The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 29, 1904, Page 2

. HAYES REFUTES i NEEDHAM 15 MAKING A WINNING CAMPAIGN FOR CONGRESS IN THE SIKTH DISTRICT —_——— Duncan E McKinlay Leads in the Second. e | BELL EXPLAINS | HIS POSITION| | ’ | Stenographer Takes Down Remarks at Colusa. —_— s event in city political cir- | -meeting at Al- | T the auspices of | an - American Republican | > has been chosen to | The audiencs ‘the or of Shasta; General E. Thomas B. Dozier, George H. Bahrs. | n German will be de- | 1 1 neral Salomon. The | Knickerbocker Quartet will sing and | the band will play. SIXTH DISTRICT. m the Sixth Congres- s gratifying to the Re- | itral Committee. J. | nee of the party for Congress, is conduct- He is greeted »ple, who cheer k he has done f the national legislature. of Needham are resort- the despicable course of circulat- in which the rec- able representa- trict Sta am s of p aign. ron. d w ess of the ch, the Republican Legislature, Thirty- rict making a election, and impartial ounties of Monterey, Obispo sig- carry the district warm personal enthufastic in his that his election on the counties nor SECOND DISTRICT. Central Committee is adv‘ Duncan E. McKinlay will isomely in the Second. To- | vs the able and eloquent address the voters of Reports come from the ento to the effect that ning and explaining. Tie a stenographer take | h at Colusa and these | the Congressman will be | Veterans’ Home: t rid of the Philippine Isl- e a burden to the Amer- | It requires great sums of money to protect them and | maintain our eivii and military | There is an active patriotic sentiment up in Napa County in favor of keeping ere the valor of American | ers placed it and perhaps there | ng feeling the other way up in | Democratic stronghold of Colusa. | Democratic nominee for Congress | y finds the situation quite embar- | ng, especially when a stenogra- | is present Jud C. Brusie is scheduled t6 preach | the Republican gospel in Colusa. H*“ tell the people the truth regarding | w ppropriations for the Sacramento | River. The State committee is ready | to submit the record. What Bell | claimed in his Colusa speech was taken down word for word. | Duncan E. McKinlay will speak at | Sterling the evening of November 2. | The leading Republicans and business men of Chico have engaged’ a special | & train for the event. leave Chico at § p. m. FIFTH DISTRICT. The Fulton Iron Works, at the foot of Baker street, was visited at moon yesterday by E. A. Hayes, the Repub- lic candidate for Congress, accom- | panied by A. D. Porter and Thomas J. | Emery. The men had been notified of his intention to address them and all employed there were in attendance. Mr. Hayes was introduced by A. D.| Porter, business manager of the Broth- | erhood of Bollermakers and Iron Ship- | builders of America. In his address he spoke of his early life on a Wisconsin | farm as a wageworker and of his ca- | reer in Santa Clara County as an em- | ployer of labor. He. explained that in Wisconein, on a small farm where he was born, he worked at hard labor for fourteen and sixteen hours a day to | belp support the family. He attended cellege during the long winter months. After graduating from the university | of that State he studied law, was ad- | mitted to the bar and he was afterward | employed by a large corporation as| manager of its interests and had under | his control several hundred men. Re. | garding his career in this State, which | — FREL FREE FRZIE WITH SUNDAY CALL { WANT ADS. - A Coupon Entitling You to One Pound 4oc “TOP QUALITY” COFFEE of THE GREAT AMERICAN IMPORTING TEA CO. With Every 25¢ Small Ad in SUNDAY CALL. See Small Ad Page (or Further Particulars, The train a | certain of the work that he’ claimed he could | | as the special work Mr. Ulric] | such statement to any ome. is well known, he did not go Into de- tails, simply refterating his sympathy with the workingmen and his consistent and continuous effort to raise the standard of their living. This, as he understands it be accomplished | can by the employment of American labor alone, the purchase of American pro- ducts, the shortening of the ‘hours of | labor and the raising of wages. The speaker further explained that no Ori- ental had ever been employed by him; no imported articles the like of which American labor produces were . ever purchased by him; he had lately re- duced the legal day’s work from eight to seven and a half hours. Twice with- out solicitation on the part of the print- ers of the Mercury and Herald of San ose he had raised their wages. Branching away from these subjects, he stated that if elected to Congress he would advance the interests of the shipbuilders of this coast by advocat- | ing the placing of contracts for the| building of warships in their hands. | He further stated that he favored the | reinforcement of our navy, the en- largement of foreign markets for our surplus products and the increased em- ployment of American workingmen in | all branches of labor. “One of my du- ties in Congress,” said the