The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-12

proven that said corrupt officials, after said exposure, contributed nearly half q milton dollars to elect Mr, Jerome attorney of New York on an independ ent ticket although opposed by candl- dates of each of the great parties, and so great was the power of money that his election was accomplished and nono of said insurance officials have since been punished.
 Third-lt has recently been publicly charged by Judge Alton B, Parker and not denied, and deniala arc quite in vogue, that the standard oil co. sent
 It's check for T0oOOo toward the cam
 paign fund required to elect President
 Roosevelt in 1904, and it is said that
 the republican party was SO indignant
 because tho amount was not larger
 that the party managers called on the
 Standard oil co. and lntimatod it
 would not he satisfactory unless the
 check was increased to So5oooo, and
 the Standard oil Co, refusing to in-
 crease it. President Roosevelt ordered
 that the check he returned, but it
 seems that MT Cortelyou then chair.
 man of the republican national com- mittoe, and before and since a men. her of President Boosavclts cabinet, did not obey hi= chief and that the
 money was kept and uead and many
 sinister people now attribute the |attitudh of the administration l toward tho Standard oil company
 since 1a0l resulting in It's prosecution
 and due. 10 the dlz satisfaction of the
 administration over the small si2o of
 this campaign contribution Stooooo
 Fourth The Standard Oll corro-
 arandenco of Senators Foraker Mr- Itaurlu and Ba'loy and Congressman
 siblev and others, an tend to sustain
 the same conclusions ne 10 tho corrup
 tive uae or corporate contributions in
 the election If public officials.
 Flftn-rhe exemption of the Steel trust from rodera nrosecution and tho approval of lts recent combination in
 restraint of trade, is taken as an indi- Ieation partru'1rly in view Of the la-
 eallv published subscriptions of thc | leading mon In fine trust to the repuh.
 Hcun party for the campaign aypensoe which resulted in the election or Gov
 ernor Huehoo that lt haa been thus TO-
 vardod for large campaign contrihu-
 tlaua
 slyth-In the action of President
 Roosevelt iu soliciting E II tIarrlm7n
 whom he now calls an undesirable
 citizen" one week before inc election
 of 1904 to raise fund of tlf0ool which
 was raised Tn two or three hour7 oyor tho phone the understanding hemr l that President Roosevelt would giy' nepew the French embassy and lo Hartman revise h7 message am which subscription Mir Iauimal states ln hls letter turned 50oo votes in New York city alone makint difference of one hundred thousau votes in the result CSee Roosevelt letter to Hartman oct 1, 1ooi an, Harriman's letter to sidney Websle explaining the whole matter. both a ' which have been published extensive lr) This change could not have bee effected in one week before election ov | fHih NA n fi'''IfIEll t' '.'i i't '''|It 'fI tainly campaign of education coul have had no part in it
 Seventh If further evidence wer ' needed that those in authority are full a aware that corporations buy election, h reference might ho had to Presldor Roosevolt's recent public charge tha in this campaign he suspected that th Standard Oil company had deserted tn \ republican party and were going { help the democratic party on accour of certain official action publicly take by Democratic Governor Haskell of ok lahoma. in a case recently pending 1 the courts of that state. and which .construed Co have been favorable to th Standard oil interests, and the add tional testimony of Fhos. W. LaWsor a that within five OF six days of clectio d in the campaign of 1S9G the then maD N ager of the republican campaign, hun rlodly raised five to six million dolat VI to defeat the candidate of the democrt tic party, William Jennings Bryan, | the election al that time seemed to | going against the republican part H This wae undoubtedly corruptiy M fund and could not have been used fl q purposes of education and 1t has hoe N commonly estimated that q campaE A fund in that year was raised amour H ing to f20,o00,O0O and
 N Whereas, Under the afore- -mentionc % system of raising funds for campain A expenses all poor men and mon of Q M dinary means are debarrod from hoc MI ing any important office. unless tho M mortgage their administration in ac v vance of election to those who suppl M tho funds for their election, therch VI limiting tho government to the money M ed classes and to remedy this gre, MI dIsfranchisinE evil it is hereby
 A Resolved, That public office ia pul % lie trust, That public elections arc Al public function, that the education N the voters in the discussion of publ H questions and the conduct of can N patgns. arc public necessity Tht H fine Legitimate expenses of conductIn M line same on educational lines shout