The daily sentinel., 1908-07-09


last foe shall have surrendered or
lies inglorious in the dust. The NOM
ination of his would-be successor was
largely accomplished by the use of
official patronage and coarse machine
meth DDS and has delighted the chief
apostle of strenuosity, and, at the
same time, has not perturbed the
conscience of the one-time civil serv-
ice reformer, now the boss, an adept
in the bestowal of public plunder and
forgetful of all his recounding moral
commonplaces. No fair-minied
American could read the daily ac-
counts of the recent political doings
at Chicago without feeling mortifica-
ton and regret; modification that
the President should have so abused
his power in debating to great
party his choice of a successor, and
regret that that party should have
submitted so cowardly to a humilia-
ton that was as manifest as it was
degrading.
What are the policies which con-
stitute the capital of the Republican
party in this campaign and that are
relied upon to support the candidacy
of Mr.. Taft?
ITO recall Democratic platforms,
speeches, and measures is to convince
any man that many of the Presidents S
public utterances were derived from
an unavowed familiarity with the
teachings of our party. His utter
ances that are Democratic have given
him his only claim to be a reformer
and have contributed more than all
else to the popularity he has enjoy
ed The heir and the party are COM
mitted to 'unfaltering adherence. to
hn irin nf ha
are these policies and what are the
achievements of President and party?
Campaign Contributions.
1T must be admitted that the Re-
public cannot long survive if fraud
and corruption become material fac
| ors in our elections. No man has
said more than the President about
the corruption of elections. You re-
call his message to congress in De-
cember, 1905, where he said that:
/ ''It has been only too clearly shown
that certain men at the head Of these
large corporations. take hut small
note of the ethical distinction Ike.
tween honesty and dishonesty; they
draw the line only this side of what
may be called law-hOnesty, the kind
of honesty necessary in order to avoid
falling into the clutches of the law.
, I'VE 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 qualification
for the position was the power he
held over the corporations of the
land? Is it true or not that the offic-
ial place as Secretary of Commerce
and Labor gave full knowledge OF
| these business secrets and relations
of corporations to this campaign
manager. and clothed him with pow
er, with the assent of the President
to punish or reward them by publish
ing or Withholding their secrets tha
he had collected as such secretary.
SIS it true or not that, with this
power held in terror over the corpor
ations, he solicited or had his agent.
solicit campaign contributions from
them? Is it true or not that such re
quests 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 it be doubted
| that in this way vast sums were
raised? If so, how much of these
contributions were used for legiti
mate expenses and how much for cor
ruption purposes we do not know
Notwithstanding savage ante-electior
denial we know that subsequent
investi CATION Of certain insurance
companies uncovered the fact tha1
large amounts were contributed b,
these companies to the Republican
campaign fund--not the money ol
the men who gave it. but money GOV
t1xr taly with nf
holders or policy holders and entered
On the books in way calculated tc
conceal the embezzlement. All thi.
was done in the interest of the Re
publican candidate for president The
money was used, the candidate was
elected and he continues to deliver
lectures on decency and for honesty
in elections, sending messages tt
cong gress, on publicity of campaign
contributions but at times when these
were certain to be unavailing. The
Chicago convention has met ha!
transacted its business, and has ad
icurnei The question of publicity
bill was mooted there, was defeated
and it would never have seen the
light of day except through the un
aided efforts of one solitary member
of the committee on platform ant
to witness its deep entombment b,
the body of a convention. Thus diet
one of my policies to which tha
convention in effusive, If dictated
language declared in its platform
their 'unfaltering adherence
Injunction and COntempts of Court
i Mr.. Clayton then declared that tn,
people were to conclude that, IL
framing, revising and debating thu
Chicago platform. President Roose
welt suffered lapse of memory il
regard to a policy he had SO vigor
ously urged in the message to con
gress. Chairman CLAYTON then quot