fwsrsjai &" w r The Commoner. SEPTEMBER 20, 1907 -tfemmetgr jli '33"BPS of the republican machine In Now York, state has recently said, "Theodore Roosevelt will bo re-nominated by acclamation." Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has been studying forestry in the west and northwest. Mr. Garfield ha3 done all the public land estates and territories. Mr. Metcalf has made a tour of inspection, of the various naval stations. Secretary Strauss has been studying Immigration conditions in the far west, and yet these cabinet officers and other high officials of the administration all return to pronounce that Theodore Roosevelt is the first choice of all good republicans, and Roosevelt is silent. Recently at a meeting of the republican club in New Haven, Conn., Congressman Sperry, launched a third term boom for the president which was greeted enthusiastically. Is it any wonder that the public conclude that Mr. Roose velt, in spite of his election night announcement, is really a candidate for re-nomination. Until the president speaks, there can be no certainty In this matter. If he does not intend to bo a can didate his silence has only 'unduly complicated the political situation for too long a time al ready; indeed, the public is entitled to an au thoritative answer in this matter, certainly the political situation would be greatly simplified if it should appear that the president believes his duty tends in the direction of another term, his former public declarations to the contrary notwithstanding. Why is the president silent; when will he speak? WILLIS J. ABBOT. Special Offer Each of the following persons have sent In yearly subscriptions to The Commoner in num ber as follows: L. F. Weidenbacher, Mt. Pu laski, 111., 10; F. W. Schroder, Lake Andes, S. Da., 6; W. B. VanHorn, Vinton, la., 8; F. A. Roberts, Vanlue, Ohio, 7-; I. D. 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Harrl- man during the closing hours of tho 1904 cam paign for the benefit of- tho republican party. The World presents a synoposls of tho story In this way: "Tho mystery concerning tho campaign fund raised by Edward Henry Harriman on Octo ber 29, 1904, 'at the personal solicitation of President Roosevelt,' has been cleared up by the World and Is sot forth below. Tho amount of that fund, names of the subscribers thereto and tho manner of Its collection by Mr. Harri man and Unltod States Senator Chauncey M. Depew have been obtained from a source that leaves no room for question. The exact amount of 'the fund was $200,000, not $200,000, as has been stated. The names 9f the subscribers to it and the amount given by each of them are as follows: Edward H. Harriman $ 50,000- H. McK. Twombly (representing tho Vanderbllt interests) 25,000" Chauncey M. Depew (personal) 25,000 James Hazen Hyde 25,000 The Equitable Life Assurance Society 10,000 J. Pierpont Morgan 1 0,000 George W. Perkins (Now York Life In surance Company) . , 10,000 H. H. Rogers, John D. Archbold, Wil liam Rockefeller Standard Oil Co.) 30,000 James Speyer and Banking Interests. . 10,000 Cornelius N. Bliss (personal) ........ 10,000 Seven Friends of Senator Depew, $5,000 each 35,000 Sent to Mr. Harriman in smaller dona tions -. . . . 20,000 Total .' $200,000 "This sum of money, exceeding by $00,000 the amount estimated by George B. Cortelyou, chairman of the republican national committee, and B. B. Odell, jr., chairman of the republican state. committee, to be necessary to Insure the election of Mr. Roosevelt as president and ,Mr. HIgglns as governor, was collected by Mr. Har riman and Senator Depew and turned over by Mr. Harriman to Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer of the republican national committee. "Mr. Bliss gave his check for the full amount to Mr. Cortelyou. The latter retained $00,000 of it for his own uses in the state and gave his check for the remaining $200,000 to Mr. Odell." Mr. Cortelyou took occasion to denounce as false the World's story. And the World re plies in this more or less heated editorial: MR. CORTELYOU SHOULD RESIGN "George B. Cortelyou, secretary of the treasury and chairman of the republican national committee, denounces as 'false and mendacious' the World's account of the coHectlon and ex penditure of the so-ca.lled Harriman contribution to the republican campaign fund of 1904. "Does Mr. Cortelyou deny that after a con ference between himself, Cornelius N. Bliss and Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., he asked Mr. Harriman to raise $200,000 for the republican campaign fund? "Does Mr. Cortelyou deny that In order to give Mr. Harriman assurances that the adminis tration would not 'run amuck' he arranged for an interview between Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Harriman? "Does Mr. Cortelyou deny that the inter view took place, and that, in Mr. Roosevelt's own words in a subsequent letter to Mr. Har riman, 'you and I were both so engaged In the New York political situation that we talked of little else?' "Does Mr. Cortelyou deny that Immediately -after this interview Mr. Harriman and his asso ciates raised $200,000, the principal contributors being Mr. Harriman, Senator Depew, James Hazen Hyde, H. McK. Twombly, H. H. Rogers, William Rockefeller, J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Archbold, George W. Perkins and Cornelius N. Bliss? - "Does Mr. Cortelyou deny that this money was turned over to him for Mr. Bliss and that eight days before the election he gave $200,000 of it to Mr. Odell to Influence the state election? . "Does Mr. Cortelyou deny that the cam paign was over at that time, that the money was intended to corrupt voters, and that Mr. Har riman was able to boast afterward that with the help of this money his friend Odell succeed ed In turning 50,000 votes In Now York City alone, 'making a difference of 100,000 votes In the gouornl result?' "If tho World's account bo 'fnlse and mon daclous,' confirmed as it la In part by Mr. Roose velt's own letter to Representative Shorman and Mr. Harriman's lottor to Sidnoy Wobstor, Mr, Cortelyou can prove such falsehood and mendacity by opening tliQ books of tho republi can national committoo. The World challenged him to do It during the 1901 campaign. It has challongod him repeatedly since. Ho has al ways refused. "More scandalous than thoso contributions, more scandalous even than the uses to which tho money was put, is tho fact that Gcorgo B. Cortelyou, former grand inquisitor of corpora tions, who know their socrots, who solicited this contribution from Mr, Harriman, who arranged tho Interview with the presidont, who brought tainted monoy up to tho very doors of tho White House, should now bo secretary of tho treasury of tho United States and In a position to give or withhold financial favors from tho men and interests who contributed or rofused to con tribute to tho campaign fund which ho collected. "Mr. Cortelyou should resign. In any otlier civilized country ho would bo forced out of office. "Fancy an English chancollor of tho ex chequer holding ofllco in any cabinet after such a series of exposures as that which has pursued Mr. Cortelyou since ho laid aside his duties as secretary of commerce to fry tho fat from tho corporations his department had full power to Investigate! Fancy a French minister of flanance Impudently trying to woathor tho storm that would there follow such rovelations as these! "Not only should Mr. Cortolyou resign, but Mr. Roosevelt owes It to himself to Insist on at least one act of atonement, by compelling the republican national committee to return to Edward H. Harriman the $50,000 that wont Into tho republican campaign chests and presumably camo out of tho pockets of the stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad company." Some of the friends of Mr. Roosevelt are pointing out that It Is significant that tho World is in a position to got tho secrets of tho railroad magnates and that It is significant also that while the World speaks very bravely concerning some evils, it has not beon conspicuous for its criticism of railroad evils. oooo PUBLIC STILL IN DOUBT At a meeting of the directors of the Illinois Central Railway company Mr. Fish said that Mr. Harahan was a tool of Mr. Harriman, and Mr. Harahan said that Mr. Fish was a liar. Whereupon Mr. Fish Hinoto Mr, Harahau in the optic. Then directors separated the combatants and the"mootlng adjourned. The result of this little argument, fistic and verbal, is still in doubt, and an anxious public would like to be enlightened as to tho facts. Did Mr. Fish ex press a great truth as regards Mr. Harahan, or did Mr. Harahan give utterance to a-great truth when he spoke so warmly of Mr. Fish. THE WORRYING BROTHER Satan come a-chasin' me lively thoo' de night; Run me fum de shadders ter do breakln' or do light; An' I can't climb ter heaven an' de yuther place in sight, An' I don't know what's a-coming' on Ter- morrer! ' .-'.- He run me oh, he run me dos ez fur ez ho ' kin see; He swim de ragin' river an' he climb de burnln tree; An' 1. wonders what ho wantln' wid a sinner po' ez me? An' I dunno what's a-coming on Ter- morrer! He sho' got time I tell you! ter be runnin' roun' lak' dat! Wisht de harrican vould head 'ira, or de earf " quake th'ow 'Im flat! De sinners sho'll be burnln' on de griddles whar dey at An' I dunno what's a-cpmlng on Ter morref! Frank L. Stanton, in Uncle Remus' Magazine. i f I itAt .