president to absorb a rival, and the
steel trust is today supporting Mr.. Taft.
as 1t helped to secure his nomination.
His cIevelana Speech
In his speech in the central armory
tonight in Cleveland Mr.. Bryan dis
cussed the Democratic platform, laying
great stress on the planks relating to
the guaranty of bank deposits, pup