The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-28
DEFENDS Haskell.
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act passed by a Republican congress.
and the provisions of the license of
franchise issued to the oil company by
your administration.
81 need hardly refer to the newly
found evidence upon which you lay so
much stress, viz: The article in the
Outlook of September 8. My attention
was never called to that article until
read the published copy of your let
ter, and while / have great respect for
the Outlook. and suppose l have for
the writer (although you do not give
his nanle), 1 would hardly feel justi-
fed in deciding as promptly as you do
on an ex-parte statement without in
vestigation. So T
You present an indictment against
our platform declarations on the trust
question: but you do not srefer to all
OF the planks and do not deal justly
platform declares in favor of the Wig
orous enforcement of the criminal
laws against guilty trust magnates and
officials
Your platform does not contain any
such demand. Will you say that your
platform is. better than ours in that
respect? Our platform demands that
corporations beyond a certain size be
compelled to sell at the same price in
all parts of the country, due allowance
ton. Will you deny that this is in the
interest of the consumer and in the
interest of the smaller competitors?
The Democrat Plan.
1--WE present plan under which no
corporation will be permitted to con-
trel more than one-half of the total
proStuct.a It has been stated that the
sent. = purchased one of it's largest
rivals and. thus obtained control OF
more than SO per cent of the total
output. VIII you insist that in per-
hitting this you showed less favor to
the monopolistic corporations than ]
do in opposing them?
you quote at length from a speech
made by Governor Hughes in which
| he ridicules one of our antitrust
remedies. Is this the same Governor
| Hughes who was counted one of the
allies who endeavored to defeat Mr.
Taft when, as you insisted. Mr.. Taft
represented the 'reformers' of your
party and his opponents the reaction
airy element? Did not Governor
| Hughes have the support of the New
| and is not New York city the home
| of many of the Republicans mos
conspicuous in their connection with
| the law defying corporations?
! You are certainly aware of the
| fact that in the statement filed by
George r. Sheldon, then treasurer OF
| the Republican state committee two
years ago, after Mr.. Hughes's election
| 1t appears that the following contribu.
| tions were made to the campaign
| fund: j. P. Morgan. $4,000; John D
| Rockefeller, $4,000: Andrew Carnegie
! $1,000; Charles NJ. Schwab, $4,000
1 John w. Gates, $4,000; w. z. Corey
$4,000; w. Nelson Cromwell. $1,000
w. F. Havemeyer, $500; B. NJ. Duke
| $500. Several of these men ars
! known to be oficia1ly connected with
1 the trusts -4.s
would the fact that these gentle.
| men contributed to his campaign
! fund strengthen or weaken his ties,
4 timony against the reasonableness OF
/ our antitrust remedy?
/ Hughes as Critic.
-'You cannot have failed to notice
/ that Governor Hughes in his speech
assumed the role of the critic and not
that of the constructive statesman
Anyone possessing vivid Imagination
and a pen can find objections to re.
medal measures. Lord Macaulay il
quoted as saying that eloquent and
learned men could be found to dispute
1.-THE law Of gravitation If there were
any advantage to be gained by it BuI
oh m he orrraA '