New-York tribune., 1910-10-22
FINE FIGURES.
Saws [ asst Congress Spent $751;
600 for Every Year Since Jesus.
OSBORNE ATTACKS SPEAKER
Declares He Defeated T. .
Amendments in Interest OF
Wire Companies.

A,brrn. n. Y, Oct 21.-Alton B. Parker
and Thomas NJ. Osborne, speaking IN %
half of the Democratic state ticket. an-
dressed meeting here tonight. Chars-
to-, penubIican national extravaganza MY
Parker said: -,,,..-
.rrha money spent by the last Repuoheah
Congress is just s157.COo year FOR every
YEAR since Jesus scourged the money
changers out Of the temple
Judge Parker also said:
..Au over the state there Is rottenness
and decay that need to he exposed. booA
81 schenectady, at Broome County, at Ere
n Oneida. AS to the legislative investlga-
ton saw. gentlemen. that that tnVestlga-
t;or is nartisan and forced by public opin-
i'm Thing what would be disclosed by men
hostile TO that political organization! III Is
tho sar,e in the United States government
Senators indicted and men prominent IN
national life have recently had the finger OF
scorn pointed at them many times
After reading the Hartman correspon-
dencs and showing Senator Depews POSI-
ton in that controversy, Judge FarAer
said:
Senator Depew may want TO go Oack =. 80
the Senate The Republicans have n9t
mentioned any candidates IL is possID,s posItgs
that Mr.. Depew's friends can aga agdin n lais rs :
$3.50 600 in a few hours. 1t may also De taI tIaI
these same friends can now furnish sp9cidI tIc
cars for the Republican speakers WHi.e "a 4
and other Democrats travel hunoiy anu
pay our way
Mr.. Osborne said in part:
The tariff is a moral issue because II Is
crime against Democracy nssI- II 1,o,5o -
treason to our underlying principle OF gov
ernment. for il produces in the MIDST , OF "a a
democracy that grOsSeSt form OF speCld..
privilege plutocracy An arlstocracy C,- ol
of family descent has its noble tradlt1on5
an ariStocraCy of culture VIII nave KNOW
edge: but an aristocracy OF wealth mas
neither traditions nor knowledge. and rec
ognizes no obligation or reSponSloiIiIle,S
This country is to-day largely in the names
of such an aristocracy, the tnefsbis mos form
of aristocracy that the world has ever
seen, and unless bounds be quickly SCI to
it's development. 1t WILL go far 10 deStroy
our government, for aristocraCy and de-
mocracy cannot exist together
Replying to Speaker Wadsworth's attack
on Mr.. Dix's attitude on the public service
act. Mt Osborne said:
cannot help but smile AT the extreme
anxiety on the part of Republican orators
over the dangers which the coInIniSsICsIl 10
may suffer at the hands of Mr. Dix ah-
mire the bOldneSs and am amazed AT lIle
hyDOcrfsy of Speaker WadSWortn- IIIe
same gentleman in 1909 defeated the a1neId,
ments to the public service law suggested.
bv Governor Hughes until the interests OF
the great telephone and telegraph COM
panies were practically cOnsoiIdated anu
another huge monopoly added 10 those
which already control US.
Urging the election of Democratic
Legislature, Mr. Osborne indicated that he
was for Edward VI. Shepard for United
States Senator The best and only the
best" he said, will satisfy; only a man
experienced in large affairs and of the
highest moral and intellectual character
Such a man you can all think of, and you
will not have TO go many miles from the
Brooklyn Bridge to find him