The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-17

government of substantially all those
states which have created or tolerated
them-for we have yet to hear of their
creation or liberation in the southern
states which are under Democratic con-
troll"
Campaign Chests Filled.
Judge Parker declared that the bene-
ficiaries of the tariff had long been
looked to to fill the Republican cam
paign chest. He said the contributing
corporations had grown in number,
''swelled in affluence and gained in in
fiuence until the point was reached of
practical working business alliance
between the Republican party and the
favor seeking corporations.
He continued:
at is not only the highest desire of
all good citizens of all parties whatso-
ever that our political life should be
clean, but IL is essential to the liberties
of the people. That result will not be
accomplished until business and poll
tics are divorced by statutes. the viola
ton of which Will result in imprison-
ment We can never hope for that re-
suit while the Republican party is in
power. 1t 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
point where it dare not pause"
Roosevelt and Hartman.
1t was at this point that Judge Par
ker made his attack on Mr.. Sherman,
and from that he turned to President
Roosevelt and Mr.. Hartman, saying:
Here we see a man of great ambi-
ton, and, as we are told, of lofty ideals,
become so accustomed to this party
custom that he does not hesitate to in
wife Mr.. Hartman to Washington to
secure his good offices for money-rais-
ing purposes. taking indeed the precau-
ton absolutely to assure his coming
by suggesting in a letter that after the
election he desired to consult him about
the railroad feature of his message.
What may have occurred at that meet
ing we do not know. but that ii was
sufficiently agreeable to Mr.. Hartman
to lead to his contributing and raising
Immediately upon his return to New
York the sum of S265, 200, we do know,
also that a quarter of million of that
money was scattered over this state of
New York for practical uses by 'prac-
tical men,
Were His Eyes Opened?
Are we to assume that the shifting
of the stockholders of Mr.. Harriman's
and the Standard Oil magnates' cor
poration by the president was because
his eyes at last were opened and ne had
attained an appreciation Of the serious
character of the offense which they had
committed in helping TO swell his cam
paign fund? II may be so, but il is
equally true that Harriman's corpora
lions were not the first victims of an
aroused conscience, nor did Mr.. Harri-
man attain to eminence on the list of
undesirable citizens for some two
years. When he was finally singled out
from other great contributors for ex-
communication cannot be absolutely
proved. But the letters which the pres
ident wrote to Mr.. Sherman upon Mr..
Harriman's refusal to help elect anoth-
er Republican congress afford food for
reflection.
Assurances are said to have been
quietly given that the Republican party
will in the future continue to foster and
protect, as it has in the past, the in
terests' which in return for the benefits
afforded. have supported ii and contin-
ued it in power
Bryan's Election Necessary.
Judge Parker, in closing, said the
people must look to the Democratic par
ty for relief
'The election OF Mr.. Bryan and Mr.
Kern through the assistance of the
electoral vote of the state of New
York" declared he, will go very far to
secure this underlying, earliest and
most important of all the many needed
reforms.
1T will do more. 1t will assure it,:
| for once II becomes apparent that the
people recognize the gravity of the evil,
and have determined to cut 1t out root
and branch. no party will dare to stand
in the way"
Judge Parker was literally applauded
throughout his speech, at the conclu-
sion of which the committee on reso-
lutions reported. On national politics
and candidates. the platform says:
The Platform.
1.-The Democracy of New York, in
state convention assembled, reaffirms
and renews its allegiance and devotion
to the fundamental principles of the
Democratic party. and heartily endorses
the platform adopted and the candi-
dates named by the Democratic nation
al convention at Denver. and we pledge
to both our hearty. earnest and enthu-
siastic support.
THE Democratic party is the ration
al exponent OF the hopes ana wishes OF
the toiling masses in their lifelong
struggles against class privilege and
greed. and it reiterates its abiding faith
| in the principles of democracy as
against plutocracy.
I'VE hail as the embodiment from the
best traditions of our party and as the
ideal exemplars of Democratic doctrine
the standard bearers chosen by the
united Democracy of the country as
our leaders in this campaign against
the organized forces of special privilege
and legalized spoliation.
Mr.. Bryan has been for years con-
spicuous in the public eye and against