Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-15
STANLEY IS BITTER.
Attacks the Relations of G. w.
Perkins and Roosevelt.
IN SCATHING DENUNCIATION
Charges Theft of Policyholdcrs to
Aid Party.

The personal and political relations of
Col. Theodore Roosevelt and George w.
Perkins, formerly of J. L. Morgan & Co,
were bitterly attacked on the floor of the
toupse yesterday by Representative a.
y. Stanley of Kentucky, who is chairman
of the steel trust investigating committee.
In speech supporting his bill to make
the reports of the commissioner of cor
porstionS availa bic for Congress. Repre-
sentative Stanley charged that Roosevelt
had protected the harvester trust from
government prosecution. and described
Perkins as the go between of big bust
ness and the government.
Representative Stanley's characterize
tons of the former Morgan associate were
extremely bitter. He dwelt at length on
the absorption of the Tennessee Coal and
Iron Company by the United States Steel
Corporation. and charged that Perkins
had been able to secure from Herbert
knox Smith. former commissioner of cor
porations. information which was denied
Congress The new progressive party
came in for an extended discussion at the
hands of Stanley.
Il hear that this new party of progress
sive capitalism, he said. will sing
hymns between the TRADES of Roosevelt
and the platitudes of Perkins and that
Perkins is to be choir leader l would
suggest that they paraphrase the war cry
of the Turkish janazaries and adopt il S
the battle hymn of the faithful from
Wall street
Allah. Allah: Mammon is Allah.
There is no God but mammon, and
Morgan is his prophet.
Attack on Perkins.
In his attack on Perkins, Mr.. Stanley
said:
For several years the chief interme-
diary between big business and those who
were invested by the executive depart
ment with the duty of investigating it
has been a gentleman by the name of
George w. Perkins. For years this ia
natica!ly ardent partisan has broken
through all restraints which deter better
men, and has unhesitatingly sacrificed
every other obligation to society and to
himself in the secret service of his party.
In 1904. Mr.. Perkins. in his eagepness to
aid his party and his hero, Mr.. Roose-
peoples money to the good cause. He
gave his personal check to Mr.. Bliss and
was reimbursed by check of the New
York Life Insurance Company-NO. 7,22S3-
proceeds of this check were traced to Mr..
Perkins, and for this eminent service he
was arrested under a warrant charging
him with grand larceny.
Perkins knew the consent of the pol
icy holders was necessary to save this APP
preparation of their funds from the guilt
of common larceny. and that consent was
not and could not have been obtained.
Who We're these pilfered policy hold
ers? The most pathetic and helpless fig
ures in all this vale Of tears. The young
mother wrapped in the black habili
ments of Woe, PROSTATE upon the new
made grave of her once loving lord or
phans wailing the name of father above
the silent dead. He robbed the widow of
her slender patrimony and snatched the
last crumb from the pinched fingers of
helpless childhood In all the loathsome
annals of greed and graft there is moth
ing SO sordid and pitiless as the crea-
lures who did it.
This man escaped q prison cell by the
skin of his teeth for having picked the
pockets of shrOud for the use and beue-
fit Of the Republican party