Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1912 — UP TO MR. ROOSEVELT [ARTICLE]

UP TO MR. ROOSEVELT

SOME QUESTIONS VOTERS WOULD LIKE TO HAVE ANSWERED. People Are Naturally Interested in the Matter of Campaign Contributions for, the "Third Term Candidate." Now that Mr. Roosevelt is screaming about Mr. Taft's s irfender to the interests, Mr, Taft is * charging that Mr. Roosevelt received corporation tar J vqrs and returns them in protection and Mr. ’ Perkins is artlessly confessing that lie contributed to the campaign funds of both Mr. Taft and Mr Roosevelt, perhaps we can get interesting information sve have long sought. * Web know that Mr, Perkins gave the Roosevelt fund $5 ,<jdo of insurance money and that two other insurance companies contributed $50,1100 each. We know from Mr.' Perkins' testimony j that the Steel trust contributed to the fund of 1904 We know that Mr. Harriman raised $260,00u for use in New York. We know that Standard Oil sent SIOO,OOO, which Mr. Roosevelt says he sent back. Mr. Armour boasted that the beef trust contributed to Mr. Roosevelt s-! fund. We know that Mr. Roosevelt checked the prosecution of the liar- | vester trust and gave the friendly Morgan interests immunity in absorbing the Tennessee Coal and Iron • company. But this information is. fragmentary. If Mr. Roosevelt really j Is willing to have the whole truth j known he should tell the country precisely what trusts contributed to his campaign fund and how much each one contributed; he should answer, or get Mr. Cortelyou to answer, these frequently repeated but so far unanswered questions of the Post-Dis-patch: i 1. How much has the Beef trust contributed to Mr. Cortelyou? 2. Haw ,much has the paper trust ; contributed to Mr. Cortelyou? 3. How much has the coal trast contributed to Mr. Cortelyou? j 4. How much has the sugar trust j contributed to Mr. Cortelyou? 6. How much has th oil trust contributed to Mr. Cortelyou? i 6. How much lias the tobacco trust j contributed to Mr. Cortelyou? j 7. How much has the steel trust contributed to. Mr. Cortelyou? 8. How much has the Insurance j trust contributed to Mr. Cortelyou? | 8. How much have the national ! banks contributed to Mr. Cortelyou? I 10. How biuch have the sis great’ | railroad trusts contributed to Mr. ! Cortelyou | Frank replies to these questions would be a valuable contribution not alone to the literature of the Roosevelt third-term campaign, but to the political history of the country—St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Ind’t).