. Review of reviews and world's work. y consistent witheach other. First, itwas charged that as campaignchairman had, beforeresigning from the Sec-retaryship of Com-merce and Labor, usedthe powers of his officeto possess himself of avast deal of inside in-formation regardingthe great industrial cor-porations, and that inhis capacity as cam-paign manager he hadmade use of this infor-mation practically to extort as blackmail from the corporations greatsums with which to buy the election. Theother charge was that the administration hadpractically surrendered to Wall Street as re-gard
. Review of reviews and world's work. y consistent witheach other. First, itwas charged that as campaignchairman had, beforeresigning from the Sec-retaryship of Com-merce and Labor, usedthe powers of his officeto possess himself of avast deal of inside in-formation regardingthe great industrial cor-porations, and that inhis capacity as cam-paign manager he hadmade use of this infor-mation practically to extort as blackmail from the corporations greatsums with which to buy the election. Theother charge was that the administration hadpractically surrendered to Wall Street as re-gards its future policy toward corporations, andthat the magnates and plutocrats hadtherefore of their own free will decided to electMr. Roosevelt, and accordingly had contributedthe necessary money with which to secure thedesired result. The Democratic candidate, J udgeParker, had the misfortune to be led into themaking of these charges in a series of speecheswith which he tardily broke his long campaignsilence just before election THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES. (Reduced from the large campaign poster sent everywhereby the Republican National Committee.) issued from the WhiteHouse and signed Theodore Roosevelt,—a statement veryexplicit and full, takingmore than a column ofnewspaper type, andbeginning with the fol-lowing paragraph : Certain slanderous ac-cusations as to Mr. Cortel-you and myself have beenrepeated time and againby Judge Parker, the can-didate of his party for theoffice of President. Heneither has produced norcan produce any proof oftheir truth ; yet he has notwithdrawn them ; and ashis position gives themwide currency, I speaknow lest the silence of self-respect be misunderstood. The President then setforth the charges andthe questions at issue,after which he deniedthem in language as ex-plicit and emphatic asany man has ever putinto a public explained that had beenchosen as chairman ofthe National Commit-tee only after Mr. Elihu Root,
Size: 1249px × 2001px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookpublishernewyo, bookyear1890