speaker, “will be to enact legislation to secure restoration of our merchant marine by the payment of subsidies to American built mail carriers and freighters, suf- ficient to enable them to compete suc- cessfully with the ships of foreign countries.” Cheers greeted these remarks, clearly demonstrating that his were accepted as sincere, and those wage workers before him within his district were for the speaker’s election to Congress. James Spear, the manager of the works, made a tour of the-yards and | introduced Mr. Hayes to the employes of the several departments. PROMPT DENIAL, The charge that E. A. Hayes, Repub- lican nominee for Congress, Fifth Dis- trict, is an employer @f Chinese is promptly refuted by the following| signed statement, reinforced by afl- davits: declarations having been made to Chinese employed on our place at n 1 wish to state that my brother, . has never in any way, directly tly, employed any Chinese there. That 1 may not give any false color to the facts in making this statement, I wish to state that soon after we came to California to live per- manently 1 made a contract with Mr. Ulrich, then head gardener at the Hotel del Monte, to survey the xrounds around our house, make walks, drives, flower beds, etc., and plant some ~trees and shrubbery. Soon after he started the work under this contract he brought some Chinese there, against my protest, to do | | | in-.| | | not do without them. While there they lived on a remote corner of the ranch, boarded them- selves and in po manner lived with or near the other men on the ranch, d left as soon | wished them to do was completed. When I made this con- tract with Mr. Ulrich my brother was in the East, was there during all the time they were there and did not return to California until five months after they had lett, He had nothing to do with either the contract or. the | work, d knew nothing about the matter until long ‘afterward. > { ‘With the exception of these-men who were working for Mr. Ulrich 5o Chinese or Japanes. have cver worked in our garden or orchards, or J. 0. HAYES. on our ranch. George H. Osen has made the follow- ing affidavit in connection with the Examiner article of October 27: State of California, County of Santa Clara, ss. | George H. Osen, being first duly sworn, de- poses and sal I am the . Osen mentioned i the article in the Examiner of Thursday, October 27, 1904; that I was em- ployed by the Hayes Brothers on thelr ranch | at Fden Vale, in this county, from 188 to 1 5 The words attributed to me in the San Fran- cisco Examiner of Ogtober 27, 1004, in which 1 am credited with having made certain state- ments witk reference to Chinese said fo have been cmployed by. Mr. Hayes, are absolutely and ungualifiedly false. I never made any GEORGE H, OSEN. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 27th day of October, A. D. 1904 (feal) H. A. GABRIEL, Notary Public. G. A. Whipple, also quoted by the Examiner, has without solicitation de- | nied in toto the alleged interview with him in the Examiner on Thursday morning. Here is his letter: ! Campbell, Cal., Oct. 27, 1904. ‘Beq.—Dear Sir: Yesterday a L iy et *- —k CANDIDATE FOR U. S. SENATE | | WHO ADDRESSED REPUBLIC- ANS LAST NIGHT. WP § Julius Kahn and F. P. Flint Are Cheered There was a rousing Kahn meeting at Pioneer Hall last evening. Frank P. Flint of Los Angeles, candidate for United States Senator, was the prin- cipal speaker of the evening, and his frank, earnest style raised the enthu- | slasm of the audience to a high pitch. Joseph Goddard, to whom campaign- ing is an old story, was the chairman of the evening and he handled the crowd with skill. Mr. Flint was the first speaker introduced and the cheers of the audience demonstrated his popu- larity. After thanking the audience for the flattering reception accorded him, Mr. Flint said: 1 am not going to wait until I am about to conclude my speech before calling your at- tention to the necessity of electing the Re- publican legislative candidates In this district, hut by way of introduction I am going to you to support and, to vote for Frank Markey for the Senaté and John A. Cullen for t Assembly ‘The next Legislature will be calied upon to lend its aid in carrying out the policies of the great Kepublican party, and to do this we must have Republicans in power. 