The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-09-09

the difference between what they Sc
cure and what they are entitled to is
the portion that is taken from others.
81 charge that the same interests
which were the cause of revolution
in the affairs of the Republican party
in 1912 have gained control Of that.
organization, written the platform for
the party, and nominated it's candi-
date. Theodore Roosevelt led the cru,
SADIE against vested interests and the
political bosses who served them in
1912. He called the roll and specified
persons by name. He charged Boss
Barnes Of New York with being one of
the connecting links between crooked
business and crooked politics. But
Roosevelt is gone. His courageous
spirit no longer confronts the interests
which he subdued eight years ago. In
consequence, the same old crowd is
back in the front line. Barnes, who in
Roosevelt's mind was Judas of the
panty, has been made it's Saint Paul
and has been, designated to write the
faith of the party for this campaign.
81 hold in my hand documents
which show his assignment to the
task. The words are these: We the
undersigned appreciate the necessity
Of restoring to power the Republican
party and approve the widespread dis
tribution of militant Republican prop
uganda under the direction of Hon.
William Barnes. To this end we pledge
our moral and financial support The
pledge was made, among others, by
Percival S. Hill, president of the Am
erican Tobacco Company, with cap
italization of $1OO, O0O, 900; by Charles
H. Sabin, president of the Guaranty
Trust Company, capitalized at $780,
100000; by L. F. Loree, president of
the Hudson Coal Co., capital $4,000
600; the General Electric Company,
capital $175, 100000; the Otis Elevator
Company, capital $4,000, 900; Walter
C. Teagle, president of the Standard
Oil Co. of New Jersey, capital $780,
100000; Clarence H. Mackay, presi-
dent of the Postal Telegraph Co., VIM.
H. M Wood, of the American Wooden
Co., Starr J. Murphy, who signs the
document, as he says, for John D.
Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller,
Jr.; H. A. Dupont, of the we'll known
DUPONT family, manufacturer of war
munitions; w. A. Hartman, of the
E. H. Hartman family; John A. Top
Republic Iron and Steel Co.
e'Large sums of money were pledged
to Mr.. Barnes by these interests to in
struct the American electorate That
it was done with the knowledge and
Endorsement of Senator Harding, the
candidate for these same interests, is
shown by his letter directed personally
to Mr.. Barnes, in which he says: II
I - AZ
taking which contemplates the presen-
tation Of the real gospel of Republi-
canism.' 1t is also commended by
Boise Penrose, the Pennsylvania Boss,
who in a letter to Mr.. Barnes said: I
feel the time has come for full pre-
sentation of sound and vigorous Re-
publican doctrines
GLOW fitting it is to recall the fol-
lowing words from Theodore Roose-
welt, in speech delivered June 22nd,
1912, in which he said: Imagine for
yourselves how Messrs. Barnes and
Penrose would have looked standing
under the historic Oaks in the Micbi-
gan city were the Republican party
was born fifty-six years ago. In the
same speech Col. Roosevelt spoke Of
the sacred binding force Of primaries
in these words: There is no use in
holding primaries if we permit a small
group Of unscrupulous politicians,
some of whom are certainly acting in
the interests Of big crooked business,
to exercise the veto power over the
primaries This is Of interest this
year, as it was in 1912, for the reason
that the same voices have defied the
voice Of the primaries and nominated
as the candidate Of the party a mem
Der Of the Senatorial oligarchy, who