The Portland daily press., 1888-07-21
DEMOCRACY ON WHEELS.
The Capitalists Who Want to Rail-
road Cleveland Into the
White House.
New York SUM-

The National Democratic Campaign Com
mittee this year is chock full of political sa-
gacity and of practical business energy.
When this committee meets with the Hon.
William IL. Barnum, the Chairman Of Ma
tiOnal and Executive Committees Of the same
glorious Democracy, the room contains re-
markable conclaye OF railroad men.
The Democratic canvass this year Is to be
managed by railroad men. The four princi-
pal names in the executive management will
undoubtedly be Col Calvin Stewart Brice of
Elma, Ohio, and New York city; the Hon.
Arthur Sewall of Bath, Maine; the Hon.
William l.. Scott Of Erie, Pennsylvania, and
the Hon. William III. Barnum of Lime Rock,
Connecticut
Mr.. Barnum is president Of the Housatonic,
and director Of the HOusatonic, the Danbu-
ry and Norwalk, the Hartford and Con-
necticut Western, the jacksonville, Tampa
and Key West, the Richmond and Allegheny,
and the West Virginia Central and Pitts
burgh-6.
Mr.. Sewall was one of the greatest wooden
shipbuilders of the United States until
wooden shipbuilding played out in America
and then he turned his able attention to rail-
road matters. lie Is president of the Maine
Central, president of the Eastern, president
Of the Portland, Saco q Portsmouth, presi-
dent of the Portsmouth, Great Falls & Con-
way, president Of the Chelsea Beach rail-
way, and director in those companies, be-
sides the Portland q Rochester and the st.
John Bridge and Railway Extension Com
pany-7.
Lake Erie & Western, vice president Of the
East Tennessee, Virginia Il Georgia, vice
president of the Memphis & Charleston,
vice president Of the Duluth, South Shore
Il Atlantic, vice president Of the Marquette,
Hought0n Il Ontonagon, and director Of all
three Companies, and also of the Richmond
& Allegheny, the Richmond IL West Point
Terminal, the Kentucky Central and the
Denver, Utah & Pacifc-9
The Hon. Bill Scott is president OF the
Erie and Pittsburgh. and a director in the
Erie and Pittsburgh. the Sharpsville, the
Newcastle and Beaver Valley, the New
York, Philadelphia and Norfold, the Chica-
go and Northwestern, the Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis and Omaha, the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern, the Michigan Central,
the Chica and Canada Southern, the Michi-
gan Midland and Canada, the Toledo, Cana
da Southern and Detroit, the Richmond
and Aleghany, and the Canadian Pacific
Is.
is a director Of the West Virginia Central
and Pittsburgh
The Hon. John S. Barbour, Of Virginia, is
vice president Of the Virginia Midland.
Mr.. Herman 0elrichs, of New York, Is not
a railroad man, so far as we know, but he il
a member Of the firm which is a part owner
and the American representative of the
great transatlantic steamship company, the
Norddeutscher Lloyd.
The only remaining members Of the cam
paign committee are Senator Ransom of
| North Carolina, Mr.. Erskine M. Phelps Of
| Illinois, and Mr.. Miles Ross of New Jersey.
| Perhaps, in modest way, they are railroad
| directors too, but we can't say.
| 1t will be observed that while Mr.. Scott
| leads both Mr.. Sewall and Col. Brice in the
number Of railways which he helps to
manage, and while Mr. Sewall is president
| of more railroad companies than the other
| two gentlemen together, Col. Brice IS lar
ahead as a railroad vice president OF not
| less than five railroad companies.
The railroad interests Of these gentlemen
network the United States. They extend
| north, south, west, northwest southwest
| and southeast. They reach from the canti-
lever bridge Of st. John, beyond the extreme
northeastern corner Of American sunrise, to
| the Florida everglades and the coral islands
| of the Gulf Of Mexico. They stretch out to
| the Pacific, over mountains and across the
| prairies, and in one case, that Of Brother
| Scott thev transcend our national bounda-
res and include three thousand miles of rail
through British territory.
But that Is not the main point. The main
point is that the management OF the
| Democratic campaign of 1888 is in the hands
| of men of uncommon business energy
| equipped with the resource of extensive
practical experience, and wide acquaintance
with human character and affairs, and like
wise with numismatics and geography. A:
another and an elder Sewall-his..name was
Jonathan-sang more tkan century ago.
Rise then, my countrymeni for fight prepare
Gird on your swords, and fearless rush to war
Nopent-up Utica contracts your powers
But the whole boundless continent is yours!'
The gentlemen of this Campaign Commit
| tee ought, az all events, to be able to furnisl
transportation to the White House.