1 know your candidates and know that they are true Republicans and can be depended upon in every emergency. These men are en- titled to your support and I know they will receive it Now, as to the issues of the national com- pafgn: Imperialism, so called, our friends the Democrats seem 1o have singled out as the lone issue worthy of the name. Imperialism means _empire. Our beloved McKinley, they said, favored imperialism, but mot even they dared to put the true interpretation on the term, and accuse him of seeking an em- peror's crown. Nor had they the less right to say it of MeKinley than they have to say it of Roosevelt, for in his every political act he has been Republican and American, FALSE INTIMATION. Empires are maintained by the mailed fist, and who can say that our army, made up of Your boy and mine, would lend 'itself to the majntenance of an empire. When the Demo- crats make this intimation they know they make false Intimation, and it is only political extremity that drives them to such deeds. Now, a8 to the trusts: The Republican party 1s doing more to-day to regulate the trusts than was ever done in the history of the Government. Measures to regulate the trusts were in force during Cleveland's ad- ministration (they were passed lard do to_carry them into operation? He did nothivg. The election of Willlam McKinley, however, put these flaws into ration, and steadily the work goes on to crush out organi- zations that seek to destroy competition. Parker, the Democratic standard bearer, has said tbat the laws now on the y ve 1 until they are stamped out. :r:’:-lofi evidences the fact that were he dent he ‘would be passive in his made one, to regulate the trusts. Not so | Republicans. Thelr record and thelr show tnat they will be active tn ;E“mg. the trus! Repul i iR ave’ disappeating from the land. PO Mr. Flint was followed by John D, Gish, Frank A. Markey, Republican for the Assembly in the Twenty- eighth. | | President. | | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1904 Reports Circulated hy Political Opponents in Fifth Congressional District and Disproves T 7 WATCH COUNT ON NIGHT OF .THE ELECTION To the Members of the Mer- chants’ Association: Feeling that it is vitally nec- essary that the counting of the ballots at the next election should be watched by persons interested in and standing for good citizenship the Merchants’ Association respectfully requests that some member of your firm or some dne of your trusted em- ployes volunteer for this service. The time occupied will be but short, as the ticket at the com- ing election contains compar- tively few names. | Kindly communicate your | willingness to serve in the cause | of good citizenship by signing the inclosed card and mailing it to the secretary of the asso- ciation not later than Thursday, November 3, 1904. Tickets of admission to booths to watch the count will be fur- nished. Respectfully, THE MERCHANTS' ASSOCIA- TION OF SAN FRANCISCO, FRANK J. SYMMES, L. M. KING, Secretary. 'BIG RALLY OF VOTERS AT POTRERO Many Prominent Republicans Speak. The Republican rally at the Potrero Opera-house drew a big crowd last night. The speechmaking began early and lasted late. The crowd in attend- ance was good-natured and warmly ap- plauded the different points in the speeches that pleased them, especially those relative to the exclusion of Chi- nese and Japanese from this country. T. C. Duff acted as chairman. Julius Kahn spoke in his usual bril- liant arid happy vein. His speech urged devotion to the Republican party and adherenee to its principles, which prin- ciples are fair not only to the moneyed man, but to the laborer. The country had prospered under the administration of Republicans, and it was going ahead at a marvelous rate. It would continue to do so under the same policy. E. A. Hayes of the Fifth Congres- sional District said in part: 1 will lend my support to amy act for the exclusion of Chinese and Japanese from the United States If 1am sent to Congress. We do not want a race here that réfuses to adopt our customs. They are' a menace to the laboring man. The money they accumu- te does not stay here. ‘They lower the standard of wages and thereby deprive Amer- ican families of the necessities which accrue from fair remyneration for their labors. = All ¢ you are familiar with the dangers that e you If this class ef people continue to invade our land. There is one way to put a stop to it and that is at the polls. Senator R. J. Welch delivered a force- ful speech. He sald in part: “If I am elected I would exact a promige from any man who might be a candidate for United States Senator that he would vote for the exclusion of the Japanese from this country.” Charles M. Shortridge was greeted with a big burst of applause when he stepped on the platform. He gave what might be called a regular ‘“heart to heart” talk to his hearers. He took them intd his confidence at the start and held them until the close of his remarks. The gist of his speech was that he was an American and a Repub- lican and would stand for Republican principis from beginning to end. He said many salient and humorous things in the course of his speech. Jeremjah Lucey made a few remarks pertinent to the occasion. abdut the commerce of this country, because 1-know it will interest you. The Unifed States exports more goods to foreign lands than any other country on the globe, yet the fact stands that less than nine per cent of these goods is carried away from our ports in American ships. is a deplorable fact and the Republican we are paving foreign nations mililons of dol- lars every year to carry our exports to the world's marts. Not,one dollar of this money are going to reverse this condition. There 18 a strong plank in the Republican platform for the