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Show The Standard Oil Trust, the Sugar Trust, and the Iron Trust are all Domocraic Trusts, they all have representatives in Congress and no Democratic Representative or Senator has ever devised or proposed any plan to throttle those Trusts. But then Judge Parker knows no way of striking at Trusts that are hold-ups and: in restraint of trade, save through the common law. In the platform which he wrote or revised for the Democracy of New York, all punishment for the unlawful acts of Trusts must be through the states in which such trusts are incorporated. The Trusts generally are' supporting Parker because be-cause they know their man. & & & One of the meanest slanders started and circulated cir-culated by the enemies of Presiednt Roosevelt was that he recommended an appropriation of $90,000 for a new stable for the White House, carrying the idea that he wanted the stable for his own use. The truth is he never asked for any appropriation of the kind. The Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds asked, for good leason, that the site of the stable be changed. It Is used mostly for Government horses and vehicles President Roosevelt bought his own horses and pays for their feed precisely as did Presidents McKinley, Harrison and Cleveland before be-fore him. |