St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-05

members. The committee has been
added to from time to time as the cam
paign progressed. Thomas Dolan,
president Of the Manufacturers club,
of Philadelphia, is the chairman.
Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer of the
national committee. is member. So is
Mr.. Haines. So is George NJ. Pullman,
who raised 100000 to buy votes in In
drama, after sending his check for S25,-
600 to buy votes wherever the national
committee chose to. Another member
is Chauncey M. Depew, who is relied
upon to secure railroad contributions,
and still another is ID. o. Mills, the
millionaire father-ln-laW of WhitelaW
Reid. One of the hardest worked mem
berS of this shadowy committee is Harry
Oliver. of Pittsburg, the great iron man
| ufacturer, and there is no doubt that
! IL. G.. Frick is member. His contribu-
ton of $3.50, 900 would entitle him 10 I'M
mediate recognition among this commit
! tee of.mODey-b bags, even had he no other
qualifications. Secretary ElkinS is cred
lted with having put the screws OH Mr..
Frick 1t is known that the Carnegie
people contributed $4,000 or more to
the corruption fund, and in return for
Liberal Contributions
in this campaign. the firm of Carnegie,
Pmpps IL Co. received from the navy
department the largest contract for
armor plate that has ever been given
out, and at price much higher than
many other steel manufacturers would
have been glad to accept. Charles j..
Harrah. who contributed $4,000 to the
FIN ri,
Manufacturers Club of Philadelp hia
in 1888. has made this public state
ment, which has never been denied
The contract given to Carnegie and H.
G. Frick was for 1900 tons of armor
plate at all average price of So 40 a ton,
and the contract was given without any
competition, or any invitation TO other
manufacturers to bid for the contract.
The labor troubles at Homestead, for
which Ii. G. Frick was rOundly abused
by his party because lie precipitated a
reduction of wages before election. have
resulted, it is claimed. in the firm pro-
ducing an inferior quality of armor
plate. When II. C.. Frick was sum-
moned to New York with Secretary
Elkins to meet him and explain the
necessities of the party, and with the
Power OF ReVOking
the most profitable contract ever given
out under the Harrison administration,
it is not difficult to understand how Mr..
Frick was compelled TO stand and de-
liver $250,000.
But while the manufacturers have
been assessed without mercy, it must
not be supposed that those other allies
of plutOcracy and Republicanism, the
trusts, have been neglected. The news
papers yesterday chronicled the visit of
Thomas G.. Platt and Senator Frank
Hiscock to the Office of the sugar trust
in Wall street. They went after $780,
900 which the trust agreed some time
ago 10 contribute to the Republican cor
ruption fund. No one doubts that the
bargain was cOnsummated, as bargain
was consummated before, and the duty
retained on refined sugar, while raw
sugar was admitted free. Col. A. K.
Mcclure, of Philadelphia, exposed the
bargain between the sugar trust and the
Republican mercenaries as mercilessly
as lie branded the protected manufact-
urers of Pennsylvania who bought tariff
legislation with the money that they
contributed to the campaign corruption
fund of 1888.
Purchase of Power.
In Col. McClure's great Boston speech
he didn't confine himself to the jobbing
arrangement through which the election
of President Harrison was purchased.