Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-09-14
WANT BIG SUBSCRIPTIONS

gers are something FUNDS from
corporations and Big Business
generally. The following letter
from Senator Reed of Missouri
shows up the true inwardness OF
the Bull Moose campaign:
Further evidence tending to
prove that the third-term candi-
date does not treat the money of
Big Business with the same lofty
scorn that he discusses its works,
has been developed by the series of
the letters which the third-term
party finance committee is sending
broadcast 20 heads of the great
corporations. The latter is an
appeal for money and names the
amount $4,000, which should
be contributed. The third-temer
has Numbered anathema maran
atha against the Standad Oil, he has
exhausted the vocabulary of
vituperation and invective against
the Steel Trust and has hurled
maledictioE at the Interests and
yet within the past few weeks it
has been charged that he received
in 1904 over SlOO,OOO.OO from
the Standard Oil to help finance
his campaign and 500, 100000 from
the Steel Trust, to say nothing of
smaller contributions from other
trusts and corporations, big and
little. At present in louder and
more boisterous terms than ever
before he is proclaiEning himself
the enemy of big bushes and the
aTointed of the Lord, standing up
on the field of Armageddon fight
ing his own battles, yet he is to-
day financing his campaign by
levying contributions from the big
interests and given direct pledge
of political subservieEce hereafter
to be rendered.
The accompanying letter was
received by the head of one of the
great industrial plants of the west
which was not long ago charged bS
the United Safes Acknowledgement
with being engaged in a conspiracy
in restraint of trade and commerce
and with having violated the
criminal statutes of tie United
States. The letter was addressed to
this gentIeman's place of business
and not to his home. Along with
the letter was sent circular con-
tanning excerpts from the third.
term candidates platform. The
letter is as follows:
Progressive Party
Manhattan Hotel, New York. |
Dear SiG:-I ask you to he
good enough to read the enclosed
planks from the platform of the
progressive party. We believe
they offer the merchants, manu-
facturers and industrial leaders of
the country rational. construc-
tive charter of business prosperity.
They constitute a contract made
in good faith between the progress
sIve party and the people of the
United States. Neither the demo-
cratic party nor the republican
party has the courage to hold out
any definite pr )posals on this i'm
portant subject.
eve intend to put a large
number of speakers on the road
and use them to advocate these
and other constructive feature of
the platform in order that the
average man may be informed as
to the necessity OF a rational pro-
gram covering the relations between
capital and labor in This country
and development of American
business at home and abroad.
IF you believe as we do that the
sincere enactment of these pro-
posals into law will mean higher
development of our commercial
prosperity and are in favor of the
vigorous advocacy of these planks
regardless of what party you have
been affiliated with or are nov in