Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1912-04-25

NanSa8 S0HaeoT foTCtoIy fATraI9Us tU0
Reactionary Candidate - Makes
Powerful Cease Against the Taft Ad-
Enthusiastically Rockefeller Was
CompIacent as to Election Of 1908.
Washington. April 1S.-That the Taft
administration has entered into an UNI
Outstanding with the great business
combinations of the country and that
the relations between those cOmbina-
lions and the administration now are
harmonious and directed toward com
mon end is the profound belief of SEN
ator Joseph L. Bristow Of Kansas. one
OF the foremost leaders Of the progress
sive movement In the United States.
IF you take for II text the speech de-
ivered in Philadelphia not long ago by
President Taft in which he declared
himself progressive along with the
reioiuder thereto delivered by Colonel
Roosevelt III Louisville and attach 70
these speeches the reasonable knowl'
edge Of known facts and events. You
cannot escape the conclusion at which
1 have arrived" said Senator BristoW
in Il talk on what might be called the
case against the Taft administration
"Said Colonel Roosevelt:
Taft's "Prosrsssivism."
"Four years ago the prosresslves sup
ported Mr.. Taft for president. and ne was
opposed by such representatives OF spe-
cial privileges as Mr. Penrose OF Pennsyl-
yania, Mr. Aldrch 0: Rhode Island and
Mr. Gallnger Of New Hampshire. as
Messrs Lorimer, Cannon and Mckinley
of Illinois and he was opposed by prac-
ticaly all Of the men OF the stamp or
Messrs Guggenheirner and Evans or COL
orado ard M Patrick Calhoun OF San
Francisco. These men were not progress
siyes then, and they are not progressives
now: but unlike the president they know
who Is progressive and who ID not.
Their Judgment in the matter Is good.
After three and a half years Of associa-
ton with and knowledge OF the president
these and their fellows are now the pres
idents chef supporters. and they ana the
men who feel and act as they do In ousi-
ness and In politics give him the great
bulk Of his siren tn. The president says
he Is a progress &c. These men know MN
well and have studied his actions for three
years, and they regard him as being pre-
cisely the kind Of progressive they ap-
prove.
Study that extract from Colonel
Roosevelt's speech. if you please. Get
at its meaning Why does the crimi.
nal on trial for his liberty OF his III
gotten property seek to select u judge
by asking Il change of venue? why
does he discriminate SO closely In the
selection of the jury which Is to try
him? The law provides these expedi-
ents for him that he may get justice:
but. being guilty, he does not resort to
these expedients to secure justice. but
to avoid It. When the great comDna-
tons which have piled up enormous
aggregatlons of money by illegal aud
criminal means select and stand for a
candidate for president they have
motive, motive that it seems to me
ought to be plain to all men,
John D. Was Inform cd.
"Iet NE next call your attention to
the interview which John ID. Rookie.
Teller gave out at the Standard Oil Of
fees in New York, Oct. 80. 1908. few
days before the election in which Mr.
Taft first ran for the presidency. Mr..
Rockefeller had not been near his Of
fees for several years, and when he
appeared there for the express purpose
of making public In the most effective
and farreaching way this interview.
Colonel Roosevelt and all the OTHER
progressives We're of the opinion that 1t
was done for the purpose of hurting
Mr. Taft. But have changed my
mind about that since that time.
have become convinced that Mr. Rock
efeller then had information about the
complacence Of Mr. Taft regarding
big Business that the progressves
did not have.
LAS one indication Of this. ] have
been advised that not SO very long be-
fore the Rockefeller interview the sng'
ar trust approached Mr.. Taft through
Mr.. Charles B. Warren of Michigan.
the personal representative Of the sug-
ar trust in the beet sugar industry in
Michigan. on matters vital to that ini-
Quitous combination. That the confer
sugar trust was Immediately shown by
the fact that Mr.. Warren and his as
sociates were for Taft and have been
for him ever since Indeed. on this
point have only to recall to you that
Mr.. Warren was accredited in the
press reports Of few days ago with
being the person who at midnight
placed fifty huskies from the Michigan
beet sugar factories in the hall where
the Michigan Republican state conven-
ton was to be held in order that the
hall might be controlled in the interest
of Mr.. Taft and against Colonel Roose-
welt the next day.
Oil Octopus In Touch.
"NOw. II such conference could
make the sugar interests the devoted
supporter of Mr.. Taft the question nat
uraly arises why something of the
same kind might not have Influenced
Mr.. Rockefeller There are not the accu.
rate data In regard to the Standard Oh
company that there are relative to the
meeting with the sugar trust. but there
Is some interesting collateral evidence
tending to show that somewhere and
somehow the oil octopus got in touch
with the influences that controlled the
then candidate for president. You win
remember that after his election, but
before his inauguration. Mr.. Taft spent
some little time at the Virginia Hot
Springs. From that resort we received
the first intimation ever emanating
from any president of purpose to cs-
tablish the commerce court