Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-09-27
]. Breidenthal, Businessman.

about John Breldenthal being "bus-
inessman. The fusionists admit
that he Is q socialist, that he belongs
to party whose vagaries II carried
into practice would wreck q state or
nation, "but," they add, "he is a
good businessman" When you ask
them where be has proved it they
hesitate and finally admit that they
don't know. As a matter OF fact they
are unfamiliar with his record and
take 1t for granted that because be
is bank commissionerhe lisa success
full businessman. The bank com.
missioner does little but look wise
and pretend that he knows what three
or four hundred banks are doing.
Once in awhile one breaks and the
people want to know why he did not
properly examine it and close it. Be-
ing bank official don't make a sue
cessful businessman.
A well known Wichita travelling
man, Fred Richter, has been looking
up Mr.. Credentials record and offers
$40 reward to anyone who will name
successful business enterprise with
which the Fusion candidate for gov.
ernor has been actively connected.
He gives this as his history:
"Breidenthal came to Kansas from
Indiana and settled on a farm with
his parents. He didn't like farm
work. 1t was too heavy for him. So
he quit and got a job as a clerk in
Colonel j. B. Cooks real estate office
at Chetopa. The firm was later
merged into stock company known
as the Neosho Valley Loan and In
vestment company. Breidenthal was
secretary. Colonel Cook didn't stay
in it long. The concern collapsed
and is now in the hands Of S receiver.
Thousands Of dollars were lost.
"The next thing Breidenthal
tackled was the Topolobampo coloni-
cation scheme. The company that
worked that scheme was known as
the Kansas and Sinaloa Investment
company. Breidenthal was the sec
rotary. That soon busted, leaving
many Kansas people, who could Ill
afford it, to hold the bag and leaving
many colonsts in Mexico in want and
and misery.
"About this time he also decided
that he was cut out for agreat reform
editor and he started the Integral
Co.operator at Enterprise. That soon
became disntegral. 1t collapsed.
Breidenthal found that he was not
cut out for Horace Greeley nor a
Charles A. Dana.
1.-The San Luis valley colonization
scheme-Annie l.. Diggs' company
came to the surface next and Breid-
8nthal hitched himself to it. That
has gone up the hume. In order to
save the remnants of the wreck a
stock company is now being formed
to bond the colony's property. This
is in direct opposition to the theory
Of all colonization schemes, but it
must be done for the protection Of
the poor souls who have spent their
time out there on one of Credentials
visionary schemes.
"About two years ago Breidenthal
became promoter and one OF the
active men in the Standard Cement
Plaster company Of Laramie, Wyo.
That has busted and the stockholders
are holding the sack.
"This is the complete list Of bust
ness enterprises with which he has
been actively engaged during his
residence in Kansas, and every one
has collapsed, or gone Democratic,
80 to speak. In the face Of this rec :
ord does it not seem ridiculous to
talk about Credentials fine business
qualifications and to declare him the
ousinessmen's candidateP"