Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
IS EUROPE SEES
HEARST.'S OIL
EXPOSURES
Have Contributed Much To-
ward Cleansing Campaign,
Says Frankfurter Zeitung.

BERLIN, Sept 3.-The Standard on
disclosures and their effect on the pres
identiaI campaign in the United States
are attracting as much attention in
Germany as the Panama canal matter
and the New York police scandal.
The Frankfurter Zeitung, one of Ger
many's most important and influential
newspapers. says:
The Hearst newspapers In the
United States are evidently making
speciality of telling the public all about
the various contributions the Rockefel-
Ter petroleum trust has paid to indi-
vidual politicians and election funds.
In doing this Mr.. Hearst has contribut-
ed much toward the cleansing of the
political campaign in his country
"Of course, there can be no objec-
ton If wealthy congressman chooses
10 give to his political conviction
strong financial backing, and If Mr.
Perkins, multi millionaire and former
partner of the banking firm of Morgan
4 Co. really did as it is now claimed
and contributed s3,00O,0O0 to the fund
~ the progressive wing of the Repub-
lican party, there can be not only no
objection to such a sourse, but there is
room for hope that progressive parties
in other countries may FIND equally
wealthy and liberal constituents. We
say constituents because Mr.. Peykin,
has, to our knowledge, represented for
many years the progressive ideas Of
the left wing of the Republican party
! IS quite natural. therefore. if he
again takes up the cause of Mr.. Roosc-
VET
Quite Another Matter.
"Bu, J., is another matter indeed
vaea commercial firms as such and
corporations or trusts give financial
contributions to political parties or 10
their campaign funds, for commercial
firms and corporations have no polit-
teal pc suasions. They have political
interests Besides, it used to be uni
veisa.ly customary in America that
bis corporations contribute to the
fGnds of both parties where they were
locally interested or sometimes only the
one side that promised them most in
return. Those Were conditions of the
lowest corruption which it is true have
been strongly reprcssed today, prin-
cipally under the influence of Roose-
Nelt
one of the best known and most
handy representatives of this old sys.
TEN is Senator Penruse, reactionary-
Republican representative Of Pennsyl-
'ania. No one in the Union was very
Mrch surprised therefore, when Mi
Hearst gave documentary proof that
Z nrose had received $4,000 from the
al trust in 1904. The excuse Of the
'11s.d boss before the senate was
ai the money had heen for a presi-
& n.j" rtmpaign fund, and one Of the
.'. 81 the trust said that even
j. d." t1%t amount had been PAID
.nt : tms 20 have happened in
e., a". ., mast have been known at
g., ;m' hIt it is also known and
IoN,n b. documentary evidence that
te Standard Oil contribution was re-
turned upon the twice uttered and ex-
l.icit demand of Roosevelt This may
be the 'cason why the trust no longer
possessed receipted bill for that
100000, but receipt for that $4,000
signed b. Penrose which Mr.. Hearst
hnGs no WhiteWashing explanation III
That fact
me important thing now is tbs
I9ntIcal effect of these corruption dis.
closures and the deliberate attempt to
CraS Roosevelt into this affair will per
HapS receive the support of a portion
OF the press of New York, but it viii
hot be approved by the public opinion
o. the United States.
All such attempts to discredit this
progressive leader so far have been
iAmentabIe failures, Even his sharpest
lolucal antagonists, those who were
SeHous and decent men, have always
projected Roosevelt in that respect. It
mas been sufficiently shown that imme-
C.ately before his reelection in 1904 he
UId everything in his power to pre-
vent the direct or indirect payment int
party fund of contributions from cor
io'auons and trusts
ne Republicans were not in great
need of money at that time, for the
I'-clectlon of the president was uu-
''loted and the financial condition
"fPoslng the party was very weak.
ne whole affair will rather benefit
roosevelt, for it will surely strengthen
.le disgust of decent Americans with
'delr two old parties"