upbullding of the American merchant marine, and one that will bring mil- lions of dollars 'annually to American ship- owners. When Congress mission appointed by it to devise a way to unbulld the American- merchant marine will raport and a bill will be drafted. This will mean a great era of prosperity to the citles of California_and particularly to San Francisco, where there are some of the finest ship-building plants in_the world. They will have all they gan 0o then tuilding Baw ships for Uncle m. Mr, Kahn then touched -upon the Philippine question, defending the pol- fey of the Republican party in the re- tention of the islands, and then turned his attention to the rural postal delfv- ery service that had been inaugurated by the Government for the benefit of the farmers of the nation. He pointed to this" as an eyidence of progress for which the Republican party stands and as eyidence that in the future it will labor for the \nmet of all the people. 3 ¥ i ; MCALEER IS NOMINATED. - LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28.—The Re- publican City Comtlm; 0-day nomi- nated Owen MeAleer as its candidate for Mayor. There was a warm contest ever comes back to the United States, and we reconvenes, the com- QUL DOES N CLEAR M President Refuses to Re- instate Postoffice Lawyer Tyner, WRITES A SCATHING LETTER O Says Conduct Justifies Se- vere Gondemnation on Moral Grounds. ————— WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—By direction of the President, Secretary Loeb to-day sent to James N. Tyner, the former As- sistant Attorney General for the Post- office Department, a letter in reply to Tyner’s letter dated October 8 and made public 1ast night. The letter says that the question of Tyner's guilt on the criminal charge on which he was tried has been passed upon by a jury and the President acquiesces in the jury's finding, but the évidence “seems to him overwhelming that you (Tyner) were guilty either of moral obliquity in per- formance of duty or of the grossest in- efficiency.” The letter follows: White House, Washington, Oct. 28, 1904. Sir—The President has received this morn- ing your letter dated October 8, written in answer to my letter of June 24, which 1 have never madc "public, although you did make public your own letter which it answered. In your prescnt letter you again claim that a Wwrong hus been done you, and ask that it be righted. As you are out of office the righting of the wrong could only be effectad by your reinstatement to office, or a declaration by the President that you were Innocent. The Presi- dent insteicts me to say to you that his memorandum to which you take exception was written when three indictments against you had been returned by the Grand Jury, _the report of Mr. Bristow having been submiited to Messrs. Bonaparte and Conrad, and’ the uction taken against you by the Department of Justice being on the recommendtion of Messrs. Benapartc and Conrad. In his memorandum the President referred to your office as follows: ‘The investigation discloses a condition of gross corruption in the office of the Assistant Attorney General for the Postoffice Depart- ment. In the case of Assistant Attorney Gen- gral Tyner (tie misconduct) has gome on for a number of years, but it is impossible to say exactly when It began. ~* * ¢ The three chief offenders in the Government service. were Tyner, Machen and Beavers. Friends of Tyner hAve advanced the theory that in his case ti chief oftender was really his nephew by ma riage. Barrett, who was his assistant in office for a part of the term, and that Tyner's of- fensey were due to his failing bodily and mental powers. The facts set forth (n Mr. Bristow's report do mot tend to substantiate the vaildity of these excuses for Tyner, while they show literally astounding misconduct in Barrett. s e In the office of the Assistant At- torney General for the Postoffice Department, under Tyner and Barrett, far greater wrong was inflicted upon the public than could be measured by a pecuniary standard, for in this office the corruption of the Government offi- cials took the fofm of favoring get-rich-quick concerns and similar swindling schemes: in other words, -the criminals, whom It was the sworn duty of these Government officials to prosecute, vaid them for permission to flesce the public unmoiested. “'Of the criminal charges on which you were tried you have been declared innmocent by a jury in a court of law; the verdict is finaj Az regards all citizens, including the President There is. however, a wide difference between misconduct which” is criminal and declared such by the courts and misconduct which, though it does not render the wrongdoer liable to the criminal law, yei requires his im- | mediate separation from the Government ser- viee and justifies his severe condemnation by the general community on moral grounds. You were acquitted of conspiring with bar- rett to do certain criminal deeds. You were not_acquitted of doing the deeds. “That these get-rich-quick. concerns which employed Mr. Barrett were improperly