People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-07-15
CLEVELAND A MONOPOLIST
HIS RECORD DOES NOT HARM ONIZE
WITH HIS PARTY'S PLATFORM.
The Standard Oil, a Railroad Trust
and a English Syndicate
CIeyeIand'S BackerS.
New York Press.


Grover Cleveland, IN the hands OF
representatives of the greatest trust
in this country, the Standard Oil
Company-its existence as a trust
having been declared a violation OF
the law of land-in the hands of ac-
credited representatives of the great
est surface railroad monopoly in the
world and in the hands of powerful
Wall street interests and other vast
corporate influences, has been made
the nominee of the party of Jeffer-
sonian and Jacksonian simplicity,
upon a platform condemning trusts
and monopolies.
Furthermore, Mr.. Cleveland's most
pronounced and logged adherent in
this State is the head and front of a
great English syndicate whose CAPT
tai is confessedly some 960,000,0O0
($300,00O,000), and probably really
amounts to nearer G100,000,000
($500,OO0,OOO).
Such as the outlines of the sltua-
ton as regards Grover Cleveland in
his relations to the forces which have
again made him the nominee of the
Democratic party.
Mr.. CLEVELAND AND MR.. WHITNEY.
For the first time since William
Collins Whitney began to enact the
role of the Warwick of the Demo
cratic party-a role for which he has
preference above all others-he has
come boldly and, for him, courageous
ly to the front to pull the wires os-
tensibly in the sight of his fellow
men. Hitherto it has been his habit
to follow instincts or secretiveness
such as he developed while Corpora
ton Counsel of this city for three
terms.
During the campaign of 1884 Mr..
Whitney kept out of sight. But he
kept all the more busily at work.
The contributions of the Payne Whit
ney interests to the campaign fund
are generally credited with having
assured to Mr.. Whitney the position
of Secretary of the Navy under Mr.
Cleveland. In that campaign Mr..
Whitney is said to have displayed
great astuteness. Through the whole
campaign it was we'll understood that
the most powerful wing of the Stand
ard OIL Trust supported Mr.. Whitney
in his requirements for campaign pur-
poses.
In Washington, from March 4,
1885, until March 4, 1889, it:was Mr..
Whitney's influence which was para
mount over others in the administra-
ton. 1t is Mr.. Whitney who bears
the credit of having projected the
famous Red Top real estate specula-
ton, in the line of which Mr.. Cleve-
land selected spot for his country
residence, toward which all District
of Columbia street improvements
made their way. When Mr.. Cleveland
land out, before leaving Washington,
it is generally reported that he clear
ed some $4,000 on his iudicious in
vestment in the direction taken by
these improvements.
Mr.. WHITNEY AND MR.. GRACE.
To what extent Mr.. Whitney and
Mr.. William r. Grace were in touch
during the years 1859 no one
seems to know. Through some means
Mr.. Grace was made happy in having
his man Roberts made Minister to
Peru, a landin which the great Grace
English syndicate was operating and
working to secure a mortgage of that
When the Whitney-Clsvela anti
monopolists came to this city early in
March, 1889, place for Mr.. Cleve-
land had been provided by Mr..
Whitney, through tbs kind offices of
Francis Lynde Stetson, one of Mr..
Whtney's legal advisers, a member
OF the firm of Bangs, Stetson, Tracy
d Macy eagh. 1t was given out, APP
parently by inspiration, that Mr..
Cleveland would have a salary of
$4,000, full solace, financially, for
his involuntary REIMBURSEMENT of the
Presidential public trust.
The firm of Bangs, Stetson, etc.,
having had its offices sufficiently long
at No. 40 William street.-the num-
Der made historic by Mr.. Cleveland's
presence-fnally removed a year or
more ago to No. Is Broad street, the
building in which Mr.. Whitney, Col
onel Oliver Payne and Colonel Dan
iel S. Lamont, president of Whitney,
Elkins and Widener surface railroad
syndicate, had their offices, and there
have since ablded, with Mr.. Cleve-
lend still close under the Whitney
wing.
MR.. CLEVELAND AS A REFEREE,
Mr.. Whitney has kept an eve upon
Mr.. Cleveland's welfare in this CITY.
His real estate adviser, John I'D.