Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 49, Number 21, Jasper, Dubois County, 1 February 1907 — Page 6
WEEKLY COURIER
MS.N KU. IKI1NK. lliUVr
JASPER
INDIANA
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN
EPITOME OF THI MOST IM
PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
Carefully Digettcd and Condensed Compilation of Currant Ntws Itcma, Dometic and Foreign.
CONGRESS
The house voted to abolish all the
The German Government has wou
definite victory In the general electlon held for a new rtlehsta The liberal, radical and conservative part lea iuportlni Prince Von RuaUiw a colonial jKilUy. have won at lean 241 seats from t'ie socialists
Andrvw Carnegie ta to bare hta fame perpetuated In Chicago by a university bearing his name Articles of Incorporation have been filed In the QOtttJT reorder s office whereby the
new Institution is allowed to teach, many aciencea. It is reported that Pope Hfls will end the traditional custom of extracting the entialla of the deceased pontiff and preserving them m the parish church of the qulrinal, consequently l.t ii XIII will be the last ope to be thus mutilated. Senator Kuss, U V Alger, of Michigan, died in Washington. Senator Alfter was born in 136. in Ohio. He started In a farm boy. became a school teacher, then a lawyer, soldier, speculator, governor, cabinet member and senator. Twenty miners, according to the
pension agencies throughout the coun most authoritative Information obtaintrv. lv in uuuiber, aud centralize the able, loat their lives as the result of
payment of pensions la the tj 0$
"W u-hingtou. The peuaion appropriation bill carryiatf $Us.uOo.ouO in round numbers. hu been passed by the house The new battleship provided for in
an explosion which occurred in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co s mine near Primero. 20 miles weat of Trinidad, Col. The Texas legislature re-elected Jo-
soph W. Bailey to the I'nited States
MINE ON FIRE
EXPLOSION CAUSES GREATEST MINE DISASTER EVER KNOWN IN SAAR REGION.
MANY MINERS DEAD
I IT !S THE SOLDIERS' CLUB
OR. ANITA N. McGEE FAVORS RES TOR ATION OF CANTEEN. Japanese Soldiers Drmk "Sake," Yet as a Nurse. She Never Saw One Drunk.
the naval appropriation bill is to be a senate lu Illinois Shelby ft Cul-
lom RU reelected; in Wyoming, Senator Warren; Elkins in West Virginia, and Tillman in South Carolina. According to a privnte cablegram received at Washington frooj a prorujnent government official at Manila, Gen. Luke K. Wright. American am-
. . t . 1 - - - J 1.1.3,
Jster snip oi me one wumnuni i" year. They will be as powerful as the lih'l s of a'ny navy, and will cost รถ. 00 ' ooo each. i he senate accepted the proposition ot t.i. house of representative? to increase the salaries of senators, nieui-
i and territorial delegates io.,uw i jjador to Japan, has made known annually and those of the vice preai- j to his friends that he will retire from
dent, speaker of the house and mem-
Six Hundred Men Were in the 2.300Foot Shaft Brave Rescue Workers Boldly Enter and Face Death.
Saarbrueck. Rhenish Prussia A fire damp explosion occurred in the Kedeu coal mine at St. Johann on -Saar, opposite Saarbrueck. The miue is owned by the Prussian government. Only 60 live tuen hae been brought out, and of these the doctors say at least 35 will die. as they are frightfully injured through having been hurled against the walls of the galleries by the force of the explosion. Brave Rescue Workers. Immediately after the explosion rescue workers were hurried trom all the adjacent mines and boldly entered the Keden shaft in great numbers The work of rescue has been greatly hampered by the poisonous gases resulting from the explosion and by
Washington The. necessity for the restoration of the canteen In the American army is strongly set forth in a letter from I r. Anita NVvvcomb Mdi e to Capt. Walter Mitchell, of the Spanish-American War Veterans' association. Dr. MrQeo. who was fonn.iiy an assistant surgeon in the army, and later organized a corps of nurses under the auspices of the Hed Cross hociety for work among; Japanese sol diers In the Husso Japanese war. gi v e her observations as to the drink habit among the Japanese soldiers, and tells of the evil results following the abolishment of the canteen in the I'nited Slates army Dr. MoOM saya: Give the Soldier Their Club. "Like every one who knows something of the subject. I am heartily in favor of giving our American soldiers their club (called canteen i. where they may enjoy themselves harmlessly. As a woman and as a physician. I deplore the .mrrible results of making a man seek his amusements where he is liable to fall a prey to the worst temptations, ami so I wish you speedy success in reestablishing the canteen in the American army. Jap Soldiera Drink Sake."
