The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-09-11

clares that half a million dollars will be
raised among the Democratic office
holders of New York and Brooklyn.
This is certainly credible, and If that
much can be done in these localities
alone, it is an Indication that ten times
as much money could probably be
raised in other Democratic cities, all
taken together, especially since Mr..
Bryan has pointed out that the Bryan
ite campaign is very fortunate in hav-
ing control of the organization in the
chief cities. Perhaps this is the real
reason that he had in mind for con-
graduating himself.
The New York Journal, Mr.. William
II. Hearsts socialist daily newspaper
here, strongly urges the nomination of
Comptroller Coler for governor. Crok-
er is against that and will probably
prevail. Coler seems to be a pretty
brave and honest man, though it must
be admitted that his critics themselves
admit that they have not quite gone
to the bottom of this particular case
of reform. They know only too well
that human nature is human nature,
wherever you find it. If it is true, as
Mr.. Coler contends, that commercial
ism in politics is the most horrible
by some of his friendly critics that he
must not have had a sufficiently good
advantage to be commercially in poll
tics himself.
1t makes difference whose OK is
gored In proof of which two stories,
and pretty good ones, are always re-
called here when we hear so many of
these predictions, largely known to be
false, on the part of leading Democrats
that what they really love more than
anything else is the dear peepul."
One story relates to the Hon Buck"
Hinrichsen. A year ago last July the
Democratic National committee met in
Chicago. Ex-Governor Stone, Mr..
Bryan and others, after the chief bus
mess of the meeting was over, were
invited to attend the opening of the
new Chicago canal. Buck Hinrichsen
was there, his pockets fairly bulging
with street car and railroad passes,
and the telephone and telegraph franks
that usually are sent to the gentleman
with the real pull. Ii is related with
every mark of proof that Ex-Governor
Stone saw these evidences of corpora
ton favor and asked the Honorable
Buck" to procure for him pass back
to st. Louis, whittier he did not want
to walk. Some one asked If the ex-
governor of Missouri would fall so low
as to accept pass from a corporation,
when Mr.. Stone said:
What, 1? Try men'
The other story is the old, old one,
about Mayor Jones of Toledo. He was
such good man, and doubtless is still
such n good man, that he does not be
lieve in government by Injunction. But
when somebody with an invention
rivaling his own famous sucker-rod
patent proposed to do business in spite
of Jones, the socialist golden-rule may
or of Toledo promptly applied foranin-
junction according to the usual legal
form.
1t does seem to make n difference af
ter all, whose OK is gored.
The newspapers here seemed to de
light, when Chairman Jones was last
upon the spot. to ask him all about the
American Cotton Company. They
wanted to know IL that was n trust.
and If he was really in 1t, and if it was
popular among the plantation owners
of the South and elsewhere. Mr.. Jones
made more or less evaslve replies.
The most pointed questions were not
answered, perhaps because nobody
thought to ask them. The American
Cotton Company is capitalized at ST.
100000. No one is foolish enough to
pretend that that amount of money has
been paid in or that the company has
property of any kinA that by the wild
est stretch of the Imagination could be
set down as worth any such figure.
Seven hundred thousand dollars, per-
haps seventy thousand dollars, would
fully represent the actual property of
the company. 1t is not likely that the
personality of Mr. Jones himself on the
Democratic side of the Senate, and also
in the finance committee of the Senate,
has any seven-dollar interest, or seven
ty-dollar interest. or indeed any seven
hundred dollar interest, in the Ameri-
can Cotton Company. His pile has
been made out of these possessions.
Since he has always been poor man
and has never been known as n pro
moter of financial or manufacturing
enterprises, the conclusion is irresisti-
BILE that the American Cotton Company
was a good thing for Mr.. Jones, either
because of his political prominence or
because of his prominence in the
finance committee of the Senate; for
he and John f. Searles, the head of
the American Cotton Company and the
former treasurer and the real head of
the sugar trust, are dear old friends.
They have met many n time on the
CORY field of trust legislation at the ma
tional capital What so natural as that
Mr.. Searles should put his good friend
Jones in the way of making his ever
lasting fortune out of the American
Cotton Company?
Jones is considered to be n rich man.
Where did he get it? This is the sig
nificant question that the New York
papers forgot to ask Mr.. Jones. He has
not patented a million-dollar invention.
He is not n great money raiser for com
mercial purposes. He unquestionably
holds large quantities of the stock,
mostly watered, of course, of the
American Cotton Company.
Here is another evidence that it
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