Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-09
KNOx's CANDIDACY.
Congressman Burke Writes Very In.
 terestfngly About It.

Washington, April 9.-The claims of no presidential candidate have been put forward in more striking words than were those of Senator P. c. Knox of Pennsylvania, in an article in the New York Independ- ent, written by Congressman James Francis Burke of Pittsburg. In the course of his article, MT Burke says:
 And what class of men would not be benefited by the election of the great Pennsylvanian? The la borer remembers that it was Attor- ney General Knox who, in the name of the United States government, re- fought the battle which humble laborer had lost because the courts declared the safety appliance law unconstitutional. It was not only the first time the government ever undertook to intervene in a private lawsuit, but MT Knox was the first who declared that it could be done, and the courts not only agreed with him but finally reversed the decision in the laborer's case, giving him compensation and upholding the safety appliance law.
 "The colored man wants for president the kind of man MT Knox proved himself to be when he instituted the first peonage prose- cution in the United States outside of New Mexico, and convicted and punished those who sought to rein troduce species of slavery in the south in the name of contract labor.
 ''The business man wants for president\just such a man as MT Knox proved himself to be when, in the conduct of the negotiations for laying the Pacific cable, he pro- cured for the United States govern ment the most advantageous ar rangement that has ever existed upon the part of any government with respect to any other cable in the world.
 "The diplomat and statesman wants for president just such a man as MT Knox proved himself to be when, in handling the multitude of intricate legal and international problems in acquiring title to the Panama Canal, he found ways to dispel a thousand doubts, and, by personally supervising the negotia- tions at home and abroad, brought back with him from Paris a title which the whole world now admits to be without a flaw.
 The promoter of the honest, we'll managed corporation wants just such man for president as MT Knox proved himself to be when he out lined and recommended the passage of those laws creating the depart ment of commerce and labor, com pleting the governments power to investigate the organization, con- duet, management and business of all corporations engaged in inter- state and foreign commerce.
 "The law-abiding American wants at the helm just such man as MT Knox proved himself to be when he upheld the Chinese exclusion act and sustained the law to deport alien anarchists from this country.
 "The great mass of men who pro- vide for their prospective widows and orphans wants such a man in the presidential chair as Mir Knox proved himself to be when, for the first time In the history of the in- surance world, he startled the coun- try not only by the disclosures he forced as counsel in the investiga- tion of the Equitable Life, but by the bold and clear-cut remedies which he declared must be applied universally in order to place insur- ance management upon abiding citi- zens of this country"