The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-09-12
\. ! !. WORLD WANTS
TO KNOW ABOUT
1904 FUNDS
Proceeds Editorially Against Theo-
dore Roosevelt Under the Rules OF
His New Nationalism As Out
lined in Osawatomie Speech.
World Wants To Know Who Put up
Campaign Money and How
Much.

NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-Quoting al
length from the speech OF Col. Roose-
Welt at Osawatomie, Kansas, Aug. 81
the World today editorially demands
that the colonel make public the re-
ceipts and expenditures OF the ma
tional campaign of 1904, after quot
ing this paragraph:
'lt is necessary that laws snouiu
be passed to prohibit the use OF cor
porate funds, directly or indirectly
for political purposes. II Is parucu-
larly important that all moneys re-
ceived or expended for campaign
purposes should be publicly accounted
for not only after election but before
election as well"
The World refers to the editorial
answer to the New York Evening Post
In which Roosevelt said: mr.. Cor
telyou is familiar with the facts re-
ferring to the Hartman negotiations
The editorial continues:
"If the national government Is to
Control any business carried on In
various states which practically
means all business; II the president
OF the United States is to be the
steward of the public welfare in the
regulation OF business, and IL you are
to be president OF the United States.
the country has a right to know how
this stewardship will be exercised. IL
has no means of judging the future
but by the past.
I'm the campaign of 1904 the World
submitted to you ten questions that
went to the very heart OF your
stewardship. Lest you have forgot
ton them we reprint them. How
much has the beef trust, the paper
trust, the coal trust, the sugar trust,
the oil trust, the tobacco trust, the
steel trust, the insurance trust. the
national banks. and the six great rail'
road trusts contributed to Mr.. Cor
telyou?' &c
"Your 1904 campaign fund has new
err been publicly accounted for except
as fragmentary facts have come to
light through public Investigations and
otherwise. Mr.. Cortelyou has never
publicly accounted for one single pen
ny of the millions that he collected
to elect you president. You are the
men who sealed his lips and kept
them sealed for six years."
I'VE know the life insurance COM
panies contributed $4,000 OF their
policyholders' funds; that Hartman
raised a corruption fund Of $260,00O,
to which he personally contrib
uted $4,000; that Standard Oil con
tributed 100000 and the beef trust
and other corporations contributed.
I'VE know that while you afterward
attacked the beef trust you never per-
sonally proceeded against the officers
and directors, although the Sherman
law, as Justice Holmes once told you,
is a criminal statute We know that
while you afterward publicly attacked
the Standard Oil Co. you never pro-
ceeded against its officers person
ally"
The editorial refers specifically In
similar terms TO the failure to GRIM
inally prosecute Hartman and officers
OF the sugar trust or to enjoin the alb
sorption of the Tennessee Coal and
Iron Co. by the steel trust. II rofe~o
TO the restoration of 100000 to the
government by the sugar trust after
Roosevelt term expired" and then
demands:
Does your new nationalism mean
the kind OF effective publicity you
gave US In 1904.
Before the New Nationalism pro-
ceeds farther let us have full pub
licity Of the Old Nationalism, the ma
tionalism OF 1904"