Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-15

lparty: and it is libel to such Demo-
Gratis of the past as Andrew jackson
to associate with the party to which
they belonged this constituencies al
lance between Tammany Hall and
Wall street They have Il right to
the support of every crooked politician
and every crooked money getter, but
they have no right to the support of a
single honest business man, single
honest farmer or a single honest wage
worker.
| Now you need not take my testi-
mony for this, take the testimony of
every Wall street paper all of which
are now supporting Mr.. Murphys
candidate Before and during the con-
vention for instance, these same
papers q will name them to you if
you wish) in describing what was
occurring stated that Mr.. Murphy held
the convention in the hollow of his
hand
THE delegates to the convention
really represented nobody not even
themselves, Mr.. Murphy was every
thing. There was but one candidate
before that convention who ventured
to appeal for votes before that con-
vention.
| Not another candidate paid the
slightest heed to the convention. but
humbly accepted Mr.. Murphy's fiat as
| final"
| The colonel then described how del
egates We're ordered" to and from
Murphy's ROOM
| 1T would be sufficiently ominous for
! the state if all that were threatened was
the undisguised .domnaton of Tammany
! Hall over the whole state But this is nor
| by any means all. Hardly even half.
mere are in New York certain newspa-
| oers which in superficial qualities
differ from one another but which are at
me whenever the interests of Wall street
| are in real danger. Sometimes the inter-
| ests OF wall street happen to be identical
with the general business interest of the
whole country, with the general interests
| Of the people as whole, so that the well
| rare of Wall street and the welfare of
| the country coincide and then these pa
pers support the general welfare. Where
| Wall street is neutral, these different pa
| pers follow their several bents But in
| the present case the interests of those
| who desire to retain or to acquire special
privileges do not coincide with the inter-
asts of the public and the papers in ques-
ton have all without hesitation sunk
their minor preferences and prejudices
and have followed Wall street into the
camp of Tammany Hall.
and why? Because Wall street and
Tammany Hall have struck hands.
And what does this mean? 1t means
that the politicians who want favors
from big business. either for their own
personal advancement or to keep their
political control have joined in whole
souled alliance with those so-called bust
ness men. who in turn wish to control
politics.
There is but one reason that moves
business men to control politics. and that
is to make money, not by serving the
public. but by swindling the public.
The representatives of this kind Of
big business are doing all in their power
to elect the respectable and unimportant
tisurehead of Tammany Hail. because
they do know him and because the peo-
rle do not know him. He is chosen pre-
"isely because he has no public record
He is not the issue, we can brush him
aside. If elected he would be utterly
powerless in the grip of his masters
Col. Roosevelt reiterated his charge
that Tammany Hall and Wall street
had combined to hoodwink the peo-
pie.
He declared that Tammany and
Wall street were justified in fearing
and hating Henry L. Stimson. because
they estimated correctly the man who
| brought the sugar trust to Justice
He asked if the public believed that
the sugar trust was the only great
trust which dreaded to see Stimson
at the head of the State government
He answered it by declaring that
every INSCRIPTIONS corporation real
lied that it was of vital consequence
not only to purse but as well to per-
sonal safety that "the man who con-
victed the sugar trust shall not be
given the power to enact justice on a
larger scale as governor of New York.
Every big business man who wishes to
keep or to acquire these privileges
which he ought not to have. by the
use Of crooked politicians, is naturally
against Stimson.
I'VE are now fighting for simple
justice. We are fighting for the rule
of the people against the most shame
less combination of crooked politics
and crooked finance that our State
has seen since Tweed was driven
from power and we are not only fight
ing for the rights of the people but
we are also fighting for the real in
terests OF the very men of great
wealth who. in their rapacious short
sightedness wish to purchase absolute