The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-28


dollar than the smaller profit which
would have accrued to them merely
from the general Industrial prosperity
OF the country. Because of their inter-
ests and against the interests OF the
community at large, these trust mag
mates then supported you My be1ef
is, and the statement of Judge Priest
quoted above and the attitude of many
men OF large financial interests war
rant me IN expressing the belief, that
these trust magnates whose fear of
being prosecuted under the law by Mr..
Taft is greater than their fear OF gen.
eral business adversely under you, will
, support you and not Mr.. Taft.
Hughes Campaign Fund.
II come to what you have TO say
about contributions and here you fur
nish your own answer. You state that
il appears from the published state
ment of the contribution for Mr.
Hughes campaign for governor two
years ago, Eat various men of wealth,
some of them connected with big corr
porations, whom you name, to the
number of nine, contributed from $780,.
900 TO $500 apiece. You ask: Would
the fact that these gentlemen contrib
uted TO his campaign fund strengthen
or weaken his testimony against the
reasonableness of our antitrust rem
edy?' and later you continue by asking:
Are you willing to say that any public
interest was served in 1904 by conceal
ing until after election the contribu-
tons made to the Republican campaign
committee by Mr.. Hartman and those
collected by him for others?' Are you
willing to say that the publication be-
fore election Of contributions then
made would have had no effect upon
the election? You then propose to
publish the names of contributions be-
fore election and ask us to do the same.
Amount Only Trivial.
THE amounts you mention as con-
tributed to Mr.. Hughes are utterly
trivial compared to the amounts /
have already mentioned as contributed
to your campaign in 1896, but in my
judgment the amount contributed has
nothing whatever to do with the point
at issue. The question was, for in
stance, whether Mr.. Clark of Montana,
when he contributed heavily to your
campaign fund, had a proper motive.
and whether your actions would or
would not have been influenced prop
erly or improperly by that contribution
and the same question applies to Mr..
Hughes and to me. In the case of Mr..
Hughes and myself the answer is for
tunately easy. You have nothing to
do but examine our records in the Of
fees to which we were both elected.
You either know or ought to have
known before writing that in not one
instance has Mr.. Hughes. as governor,
done one thing of any kind, sort or
description for any one of the contrib
utors you mention or for any other
contributor to his fund which ought
n have hann
have been done if no contribution had
been made. Yet you clearly imply that
he is and has been improperly infiu-
enced by the fact of these contribu
lions having been made. Do you con-
slider such an implication either
straightforward or sincere?
Roosevelt's Campaign Fund.
I'm a letter TO the chairman of my
campaign committee on October 26.
1904. 1 specifically approved of the con-
ditions under which the national COM
mittee We're accepting contributions,
saying that their acceptance was to be
with the explicit understanding that
they were given and received with no
thought of any more obligation on the
part of the national committee or of
the national administration than is i'm
piled in the statement that every man
SHdii receive a SQUARE uedl, no more
and no less. and this ] shall guarantee
him in any event TO the best of Fly
ability If they subscribe for the pur-
pose of securing such national welfare
and with no thought of personal favors
to them. why they are acting as is en-
tirely proper. / continued:
In returning the money to them
(any contributors). l wish 1t made clear
that there is not the slightest personal
feeling against them and they can
count upon being treated exactly as
fairly as if we had accepted the con-
tributions. They shall not suffer in
any way because we refund them, just
as they would not have gained in any
way if he had accepted them. No
member of the national committee has
ever directly or Indirectly suggested to
me that 1 should either do or leave I'M
done anything whatever because any
one had contributed or had failed to
contribute.
These are the facts. Now for your
proposal. You have yourself furnished
its condemnation. You have quoted the
subscriptions furnished to Governor