Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1908 — TAFT, ROOSEVELT AND THE "SIN. ISTER MONEYED INTERESTS." [ARTICLE]

TAFT, ROOSEVELT AND THE "SIN. ISTER MONEYED INTERESTS."

In his. Foraker letter—the letter In which he tries to show how superior Taft is to everybody except himself— President Roosevelt says: “The great and sinister moneyed interests, which have shown such hostility to the administration and now to Mr. Taft, have grown to oppose the administration on various matters not connected with those which mark the real point of difference." The point that Roosevelt attempts to make is that “the great and sinister moneyed interests” are against Taft. He knows that this is not true. In* ■tead of “hostility” toward Taft these Interests are all supporting him in this campaign. And no one knows it better than Roosevelt himself. Taft's whole campaign is being managed by “the great and sinister moneyed Interests." Sheldon, Cromwell, DuPont, Harriman, Morgan, Rockefeller—all of them are for Taft. During the Republican national convention E. H. Gary, the head of the steel trust, was in Chicago working day and night for Taft’s nomination, and he was only one of the “83 millionaires" that were present for the same purpose. And early in September, when Taft’s campaign in was opened for him by Hughes and Beveridge at Youngstown, the steel trust showed its “hostility” in the following manner, as reported in the press dispatches: The commanding feature of the day was the parade that - preceded the speaking in Wick Park. There were a few over 12,000 men in line. Of these more than 10,000 came from the steel mills which form the chief and almost the sole Industry of the city and suburbs. They were the employes of the Republic Iron and Steel company, the Youngstown Sheet and Tube oompany, and the United States Steel corporation, better known as the steel trust Supplied with uniforms at the expense of these companies, the tollers presented a striking appearance as they marched past the reviewing stand. Became of the opening a shut-down of the mills was ordered until next Monday and the occasion made a holiday. la that the kind of “hostility” that Roosevelt talks about?