The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-12-12
ROOSEVELT IS HIT
BY SENATOR WORK
Says Third Party Was Tainted
by Trust Magnates.
PERKINS is SPECIAL TARGET
Californian Asserts Hartman Gave
and Was Rewarded-Thnks Taft's
Stamping Tour Was Fatal
Mistake.

Washington, Dec. 10.-In a speech
in the senate upon his resolution for
constitutional amendment that
would provide single six-year presl
Dental term. Senator Works of Cali
fornia, identified since his entry into
the senate with the Pro ,5ressive Re
publican faction, made a strong critl
clsm of Theodore Roosevelt and the
Progressive party for their affliation
with George w. Perkins and other
representatives OF large corporations
Senator Works declared that both
Roosevelt and Taft deserved defeat
He asserted that Roosevelt when pres
ident had withheld action against the
harvester trust, with the natural re-
suit that Mr.. Perkins had been one of
the chief Roosevelt hackers in the
fight this year for the Progressive
nomination, and with equal emphasis
he declared that President Taft had
lost the respect and good will OF
many good people by going upon the
stump against Colonel Roosevelt.
The attack upon Roosevelt came in
connection with Senator Works asser-
ton that the presidents office had
been used to prevent adverse action
against corporations.
Perkins, Harvester and Roosevelt,
We are not without evidence of the
effect of such action succeeding cleo
tons" said Senator Works. THE
great harvester trust, one of the worst
and most oppressive of its kind. was
singularly favored by Mr.. Roosevelt
when president in this respect: 1t
was not prosecuted for violation of
the Sherman antitrust law because
Roosevelt ordered otherwise. What
was the natural result? When Roose-
welt again became candidate George
W. Perkins became his ardent sup
porter and chief financial hacker.
Perkins was largely interested in the
harvester trust Perkins knew by
actual demonstration that his com
pany would be safe against prosecu-
ton il Roosevelt were elected, unless
ut sHOulu HlS <hht IN
would much less likely change his
views il the harvester trust or its
stockholders should lend him their
support.
Il am not saying that Mr. Roose-
welt acted from improper motives IN
dealing with the harvester trust or the
steel trust He may have been per-
fectly satisfied hat the course taken
by him was the proper and just
course. | call attention to these In.
stances of presidential favor and
what followed them as illustrating the
power that exists in the hands OF a
president in his first term to secure
his election to a second term"
Means the Corporations Support.
Facts brought out in the senatorial
investigation Of campaign expendi-
lures were cited by Senator Works to
show the extent to which trusts and
their millionaire stockholders had
contributed to campaign contributions.
He declared that privilege seeking
corporations support the public official
who will grant them privileges"
Senator Works referred to the So
called Hartman contribution in the
campaign fund of 1904 fund which
Hartman said Roosevelt had asked
him to raise, but which Colonel Roose-
welt had testified was raised on Mr..
Harriman's own initiative
1T is not material which was right
or which was wrong said Senator
Works. Hartman received his re-
ward whether the money was raised
for that purpose or not Suits by the
government were at that very time
pending against some of his companies,
and after his contribution they were
dismissed. His roads were otherwise
favored by the president that his
money helped to elect"
A single presidential term, Senator
Works declared, would prevent the
use OF patronage and the power of Of
fee in the way it is now used and
would remove the opportunity a presi
dent now has to grant favors or in
hict punishment upon campaign
friends or enemies. He urged that
campaign contributions be made only
by the state or nation, declaring thai
large campaign funds, however
raised are dangerous menace to the
free institutions OF the country"