The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-29
BAL OWN TELLS HOW LOBBY
 CONTROLLED LEGISLATURE
 MANEUVERED FOR MACDONALD
Here Are the Facts Gentlemen What Do You Think of Them? Splendid Appeal to Unbiased Electors By the
 Governor of Connecticut

and from J. D. Archbo1d, and it al came in clean new bills. There was no trouble of cashing checks. They preferred. onS both sides, to business on the strict cash down basis. You give me $10O,000- in bank bills; thai tell no tales,'' and-rnind you-I am taking nothing from the Standard Oil Company You simply happen to be President or Treasurer of the Stand ard Oil Company-but, well, we don't care to have this thing talked about you know; publicity is all very well in some matters, but in others it gets little tedious.
 And then after it is spent. Col onel Roosevelt orders it paid back But where is the paying back mon ey to be got It has already been put where it was thought it would do the most good. The word came too late. The word, after a man has done something to be ashamed of, al- ways comes too late. Those crisp bank-bills had gone out on their mis- sion. I can call spirits from the vas ty deep, says one of Shakespeare s characters. Yes, is the answer, but will they come to you when you call ?
 Why was there such a flare up at the White House, when the Demo cratic nominee for the Presidency, in the campaign of 1904, charged that the Repubulican campaign was being financed in just that way? The charge struck home. They felt it, and there was but one answer that rushed to their lips: You lie. Judge Park CT did not lie
 Somebody else said what was not true He may have been misin- formed I do not say, he lied. do not say he prevaricated. But do say that the American people at that time were not told the truth about those great Republican cam pafgn contributions for special inter- ests. It might, and it would have affected a good many votes. if they had been told the truth. But they know it now. They know it now, and they know just what what it meant then. They are drawing their own conclusions, as to which, Republican or Democratic-is the party of the people.
 '"The new list of the contributors of 1904 to the Roosevelt campaign, to be exact, figures up to $2s28O, 900. Of this, there came $750,0e0 from six persons: J. P. Morgan & Co, $780, 900; E. H. Hartman, $50, GOO; G. W. P. s135.000; George J. Gould, $100,000 H. H. R., J. D. w, $1O0,- 900; Chauncey M.- Depey. ss10o. 900.
 Now what corporations contribut- ed straight out as corporations?
 
 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, C. s. Me1len, Pres ident 0,000 Then follows the In- ternationa1 Harvester Co.,, $2O,0o0; Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association, S10,000; Cuba Mail SS. Co.,, $1O,0oo; American Can Company, SIG, 900. Here is S100 from six companies.
 Then come the corporations that gave. but 9 little more sparfngly; c. M. & St. Paul Railway, $5.o0O; Great Lakes Dredge & Passenger Com pany, $5.0OO: Netheles Steel Company, s5,- 900; Buffalo Wood Product Com pany. $5,oo0; Postum Cereal Company $3, GOO; Botany Worsted Mills, $2O0o; American Bank Note Company, $a,- 900; New Jersey Twine Company, $2,- 900: American Surety Company, ST. 900; American Felt Company. 1000; Remington Typewriter Company, $1,- 000; American Locomotive Company, 1000; Otis Elevator Company. $1.- 900; $S72,OOO from in all six indi- and twenty corporations,-7 tariff protected, tariff inflated corpo- rations.
 And in that very election, the Dem ocratic National Committee had a treasury that ran empty; so empty that one man, rich enough to do such things, at the close of the campaign, when It WAS C1GdT I1dI FdTk6T COulQ not be elected, put his hand in his pocket and paid up a deficit of S35O.- 900, after having given $1oO,O0O be- fore. Why should he make such sacrifice to a lost cause? What could Thomas F. Ryan gain by it? He put in that money to protect the financial honor of-his party and preserve it's organization for future usefulness. The other party had won the field. Men ha ofI fn government for four years more. He certainly could not go to them for fa- vors to any business interest because he had put $450,O0O up to defeat them. I think it was a most hon orable act of Thomas F. Ryan to do cia1 credit of his party, and Zlake 1t possible to discharge every obligation to those who had trusted it.
 'sBut was that the position of the contributors to the Republican Ma tiona1 Committees treasury in that campaign? Did they expect their gifts to be forgotten? Did Herbert Knox at Washington. forget what the Morgan interests had given to the campaign fund, when, after six or eight months investigation of the Harvester Trust, to see if it had vio-i lated the Sherman Act, he advised 9r0SlQ0uL fIOOSSHSil uOL to prosecute it? He was ordered by Congress to it. He took the better part of a year to investigate it. He opened his ears to the cry of George W. Perkins, and he wrote to President Roosevelt that if they prosecuted this Trust it would antagonfze the Mor- gan interests, which had been friend ly Ooh, yes, very friendly, and very free handed) to the advanced policies of the administration, and so they had better go slow. And President Roosevelt went very slow. He stop ped still. The Harvester Trust was not prosecuted, and the Morgan in terests were saved
 "Gentlenen, the Democratic party in this good, old State of Connecticut, does not shape it's policies at the bid- IL