Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-07-09

1t should appear TO anyone tnat IN
noting and denouncing abuses and ia
vors on the part of the present ad-
ministration any license is assumed,
| urge the impossibility of separating
the present occupant of the White
House from his own annointed one.
1t has been made evident in the
pending campaign that the Republi-
cans will seek to conjure with the
name of Roosevelt and will rely upon
the presidents policies as a treasured
asset. The president has advertised
himself and his policies with a fire.
quency and ability that surpasses the
best efforts of the shrewdest press
agent. A distinguished Republican, a
former cabinet officer, once publicly
proclaimed the president to be the
greatest exponent of the art of ad-
vertising the world has known. The
country has been told, and not al
lowed to forget that, an his opinion.
his energies have been devoted to the
accomplishment of many high pur-
poses, and that if his work is yet in
complete it is SO only because his un-
dertakings were too vast to be car
ried to success during his term of
of office. My policies must con-
tinue. So the champion of these
would transfer office and power to
his favorite cabinet minister, and his
spear is to have a fellow. The pre-
tense is that the fight must go on
under the leader designated by him
until the last foe shall have surren-
dered or lies inglorious in the dust.
The nomination of his would-be sue
cessor was largely accomplished oy
the use of official patronage and
coarse machine methods, and has de-
lighted the chief apostle of strenu-
osity, and, at the same time has not
perturbed the conscience of the one
time civil service reformer, now the
boss AMI adept in the bestowal Of
public plumber and forgetful of all his
resounding moral commonplaces. No
fairminded American could read the
daily account of the recent political
doings at Chicago without feeling
modification and regret; mortifica-
ton that the president should have
so abused his power in debating to a
great party his choice of a successor,
and regret that that party should
have submitted to a cowardly humil-
iation that was as manifest as 1t was
degrading.
What are the policies that consti-
tute the capital of the Republican
party in this campaign and that are
relied upon to support the candidacy
of Mr.. Taft?
To recall Democratic platforms,
speeches and measures is to convince
any man that many of the presidents s
public utterances were derived from
an avowed familiarity With the teach
ings of our party. His utterances
that are Democratic nave given him
his only claim to be a reformer and
have contributed more than all else
to the popularity he has enjoyed. The
heir and the party are committed to
"unfaltering adherence to the poll
cies of the president" What are
these policies and what are the
achievements of president and party =?
Campaign Contributions.
1t must be admitted that the repub-
lie cannot long survive if fraud and
corruption become material factors in
our elections. No man has said more
thai the president about the corrup-
tion Of elections. You recall his mes
where it said that:
1T has been only too clearly shown
that certain men at the head of these
large corporations take but small
note of the ethical distinction between
honesty and dishonesty; they draw the
line only this side of what may De
called law honesty. the Kind of hon
esty necessary in order to avoid fall
ing inlo the clutches of the law"
We have here the condemnation of
the practice. Has he proved his faith
by his works? Is it true or not that
four years ago he selected for his
campaign manager a novice in politics
whose principal qualifications for the
position was the power he held over
the corporations of the land? Is II
true or not that the official place as
secretary of commerce and labor gave
full knowledge of these business Sc
crets and relations of corporations to
this campaign manager, and clothed
him with power with the assent of the
president, to punish or reward them
by publishing or Withholding their Sc
crets that he had collected as such
secretary?
Is it true or not that, with his
power held in terror over the corpo-
ratiOns, ne solicited or had his agents
solicit campaign contributions from
them? l. it true or not that such a
request under such circumstances was
"A demand upon the corporations
demand that they acceded to, know
ing that the man who made it had
the power to punish them in case
they refused? Can ii be doubted that
in this way vast sums were raised
II so, how much of these contribu-
tions We're used for legitimate eX-
pcnses and how much for corruption
purposes we do not know. Notwith-
standing savage ante-election denials
We know that subsequent investiga-
ton OF certain Insurance companies
uncovered the fact that large amounts
We're contributed by these companies
to the Republican campaign fund
not the money of the men who gave
it, but money covertly taken without
consent Of stockholders or policy hold
ers and entered on the books I'm a way
calculated to conceal the embezzle-