Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1908 — REPUBLICANS AND MONEY. [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICANS AND MONEY.

Collier’s Weekly has a significant editorial In Its issue of August 23, entitled, “The Republicans and Money.” It is given herewith; “The election and subsequent death of Mr Taft would mean the occupancy of the White House by an official fat-fryer who has during several years past approached, with deferential hat in hand, the president or treasurer of most of the large corporations In the country. It was In the course of this official function that Sherman was profanely turned down by Mr. .Harriman, with bitter depun elation of the Republican party and reeking messages for the head of that party, that the party and the head of it had not been grateful for the $250,000 which Mr Harriamn collected and which Mr. Harriman collected and gave in 1904. Penrose, as one of the executive committee of nine which is to do the actual work of the Republican campaign, is in error of taste and judgment but not a great deal worse. With T. Coleman Du Pont of Delaware, however, the ease differs. Among the combinations now being prosecuted by the Federal Government is that aggregation of companies known as the Powder Trust Mr. Du Pont Is president of the fifty million dollar Du Pont Powder Company, president of the ten million dollar International Powder Company, director of the International Smokeless Powder Company, and vice-president of the holding company, the Delaware Securities Company, which owns a majority of the stock of the Laflin & Rand Powder Company. Suppose that Mr. Taft, being successful, should be approached by Mr. Du Pont thus: ‘I am one of the ten men, including Chairman Hitchcock, who have put you over the plate. I don’t want to be reminding you continually of the obligation; there is one small piece of patronage I should like, and I shan't speak to you about patronage again during your administration. There is a deserving young friend of mine whom I should like to have appointed to the position lately held by Mr. Purdy, In charge of that bureau of the Department of Justice which is seeking to break up my company, deprive me of some of my property, and declare me a violator of the law.’ Something analogous would have been the presence of Harry Thaw two years ago on a committee of ten to collect funds and promote the election of Jerome as district attorney. A minority plank, calling for a statute providing for publicity of campaign expenditures, was thrown out of the committee on resolutions by a vote of 52 to 1, and was rejected on the floor of the convention by a vote of 880 to 94 —Nebraska and Idaho and parts of Wisconsin and Indiana favoring It. The amount of Bourbonisra still left In the Republican party is far too large.” “The People do rule,” says Sherman, the candidate of 'the trusts for Vice-President. The truth is that a bill introduced for the protection of the rights of the people cannot even be voted on in the house where Cannon and Sherman rule the roost.

It Is bad enough that under the dictation of the speaker and his Committee on Rules, labor bills are strangled and not permitted to come to a vote. But. worse than that, If postible, is the fact that the Speaker picks committees bo that bills that he does not like cannot even get a hearing. but are strangled In committees by direction of the Speaker. The people are up in arms all over the country, and Anti-Cannonism Is growing in popularity.