People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-07-15

10 6udUlS IJ6Iu 10 S6lA0 O10 property
for the clty-so- called and Mr..
Cleveland found a way to crafty
them by making the appraisal 500
foot. In so doing he refused to
admit testimony as to the value of
contiguous property, and for this the
Court of Appeals upset his finding.
In his second report Mr.. Cleveland
placed the valuation at 5000 foot.
1t is by such little surface indica-
tons as these that one is enabled to
see the cordial relations, financial as
well as social, which continued to ex-
ist between the anti-monopolist
claimant and his monopolistic spon-
sor.
Mr.. Whitney put into operation his
plan to secure Mr.. Cleveland's nomi-
nation in 1892 as soon as he had
taken his summer vacation in 1889.
For that matter the plan was laid out
before he left Washington. 1t began
to be developed as soon as Colonel
Lamont was made president of the
one horse avenue G. road. That
choice of the brilliant aid de camp of
Grover Cleveland puzzled the public
for time; but when the great Broad,
way Railroad was leased to the one
horse road andthe latter's capital stock
was increased from S3,25O,O0O to
$5,OOO,OOO on the value of that lease,
the public was no longer puzzled.
Then it was that Mr.. Whitney's fine
work was made manifest, for he had
then secured the cabling privilege
for the Broadway Railroad Company
by merely giving w. Bourke Cock
ran free lunch.
THE WAGE FARMERS FRIEND, INDEED.
The Whitney Philadelphia syndi
cate unites politics and business
wherever it goes, whether in Phila-
delphia, Boston, Chicago, New York
or Minneapolis. And all this infu-
ence in these various large centers
has been thrown according to Mr.
Whitney's desires. But for the de-
claration of the Chicago platform
against trusts and monopolies no man
in the country, judged on the basis
OF apparent facts, would be a more
vivid illustration of the power of
trusts und monopolies in politics than
Mr.. Whitney's man Cleveland, who
keeps away from public view of Mr..
Whitney just enough to enable him
to pose as the wage earner's peren-
NAL friend.
AS disclosed in The Press year
ago, Calvin S. Brice was made chair
man of the National Democratic
Committee IN active compliance with
Standard Oil interests in Ohio and
New York combined Mr.. Br1ce has
played his part judiciously. The
vast railroad Iand'trust interests of Mr..
Brice are, however, in active sym,
pathy with the other monopolies and
corporations surrounding the candi-
date on the anti-monopoly platform
OF Jetfersonian credulity.
Mr.. Whitney played a very shrewd
hand In the anti-snapper movement,
yet there is the best authority upon
earth for the statement that one of
his legal advisers contributed $4,000
to the campaign fund. And that
gentleman is Mr.. Cleveland's law
partner.
MR.. CLEVELAND AND WALL STREET.
1t was Henry Wizards $4,000
private car which took ex-Mayor
William r. Grace, ex-Secretary of the
Treasury Charles S. Fairchild and E.
Ellery Anderson from this city to
Chicago to get as nearly as possible
into the Democratic National Con
vention. The Press has already pub
lished full accounts Of this phase of
the Grace Cleveland movement and
of the campaign against trusts and
monopolies. The fact that Mr.. Vii
lard offered to contribute $4,000 to
help the endeavors Of Mr.. Grace, ex-
Office Holders Fairchild, Whitney,
Canda and Anderson of the Cleve
land Administration, to secure the
nomination of their chief, has also
been chronicled.
All the gentlemen are prominent
Wall street men, and directly or IN
directly interested in trust companies
or railroad corporations or other in
terests centered in Wall street. Mr..
Falrchild is president of the New
York Trust Company, at No. A Wall
street, just across the way from No.
80, the Wall street wing of the big
building in which Mr.. Cleveland, Mr..
Whitney and Mr.. Willard have their
offices.
Mr.. Anderson's office is at No. 10
Wall street. He is attorney and
counsel for corporations. Through
Mr.. Whitney's influence Mr.. Ander-
son was appointed United States
Railroad Commissioner bv Mr.. Cleve-