The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-10-14
NOW n IS KEIIoaa

Another Republican Campaign Mama
ger Allied 10 tho Trusts The Minno-
sofa National Committeeman Attor-
ney for the steel Trust Some Ques-
lions That Indicate Why the Repub.
Iicans Need Not DO Expected TO Sup
press Trusts.
Every day there arc now develop
ments to show that the Republican
party is in the control of the trusts.
The head of tho powder trust, under
Indictment, has been bounced from
the committee, but the house cleaning
has just begun. During the week the
Chicago Journal and other papers have
shown that Acting Chairman Eagel, of
The Republican national committee,
was the attorney for the Standard OIL
trust in the big suit Republican At
torney General Hndley, of Missouri,
brought to drive that trust out of Mis-
souri,. The New York World has
shown that the Republicans Iii New
York refused to nominate George r..
Sheldon as lieutenant governor of that
state because his trust connections
were so notorious that the people
would not stand for him, and yet he Ia
the treasurer of the Republican ma
tionnl committee. In Chicago, the as
sistant treasurer of the Republican
committee is 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 whoAe as
sessments for taxation he must pass,
asking them to contribute to thc Re
publican campaign fund. Nearly NIL
a laos saSN mi
trust affiliations and were appointed
to "fry the fat out OF the trusts.
And now, by way of Seattle, come
questions disclosing the fact tint
Frank Is. Kellogg, the member of the
national Republican executive commit
tee from Minnesota, who, al mem
Der of the platform committee in the
convention that nominated Tat, Is
said to have drafted the evnsive lnbor
plank In the Taft platform, is 80 re-
lated to the steel trust as to dislualify
him to represent the people In the colt
test between tile trusts and the people.
The Seattle Times, after showing TINT
TIE trust magnutes control the Rcpub-
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 Mt
torney whom President Roosevelt APP
pointed to fight the Standard OIL com.
pany, the general counsel Of the Oliver
Mining company of Minnesota for n
period OF ten yearsf But the oliver
Mining company of Minnesota Is only
another name for Standard OIL.
as not Kellogg even now tho gen
eral counsel for the United States
Steel company of Minnesota Is he.
not paid a very large salary by TINT
corporation, and been so paid for many
years2 And yet the United States
Steel company OF, Minnesota is abso-
lutely owned by the Standard Oil.
"Whcn the Merritt Bros, of Duluth,
were obliged to sue John ID. Rockcfel-
Ter to obtain their rights In mining
deal located on the Mesaba range in
MinneHota-was not Frank d. kellogg
the attorney for the oil klngf 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 City2
But is not Kellogg the attorney for
that road?
"Assumlng that these questions
must be answered In the Affirmative,
how can the department of Justice ON.
ploy Mr.. Kellogg TO prosecute the
Standard OH company In behalf of the
people and stu allow him to act for
the Standard OIL company In the cases
mentioned?
us not Kellogg also the trusted ad-
wiser of Judge THftI If so, what Will
Judge Taft likely do, IL he should sue
coed to the presidency, so far as en-
forcing the law against Standard ON"
The truth Island everybody knows
lt-that the Standard OIL trust owes
It's power and wealth to fnvoring legls-
lation and immunity granted by the
Republican party. and that the trusts
for a generation have put up" for the
Republican campaign fund. They will
10 so again this year, and thy are
too smart to put their money III 4 con-
Germ without getting value received.
Taft does not promise to take the
tariff Off of trust controlled articles or
to put the officers of trusts In jail.
Why2 The trust magnates own the
inner circle that, under Aldrich and
Cannon controls legislation, and when
they pay for legislation and for free.
dom from prosecution they know they
get what they pay for.
New York Evening Post.-It Inns
been shown TINT the Democratic COM
mittee got not n cent and thnt Mr..