instead oi our liquors, wines, etc..
a fierce fire that broke out Immediate
ly afterwards. This caused efforts at tne Japanese use a beverage they pro
bers of the president's cabinet to $12, 0K. This action was taken by a vote of 3 to 21. The senate passed the compromise Foraker resolution, authorizing the committee on military affairs to Investigate the fact of the affray at Brownsville on the nights of Aug. 13 and 14 last, without questioning the ' legality or Justice of any act of the president in relation to or connected with that affray
the diplomatic service next August, and return to his home In Memphis, Tenn.. to resume the practice of law.
William M Robertson, aged 57. re-
rescue to be suspended and the workers had to be ordered out of the mine. Second Explosion. After all the rescuers had reached daylight, according to one version, a second terrific explosion was heard underground Hut, according to another reKrt. many of the rescuers
were sum li-iow wnen tne socond ex-
publican national committeeman for ; plosion occurred, and it is estimated
.Nebraska in 1S and for many years a prominent politician, died at Norfolk, Neb., of cirrhosis of the liver.
miscellan:-.ous.
American refugees from Kingston, .'amalca. tell stories of selfishness on the part of the English after the earthquake. They declare that the captain of the English steamer Port. Kingston, on which were Sir Alfred Jones and party, refused to allow American
women to sleep on the bare decks of ftsjerttan of the Treasury Shaw has nis 8hlp an,i ,lUt tht,m asnore Cn the served notice of his decision to have j d-ks. where they remained three government deposits with banks re- foy,, anj that this English noblocalled before his retirement from the man never once sent them coffee or department March 4. This order w.l! , foo 0( descri ion. but that the withdraw $ j from the mon.1; , captain of the essel visited the docks It is announed that the defense of once and talked very uncivil. The Harry K. Thaw, the slayer of Stanford Americans who underwent this expoWhite, in New York, w ill be emotional rience adopted resolutions and gave Insanity. them ;o tne press of the world, deThe exports from the United States nnuncing the acts of the English and
to Cuba during 1506 was greater than during any previous calendar year. Joseph T. Murray, at one time a partner of Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, and before the war an aboli-
declaring that the much-talked-of bonds of blood and language." when tested, a mockery and a diplomatic iihantom. Little difficulty is experienced In 1-
tionist. and a warm friend of the poet ducing the negroes to work, at Kings-
Whittier. died in Springfield. Mass. A cablegram from Kingston. Jamaica, says that Gov. Swrettenhara has tendered his resignation. Thirty thousand people viewed the remains of the late Senator Alger as they lay in state In the city hall in Detroit. Mich. It is believed that an explosion in a mine at Weson, W. Va . which resulted in 12 miners being killed, was caused by a spark from a pipe or cigar smoked by one of their number dropping in a keg of powder. With arms entwined, a young man and a young woman stood on the tracks of the Pennsylvania electric railroad, over Newton creek, at Camden. N J . and calmly waited until an electric train ran them down Both were killed, and their bodies hurled Into the water.
ton. on account of the conviction among them that this was a "white man's earthquake." and that it would be dangerous for colored men to in terfere wit'i an act of God. The Hamburg-American Steamship Co. has ordered a mammoth steamer, to exceed in sire the Amerika and the Kaiserin Angus' e Victoria, to carry 4.20". passengers in addition to a crew or 500. and to make IS knots an hour. The Kingston Dally Telegraph says: His excellency Is still careering around the city, poking his nose into various coroners. The general opinion Is that the governor has completely lost his head, and is utterly unequal to the task of meeting the emergency. Dr. Mathias Duque, of Cuba, claims to have discovered a cure for leprosy, lie cured his sister, he says, and now
that the casualty list from the two explosions reaches a total of Ml men. All Below Dead Mine on Fire. It is regarded as certain that the lowest levels of the mines are completely wrecked, and the inspectors are deliberating upon further measures to get control of the fire. The managers are discussing the advisability of flooding these levels as the only means of extinguishing the flames It is believed that all the men who were in the lower levels assuredly are dead. It will take a full week to enter and explore the mine. Almost Half a Mile Underground. The disaster occurred 2.300 feet under ground, and is one and a quarter mib s from the floor of the shaft. It is the greatest mining catastrophe ever known in the Saar region. About r.oa men entered the mine for the day r,hlft, hrrt a number of them escaped throngh the Hlldstock shaft, which communicates with the Reden underground The entrance to the galleries Underground 1s blocked with dead horses. Mangled Beyond Recognition. Most of the bodies brought to the surface are mangled beyoad recognition The mine inspectors ordered the rescuers to return to fhelr homes, but to hold themselves is Teadiness for further orders. Emperor William has ordered that a full report of the disaster be sent him. Experts calculate that The rescue work will take one week.
