The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-19
BONAPARTE
 KEEPS QUIET He Has Nc Reply to Make to Daniels. DEMOCRATS LOOK ELSEWHERE Administrations Trust Record
 Looked Into. Richard ouIahan in Despatch To The New York sun Confessed That
 the prosecutions Had Larse-
 fy Been Failures.
DEMOCRATS LOOK ELSEWHERE

Chicago, Oct. iS-(Special. )--The failure Of Attorney General Bonaparte to answer satisfactorily the inquiry of Josephus Daniels, Chairman of the Publicity Bureau of the Democratic National Committee. in regard to the prosecution of trusts under the present administration. has led Mir. Daniels to seek the desired information from other sources.
 MT. Bonaparte has evaded Mr. Dan- ielss questions and his evident reason for doing this Is explained to a large extent, ~in a news dispatch from Wash ington to The New York Sun and printed in that paper on November 12 1907. This dispatch was written bv Mir. Richard V. Oulahan, the Washing ton correspondent of The Sun, and now the head of the Publicity Bureau of the Republican National Committee
 Accordingly, it's accuracy should not be doubted. Mir. Daniels has simply ap- pealed from the Department of Justice of the present administration 10 the De. paRtment of publicity of the Republf- can National Committee. The Sun's dispatch written by Mir. Oulahan, now in charge of Republican publicity, said in part:
 Notwithstanding all that has been said by and for this adminis- tration in regard to the enforcement of tho laws and the enactment of new laws against great corporations. the chief law officers of the government feel themselves baked in the effort to bring about the dissolution of any great "combinations In restraint of trade" and in private, at least, they do not plume themselves on their accomplish ments. The President has said so much and written so much about trusts. railroad Legislation and the evils of wealth, that the country has come to believe that the present ad- ninistratton has accomplished incom- parably ps.nsa more more than was ever accom- however. that according to the rec ords of the government only twelve suits under the Sherman law have been partly successful in the six years of President RooseveIt's administration and several of these were minor cases.
 Actions of every kind under the sherman law during the present ad- minfstratton have been only twenty nine in number and only eight of these have been of the major class. Nearly all the others were of distinctly minor importance. Of the eight big cases actually tried, only three were won by the government and one wa partly successful and pitiably small fine of $1S,000 against one of the larg- est industrial trusts in the country. was imposed. ss The rear Arfd,= of the administration is in the admin istration of the interstate commerce law or the act to regulate commerce, and the ElSins .vbate law. Yet the records of the Department of Justice show that the number of actions IA . stituted by President Roosevelt under the interstate commerce law has been smaller than those instituted by either President Harrison, President CIeve- land and President Mckinley. There were fortv-seven in Harrison's admin istration, 102 in Clevelands second. twenty eight in McRinley's, and twen- tyseven in Rooseveltss
 The Suns dispatch then goes on to say that the three cases of importance of which the administration boasts were the Northern Securities merger. the case against Swift and Company. of the Beef Trust, and the case against the General Paper Company. It is well known tLat the victory in the mer- ger case was a victory in name only. while despite the conviction Of the Beef Trust, only a nominal fine was imposed; there were no imprisonments and the trust continues to do business at the old stand, In regard to the act- ion against the Paper Trust, The Suns dispatch explains how futile it was by saying: Yet a large delegation rep resenting some of the largest con- sHmers of white print paper in the country called on President Roosevelt last week to tell him that the decree was wholly ineffective and that the General Paper Company still controls prices"
 The same dispatch also points out that 'of the nineteen minor actions. only five have been completely won. The list includes some trusts" and combinations in restraint of trade" absurdIy small in their organiza- tions and operations"
 Illustrating this the dispatch refers to the action against the Retail Gro cers' Association of Nome. Alaska. This simple and unimportant little case was one of the great prosecutions against trusts instituted under the Roosevelt administration. but there has never been any action against the all-pow- erfuI Steel Trust.
 Numerous other minor cases are cited in the dispatchAs illustrating what the administration has done to "bust the trusts" and all are included In MT. nzgauugza