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

Railroad scheme, through which he
made some millions of dollars by I'M
loading the road on William H. Van
derbilt, who bough it in order to save
the New York Central from disas-
trous competition.
Mr.. Willard is even more promi-
nently known as the getter up of
foreign and domestic syndicates to
float his Northern Puci6c Railroad
schemes. That both these gentle
men are in active sympathy with Mr..
Cleveland goes without saying One
form Of this activity may be seen in
the fact that Mr.. Willard is now cred
tied with being;the controlling power
in the leading evening Mugwump
newspapers in this city. The infu-
ence, if not actual control, of the
Grace syndicate in the leading morn
ing Mugwump newspaper is, Incl
dentally, subject of mention.
1t will be recalled that the Western
National Bank was organized to af-
ford Wall street scene of action for
the ex-Cleveland administration, or a
goodly part of it. Daniel Manning
was made president of it. Then, on
his death, Charles J. Canda of the
Whitney-Grace reform and anti
monopoly combination, was chosen
to the place. He did not prove sat
isfactory, and so Drayton S. Ives was
made president of the bank. Mr..
Ives is an old time financial ally of
Mr.. Whitney, having embarked with
him as far back at least as the DAYS of
the incorporation of the Broadway
Railroad Company some ten years
ago. In all this shuffling of Wall
street interests, Whitney man as a
Cleveland annex is sure to turn up.
MIR. CLEvELAND's ANTI : MONOPOLY
FRIENDS.
At Chicago two men turned up
among the Tammany braves who
were for Cleveland all the time.
These were John D. Crimmrns, the
Whitney contractor, and Thomas f.
Ryan, the treasurer of the Whitney
Philadelphia surface railroad syndi-
cate. Mr.. Crimmins has the contract
for laying the cable in Broadway.
After Tammany persecution had
compelled William Wharton, of
Philadelphia, to throw up his con-
tract for laying the cable in Third
avenue it was Mr.. Crimmins who got
the job, and now all is lovely. The
Whitney syndicate is trying to get
hold of the Third avenue railroad on
the same line of track as on the
Sixth avenue railroad. When Henry
Hart dies they may succeed.
AS for Thomas T. Ryan, it was he
who, according to testimony before
the Fassett investigating committee,
met Richard Croker in Baltimore
and swept the deck for action for
the coming Cochran free lunch with
Mr.. Whitney. Mr.. Cochran has al
ways been Whitney man, at least
ever since Mr.. Whitney became Sec
rotary of the Navy, and although he
may talk for Hill he is for Whitney
every time. 1t has been only fear of
Mr.. Grace which has kept Tammany
from following Mr.. Whitney into
the Cleveland Camp.
THEY ARE ALL WALL STREET MEN.
In all these combinations, whether
the name be Crimmins, Ryan, Fair
child, Willard or Grace, they all
lead to Wall street. Mr.. Ryan is
member of the Stock Exchange and
bears the reputation of being Mr..
Whitney's broker.
If there be a member or an out
post of the whole Whitney-C leve-
land element In the city, from Vii
lard and Brice down to Crimmins
and Wagstaff, which does not begin
in, flourish in and end in Wall street,
the fact has not yet been discovered.
THE GRACE-ENGLIsH SYNDICATE.
For years, as matter of history
and record, William R. Grace and
Michael p Grace, his brother, have
been engaged in an endeavor of al
most fabulous proportions, and that
is to secure control of the undevel-
oped mineral and fertilizing wealth
of Peru. Upon the death Of Henry
Meigs his great railroad contracts in
Peru were secured by the Grace
brothers. Among these the richest
has always been esteemed the Oroya
Railroad grant, since that road, when
completed over mountainous re-
gion hard of access, would lead into
the heart of the Oroya silver mines,
where tens of millions upon tens of
millions of mineral wealth are CON
cealed.
In order to execute the vast an
dertaking of completing the Meigs
railroad contracts, it became neces-
Sarv to form a syndicate Tho