The daily sentinel., 1908-09-19
SHERMAN WAS AFTER
BIG CONTRIBUTIONS.
Some Most Interesting Statements
Made by Judge Parker in His
Address ON Wednesday
Evening.

u
cratic convention has attracted wide
spread attention.
Not the least striking features of
Judge Parker's address was a dec
! laration that James s. Sherman. the
{ companion of Mr.. Taft on the Re
/ publican ticket. invaded Wall street
for political contributions in 1906
when Mr.. Sherman was chairman of
the congressional committee.
Evidence is not wanting of the set
purpose of the leaders of the Re-
publican party" he said. TO con
! tinue their plan of securing funds
from those who are Interested either
in Legislation or in non-enforCement
I of law. Smarting under the expos
ure of the insurance investigations
of 1905. and subsequent disclosures
not under oath, its congressional
committee in 1906 called for dollar
contributions from individual to aid
| in the election of the Republican
I members of congress. The president
himself subscribed a dollar and a few
others whose names were advertised
and then the publication OF subscrip-
tions ceased, and then the chairman
of the congressional committee. now
the Republican candidate for vice
president, went down, as had his pre-
decessors of old. into Wall street to
get the money with which to 'influ-
ence' the doubtful districts
Judge Parker charged the Repub-
licans with gross extravaganza in the
federal administration and as well in
those states under Republican con
troll.
We need not be astonished." he
said, TO find that the Pepublican
party in order to obtain these vast
sums of money necessary 10 meet the
demands of its extravaganza. has
wilfully through its PRONUNCIATION
and enforcement of expensive tariffs
aided in and brought about the up
building of the majority of those
giant fortunes which the president
has denounced so vehementIy.
Judge Taft in his letter of ac-
ceptance admits thai the great ma
iority of the combinations in r.
straint of trade, he formation of
which the high tariff especially in
vites. have arisen within the last ten
years. During all that time the Re
publican party has controlled both
the federal government and the gov
ernment of substantially all those
states who have created or tolerated
them-for we have yet to hear of
their creation or federation in tire
southern states which are under
Democratic control"
Judge Parker declared that the
beneficiaries of the tariff had long
been looked to to fill the Republican
campaign chest He said the con-
tributing corporations had grown in
number "swelled in affluence and
gained in influence until the point
was reached of practical working
business alliance batween the Re
publican party and the favor seek
ing corporations.
He continued:
1T is not only the highest desire of /
all good citizens of all parties what !
soever that our political life should .
be clean, but ii is essential to the .
liberties of the people. That result |
will not be accomplished until bust I
ness and politics are divorced by
statutes the violation of whIch will /.
result in Imprisonment.
we can never hope for that re-
suit while the Republican party is in
power. It has created its Franken-
stein. The creature must be fed. 1t
has created system of corruption
which has now progressed to the
point of controlling the power which
created it.. The Republican party
has reached a point where it dare
not pause"
1t was at this point that Judge
Parker made his attack on ar, Sher-
man and from that he turned to
President Roosevelt and MIR. Harri- |
man. saying:
Here we see man of great am |
bition, and as we are told. of lofty |
ideals, become SO accustomed to this |
party custom that he does not hasi- |
tate TO invite Mr. Hartman to Wash |
ington TO secure his good offices for |
money raising purposes, taking in
deed the precauton absolutely to |
assure his coming by suggesting in u |
letter that after the election he de- |
sired TO consult him about the rail |
road feature of his message. What |
may have occurred at that meeting |
we do not know, but that it was suf- |
ficiently agreeable to Mr.. Hartman |
10 lead to his contributing ana rails |
ing Immediately upon his return to |
New York the sum of two hundred |
and siNty-five thousand dollars. we |
20 know. as also that quarter of Q /
million of that money was scattered |
over this state of New York for |
practical uses by practical men. |
Are we to assume that the shifting of |
the stockholders OF Mr. narrImans |
and the Standard Oil magnates' cor
poration by the president was be !
cause his eyes at last were opened |
and he had attained an appreciation
Of the serious character of the of
fence which they had committed in
helping to swell his campaign fund? |
It may be so. but IT is equally true |
that Harriman's corporations were |
not the first victims Of an aroused |
conscience nor did Mr. Hartman at
tain to eminence on he INST of un-
desirable citizens for some two years |
When he was finally singled out from |
other great corporations for excom-
munication cannot he absolutely |
proved But the letters which the |