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Show . THE REPUBLfeNS AND MONEY Collier's Weekly had u K'guifi-ennt K'guifi-ennt editorial in its i'cmio of Augunt 23 entitled, ''The Uepubliciuii and Money." It i' given herewith: "Tl'e election and subswjuput death of Mr. Taft would mean the occupancy of tho White lluute by an olliclal fat-fryer who has during several years paat appriMched, with deferential hat in hand, the president presi-dent or treasurer of meet of the large rorporationa of tho country. It was in the course of this ollicial function that Sherman was profanely profane-ly turned down by Mr. Harriinan, with bitter denunciation ofthoUe-publlciin ofthoUe-publlciin party and reeking messages mes-sages for the head of that party, that the arty nnd the head of it I had not been grateful for the $250.-1 $250.-1 000 which Mr. Uarrltnan collected I and gave In J 004. Penrose, as ( one of tho executive committee of ' nine which is to tlo the actual work Jot the Republican campaign, is tu I error of tnMu nnd Judgment but not a gnutfdtol wortw. With T. Cole-iniin Cole-iniin Du Pnt "f Delaware, however, how-ever, tho etwe dilTcrn. Among ihe coinbinatioow now bo'-ng pro-cvutid by the federal govcrumeiit is lliat nggregaiinii of companies known ns thu' powder trust. Mi. Da I'dnt U president ofjthe fifty uilllion dollar Du Pont Powder Company, president presi-dent of the im million dollar International In-ternational Povder Company, director di-rector of tho International Smoke-lev! Smoke-lev! Ptw(er Cini'iiy, and viee-preNidciit viee-preNidciit of the holding company, the Delaware Securities Commny, wliichpwtiH niHj((rity of thu gtock of the Inflln it 'IUikI Powder Company. Com-pany. SupKite that Mr. Tuft, being be-ing siicccssfiil, should bu approach-el approach-el by Mr. Dii Pont thus: "I am one of tliu ton n)e, Including chairman chair-man Hitchcock, who have put you over tho plate. 1 don't want to be reminding you routiuually of thu obligation" thcro Is ohu small ptbcv of pttlrOllage"1! should like, and 1 hhuitrt s)cnk to roil ngain about p ilrouiigo again during your nilniin-jixtratiou. nilniin-jixtratiou. There is a deserving ! young friend of initio whom 1 'hIihuIiI like to have (ipp'iinletl to the Ipnxitinn lately held by Mr. Punly, 'in clnruu of that linrenii of thu Do-pnrlnient Do-pnrlnient of JiiaUco which is peek-, Ing to break up my company, deprive de-prive tnu of some of my property, . niid declare me a violator of the! law.' Something analogous would have been tho presence of Hairy Th.iw two yearn ago on a commit-J 1U! of ten to collect funds and promote pro-mote the election of Jeroiuo aa district dis-trict attorney. A minority plank, ' calling for u statute providing for publicity of campaign expendjtiirts, 1 was thrown out of tho committee 011 resojuiionp ly,u voto of 52 to 1, and was rejected on tiro lloor of tho convention, by a Vote, jaf 880 td 1)4 ' Nebinskn and Idaho and parts of ' Wisi-oiitiiii and Indiana favoring it. Tim amount ot ISuurbmiisui still ! left In thu Republican arty is far ' too largo " |