Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-10-15

Another Republican Campaign Mama
ger Allied to the Trusts The Minne-
sofa National Committeeman Attor-
ney for the Steel Trust-Some Ques-
tions That Indicate Why the Repub-
Iicans Need Not Be Expected to Sup
press Trusts.
Every day there are new develop
ments to show that the Republican
party is in the control of the trusts
The head Of the powder trust: under
Indictment, has been bounced from
the committee. but the house cleaning
has just begun. During the week the
Chicago Journal and other papers have
shown that Acting Chairman Nagel, of
4 the Republican national COMMITTEES,
was the attorney for the Standard Oil
! trust in the big suit Republican At
| t0rney General Hadley, OF Missouri
brought to drive that trust out Of Mis-
souri,. The New York World has
shown that the Republicans in New
| York refused to nominate George r.
Sheldon as lieutenant governor Of that
state because his trust connections
were SO notorious that the people
would not stand for him, and yet he is
! the treasurer of the Republican ma
| tionai committee. In Chicago, the as
| sistant treasurer of the Republican,
committee is member Of the board
Of review. As such he passes upon
tax assessments A few weeks ago
he seandalized the country by sending
| letters to corporations, upon whose ;is-
sessnlents for taxation he must PASS,
~. Do
publican campaign fund Nearly all
the advisory committee has close
trust affiliations, and were appointed
to FRY the fat out of the trusts.
And now, by way of Seattle, come
questions disclosing the fact that
Frank B. Kellogg, the member OF the
national Republican executive. commit
tee from Minnesota who, as Il nem-
ber Of the platform COMMITTEES in the
convention that nominated Ia 4. IS
said to have drafted the evasige labor
plank in the Taft platform, is so re-
lated to the steel trust as to disgualify
him to represent the people in the con-
test between the trusts and the people.
The Seattle Times, after showing that
the trust magnateS control the ReDub-
lican party, adds another dark chapter
TO trust domination of that patty in
the following questions prepared by
citizen of Seattle:
WAS not Frank B. kellogg, the at
torney whom President Roosevelt ap-
pointed to fight the Standard Oil com
pany, the general counsel of the Oliver
Mining company of Minnesota for a
period of ten years? But the Oliver
Mining company of Minnesota is only
another name for Standard Oil.
rs not Kellogg even now the gen
eral counsel for the United States
Steel company of Minnesota? Is he
not paid very large salary by that
corporation, and been so paid for many
years? And yet the United States
Steel company Of Minnesota is abso-
Iutely owned by the Standard Oil
when the Merritt Bros, of Duluth,
were obliged to sue John D. Roekefel-
Ter to obtain their rights in mining
deal located on the Mesaba range in
Minnesota-wa not Frank B. Kellogg
the attorney for the oil king? Not
only that. but did not Kellogg carry
| the case to the circuit court of appeals
and secure the reversal of a Judgment
fer about one million dollars?
DO not the Rockefellers and their
associates control the Great Western
Railroad company, running from Chit
cage to ST Paul and Kansas City?
But is not Kellogg the attorney for
that road2
Assuming that these questions
must be answered in the affirmative,
how can the department of justice EN-
| pioy Mr.. kellogg to prosecute the
Standard OH company in behalf of the
people and still allow him to act for
the Standard Oil company in the cases
mentioned?
rs not Kellogg also the trusted ad-
wiser of Judge Taft? If so, what will
Judge Taft likely do, If he should sue
ceed to the presidency, so far as en-
forcing the law against Standard Oil?'
The truth is-and everybody knows
it-that the Standard Oil trust owes
its power and wealth to favoring legis-
lation and immunity granted by the
Republican party. and that the trusts
for generation have ''put up for the
Republican campaign fund. They will
10 so again this year, and they are
too smart to put their money in a con-
Germ without getting value received.
Taft does not promise to take the
tariff off of trust controlled articles or
to put the officers of trusts in jail.
/ Why2 The trust magnates own the
inner circle that. under Aldrich and
Cannon, controls legislation, and when
they pay for legislation and for Free
dom from prosecution they know they
get what they pay for.
New York Evening Post.-It has
been shown that the Democratic COM