The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-02-01
CHANCE FOR PARTY VICTORY.
Proof OF Republican Corruption Bound
to Help Democrats.

The past year, as far as politics is
concerned, has been a record breaker.
There was the exposure of Republican
corruption by President Roosevelt
when he found himself placed on the
defensive after the publication of the
Hartman letter on April 2 and tell
ing of the deal between the president
and Mr.. Hartman in 1904. That let
ter gave details of the request of Mr..
Roosevelt to the railroad magnate te
raise 5000, 900, to be used to carry
New York and complaining that al
though MI. Hartman had raised the
money and thus bought victory, yet
the president had not carried out his
end of the bargain by making certain
appointments. The president evident
ly felt the sting of these charges, as
made by Judge Parker about the life
insurance and corporation contribu-
lions, SO he promptly published his
Sherman letter as an Offset. That let
ter told of the Hartman brag that he
could buy laws and judges and legis-
ldtuICS, IN lhuo AItO0 thC vOA Sho
had covered the corruption of Repub-
lican officials. President Roosevelt
evidently knew much of this corrup-
ton of his party, and his statement
in his letter to Hartman that you
and / are practical men" would indi-
cate that he was not above taking
advantage Of it. President Roosevelt
attempted to overcome these expos
ures of the corruption that had been
charged against his party by denounc-
ing Hartman as an undesirable
citizen" and that certain "malefactors
of great wealth" were conspiring
against his administration. Although
nearly everyone believes that Presi-
dent Roosevelt is personally honest,
yet these exposures Of his knowledge
of the corruption of his party and the
fact that he has never caused resti-
tuition to be made of the funds plum
dered from the widows and orphans
of policy holders in the last national
campaign, has led to the extraordinary
lack of confidence in Republican poll
cies that is now apparent. The panic
and business breakdown has followed
the exposure of the political corrup-
ton, for when the people discovered
they had been duped by Republican
professions and promises and how
ultimately politics and business was
associated under Republican manage
ment they naturally came to the con-
clusion that financial and business
affairs on the grand scale was equally
corrupt. The run In the New YORK
banks followed and we are assured
by no less an authority than the New
York Journal Of Commerce chat hqui-
dation Is still incomplete, that COM
modities and wages are still too high;
that abnormal industrial activity must
stop until "a new supply OF capital has
been saved, and in short that we
pass through a further period of read
iustment and liquidation, involving
more or less failures"
When it Is remembered that the
above is the opinion Of the leading
business journal in the United States,
it will be apparent where the Repub-
lican policies of tariff protection for
the trusts and financial legislation
that favors the national banks at the
expense of the people has brought US.
The political corruption Of the Grant
administration was followed by panic
and the defeat of the Republican party
when Mr.. Tilden was elected but
counted out. Will history repeat
itself? The result depends upon Dem
ocratic leadership and the uniting OF
the party in a solid phalanx such az
the wisdom of Tilden brought about.