The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-07-15
THE AR1sTOCRACY.

came down to work for Mckinley In No.
81 private car Of General Manager Chute
Of the Minneapolis & st. Louis railroad.
Pillsbury brought a party Of IL to lobby
for Mckinley and to eat bread. In this
connection a story was current today
that the Mckinley managers have bar
rel without q head and with sp.got wide
open. The word extent was never heard
In McKinley's headquarters. The col
ored brother was taken in and welcomed
to mysterious conferences. Money for
any. object at all which will further the
cause Of protection and prosperity was
forthcoming in any quantity. 1t is es-
timated by those who have carefully
watched the trend Of events that the Nc
Kinley men have spent no less than $780,
600 in St. Louis alone. This IL the sort
OF thing they relied upon to nominate Nc
Kinley.
THIRTY-EIGHT IN A ROW.
Down at Twentieth and Clark streets
there were no less than 80 cars which
brought private parties to the convention.
They bore the names of nearly every
railroad of any prominence in the coun-
try. One of them. was the private car
Of Morgan Jones, receiver Of the Fort
Worth & Denver railroad. Mr.. Jones
brought part of the Texas delegation
pledged to Mckinley and when its good
work was done his private car bore them
away again to the plains Of the Lone Star
state. Coupled to Jones' car was the car
Of Boss Plat, who came in the car ''Chi-
cago," owned by the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad. Pullman, the palace car mon
opolist, shows his fine Italian hand in
The next car, the Celtic" which was oc-
cupied by Gen. Horace Porter, vice-pres
idenA of the Pullman Palace Car Com
pany, president of the Union League Club,
of New York and high roller in the
ranks Of the protectionists. Gen. Porter
brought company Of 20 sluggers with
him, and, as the representative Of Mill
ionaiare Pullman, has carte blanche ex-
penses. On the next track was the pri-
vate car OF w. R. Woodford, general man.
ager Of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheel
ing Company. Manager Woodford HIM
self was not In the party but the car, like
the rest, was turned over for the good
Of the cause The party was In charge
of William Kirby, state railroad COM
missioner of the state of Ohio. Among
the guests were Col. J. G. Bonner, Of To-
ledo: Richard Kirby. Of Toledo; Capt. w.
M. Crawford, Of Columbus; Edward Hur-
horse, James Mcmillan and P. H. Moore.
THE FREIGHT WAS PAID.
Governor Bushell, Of Ohio, did not have
to pay for his private car, either. 1t is
No. 100 and belongs to I. G. Rawn. gener-
al manager Of the Baltimore & Southwest
ern. The governor is accompanied by
Col. Lind Rogers, his private secretary;
Mai. Hoover, of Springfield; W.. E. Gill
bert, auditor Of the state of Ohio, and
many other Mckinley rooters. Another
governor who came to the convention in
style, thanks to the courtesy of am oblig-
ing railroad corporation, Is Governor
Merriam, of Minnesota, who came with
his wife and family in the private car
Of the president of the Minneapolis, St..
Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad Com
pany. Take it all the way around, the
governors seem to have Jared remarka-
bly, we'll at the hands Of the railroads,
for Governor McGrath, Of Oregon, came
in the private car of Supt. Burnley, OF the
Western division Of the Northern Pa
cific.
The Northern Pacific will have some
interesting legislation before the next
session Of congress. The magnificent
palace car, Loon Lake." brought from
New York nearly all the superintendent
of the Erie canal. Governor Smith, of
Vermont, came in the private car be-
longing to the Central Vermont railroad
and carried instructions for Mckinley and
a buffet. j. L. Cornell, wealthy whole
sale grocer Of Scranton, Pa, and party
in his private car, ".St. Nicholas. McKin-
ley tariff will be hot stuff for grocers
So it is all up and down the line. There
is no denying the fact that the Republic
an party is the party Of the bosses. 1t
numbers in its ranks all the corporations,
all the railroads, all the sleeping car as
scciations, all the wage grinders and OPP
pressors Of the country. SEXTON. I