favored in your office seems to admit of no doubt. In the case of the Arnold turf concern, where Mr, rett recelved $6000, a committee of the Migsouri Senate which investigated tne matter in March, 1903, reported as follow after commenting upon a report of the post- office inspector adverse to the concern in question : That the ruling of the department was not in accordance with his recommendation, that from the evidence It appears that the department at Washington, by some process or other, unknown to your committee, over- ruled the recommendation of the inspector, dismissed the cases pending against these com- panfes and they were allowed to proceed with their process of absorbing the people’s money. Had the department at Washington acted promptly and properly upon the recommenda- tion. of the inspector millions of dollars would have been saved the peovle of the State of Missourl and other States. Secretary Loeb’s letter recites the connection of Barrett, Tyner's nephew, with the revecation of fraud orders and declares that the record war- rants the statement that “your (Ty- ner's) removal was imperatively de- manded in the interest of honest and efficient government.”” The letter con- tinues: e There are certain’ matters which could not come before jury which nevertheless it was' and is necessary for the President to consider when you request him to take any action looking to the rehabilitation of your character. One of these is the burglary mitted by Mrs. Barrett, Mr. Barreti and by Mrs, Tyner at your directfon. Tyner came to the Postoffice Department, en- tered your private room In the office and then admitted . Barrett and a'safe expert and the three then rifled the safe. The Depart- ment of Justice has never been able to exactly what documents were at that abstracted from the safe. The President the right to assume that they would not have been abstracted In this manner had they not been of a character such as would gravely ineriminate you and Mr, Barrett. As regards this and all of the other actions the President was at'one time inclined to excuse you on the ground of your falling: powers, but as mon_cause with Mr. this excuse could ki time has sum) favor. For ), on (aoen 30, 1903, you, Writing on the 4 5. i o6 4k Assistant ;!nrn'yn . for the tfice De; it to the Post. is., asking that your STATEMENTS OF ENEM | Judge Parker Addresses ‘Delegation of Farmers A ccuses Republican Party of Parrying His Charges. ESOPUS, N. Y., Oct. 28.—Judge Parker addressed to-day a delegation composed largely of farmers from Orange and Rockland ecounties, New York. The delegation arrived at Rose- mount by boat and marched up the winding road to Judge Parker’s home, where they were received on the ver- anda. Judge Parker said: wide- No more. satisfactory evidence of the P spread public interest in the uumvl;o' con: trol the election by moneys of great orpora; tions and trusts need be jooked for than that | furnished by the President and his lats AL torney General, Knox. Knox was m to the presence of the President for a comsults tion. About what? About ti iniquity of the 'large corporations? _Contributions being made by large corporations and trusts? “Hot at all, but rather to devise means by s the force of the statement of this commonly accepted fact could be parried. The outcome was an interview by Senator Knox. Care wis taken to preface the interview with the state- ment that it met the approval of the Presi- dent. 1t may be treated, therefors, &s &7 administrative statement. . Though there are many of them these days two o0, them T shall make refe » In passing it should be said that Semator Kpox on this occasion—as on others—referred to the fact that I am of the opinion—and have said so—that existing law affo “;n adequate remedy against iilegal combinations. He says the law is insufficient and argues that, therefore, 1 am not in favor of bre ng up fllegal combinations. P he Senator s not Ingenious. Had he been be would have sald that in every imstanc which 1 have expressed the belie that the lay as it stands is sufficient to protect the veople and that nothing s lacking excep public officlals willing to enforce the law. I have added—in terms or in substance—that it my view n that respect is a mistaken on “then I favor such further leglslation within constitutional limitations as will give the peo- ple a just and full measure of protection. THE GREAT QUESTION. Now this long statement of Senator Knox had nothing whatever to do with the question t in the public mind. uDSp;:rl?ol.ht ':lmlllonl of Government, many of which pursue illegal methods, control our elections? Control them by moneys belonging to their stockholders—moneys mot given in the open and charged upon the booki‘dd: moneys pald (m‘bz:l‘:;lc-l purposes, but h w y false eeping? s !.eiltbo)r Knox has been at some pains hitherto to prove that with all his learning he does not know all about the common law. It hardly seems possible, however, that he does not know the rule that allegations of the com- plaint not denied by the