The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-08
CANDIDATE TRUST
AGAINST WILSON

w WdSHAhStOhf ~. ~ AAdi vi o "A EACS'
idential candidate trust is brand new
thing in American politics, but Repre-
sentative A. S. Burleson of Texas,
chairman of the democratic caucus in
the house of representatives, says if
there ever was a trust in the United
States, it is the political combination
Of Harmon, Underwood and Clark
against Governor Wilson.
"The nice understanding which
seems to exist between Governor Har-
mon, Representative Underwood and
Speaker Clark, said Mr.. Burleson to-
day, cert inly has all the ear-marks
of those cd time trust fights against
competitor when the Standard Oil
and its like went after their oppon-
ents in the days of Mark Hanna, his
proteges, and their successors. l will
not charge that there have been Gary
dinners at which the line of joint
campaign has been mapped out, but
there has been a suspicious division
of territory, and apparently gentle
mans agreement 1t wouldn't take
but a small amendment to the anti
trust law making it protect political
as we'll as property rights in order to
convict the whole outfit of every Of
fense under the Sherman antitrust
law, except perhaps rebating, and in
view of the hundreds of thousands of
dollars that the anti-Wilson combina-
ton is spending in this campaign right
now, it appears to me that the burden
OF proof is on the combine to show
that it is not guilty also of rebating
Governor Wilson is the only candi-
date who is strong in every section of
the country. The other candidates
have support only in restricted sec
tions. What has happened? EmuIat-
ing the example of the Standard Oil
and other trusts, the anti-Wilson field
seems to have been combined. If they
say they have not combined, then how
is this for an astounding co-incidence
In Oklahoma, the Underwood and Har-
mon forces stepped aside and single
shotted on Clark SO as to prevent Will
son from taking all of the delegates in
what was conceded to be Clarks state.
Harmons manager was quoted in the
prints at the time as saying that Har-
mon was willing to let the Clark dele
cation at Baltimore cast their votes
for Clark on first ballot, just so they
turned to Harmon later In the ballot
ing. III Kansas they are doing the
very some thing today. In Texas the
anti-Wilson men are putting Harmon
forward in the hope that the Ohio gov
ernor might stem the Wilson wave
which is sweeping over the Lone Star
state. The same way, in Georgia,
Clark and Harmon are kept from
muddying the waters for Underwood
who has been picked to win his Geor
gia neighbors from Wilson. In Vir-
ginia 1t was patent that no one Of the
avowed candidates could defeat the
school MASTER SO the bosses bring
forward the favorite son, Senator Mar
tin. In New York, overcome with de-
spair with the material at hand. the
Hon. Chas. F. Murphy, it is understood
has centered upon Mayor Gaynor as
the sure thing to defeat the New Jer-
sey governor Watch Ohio. Nobody
but the Wilson people are going. to
make a determined fight to take that
state from Harmon The Clark and
he Underwood managers may say they
are going after Ohio. If they do it
will surprise me and | venture the
prediction it will be only after the
great presidential trust has been
busted by a bench warrant for viola
ion of the Sherman antitrust law
Right now the plan of this triple alli-
ance is to run southern man in the
SOUTH a northern man in the north;
an eastern man in the east and a
western man in the west
N"The democratic voters ought not to
that kind of campaign
ng. It used to be charged that. the
democratic party is, a sectional party
That is not true. 1t is more national
han the republican party. 1t has a
arge support in the north as well as
n the south, and in the west as well
Is in the east. Today the democratic
in congress is almost
,venly divided between the south and
he north. That can not be said of
he republican party Such d party
,ught to have for its standard bearer
! man whose strength is as wide as
lis party. The fact that a number of
who are strong only in sec
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