pare themselves, called sake, tasting
like sherry, served hot. but In character like the light wlues or beer formerly supplied in our army canteens. I saw this sake in Manchuria, where it was furnished as a part of the ration, when It waa feasable to prtvide It, though the quantity was exceedingly small. Never Saw Jap Soldier Drunk. "In Hiroshima. 1 met from time to time, court officials who were on their way from Tokio to the front with a quantity of sake, which the emperor was sending as a gift to the troops in celebration of some victory. This drink was also for sale by the post traders, and yet the temperance of the Japanese soldier was a wonder to my nurses and myself. We saw tens of thousands of them, but never did we see a soldier drunk."
LAND OF OPPORTUNITY.
For the Homeseeker. the Healthseeker or the Investor.
Col Thomas Dugan Fonts, colonel announces the cure of t wo other cases.
He calls it the "red mangrove tree" treatment. Gov. Jno S. Little of Arkansas has suffered a physical collapse Hin physicians ay he must not undertake the duties ci his office for several weeks. The Cnrfd Mine Workers of America, in convention at Indianapolis. Ind , re elected The old t ffloers. President Mitchell receiving 71.000 vots. Russia Is considering an Internal
of the One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Indiana volunher in the civil war. and who was widely known in the early days of Kansas, died St Wichita. Kas. aged U Dr. Anita McOee. formerly an as slstant surgeon In the army, writes in favor of restoring the soldiers' club, or canteen. In the army. Emperor William issued an ordi
nance on his birthday annivernarv
that henceforth the penalties for lese lOM to relieve famine sufferers, majestle will only be inflicted upon (;"v Winthrop of Porto Rico had a the persons who commit the offense narrow escape. His train was derailed with premeditation and evil Intent, stopped within six Inches of a
and not upon those who do It throueh Ignorance or thoughtlessness. Frank Cox, Judge of the supreme court of appeals of West Virginia.
precipice 1.400 f. et Mgh. Oklahoma constitutional convention does not favor woman suffrage.
Paris says the troops of the sul'an
elected in lH'ic and with ten years to of Morocco have dropped from exhatu-
serve, has resigned, claiming that the tlon In the chase after Ralsuli. The salary la not large enough j sultan sow learns It Is said, that Ten thousand persons are turned Raisuli has been running away front av fl"m ;! -' New York to him in one direction, while he has
protect against France's attitude
ward Catholic church.
o been chasing him In another.
Srarlet favir ml ill nhlhorta a
Oklahoma judicial system, as out- p.Valent in Chicago In one dav 145 lined by convention committee, pro ras,. of ,rarlff feT and 40 of (,lph.
i" .- ' "17 um- ther a were renortod.
triot Judges
Alfonso forced 10 aceppt conservative cabinet and recall Senor Maura, former premier. Action Is claimed to be a sweeping rlerlcal victory. Minnesota authorities have bcjru.i nit to annual the charter of the S
Advices from th. Iuch Rast Indies tell of a tidal wave that devastated the Island of Tana on Jan 11 and the southern coast of the Island of Simula, causing a loss of 1.R00 lives. The North iHikota fuel shortage
:irnln la herum I ri i' erlnnx , ,r,l iwt r
Paul Minneapolls k Manitoba, the ,,.,r , ,, ,,.,, rPCPlved here inability of
rui in me meat .oi'liern. The Kentucky court of appeals up held the constitutionality of the legis lative act of 19m. making chick a stealing a f) i nv The senv, has i ared a bill author Itlng a loan of $1.000.000 t o the James town exposition. John L Hart, aged IS. was found fianiting near Pattstown. Pa Hi rt of self destruction Is attribute,! to . playful remark by s young girl r m janlon, who laid she did not like hfrn.
the railroads to keep freight trains moving is responsible in a large degree fo this condition Mrs Ixnilsc M Kste died at Haitimore. Md.. aged 104. Her father, Ittdfft William Miller, was the agent of Franc- In (he Louisiana purchase. The oxeculors of the Marshall Field estate have filed with the probate court In CfcMttgQ an Inventory of he late merchant's possessions. The ap-
Sympathy from France. Paris President Fallieres, Foreign Minister Pkhon and the municipal council of Paris have telegraphed Em peror William expressing the sympathy of France in the Saarbrueck disaster snd recalling the generous assistance given by German miners at the time of the Conrrieres catastrophe.
