Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1906 — THE TRUSTS CHIPPED IN. [ARTICLE]

THE TRUSTS CHIPPED IN.

The Republican members of the state senate met at Indianapolis last week to organize their “plunder committee.” The governor is looking after that business in the house. The Republicans have already gotten into a fierce row over the legislative spoils. While they are fighting over these things the Democratic members can be considering how best to serve the people who elected them.

It turns out that all of the Democratic state ticket in New York was elected with the exception of Mr. Heaist. Considering the fact that the Republicans acknowledge spending $615,000 in the campaign the result is not at all bad. It shows that something can yet be expected from New York.

The cost of necessaries of living has risen by rates ranging from 18 to 39 per cent, during the present year. There would be no harm in it if the increased cost could be equitnbly distributed. But, unfortunately, “the cost falls for the most part upon multitudes who are least able to bear it. —Philadelphia Record.

During the second session of the present congress, which lasts from December 3 to March 4, the Republicans still have their 112 majority in the house and a large majority in the senate. In three mouths they should, if they mean business, pass many reform laws. Will they do it ? Well, just watch them and see.

Henry W. Marshall is a member of the Republican Btate committee from the 10th district and lives in Governor Hanly’s home city of Lafayette. Just now Henry iB a “ bad Indian.” He has called together the Republican members of tbe legislature from his district and taken them off of the governer’s reservation. It may be a bluff, but many people think that it means war.

Since the present governor took it into his head to lmve things his own way the Republicans of Indiana hardly know whether they are “afoot or on horseback,” Especially is this true now. Mr. Hanly wants absolute control of the legislature. If he can make it appear that the representatives and senators are under his thumb, and that when he says to his bill “come" and it cometh, and to that bill “go” and it goeth, why, even the Hon. Will Wood, the wioked partner, will have to take a back •eat.

In the list of contributors to the campaign fund of the new York Republicans appear the names of J. Pierpont Morgan, George W. Perkins, E. H. Gary, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and other men of that gener* al class. Mr. Morgan gave #20,090, J Rockefeller and Carnegie $9,000 each, and the others varying amounts, totaling $615,000. These sums are what they gave directly and do not necessarily prove that they did nothing more to help elect Mr. Roosevelt’s candidate, Mr. Hughes. Morgan, Perkins, Gary and Rockefeller represent the railroad trust, the insurance trust, the steel trust and the Standard Oil monopoly. Perkins is the man who, as vice president of the Mutual Life insurance company of New York, contributed $50,000 of the funds of that company to the Roosevelt campaign boodle of 1904. Mr. Hughes, as governor, will be under some exceedingly suspicious obligations when it is remembered that practically all of his immense campaign fund came from the veryjmen who have always asked and received special favors from tho Republican party. Where will the people come in ?