The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-09-22
Legislators Bought and Sold.

Legislators Bought and Sold.
Under Barnes a wonderful machine
has been developed at the capitol in
Albany. The legislature has been
actually owned by the money power;
it's members have been bought and
sold. like goods. Laws that helped
Wall-st to choke money out OF the
entire country were passed. Laws
against Wall-st. were killed.
The insurance laws, passed under
| Gov. Hughes, were blessing to the
entire nation. and. though they were
state laws, they were more effective
against the evils OF insurance than
many national laws; they illustrated
the duty which the state OF New York
owes to the entire country OF properly
controlling her corporations.
Ii was only after desperate night
that Gov Hughes secured the pas,
sage of the insurance laws. Perhaps
that was because they were directed
against only one small branch OF the
CORPORATION evil. But when Gov.
! Hughes struck at the entire evil by
proposing a direct primary law which
/ would take the elections out OF the
hands of the corporations and Its
gang and turn them over to the citi'
zens OF the state. the entire RepuD'
| lican administration rose against him
and killed the bill
II was an instance OF how com
pletely the corporations owned the
state government.
Roosevelt reached home from
Africa just before the primary cleo
ton bill was due to come up for pas
sage. He tried to help Its progress
by publicly declaring the bill to be
good one. The corporation-owneo
legislature, under Barnes, Timothy
Woodruff and James Wadsworth, I'M
mediately killed 1t.
Roosevelt knew the action was IN
part a slap at him from his old
enemy, Wall-st.
But at that moment insurgency
real. true western insurgency-was
born in New York The killing oil
that bill started a movement for
Republican state convention which
would nominate men not owned by
| Wall-st-men independent or the
corporaticn-backed bosses known az
the old guard. In other words there
| began progressive movement
Roosevelt was with II. and pretty soon
II was announced that he had agreed
to accept the temporary chairman
shin and make the keynote speech
Then Wall-st. reappears. A keynote
speech by Roosevelt would be pro
gressive speech and must not be al
lowed.
Why They Oppose Roosevelt.
So Barnes, Woodruff and Wads
worth refused to permit their bench
men TO vote for Roosevelt as temper
airy chairman OF the state Republican
convention at Saratoga. BY vote o.
90 to Is the Republican committee
agreed to give that honor to James
Schoolcraft Sherman of Utica, vice
president of the United States, by the
grace OF Joseph Cannon and the in
terests.
This was the slap that started
Roosevelt to fighting The actor
meant that the corporations intended
to c. ntrol the state convention. Lloyt
J Criscom, Republican leader In the
state. was summoned to represent
Roosevelt in the fight.
There were 1,015 delegates to bt
chosen for the convention. Five hun
dred and eight of them would have
to be for Roosevelt and for wha
Roc sevelt stands for. Griscom ha.
made a splendid fight. He carried
Manhattan island for Roosevelt, will
it's 10 votes. Woodruff, master o
Kings-co, enlisted his county. will
it's 1902 votes, for Sherman.
And so the battle has gone at tn,
primaries, hammer and tongs. giv'
and take, and now the convention
must decide the winner. Shall IL b,
progressive governor and state OF
icers IN New York? Or shall Walls
control the governor and the rest?
Philadelphia has attained It's popu
larity as a point from which balloon
lists start their flights for the reasol
4 that II has a plant capable of supply
ing 100000 cubic feet of gas at a TIM
af a distance from hiQh huildip o.