JIM CROW IN OKLAHOMA.
Separate Coaches and Waiting Rooms for Sons of African Descent.
Onthrie. Okln. The proposed constitutional plank, known as the "Jim Crow" measure, was submitted to the cons' If tit ion makers when they assembled for the last week for which thev will receive pay. The provision embodies the sentiment of the railroad committee fn the following words: "Common carriers shall provide erjnal. hnt separate, coaches and waiting morns for sons of African descent, the legislature Is hereby anthorlzed to enact the necessary laws and provide necessary penalties to rarry this provision Into effect.
To those who are seeking a new country, where there are broad virgin fields for profitable endeavor; where one may get in on the ground floor" in limitless Industries, and yet remain In direct touch with the great world, not Isolated from the marts of trade nor the pleasures of congenial association; to those who are seeking homes In a temperate climate, free from extremes of heat and eoki; a land ot health and opportunity, the territory along the line of the Mobile. Jackson & Kansas City' railroad Is must rnvltIng To one who traverses this line of railroad the wonder grows that such lands, near old established centers, should have remained so long undeveloped. A true story of the opportunities for town-building, colonization, founding of manufacturing enterprises, opening mercantile stabllshments, and securing land for farming purposes is told In a booklet entitled "Along the Line of the Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Railroad." whb h Is Rent free by L. I. Lawrence, manager immigration and industrial department. Laurel, Miss. 30.000 PAID TRIBUTE. Continuous Line of People Passed the Bier of Senator Alger.
THE Mi SUBSIDY STEAL. Great Pressure Brought on Copgres to Pass It. The ship subsidy ci afters are maW
Inr a bold attempt to pass an amended hill, throtu.li the bouse of representatives, as a substitute for ths bill which passed the senate at the last session providing for a subsidy to ships, of which (he steamship trust will be the principal beneficiary These Biibsidy hunters are certainly the most pjorslsteiu applicants for gov eminent bounty that ever pestered congress The chief movers. In fore Ing the passage of this subsidy bill, have a claim on many Republican statesmen, Pm Senatoi HsjUM WBM chairman of the Republican national committee promises Grlscom of the Vtnerican steamship line that the sub sidy bill should be passed in consideration of a large subscription to the Republican campaign fund in 1898.
It will be remembered that Mr. Rabcock, who was then chairman of the Republican congressional commit tee. informed President McKinley, near the close of that campaign, that the Republicans would lose control of congress unless Here was money provided to "take -;i re" of the doubt rut districts. Sena'or Hanna was called into the r:)i,ierence and the boodle fund was provided Senator Hanna tiled faithfully to carry out his promise to pass Ihe subsidy b'll. but the fear of rebuke by the people prevented its passage through the bouse. In every congress slyce that lime the effort to pass the MB has been related and Presiden Roosevelt has recommended its passage, probably because he feels that the Republican jarty is In honor bound to carry out the promise made by its chairman, for value received.. Hut the shin subsidy schemers are not relying solely upon the good faith of the Republican politicians to get a return for their Investment In He publican ikiIIMcb with a thousandfold Interest, but are now busily engaged in obtaining promises from Republican congressmen to vote for the bill. Speaker Cannon prevented the bill from being considered by the house at the last session of congress, for which he is entitled to the thanks of the taxpayers, and if he persists In this good work, the subsidy schemers may yet be defeated To sugar coat the bitter pill to better suit the public taste the subsidy grafters have re-
I named their offspring ' subvention'' In- ; stead of subsidy, but that will hardly I fool the people who will he taxed to I pay the bill.
The Democrats are united against the steal and many honest Republicans will also opimse It. and If the president would keep his hands off, the shlp-suhsldy schemers will again be discomfited and right will prevail ever wrong and jiolfMcal corruptlor will be again rebuked.