answer are thereby admitted. He does not deny—nor could he— that these contributions were made. If he could have dome eo, of course, he would. If n do so now, he.is inv 5 heTi:l l:ter\ lew was Intended to create a cloud of dust behind” which” he hoped to hide " the charges he did not answer and could not an- swer. That charge ie that vast sums of money have been contributed for the eontrol of this election in aid of *she sdministration. What the few plain, unambiguous _sentences uttered by me on the subject of illegal combi- mean and what thay are understood by those who control the combina- hereto, which I have the honor to request may be_given promptly. floping 1o Know you personally in a short time and to be. able to v you official favors. This report was a grossly improper one for a man- in your position to make of a post- master and your lettep certainly implies that favors may be given or withheld in the discre- tion of the man making the request. The postmaster at Portage, accord- ing to Secretary Loeb's letter, declined to make the arrangement proposed and Miss Tyner was transferred to Chicago and the position she held at Portage abolished and no appointment to the vacancy made. The letter con- tinues: . It appears clear that you were keeping your daughter in the postal service nply for the sake of giving her the salary, and that when she did not occupy the position it was not deemed necessary to fill jt at all; and you actually called the attention of the postmaster | at Portage to this fact in order to induce him to retain your daughter, pointing out to him | that, as actually happened, he would lose the ‘appropriation for the position unless he acted as you desired On April 8§ of the me year you wrote 1o the postmaster at are, Mass., requesting that he appoint one Cora Watson as a clerk in_his offi¢e on condition that he was pro- vided with an allowance to pay her salary. In this letter you, the law official of the Post- | office Department, deliberately instructed the | postmaster to violate the, law by appointing Cora Watson in the Ware postoffice, where her services were not needed, The furtiveness of your action is shown by this statement in your letter to the postmaster: “You cah do as you wish about giving out the impression that she is there as a repre- sentative of the postoffice to assist In the es- tablishment of free delivery. It is only frank, howeyer, to say that she is not a postoffice expert.”” It was not a bona fide appointment, but one designed improperly to get Miss Watson in | the classified service. When the Postmaster abjected you assumed an offended tone in your letter to him of April 14, asking him why h& wished so much “‘ceremony” and why he was “timid” in the matter, assuring him that the appointment was proper and correct and war- ranted by law, because you were the lawW ad- viser not only of the Postoffice Department, but of the entire Postal Service, -and yet you could not possibly have heen ignorant that the transacticn was an fllegal one. ¥or the reasons.above set forth, the dent regrets to have to state to you that he cannct comply with your request. The ques- tin of your guilt on the criminal charge on which you wete tried having been passed upon by & jury, the President, course, acquiesces in its findings; but the evidence seems to him overwhelming 'that you were guilty either of moral obliquity in ‘the performance of your duty, or of the grossest inefficiency. Very truly yours, WILLIAM LOEB JR., Secretary to the President, Mr. Tyner to-night issued a state- ment to the public, in which he af- firmed that the President had mis- stated facts in the letter made public to-day. He declaréed the statement that he had favored Barrett's clients [ was untrue and that the records show- ed that in about twenty instances where Barrett had presented plans of business for ruling théy were in most cases passed on by Tyner's assistant and subsequently approved by the At- 1 torney General. The allegation that hig wife had committed burglary at the Postoffice Department, says Tyner, was “as un- imanly as it was unjustified.” Mrs. Tyner's visit, he said, was in office hours and was perfectly open and she took nothing from the safe except his private papers and a batch of semi- amination, although they consisted of nothing except letters’ and gifts to his wife. He denounced as indefensible tions, is evidenced in the part by the great activity of their leading officers in favor of ihe_clection of my opponest That_sctiviy may perhaps account in no small measu theylg:lny of both the Populist and Soctalist parties to prosecute expensive campaigns— campagins that appear to be prosecuted largely in aid of the Republican party. The adminis- tration also puts out a cablegram from Gov- ernor Wright of the Philippine Commission in reply to somae quotations m: by me in a speech delivered on the 15th day of October. The words quoted were the careful utterances of a man who has spent four months In the Philippines studying the conditions there. He 18 vouched for by