Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-10-18
PERKINS AND Finn.

The bright particular stars of the Roosevelt
campaign are Brother Perkins and Brother Finn.
Brother Perkins, who carries the check book and.
incidentally, the Craftsmanship Of the Executive
Committee is famous partly for his exploits in high
finance but chiefly for his clever invention of
Colonel ROosevelts plan for regulating the trusts
He it was who organized that giant monopoly known
as the Harvester trust, which charges the farmer
whatever it peases for agricultural implements and
then generously donates hundred so thousand
dollars to the party that is fayoraby disposed to
particular interests.
Brother Finn is a political boss of the hale and
hearty old school, where bosses loere bosses, who
knew precisely what they and their clients wanted,
and generally got it. He halls from Pennsylvania,
and if we are to believe his OWE recent testimony
before the Senate committee, he has been master
at selling political gold bricks" Compared to
Finn, Murphy of New York. even in his most
plenteous and puissant days, was but a dwarfsh
beggar beside a hundred-headed giant.
These are the Roosevelt marshals, his pair of
practical men-Brother Perkins, of Wall Street
fame, and Brother Finn, the paragon boss
In the outset of his campaign. the Colonel
evidently welcomed their support, but of late he
seems to have become rather constrained and
embarrassed by their presence. AS one observer
remarks, He would be grateful to any man Who
would show him how to make Mr.. Perkins less
conspicuous in such a way that the well known
check book would not be laid aside"
The farmers of the country, especially those of
the West and middle West feel that such monopolies
as that of which the Harvester trust is type are
largely responsible for the high cost of their tools
and machinery; and inevitably they identify the
chairman Of Mr.. Roosevets executive committee
with such Interests. Furthermore they find it
difficult to see how the industrial justice which Mr.
Roosevelt unctiously breaches is to be melted out
through political program that has been designed
by these very Interests. 4.s.-.
Persons of an inquiring turn Of mind are curious
to know why Mr. Perkins should be so busy in
persuading the financial groups with which he is
allied to contribute great of money to the
Roosevelt campaign.
Persons who take the pains to look into the
records OF few years gone by find that during Mr..
Roosevelts administration there were insistent
demands the very best of evidence, that the
Harvester trust be prosecuted for having violated
the law against monopoly, but that Mr.. Roosevelt
frowned down every suggestion to that end
These circumstances, together with the fact that
the Third party's platform proposes to legalze the
very system Of monopoly under which competition
is being crushed and prices kept accordingly
high have wrought the final explanatory link Mr..
Perkins Jealous support of the Roosevelt candidacy
Little wonder that the Colonel is at length
becoming embarrassed by HIS riches from such a
Unquestionably, he would be grateful to any
man who would show him how to make Mr. Perkins
less conspicuous"