PAID FOR FAVORS
CORPORATION CONTRIBUTiON TO REPUBLICAN PARTY.
A PESSIMISTIC PLUTOCRAT.
Kansas City's Great Viaduct. Kansas City. Mo The Inter-city and Inter state viaduct connecting this city ami Kansas Ci v. Kas. has been opened for traffic. It is a steel and concrete trestle reaching from bluff to bluff to the Kaw valley and extending over the railroad yards and the Kaw river. Construction has cost $3.".00.n00. Roadways for wagons, street cars and pedestrians are provided, and an enormous saving of time and distance is effected. Practically all intercity travel will use the new route
Detroit. Mich Nearly .10.000 people paid tribute to the memory' of Senator R. A. Alger as his body lay in slate in the city hall. For three hours and a half a continuous line of peoplepassed through the corridor for a last look at the dead senator Pathetic and moving Incidents abounded as the throng passed before the open casket. Old soldiers who had served in the civil war with him saluted as they slowly marched by the body of their old commander with tear-dimmed eyes. When the last person had passed before the casket, the body waa carried nut to the hearse, and taken to the family home fin Fort street, where the funeral MfWMftjftf were he!d.
A MINER'S NEGLIGENCE.
Met a Terr.ble Death. Cincinnati -Caught in the jaws of a rag shredding machine. Stephen Altmeyer. aged H, was slowly crushed to death. His fellow employes were unable to aid him and his entire body was dragued into the machine Any Way to Get In. ' VI i'aso. T- x -Twenty-six Japanese. Including several women dressed as
hoys. WSrS found concealed in n box
proximate value of the estate Is placed I rn'" nnr here by Immigration officer
at $7.'.,000,000 I Thev had waded the river to ' f U HI of ths head tax.
avoid
Pipe or Sigar, It Is Believed, Caused Explosion and Loss of 12 Lives.
Weston. W Va -District Mine Inspector Harton has taken charge of the BttMtlnn at the mine of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Coal Co. nnd a searching Investigation Is being made Into the cause of the explosion which
killed 12 men It is thought powder must have been Ignited from a cigar or ashes In the pipe of one of the miners.
Man and Woman Sought Death. Camden. N. J. With arms entwined, an unknown young man and a young woman stood on the tracks of the Pennsylvania electric railroad, over Newton creek, and calmly walled until an elect tie (rain ran them down.
Nine Men Killed. Roanoke. Vn.-Nlne men. all foreigners, were blown fo ploces by a dynamite explosion on the tidewater railroad near Pe irlshury. Va. A quantity ftj the cxplu Up which wan being thawed In front of n fire blflw up.
Hae SocWefeller Been Caught in His
0vn Net? What does this pessimism portend, that seenis to prevail with so many of the frenzied financiers? Here we John D. Rockefeller telling us that many business men in this country hav suffered a loss amounting to millions of dollars through shrinkage In the value of their shareholdings during the t2 months just past " He accounts for it by the unwarranted attacks that have been made upon coriorate interests and thinks the man with the dinner pail will be the next to suffer. Mr Stuyvcsant Fish, whom Mr Harrlman deKsed as president of the Illinois Central railroad, warns the public that there are many indications
of a great industrial crisis. He also
declares that thp Wall street stock
xebange has become "the plaything
of a few managers of cliques and pools." These opinions from two dif
ferent elements of our financial mag
nates do not agree with the general Impression. Ihat the railroads, the
industrial trust and other corporations are most prosperous and therefore
should be contented. It Is evident that Mr Rockefeller fears the future
and would try and arouse the public
mind to similar fears. Hut his evi
dence that many business men have
suffered loss through shrinkage In iho
value of stocks is very unconvincing, for the dividends on stocks have been
very generally increased, so that the
owners should be now better off than they were before. Standard Oil stock has paid 40 per cent on its par value and although the price of the shares has declined from $Tnfi to $.r05. yet that can make no difference to Mr. Rockefeller unless he is trying to unload Standard Oil shares on the public. All his enormous railroad holdings are In similar condition The stock may he quoted at a lower price hut the net earnings have increased and in many Instances the dividends have been largely increased The real value therefore of stocks has not decreased, but the frenzied financiers have lost control of the market for them and cannot induce the public to rbe seven dolars for what Is only worth five dollars. It can hardly he possible that the good .lohn O R Is one of the managers of the wicked cliques and jhioIs that Mr Fish tells us are playing with the stock exchange snd has become In-tolve.i in i web of his own creation, pei haps spun with delicate care to catch se'.ie other BlktM manager, or at all events to catch the public If Inhn I), ha been caught In his own et, no wondei he has turned ik-spI list snd looks with s gloomy eys on the fuluru.
