NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering CONGRESSMAN William B. Mc-Kinley, campaign manager for President Taft, testified before the senatorial investigating committee that he had collected and expended about...
...You still believe in the wisdom of these principles as much as we do...
...I never had such a conversation," said Crane...
...It is admitted on both sides, however, that money was raised and expended in the various states in addition to that accounted for by the national managers...
...Crane said he gave about $5,000 a month to La Follette...
...Other contributors were John Hays Hammond, $25,000...
...La Follette's expenses were $10,817 for the Washington headquarters...
...La Follette spent $1,500 himself...
...I desired to see a progressive nominated and elected president," continued Crane, "I could very well support both Wilson and La Follette, as both men are progressives...
...Medill McCormick loaned the La Follette committee $1,000 and Senator Gronna $500, both of which sums were repaid...
...In connection with his testimony Crane made the following statement...
...If the committee succeeds in uncovering in detail all of the sums expended in the various states but not accounted for by the national campaign managers, indications are that the use of many hundreds of thousands of dollars will be revealed...
...This is a larger sum than that testified to by Treasurer Hooker of the Roosevelt campaign committee, who swore to contributions amounting to about $144,000...
...I have been in sympathy with the progressive spirit for many years...
...Senator Crane, $5,000...
...Mr...
...He asked that the income tax be given a fair trial, and predicted that if that were done the people of the state would never permit the repeal of the law...
...My contribution to the Wilson fund was made after it had become apparent that La Follette probably could not be nominated...
...It would have been mere folly immediately to have prepared for another change...
...I talked with him but never told him I gave such sums...
...How much did you give to Governor Wilson...
...It has been a matter of regret to me," he said, "that Senator La Follette, who has done much for the progressive cause, has felt that because of his antagonism to me he must range himself against the progressive movement in this campaign, thereby giving his old time enemies, the reactionaries, a much needed support, which they have acknowledged by the first praise they have given him in twenty years...
...During Senator La Follette's time as Governor and since you have helped to build up these and other departments of the state service...
...During the primary campaign, particularly during the California campaign, I was stated to be the head of the so-called 'bath tub' trust...
...Rudolph Spreckels, $3,000, and Mrs...
...At this writing Colonel Roosevelt is resting in a hospital with prospects of quick recovery...
...Governor McGovern traced the long struggle in Wisconsin to make government responsive and responsible to the public will and asked for the support of all progressives who want to see this program continued...
...I was willing to give as much to each candidate," he said...
...Remember that the only progressive state ticket in Wisconsin this year is Republican...
...William Flinn, $1,000...
...Hannan gave the names of persons who would know of such facts...
...He drew the issues in the present campaign clearly between the special interests seeking a return to power and favoritism in Wisconsin and the continuance of government in the public interest...
...I made no secret of the fact...
...Will you join with Judge Karel and the Manufacturers Association in tearing these institutions down...
...He proved also that the expense of conducting these commissions is relatively small and that the material saving alone to the people of the state runs into the millions of dollars...
...He gave no money to the Bull Moose fund...
...This is an error...
...He made conclusive answer to the charge of the Democratic candidates and their Stalwart Republican allies that the state was burdened with a multitude of expensive and useless commissions by reviewing the character of the work that has been and is still being accomplished by the Dairy and Food Commission, the Railroad and Public Utilities Commission, the Tax Commission, the Industrial Commission, the Industrial Education Commission, the Civil Service Commission and other bodies of experts employed to do the work of the people in safeguarding them against all manner of exploitation by interests so powerful that only the strong arm of the state is able to cope with them on equal terms...
...On the 14th, just before making a speech in Milwaukee, Colonel Roosevelt was shot by John Schrank of New York City—a man who confessed he had been following Roosevelt since September 12, determined to kill him...
...The Governor's speech was a comprehensive review of the development of the progressive movement in Wisconsin, the working out of progressive principles into law and the proven benefits of the operation of these laws...
...He said other money in the several states was given, but he had no records...
...A. Scripps, $450...
...Richard Kerens of St...
...Crane said he gave $26,684.40 to La Follette's campaign...
...When I became President," said Mr...
...Louis, $5,000...
...The time for such another change did not ripen until the very end of my Administration...
