Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-14

Mr.. Roosevelt's denial was stump
speech. He declared that Judge Par
ker has neither produced nor can he
produce any proof of their truth Mr.
Roosevelt grew indignant as he de-
tailed and made more specific than
had Judge Parker the statements and
man Clayton embodied in his speech.
President Rooseyelts denial of the
charges was bold and vigorous, and as
Judge Parker was under pledge not
to reveal his authority, the presidents
denial was accepted by the republi-
cans as clean bill of health for Cor
telyOu. Judge Parker, however, in a
speech on the Saturday night preced-
ing the election said:
THE purpose of my address to-
night is to call attention to the fact
that in his strangely belated reply to
my speech of week ago, the presi-
dent has not met the issue created
since the platforms were adopted
namely: Can the trusts purchase the
election? Whatever results may fol-
low from his addrens the campaign
fund cannot be interfered with. 1t
has been raised = = Roosevelt
does not deny the contributions now"
evening of Nov 5. the same evening
on which Parker replied 10 Roosevelt,
stated that Judge Parkers statements
regarding the collection of campaign
funds by Cortelyou were true" and
ne challenged the republican treas
urei, Bliss, TO deny that there was "a
meeting of great captains of industry
four weeks ago. nearly all of whom
has been hostile to Roosevelt's cleo
ton, who were assured that they
would have a square deal" Among
those at that meeting, German said,
were E. H. Hartman, George F. Per
kins, Jacob H. Schiff and the Stand
ard Oil banker, Stillman.
The charges Judge Parker made
against Cortelyou in the closing days
of the campaign of 1904 have since
been verified. notwithstanding the
savage ante-election denials, the pub.
lie knows that the investigation OF
New York made a couple of years
ago disclosed contributions to the re
publican slush funds by the companies
controlled by some of the men re-
ferred to by Senator German, of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars of pol
| icyholders' money. This money was
| handed over for Chairman Cortelyou's
use through Treasurer Bliss. The in
vestigation of the insurance compa
mics disclosed only a small portion
of the money exacted from plutocratiC
corporations and predatory wealth tc
swell the republican campaign slust
fund. The disclosures show that the
money was covertly taken without
consent of stockholders and policy
holders and entered on the books in
way calculated to conceal the fraud
The money was used-amountlng il
the aggregate to millions of dollars
in the interest of the republican can
didate for president, and ne wa:
elected
| The Springfield Register says:
What was the consideration for thi!
liberality of the trusts? Bliss anC
tCortelyou know, and if Mr.. Roosevelt
does not know that does not alter the
facts. The facts are as the State
Register has stated them And thu
further facts remain that not single
trust has been suppressed; not
single trust magnate has been impris
oned. Not single law has beer
passed to force the trusts to ceas
levying tribute on the people TIL
tariff, the mother of trusts, remain
unchanged, and the trusts are still il
the saddle. A few fines have beel
assessed by the courts, but not yet co
lected, and are likely not to be. Their
has been q good deal of 'thunderin
in the index but no effective effor
to interfere with the profits of tn
captains of industry -
The democrats have nothing to fea
from the disclosures of the Cortelyol
Bliss Hartman Roosevelt incidents
,, The republican party will not injec
this feature of the campaign histor
of 1904 into the present campaign. nc
will President Roosevelt inject hin
self into the campaign in denial c
defense.