New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-27
DOWN With TRUSTSr
BORAH'SCRY in OHIO
Speaks at Dinner Planned
by Republicans to Re-
unite Party.

Columbus. Ohio Feb. 26.-Assertlng mat
Democratic rule in state and nation Is
failure and charging that the political
machine which has been established IN
Ohio by Governor James NJ. Cox is
menace TO free government, Ohio Repuo-
leans and some Progressives gathered
here to-day at a harmony banquet
Joseph r. Foraker. former Senator, as
sailed President Wilson'S Mexican pol
lev. termlng 1t "pusllanmous policy"
and criticised tho President for urging
that American ships pay tolls through the
Panama Canal.
Senator Borah, of Idaho, was the prin-
clpaI speaker at the meeting. His en-
dorsement Of woman suffrage was
greeted by loud cheering.
I'VE have found every tendency OF
equal suffrage in Idaho for good he
said.
Mr.. Foraker and Senator Burton, OF
Ohio, referred TO woman suffrage as
minor question" Senator Borah criti-
cised the Progressives' principle or regu-
lation Of monopoly. Destroy the monop-
DIV" was his plea.
What party leaders said would be the
issue I'm the next state campaign was
sounded by -. Meade Massie. OF chilli
Gothic, former Roosevelt Repubncah'
when he characterized Governor Cox as
the common enemy" against whom Pro-
gressives and Republicans should unite
He said that the people Of the state now
found themselves in condition under
which they were being governed by "CoA
commissions"
Republican leaders asserted that % per
cent of those attending the dinner voted
the third party ticket in 1912. Charles
L. Thurber. secretary OF the Progressive
State Executive Committee. gave out
statement denying that many members
OF the Progressive party were returning
TO the Republican fold.
The Republican meeting in Columbus
to-day is not getting together of Re-
publicans and Progressives, but merely
getting together of the old stand-pat Re-
publican crowd" he said.
ten thousand times worse than black
slavery--it is the father OF class domi-
nation. the mouder OF chains, Doth FOR
the body and the soul. and cannot exist
in any form with safety TO the people In
e republic. Here, sir. is where / could
never be third party man. Upon this
issue | would have to disagree with the
Progressves even If agreed with them
upon all others.
"Mr. Perkins. the most persistent and
powerful voice in the United States now
of the third party, says that these mon
opolies are the proper thing and all they
need is a little regulation. But / pay TO
Mr. Perkins the tribute OF consistency.
He refuses to turn his back on the method
by-which he made his great fortune; he
thinks II a good system. The harvester
trust with which farmers are quite IA
milar is the ideal way to his mind OF
doing business and the ideal way of being
managed"
Senator Borah told how a Senator had
recently placed in THE Congressional
Record" as evidence OF prosperity the
rise in stocks and bonds" and added that
the next morning a paper published that
there were $4,000 men out OF employment
in New York city, while the industrial
commission advised us in plain words
that we were up against the proposition
as a government of caring for the thou
sands and thousands Of the unemployed
end hungry"
This is the prosperity which these
combinations brought" he continued.