...La Follette's Expenses Colonel John Hannan, secretary to Senator La Follette, submitted to the committee a statement of La Follette's pre-convention receipts and expenses...
...Representative Kent, of California, $10,000...
...Andrew Carnegie, $25,000...
...1,558 at the Chicago convention and $1,200 for campaign expenses...
...McGovern Outlines Issues Governor F. E. McGovern of Wisconsin opened his campaign for reelection with a speech in Milwaukee, October 9, which was well received...
...Of this fund about $150,000 came from President Taft's brothers...
...Secretary of State Knox, $2,500...
...He declared that Crane had not given La Follette $70,000 as asserted by Treasurer Hooker, of the "progressive" party...
...Hannan said Charles R. Crane had given $4,480 additional to the Chicago headquarters of La Follette, making Crane's total contribution to La Follette's cause $26,684...
...It has been asserted that I did not take sides with La Follette people in their campaign in Wisconsin in 1904...
...Said McGovern, "I want to say a word to the progressive Democrats here to-night...
...Indeed it was brought out in the hearing that in one state alone, Pennsylvania, the $141,000 contributed to the Roosevelt candidacy by William Flinn, was spent almost entirely within the state...
...merits, knowing that once it is proved and understood future attacks upon it will be futile...
...Roosevelt Defends His Tariff Record On October 11th, Colonel Roosevelt delivered a speech in Wisconsin, at Oshkosh, explaining his record on the tariff question and attacking Woodrow Wilson, who he said had changed his attitude so that "at present his sole chance lies in the support of the reactionaries...
...More money was raised in Ohio...
...News Worth Remembering CONGRESSMAN William B. Mc-Kinley, campaign manager for President Taft, testified before the senatorial investigating committee that he had collected and expended about $265,000 to bring about the renomination of President Taft...
...and Attorney General Wickersham, $1,000...
...Glendower Evans, $276...
...Yes, sir...
...He stated emphatically that the rich and favored opponents of the tax are making desperate efforts to overthrow it in this campaign to prevent an actual demonstration of its...
...I do not now and never have owned and neither has any of my family, any stocks or bonds of any of the so-called trusts...
...Amos Pinchot, $10,000...
...Total receipts were $63,965, and expenses, $63,961...
...Roosevelt, "business had just passed through two terrible earthquakes, there having been two complete and sweeping changes of the tariff in the preceding eight years...
...Will you allow a party name or a party label to prevent you from standing for the things in Wisconsin in which you believe...
...That I was contributing to both the Wilson and La Follette funds was known to the managers of the two campaigns...
...He analyzed the income tax law, showing that it operates effectively, first as a revenue getter and second as an equalizer of the tax burden, removing the lion's share from the shoulders of the poor, who have in the past been forced to bear it, and placing it upon the backs of the rich, who are well able to carry it...
...Crane's attention was then called to Hooker's testimony that he (Crane) told Hooker that he had given $70,000 each to the La Follette and Wilson campaigns...
...Alfred L. Baker, $2,000...
...You did that as a patriotic duty to give patriotic effect to progressive principles...
...Is that all you gave directly or indirectly...
...1,651 for telegraph and telephone...
...Charles R. Crane, of Chicago, $23500...
...Ten thousand dollars," said Crane, "in two contributions, one on March 28, and another on April 30...
...10,450 for the Chicago headquarters...
...Papers taken from Schrank's clothes indicate an insane belief that the ghost of McKinley inspired the shooting...
...The expenses of the California campaign," said Hannan, "were largely paid by Rudolph Spreckels, who also gave $2,500 to La Follette personally and $400 was received from another San Francisco man whom I do not know...
...Wisconsin newspapers are pointing out that nearly every one in the state remembers the reverse to be true...
...What Crane Contributed Charles R. Crane followed Hannan on the witness stand...
...To La Follette's fund, Gifford Pinchot gave $10,000...
...And Roosevelt asseverated that Senator La Follette is now ranged "against the progressive movement"—a statement that drew amused smiles from Wisconsin voters who participated in the long struggle in Wisconsin to give life to the progressive movement...
...Colonel Roosevelt made mention of the outspoken opposition of Senator La Follette to his assumption of leadership and representation of the progressive movement and attempted to show that, while President, he did not use his influence against the progressive movement in Wisconsin...
Vol. 4 • October 1912 • No. 42
