Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-24

instruments to work with. You nave
got to give him congress amenable
to persuasion and discipline. If you
elect Mr.. Taylor and myself, as l be-
lieve you will. we will work together
for your good
There can be no doubt about the |
accuracy of Mr. Taft's statement, for
his language as given above is taken
from the report published by the Chi
cago Inter-Ocean, strong republican !
paper
There has been much talk of late
about a Rooseveltian dynasty, but
even the wielder of the big stick has
never committed himself to the doc
persuasion and discipline though
there have been times when people
at the capital of the nation thought
that he subscribed to such view.
OF course there are people in the
republic old fogy enough to believe
that the founders of the constitution
were wise when they decreed that the
executive, legislative and judicial de-
partments of the government should
remain separate and apart, and they
may have something to say about this
new Taft doctrine early in November
Pile Up sIush Fund.
There is no longer any doubt that
the republican party is engaged in a
frantic effort to pile UP an immense
slush fund for the corruption of voters
in the doubtful States on the day of
election. For weeks past the repubii-
cans have been crying poverty; this
is false cry. 1t is now known that
the party managers have all the
money they can leGitimately use, but
what they desire is an immense sum
| for the purchase of votes similar to
that used in 1896. The cry of alarm
that has been raised by Chairman
Hitchcock with reference to the Ohio
situation was call to wealthy repub-
lican interests to stand and deliver"
This shake down" game is being
worked by the republicans IN every
conceivable way.
| Ex-senator Pettigrew of South Da-
kota, who was at democratic head
quarters yesterday, thinks the repub-
licans will have an enormous corrup-
| ton fund for use in the final days of
the campaign.
THE present tariff law has capital
lied the steel trust at more than
$90,000000," said the former senator.
This trust will willingly give a mil
lion and a half dollars to the repub-
lican campaign fund. The steel trust
which as the result of favoritism at
the hands of the republican party has
grown fabulously wealthy does not
want to stop selling rails to Texans
at 81 more a ton than it receives from
Mexicans who live across the line.
A million and half is only drop in
the bucket of the steel trusts profits
This monster trust has always con.
sidered contributions to the republi.
can campaign fund as one of its best
investments
Many Got Letters.
Many letters have been received at
Chairman Mack's office from people
prominent in the country who received
the 'fat frying letters of George R.
Sheldon, treasurer of the republican
national committee.
Edwin Stone, prominent attorney
in Maine, who received a letter from
Mr.. Sheldon asking for funds, has re-
Piled as follows:
Il received few days ago cir
cular letter from the chairman of the
republican national committee. earnest
ly appealing for a contribution to for
ward the campaign for the election
of the candidates of its party, and the
maintenance OF republican policies,
and enclosed with it was another from
the republican national advisory com
mittee urging my serious attention
TO the first letter. above mentioned
81 declined to respond, by sub
scription, to these desperate appeals
Duplicates of these letters, as l Jam
informed and believe. have been sent
all over the country, and there is
there can be, but one purpose to be
effected in such an effort to collect
a very large sum of money at this
time in the campaign now so near its
jclose. So
IF managed in business like way
all the legitimate expenses of the cam
lpaign would have been provided fol
before this time. 1t therefore must
be apparent to any reasonably intelli
gent person that this appeal for money
at this time is TO create an enormously
large fund to be used in doubtful
states for corrupt purposes on the
day of election and few days PRIOR
thereto.
''In other words, you are to repeat
Tor attempt to do so, the practices OF
the republicans in 1896 and 1900. Your
levident design now is to corrupt and
ldebauch every voter who can be in,
fiuenced by money-not the venal
Iaione-but the unemployed, the unfor
ltunate, poor man, made so by a re-
publican policy. 1t is only by this
corrupt method that you will save the
republican party from the defeat IL
richly deserves, and has invited by
L its hypocritical abuse of legislative
and executive power"
Georgian in Similar Vein.