Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1912-08-21
Edmunds Shows Why Perkins Pays
Bull Moose Freight.

Edmunds Shows Why Perkins Pays
Bull Moose Freight.
Some people have experienced no
little difficulty in trying to reconcile
the third party's claim that their can
didate is opposed to the monopolistic /
trusts with the fact that George W.
Perkins. chairman of the executive
committee of the steel trust, is fnanc-
ing the Bull Moose campaign.
There are some minds so dense that
they can discover no inconsistency
between the services of Perkins and |
Mccormick of the Harvester trust in |
behalf of the third term candidate
and the assertion that the third term
er is fighting the battle of the people
as opposed to the trusts.
There are some Bull Moose chasers |
that will inform you that Perkins
and Mccormick are not doing these
things but let us quote one of the !
many dispatches with which the
third -termer keeps the wires from
Oyster Bay loaded. although he un
truthfully says that the newspapers
are refusing to print his stuff. Here
is the first paragraph:
Oyster Bay, L. L., Aug. 14.-Plans
for opening the Progressive party's
campaign are be completed to-day by
Colonel Roosevelt, Senator Dixon, his
campaign manager; George w. Perk-
ms of New York and Medill McCorm-
lex of Chicago. Senator Dixon, Mr..
Perkins and Mr.. Mccormick. with
several others Of Colonel Roosevelt's
| lieutenants, spent last evening st
| Sycamore Hill, but were unable to
cided to hold another conference to-
day."
It appears from this that the in
spired messages sent out from the
third termer's home regard Perkins
and Mccormick as the most important
men in camp, the remainder outside of
General Manager Dixon being inciud.
ed in the general summary, land
several others.''
Now why should these promoters
of the Harvester and the Irvine trusts
be engaged in doing everything in
their power to defeat the Taft admin.
istration and elect third termer?
In the first place the Taft admins
tration has fought the Harvester
trust and the steel trust, for floating
the last named Of which Perkins firm
received the enormous commission OF
$50, 600. 900.
The second reason is admirably set
forth by Hon. George F. Edmunds in
an article reproduced in another col
umn, in which he uses this language
in explaining his opposition to the
third termer:
''To put the execution of the Sher-
man law again into the hands of
gentleman who did not, when he had
the oppor tunity, obey that command,
would result. in my opinion, in the
law falling into state of what the
late President Cleveland. in respect of
another subject, once called 'innocuous
desuetude.'
eff the people wish for that, they
will vote for the third-termer candi-
date. | cannot conceive of a situa-
ton that might arise in which Mr..
Roosevelt would do otherwise than
he did in his last administration,
when he permitted the United States
Steel corporation to absorb the Ten
nessee Coal & Iron company for al
most nothing. in complete defiance of
the law, and when, again, he DELHI.
erately instructed his attorney gener-
al to drop the suit against the Har-
vester trust. a monopoly whose bane.
full influence has for many years
been felt by every farmer of our
great West"
L CT III CilS Lace Ol Inc pT0S0ul
t open and persistent support Of
the third term party's presidential
candidate by these steel and Harvest
> er trust magnates the third term
: speakers will assure you that T. r.
is the real friend of the people as op
posed to the trusts, and as matter
> Of fact he is the only man who car
q really do anything to solve the trust
e problem.
t If this is so, why did the third-tern
! party, with George w. Perkins anc
y. Medlll Mccormick behind the throne
I at Chicago, neglect to include in the
e platform of the new party any use Of
+. the word "trust?''
When Perkins was asked previous
to the convention whether he woulc
continue to finance the movement, hi
replied that he would wait and see
what the third-term convention did
That be was satisfied is evident fol
PERKINS is again handing out the
e "dough' for the "Bull Moose"
f No wonder the Vermont author o.
X the anti trust law declares that t'put
ting the execution of the Sherman
t law into the hands of the third tern
y candidate would result in the Law
r falling into 'innocuous desuetude, >
n and that with the third -termer re
elected as president, "the trusts ant
monopolies will not fear the Sherman
law, or any other law that can be i'm
e agined to disturb the progress O.
. what the opponents and supporter
% of trusts and monopolies call limo
is cent and benefcent CO operation. -
e This is the most scathing arraign
y ment the third-termer's ridiculous pre-
It tensions have received, and it ough
N to open the eyes of every Vermonte
IF to the true character of his untruth
is full charges and preposterous claims
s. burlington Free Press.