Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-25


mugwump allies are en%deavoring to
make capital against the republican
convention on the charge that it is
largely under the influence of capital
and the corporations. They support
their allegation by pointing to the fact
that the chairman of the national COM
mittee by which the convention was
called is alarge and wealthy iron man
u%facturer; that the temporary chair
man of the convention is 4 railroad at
torney; that u prominent candidate for
a time is a railroad president, and that
another prominent candidate has made
his large wealth in the lumber trade.
All this is true, and it would
certainly be better for the party
if it we're not so. The selection of Mr..
Thurston rs the temporary chairman
of the convention was q mistake and
THE BEE did not hesitate to sound n
warning against his selection when his
name was first suggested. After the
choice wa made this paper spoke of it
as a blunder which the enemy would
make the best possible use Of. That is
now being done. We also declared an
uncompromising opposition to Mr..
Depew, and we are disposed to think
not without effect. AT all events the
president Of the New York Central was
not long in discovering that we had
correctly voiced the sentiment of the
great majority of western republicans,
and he pulled out of the race. 1t would
| perhaps have been better if he had
never been allowed to enter it, and yet
his having done so has furnished y val
liable lesson which men in his relations
who cultivate political ambition will not
500 forget.
But admitting all this, how much bet
ter off was the democratic convention?
| The man who had most to do with the
management of the interests of the adj
ministration as st. Louis, Congressman
Scott, of Pennsylvania, has greater
wealth than any man in the Chicago
convention, every dollar of which he
has made under the same favoring con-
ditions that have given Alger and
others their wealth. Mr.. Scott is
largely identified with railroad corpo-
%rations and is one of the great coal
| operators of the country, in which lat
ter capacity he is said not to have been
always so ~considerate of the labor he
employed as justice demanded. Ger
tainly it is not recorded of him that he
ever showed labor any exceptional gem
crosby or hesitated to take any advan-
tage for augmenting his wealth. AS Il
member of the committee on ways and
mean Mr.. Scott was watchful of his
personal interests in inducing the ma
iority of the committee not to put coal
on the free list, Another conspicuous
figure and influence in the
democratic convention was Bryce
of Ohio, a millionaire who made his
money, and in "a comparatively few
years too, in railroad operations. Some
of these were of a decidedly question
able character, but the knowledge OF
this has not interviewed with Mr.. Bryce
going to the front in the democratic
politics Of Ohio, and he is said now tC
have his eye on the United States sen.
ate, where Ohio is now represented by
a millionaire democrat whose election
was procured largely with Standard oil
company money.
The democracy can boast of little adj
vantage over the republicans in the
matter of the influence of the money
power. Both parties are far too ready
to court that influence and to submit
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