Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-04-28


complaeent as to Election Of 1908.
Washington, April 1S.-That the Taft
administration has entered into an un-
derstanding with the great business
combinations Of the country and that
the relations between those cOmbina-
tons and the administration now are
harmonious and directed toward COM
mon end is the profound belief Of Sen
ator Joseph L. Bristow Of Kansas, one
Of the foremost leaders Of the progress
sive movement in the United States.
"If you take for text the speech de-
livered in Philadelphia not long ago by
President Taft, In which he declared
himself a progressive along with the
rejoinder thereto delivered by Colonel
Roosevelt at Louisville and attach to
these speeches the reasonable knowl-
edge of known facts and events, you
cannot escape the conclusion at which
have arrived" said Senator Bristow
in talk on what might be called "the
case against the Taft administration"
"Sald Colonel Roosevelt:
Tafts "Prosressivism."
"Four years ago the progresslves sup
ported Mr. Taft for president, and he was
opposed by such representatives OF spe-
cial privileges as Mr.. Penrose Of Pennsyl-
vania, Mr.. Aldrch of Rhode Island and
Mr. Galinger of New Hampshire, as
Messrs. Lorlmer, Cannon and Mckinley
OF Illinois, and he was opposed by prac-
tically all Of the men Of the stamp OF
Messrs. Guggenhelmer and Evans Of Col
orado and Mr.. Patrick Calhoun OF San
Francisco. These men were not progress
slves then, and they are not progressves
now; but, unlike the president, they know
who ia a progressive and who Is not.
Their Judgment In the matter is good.
After three and half years OF associa-
ton with and knowledge Of the president
these and their fellows are now the pres
| idents chief supporters anG they and the
men who feel and act as they do In busi-
ness and In politics give him the great
bulk Of his strength. The president says
| he ia n progressive. These men know him
well and have studied his actions for three
years, and they regard him as being pre-
cisely the kind Of progressive they ap-
prove,
STUDY that extract from Colonel
Roosevelt's speech, If you please. Get
at its meaning. Why does the crimi'
nal on trial for his liberty or his i'll
gotten property seek to select Judge
by asking a change Of venue? Why
does he discriminate 50 closely in the
selection of the jury which is to try
hlm2 The law provides these expedl-
ents for him that he may get Justice;
but, being guilty, he does not resort to
these expedients to secure justice, but
to avoid it. When the great combina-
tlous which have piled up enormous
aggregations of money by Illegal and
criminal means select and stand for n
candidate for president they have a
motive, a motive that 1t seems to me
ought to be plain to all men,
John D. Was Informed.
LET me next call your attention to
the interview which John D.. Rookie
feller gave out at the Standard Oil Of
fees in New York, Oct 30, 1908, few
days before the election in which Mr..
Taft first ran for the presidency. Mr.
Rockefeller had not been near his Of
fees for several years, and when he
appeared there for the express purpose
OF making public in the most effective
and farreachlng way this interview
Colonel Roosevelt and all the other
progressives were Of the opinion that II
was done for the purpose Of hurting
Mr.. Taft But | have changed my
mind about that since that time.
have become convinced that Mr., Rock
efeller then had information about the
complacence Of Mr. Taft regarding
Big Business that the progressivei
did not have,
AS one indication Of this, | have
been advised that not so very long be
fore the Rockefeller interview the sug
ar trust approached Mr. Taft through
Mr.. Charles b. Warren OF Michigan
the personal representative Of the sug
ar trust in the beet sugar industry II
Michigan. on matters vital to that mi
Quitous combination That the confer
ence was eminently satisfactory TO tn,
sugar trust was Immediately shown by
the fact that Mr. Warren and his as
soclates were for Taft and have beer
for him ever since, Indeed, on thl
point have only to recall to you tina
Mr. Warren was accredited in thu
press reports Of a few days ago will
being the person who at mdnigh
placed fifty huskies from tue Michigan
beet sugar factories In the hall wher,
the Michigan Republican state conven
tlon was to be held in order that III,
hall might be controlled in the lnteres
Of Mr.. Taft and against Colonel Roose
welt the next day.
oil Octopus In Touch.
"Now IL such conference coul,
mike the sugar interests the devote,
Supportor Of Mr.. Taft the question nat
urally arises why something Of th
same kind might not have Influence,
Mr.. Rockefeller There are not the accu
rate data In regard TO the Standard oI
company that there are relative to tn
meeting with the sugar trust, but ther
Is some interesting collateral evidenc
tending 10 show that somewhere an
somehow the OH octopus got In touc
with the Influences that controlled III
then candidate for president You viii
remember that after his election, buI
before his Inauguration, Mr. Taft spent
some uttle time nj the Virginia HoI