New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-08
COLONEL LEADS TRUST
CHORUS, SAYS WILSON
Il. S. Steel and Other "lnter-
ests" Back of Third Party, AS
serts Governor of Colorado.
ONLY THE METHOD IS NEW
Campaign Contributions Give
Way to Legalized Monopoly,
Candidate Declares in Con-
demning Privileged Groups.

nsnver. oct. It's there new dealT'
asked Governor Woodrow Wilson IN MS
sneeches throughout Colorado to-day,
,gnan he charged that the United States
cecil CORPORATION and other combinations
- oon,tal were seeking to control the
government by proposing that monopoiies
ond trusts should be regulated by an In"
dustrial commission.
1.-THE old method was campaign con-
,r,hutions; the new method is Iegahzeo
monopoly" said the Governor as ne d.
--.+ed his attack on the interests
,rbicb he said were backing the pro-
gramme Of the Progressive party Inc
Governor drew attention to the senate
,,vestiration by the Clapp conHittee'
opd said the debate there was centred On
,rhicb of the certain privileged groups
had been more intimate with the canu'-
dates Of the Republican and Progressive
parties. -, 49,, rsvvs-
oo,,,,arions little while ago.
declared the Governor that IL were d
cartoonist I would draw picture ol INC
h;ooest rnonopolies of the united o'"eeS'
avn M in line. and in front MI hoose-
,.oI, irving to lead them IN halleiu'@"
chorus" e.u,.,rs 20 the
convention campaigns Of PRESIDENT
Ta.t and ex-President Roosevelt tHe
Governor said:
An the while was trying to torinu la. :
lust what ii was they were 90 could
nj
vaske out. it was this Which OF tie W. W..
had been the more implicated IN ,t SIie
th,nps which had discTedittd the HePuotii .
oan Marty? And then / asked NY SCI
eSn Pc II that had discredited, or at
NV rate threatened TO discreult, the q .Iis
aay,v which has so Ions governed tlii3 s
sSonntry. and II was perfectly ooNlVIS 10 81
he gentlemen were DEBATING -
.hero rad been the more subject 10 tIlose
,Isi,ad 1 which we are now aware nave
created most of the compACd'i0Iis -
,,,sb 10 correct in our economic deNeioP
ment. ,,.o.,,otad the great
LhSSi1ations of capital and the VIDE
1891 UNDERSTANDINGS among thoSe WIZ
p Conducting the industry OF TINS couii IN
Nv which have dominated not oLhS ouI
fGsiness, hut our polltlcs, are the n IL
whose connections with the Two Ca ai
80 ,ra~e being most debated. Inc!
e@e being debated yet in the tnVeslIlsj;n-
tion which is going on uiloer the 90.
nranship OF Mr.. Clapp, OF the Sshale 80
ri,tee in Washington, so thal uHuet
neeth lies this feeling, that certain pTlvi-
isped groups have dominated tne go
eminent of America. Other"ise 20
should they be arguing when nau III tr.e
more intimate connection Win the s'S''''''
For these gentlemen are not discon-
nected with one another the Governor
added "They are connected with various
branches Of the privileged classes IN TINS
country. and they are so interlaced In the
dj-ectorates of banks and railroads ana
mining companies and manufacturing en-
terprises and commercial houses that they
constitute a single controlling BODY
There are some men among them who
are members of at least sixty boards OF
directors Of the most important uhoeF-
takings Of the country, and the gentle
men. about thirty / believe, who constr
trite the directors Of the United States
Steel CORPORATION are so connected, by
being presidents or vice-pres.dents or d.
rectors in the railroad corporations OF
this country. that they control % per
cent Of the railways Of the United
States"
The Governor continued:
These are the gentlemen who now are
backing the programme OF the leaoer Oh
the third party. Mark you, ] am not
impeaching their motives. do not con-
sjder ii nv privilege to look into men $
hearts and ask why they are doing these
things These gentlemen may intend 10 10
the TTnited states no dis-service, but my
point is that they are not intending 70
change in the least essential particular the
system f control which has already oeen
established, but are seeking TO estabilsh II
by new method. The old metno9 was
csnnpaign contributions, the new method Is
legaiized monopoly and the superinten-
dence by the government Of the very proc,
esses BY which they have established
their predominance over us.