Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-10-18

would you naturally think that some of
these people might be expecting
favors?" he answered.:
LAS practical man of high ideals,
who has always endeavored to put his
high ideals into practice, l think any
man who would believe that he would
get any consideration from making any
contributions to me was either a crook
or a fool"
"a clean bill for Roosevelt" declare
the Progressive party, is all the inves-
tigators have to show for their efforts.
Anti-Roosevelt papers, on the other
hand, are equally convinced that the
Colonel has now been stripped of his
disguise and revealed in a very damag-
ing light. 1.-THE trap has sprung and
Roosevelt has been caught in it," eX-
claims the Philadelphia Inquirer CRep.),
which goes on to say: at isn't the fact
that tremendous sums of money were
raised for the Roosevelt campaign that
counts in the long run; it is the attitude
assumed by Roosevelt himself in trying
to explain them away" More specific
are the charges of the New York World
Qnd. Dem.), which never misses an
opportunity to turn its editorial bat
| teries on the Colonel. While conceding
that Mr.. Hartman and the Standard
Oil Company received scant favor for
the money that had been squeezed out
of them, except immunity from Grim
inal prosecution under the Sherman
Law The World maintains that ''it is
not true that Mr.. Morgan and Mr.. Prick
received no favors:"
''Mr. Roosevelt never prosecuted J.
P. Morgan & Co.'s Steel Trust. He
emphatically stopt the proceedings insti-
tuted by others against J. P. Morgan
& Co. s Harvester Trust. When the
panic of 1907 was at its height he turned
the resources of the Treasury over to
j. P. Morgan & Co., who used them and
made money and reputation by the pro-
cess. He met Gary and Prick. repre-
senting j. P. Morgan & Co.'S Steel
Trust, before breakfast one morning
and licensed them in violation of law, to
absorb the Tennessee Coal and Iron
Company, thus giving j. P. Morgan &
Co. s Steel Trust a monopoly of high
grade iron ore. He put Mr.. Bacon, a
partner of j. P. Morgan & Co., into the
State Department and the diplomatic
service. He made Herbert Satterlee,
]. P. Morgan's son-in-law, Assistant
Secretary of the Navy. In letter to
AttorneyG General Bonaparte he testi-
fled feelingly to the virtues of the
Morgan interests which have been so
friendly to US Never before was the
public welfare so cheaply protected.
1.-The Morgan interests are not con-
fined to j. P. Morgan & Co. by any
means. The Morgan interests compre-
bend life insurance companies, banks
and trust companies, railroads and
manufacturing enterprises. If the
parent house increased its regular Re-
publican contribution in 1904 because of
it's especial interest," we may easily
imagine that the policy was widely imi-
tated by affiliated corporations and in
dividuals. Perhaps in this almost I'M
exampled favor by the Morgan interests
we shall find an explanation of the
Roosevelt Administration hostility to
the Standard Oil interests, which have
not always agreed with ]. p. Morgan
& Co. concerning the welfare of the
public. ,"
Turning to the dispute as to whether
Mr.. Hartman contributed to the
Roosevelt campaign fund or only to the
New York State Republican fund, the
Springfield Republican lind points to
the widely published receipt for $50, 600
and remarks;
''This receipt from Mr.. Bliss proves
that Mr.. Hartman sent his personal
contribution to Mr.. Bliss, treasurer of
the Republican National Committee,
and that Mr.. Bliss acknowledged having
received it. The transaction thus be-
came part OF the financial operations
of the national committee, in the first
instance, whatever use was made finally
of Hartman money!"
Progressive papers declare eXultingly
that all efforts on the part of the cor
porations to buy" Colonel Roosevelt
were futile, and the Baltimore News
(Prog.) finds ample evidence of the
fact in the Hartman Roosevelt letters
published during this investigation.
Says The News:
1.-The letters made public show that
the then President was urged by Mr..
Hartman to omit from his Congressional
message discussion of the railroad
question. The answer to this was that
! Mr. Roosevelt had made IN his mind