Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-11
~ THE REAL POWER BEHIND THE
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THE REAL POWER BEHIND THE
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g AS Mr.. Bryan says, President Nc
Kinley has been clothed with imperial
power and is really and to all intents
and purposes, if not in name, an en-
peror. His powers are far greater than
those of amy European monarch.
But it is not Mr.. Mckinley alone who
yields this power. AS he has never
been his own man since first exploited
for the Presidency by the political
syndicate headed by Mr.. Hanna, he is
even less independent now, owing as he
does his election to the power of Or
ganized wealth.. But Mark Hanna is
not the sole power behind the throne.
The Republican Chairman and Ring
master is but a go-between for the
real power that moves not Mr.. Nc
Kinley alone but Congress, namely, he
mighty king of finance, ]. Pierpont
Morgan.
MIR. Morgan's latest feat in the inter-
ests of the syndicated wealth he repre-
sents is the defeat of the Nicaragua
canal bill. The history of that in
famous surrender of the Senate to the
Pacific railroads is one of bribery and
political intimidation almost unparal-
leled. The late Coils P. Huntington
engineered the fight against the inter
oceanic canal during his life and at
his death his place was taken by the
still more powerful j. p. Morgan. The
latter financial king has in hand a
gigantic railroad combination THAT will
include all the trunk lines between the
two oceans and behind him are the
resources of the railroad trust and the
banking syndicate, which supplied the
slush funds which twice floated Mr.. Nc
Kinley into power. And the President
is now almost as thoroughly under the
control of Mr.. Morgan as any of the
subordinate managers of his vast en-
terprises. A Washington correspond
emit puts it in this delicate language:
1t has long been well known here
in Washington that Mr.. Mckinley
is a great admirer of Mr.. Morgan, re-
garding him as a true statesman, relying
upon his advice in the wide question of
imperial policy. No secret has been made
of the fact that Mr.. Root, the Secretary
of yNor and Sanatpr Hanna "a rry Mes
sages to and fro between Mr.. Mckinley
and Mr.. Morgan. But it is not so well
known that Mr.. Mckinley has other and
quieter means of communicating with the
emperor of finance at Wall and Broad
streets, New York City. So intimate is
the connection between the two men that,
while they never meet personally, they
are in the very closest touch and SYM
pathy.
Mr.. Morgan exerts tremendous power
over the Senate. The correspondent
just quoted says:
With the Senate Mr.. Morgan can ex-
ert the rude might of Money. Many of
\ the Republican Senators-Aldrich, Plat,
Depew, Kean, Sewell. Elkins, Scott. Quay,
P~enrose. Hanna, Foraker, Fairbanks, Cul-
pm. Mcmillan. Burrows, and several 9TH
IS In the Far West-are tied up in his
ilway and steel enterprises in one way
d another. Some are owners of stock.
ers are attorneys, either for his cor
ations or for the men who are allied
p him Nor is he without a collection
Democratic Senators-James X. Jones.
alleged leader of the minority.
id not oppose Mr.. Morgan far: joe
~, 80 rNA-,.. VI.
ey, of Mississippi, and several others
what an influential man Mr.. Morgan
70 defeat of the Nicaragua canal
rprise, of such vast Importance to
welfare and commercial advantage
oreign markets of the United States,
hishes a sample OF his power in the
hate. That defeat was undertaken
4 accomplished only in the immedi-
e interests of his Pacific railroads.
Mr.. Morgan's great railway and steel
|combines are but the beginning. it is
hinted, of a vast worldwide imperial
plan that is of necessity almost as
much political as commercial and in
dustrial. A bold man is Mr.. Morgan
and a daring one, and the policy of the
President in the Philippines and Cuba
is said to be but the first step urged by
him in a scheme of world dominion
which Mr.. Mckinley four years ago
would have regarded as fantastic hal
lucination, but which now dazzles and
attracts him as he tastes the first fruits
of real imperial power-for William
Mckinley is only human and is extra
ordinarily ambitious.
Mr.. Morgan's financial lines now
reach out into all lands of the earth
and an international steel trust is only
an incidental project. He will soon be
absolute master Of the commerce and
1nnce of the United States. Now he
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