Charles Francis Adams, | Cart Schurz, Edwin Burritt Smith, Herbert Weleh and Moore Fleld Story in these words: TRIBUTE TO WRIGHT. He has had sxceptional opportunities for learning the truth. For his entive homesty, his skill as a trained investigator, his judg- ment In weighing evidence and his relfability as a witness, we vouch. The evidence upon which his conclusions were based will be found, I informed, im thé Evening Post of to-day and probably in other papers. The article is too long to be guoted from in this brief address, but I ask with, and through you, the American people, to examine Governor Wright's cablegram in connection with that Teport and then answer these questions: “Do you believe the man thus vouched fop by six of the best citizens in this country? Which is likely to be prejudiced, the man hav- ing no motive but to learn the truth, or the Governor who may be in some measure re- sponsible for the unfortunate conditions? “Is the Governor's report of such a char- acter as to justify an expenditure of the Gov- ernment of several hundred dollars to cable & part of my spéech to Manila and to receive his reply by cable? It not Government business. It was political business. The cable- gram to Governor Wright and his reply were intended to aid the Republican campaigm, The mewsage to him began: “The Democratic candidate for President on the 15th of the present month in & public address said:” If a few hundred dollars may be taken out from the public funds to thus assist the pros- ecution of a political campaign, why may not the money from the treasury be employed for any purpose that will help the campaign? How do we know but it is? This is one of the evi- dences of the growth of Imperialism. The head of the Government “can do no wrong.”" An assauit upon his policy is an as- sauit upon the people, and hence the people's money can be legitimately used for his vindi- cation. TAYLOR'S CRITICISM. Judge Parker read from a newspaper clipping an interview with Acting Sec- retary of the Treasury Horace A. Tay- lor, in which that official criticized Judge Parker’s speech charging official extravagances. The speaker com- mented: Now you will observe that he nowhere chal- lenges the figures given by me. They cannot be quoted. They show that after taking the $50,000,000 paid for the Panama canal and rights this Government spent $160.000,000 more last year than it did seven years ago under a Demoeratic administration. Nor does Mr. Tuylor deny that the experies exceeded the riceints last year by over $40.- 000,000. Nor does he deny that for the first sixty days of this year the expenses exceeded the receipts by $24,000,000. In this connection P 1 call your attention fo the fact that the ex- penditures so far this year are greater than they were a year ago for the same period. Since June 30 there has been spent $198,681,- 077. During a like period last year there was dpent $179, 168,007. ‘We have N increase, therefore, this year of over $19,000,000 in less than a third of a year. And our expenses last year were the greatest in our history. Ome other fact should be noted. The deflcit for the present year, October 25, is over $21,000,000, as against $1,141,204 for identically the same period last year. Judge Parker read orders issued by department officials in Washington to prove his assertion, denied by Taylor, that were administrative tenders for- bidding Government offieials from mak- ing public any statements of estimates upon which future appropriations are based. TAKES UP TARIFF. The speaker then took up the tariff, dwelling upon the burdens of the farm- ers. Judge Parker told of the combina- tions of the manufacturers, whose ob- jest was “to make the farmer, laborer and business man continue to pay the high prices which the tariff duties made possible in this country without com- petition.” He continued: These combinations are trying to give suc- cess to the Republican party beeause that party and its President have notified t country that they stand pat, as they call it, on the tariff, which means that they will not interfere with it. Now the building these combinations, usually ealled trusts, promoted by excessive tariff duties, but . been extended far beyond the plans the originators. That the operatiom of most of them have proven harmful to the general pub- lic goed cannot be questioned. Judge Parker described the oppres- sion of the stock raiser, the retailer and the consumer by the beef trust and con- tinued: I select the meat trust, not because it ex- acts greater tribute than do other trusts, but as an illustration with which those of you who are farmers are perfectly familiar. There are a great many others operating om similar principles and their effect has been to in- crease the cost of living in every direction and also to deprive those Who engage in busi ness of that equal opportunity which was. once the glory and pride of this country. The small dealer and the small manufacturer are being driven out of business. 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