In Spits of Roosevelt's Denial, RecM Facts Show He Must Have Been Cognizant of the Nefarious Schsme. The determination of President Roosevelt to reward Mr. Oortelyo by appointing him secretary of ths treasury naturally brings u, misi what Mr. Cortelyou did in the cam paign of 1904 He was then secret;,; . of the department of eommcree ;,tid labor and also chairman of the Republican national commit to ,s office be was elected by the request of the president. He manage,) the campaign for the election of Presldi at
.toosevelt and. it was stated at ths. time, was in daily communication by telephone and otherwise with president and that no important si, were taken in that campaign until , president was consulted, so that . tually Mr. Roosevelt ran his own ran,, palgn He was successful. Hut bj what means'' The means were ., scribed by Judge Parker, the KeilM, CrttlC caudldate. In his address ,j--n vered at Madison Square Oarderi in New York city on October 31, f lu which ho said: "Congress creates a new tepartaeal of commerce and labor. Of that de partnient the president of the I'm Stales appoints a secretary. That sec retary was his private iSCrStar; Within the department pfertstou I made for the collection, from If . corporations, including the so-called trusts, of information which, It is to be borne In mind. Is to be submitted o the president for public or private se, as he may direct. Hy grace of the same executive this secretary, through whose department this information is collected, becomes chairman of the Republican national committee His chief duty It has been, and still Is, to collect funds for the purpose of securing the election of the BTesldeal And it is now notorious that there i ,h resulted from this organized importunity v. natovcr may be the precise wav 'n which it Is made effective an overflowing treasury to the committee, of which boast is openly and continually made. Although this may be sat Isfactory to the conscience of Republican leaders, it must, I firmly believe, be condemned as nothing short of scandalous, not alone by myself or the Democratic party, but by the American people as well." The same charge had been made by Judge Parker on Octtber 24th, but not until November4, M4, 12 days Bit the first utterance of Judge Parker on. this question, did President Roosevelt deign to publicly take cognizance of the charges by Judge Parker, at which time he gave out a public statement, in which he said: "Rut there is not one particle of truth in the statement as regards anything that has gone on in the man agenient of the Republican campaign Mr Parker's accusations against Mr. Cortelyou and me are monstrous. If true, they would brand both of us for ever with Infamy; and Inasmuch as they are false, heavy must be the condemnation of the man making them." On November 5th Judge Parker made another speech and took occasion to reply to President Roosevelt's statement. He said: "He is In a position to know what
contributions have been made to the Republican national committee by the trusts; If there have been no trust, contributions he could easily have said so. He did not say so. He cannot say so. He has waited until the clos ing hour of the campaign to make easier the pretense of an answer. Rut It is not an answer It Is a confession with a plea In avoidance address to a kindly and generous people." Rut the proof of Judge Parker's charges was not long In forthcoming for on September 20. 190f. the evidence of John A. McCall. president of the New York Life Insurance company, who testified before the legislative insurance Investigating committee that he knew of $4S,000 paid to Mr. Rllss. treasurer of the Republican national committee, and approved It On October 10th Dr Olllette, vice president of the Mutual Life Insurance company, testified that "about" $40.000 was contributed; on November 14th James H Hyde, vice president of the Kqultable Life Assurance society testified that JS0.000 was contributed; Senator Piatt testified that he had been paid $10.000 a year, and the rea son that he gave for these contributions to the Republican campaign fund was: '1 suppose that they tt.Might 1 might have some little influence with my party." Who can honestly douhf or deny that the managers of railroads, hanks, trust companies and other corporations contributed In the same surrep tltlous manner to the Republican campaign fund of !!)04 and that Mr Cortelyou as well as Senator Piatt might have had some Influence with his party" and would exert that Influence In the Interest of the contributors'' President Roosevelt rewarded Mr. Cortelyou for his services in that campaign by giving him the much more Imftortant position of postmaster general and now In return for bis activity in the late campaign has again re warded him by making him secretary of the treasury, where In view of his knowledge gained about lh cororaMens In his former positions he cat If need be. favor those who have favored the Roosevelt adoiuist ration