The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-22
RAPS SMITH AND HARvESTERTR
Gov. Baldwin Says Progressive Candidate For Governor Ad- vised Roosevelt Not to Prose- cute Trust
TAFT PRESSED THE CASE
Hence Perkins Dollars Flow to Bull Mooser-Money in -Poli- tics Real Danger

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 Hartford, Oct 22-Gov Simeon E. Baldwin in an address at a big Demo- cratic rally held here last night took a slap at George ". Perkins, the big contributions to campaign funds and Herbert Knox Smith, progressive can didate for governor. In part he said:
 This presidential campaign in the country at large has been a particu- larly lively one.
 "A very unfortunate fea ture of it, Ito my thinking, is the immense ex- perse incident to the presidential pri- in $177 GOO to help Roosevelt, and Boss F1inn putting in s144,0o0 more, and Steel Trust Director Perkins putting in sums almost as large.
 Here is President Tafts brother putting in a quarter Of ui1l'~~ go as. he says, to keep the, president, should be reelected, free from obliga- tions to anybody erse.
 stAnd that is a very serious question to consider, where great contributions are accepted from any one source, to promote anybody's candidacy.
 "We on the Democratic side, at least, are not looking for any such dent Roosevelt, from Hartman and Morgan and Prick and Archbo1d and G. w P.
 Money Power Real Danger.
 "Gentlenen, this money power in politics is a real source of danger to
 ''I have felt this deeply for many years. When I was asked if I would accept the nomination for governor two years ago I told the gentlemen who called upon me, and they were among the leaders of the Democratic party in Connecticut, that I would ac-. that I would give no more than one years salary towards the election ex- penses.
 those nominated for the head of the ticket in former years in both parties.
 sworn returns had showed such ex- penditures by sswerai s0o dan % eyen s to Ine ra ported that the total obligations Of this kind assumed by one candidate Of fne Republican party had been oyer $100, GOO.
 Calls It Un-American.
 seI felt that this was. un-American Ii shut the door of office. to the poor man. It tended inevitably to fraud and corruption. I threw my influence in favor of corrupt practices act that would stop such doings, and had the good fortune to carry it a Republican legislature For it's. whatever their political name, are, even when in office, generally honest and in favor of honest regulations to secure the public good.
  ly of the activity of this national campaign. There are three parties in and two little ones, mostly concerned in trying each to defeat the other. They will succeed in it, too When | the votes are counted on Nov it will be found that, the great~ party has elected it's great leader, and that the title parties have entered each the path to oblivion.
 ,' ssOne is reminded, this year, of seventeenth century | English history. There is a disinteg- .ation of one of the great parties The nent, and equally, useless. There is ;omebody in evidence who is ready to ,e the Cromwell, a lord high protector if the liberties of the people. And he people who want no Cromwell, no to protect then-for once walked up to all the real danger, they an protect themselves
 "And what is the real danger of his tirne-the real issue in this cam ,aign?
 1earIy the vital point, and stated cry clearly why it is vital. .I. tsThe vital point is to secure such
 change of administration as will erye to defend the people against avs passed; or laws executed, for the ggrandizement of special interests he present tariff law is such a one. rom the way in which it has been secuted or not executed, is another.
 Takes Slap at Smith.
 ssDo you recollect that letter from [erbert Knox Smith, the Progressive tate, when he was President Roose- elt's commissioner of corporattons,l ritten to President Roosevelt? The 1bject was the harvester trust. The general was proposing to ind it up under the sherman act here was evidence that it had gob-
 11<ar~ I1 kAcyfr. erns in sight, and was advertising ne of those thus gobbled as an in ependent competitor; so as to give lings a better look smith was on erkins interests were bound up in le harvester trust. Hit the trust, aa you a,, hit b,t them 6sak 9 TeT SnG haa nnt g checks into the party funds, and le harvester trust itself had sent in Q 1000 more. They had supported E y of the Roosevelt administration, E sainst other people. Now it was to E turned against them. Here was E; difference. It-was Noah Webster's {: ] story of the lawyers OK, MT. E: nth therefore advised the President E: ,t to let the attorney general prose .te the harvester trust, because 1t k: ou1d antagonize the Morgan inter 5: ts. It was not prosecuted by Roose-'I E It. It has been prosecuted by Taft. [ MT. Perkins, one of the l rec men in control of it, buttoned = i, his pocket in this campaign against b. " appeal from the Taft party, and ened it wide to the Roosevelt party. o4 3 and Boss FYinn and Boss Hanna ', v e the big contributors to the Roose- E It party fund. ct
 PerIzins' Tears And Dollars. " Not that the harvester trust is the u ly interest which MT Perkins wants n
 protect. He is a director in the - lited States Steel corporation, also, tn a, capital of a billion dollars, or F 0. That was not prosecuted under b; esident Roosevelt. That has been ,,, osecuted under President Taft. W .nce Mir Perkins' tears and dollars DS w freely out into the Progressive sc .asury He says he does not believe dt
 prosecuting big combinations, be- ac use they are big. W Neither for that does Governor 1 pe