Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1912 — TRUST MAGNATES BUSY [ARTICLE]

TRUST MAGNATES BUSY

MEN WHO ARE FINANCING CAMPAIGN OF “THIRD TERMER.” Recently Published Report Makes Interesting Reading for Those Who Have Regarded Roosevelt as Enemy of Monopolies. At last we have some light on the cost of the Roosevelt campaign. The Roosevelt league has Just tiled with the New York seeThtary of state its report of money spent in New York city alone in connection with the election of delegates This campaign cost $59,125.75: 1 hat seems large. But then the Roosevelt people have plenty of money. There are no official reports of expenditures in other communities, bu| if the pace set In New York is maintained the total cost of the campaign to date must be very great. It has been said that. Boss Flinn of Pittsburg' had more than two hundred thousand dollars at his disposal; It is certain that he had all he needed. Of the $59,000 spent in New York city, $45,000 was given by George W. Perkins, Frank A. Munsey and Alexander Cochran—sls,ooo by each. Mr. Perkins id chiefly known to fame as a director of the steel trust and the organizer of the harvester trust- Mr. Munsey is said to be the largest Individual holder of the common stock of the steel trust Yet these two men gave more than half of the large amount spent in New York city during the late campaign in uehalf of the man who is supposed to represent the people in a special and peculiar sense, the man who has declared his hostility to the “swells” whom he has characterized as “silk stockings.” And it Is necessary to spend all this money to get a nomination which the people are supposed to be. thrusting on him. Even popular uprisings and “overwhelming demands” must, it seems, be liberally financed. We trust that those wno still think of Theodore

Roosevelt as a fire-breathing trust* blister will note th,e fact that it is the Roosevelt leiigvi. which has published, to the world the munificence- of Perkins and . i.mt. then it waa never dtc'nelt !'<■! Mr. R ft p- get ■ money for pellri -.i l pi>r]>oses. Harrii man, it will be >t-im cim-red; raised ' and gav<- t' vr ,\ew Mirk, in tile ..<i-velt cii Jcjciign of and dl l it i- to the rei quest of 'Mr.-Roosevelt htmselt.—lndiana poll s