Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-05

road Company: director, Mount Morris
Bank; director, Mutual Bank; director:
aati9 %hd R RsHd Of P SGEth BanR d.
rector, New York & Long. Island Ter
minal Railway Company; director + IN N 6iIa
American Transportation ana Ira rn,lls
Company; trustee, North American trust
Company; director, The Plaza BANK; al
rector, Republican Iron and steel Com
D2nY; director, Somerset Coal Company
ident and director Subway Realty Com.
pany; director, Union National BANK OF
New Orleans; director, Westchester
Racing Association; director, WesLlng-
house Electric and Manufacturing CON
pany; director, Windsor Trust Company;
director, Yorkville Bank.
John II. Mclean of Ohio.
John r. Mclean is editor of the GIN
cinnati Enquirer. He is president OF the
holder Capital Traction Company al,
rector in the American Security ana
Trust Company, bondholder District OF
Columbia bonds and owner OF sl,Voo'y ~
in real estate in Washington, D. Z. he
has been repudiated by his own party IN
his own State.
Thomas S. Martin of West Vir -in1a.
Thomas s. Martin is a United States
Senator, a railroad lawyer, ana was
counsel for the old Chesapeake ONO
Railroad and other corporations which
contributed literally for campaign pur-
poses. He is stakeholder In many VT
ginia corporations and his election 70 tne
United States Senate was due Largely co
these interests.
Col. James NJ. Guffey of Pennsy1van1a'
Colonel J. NJ Guffey is closely asso-
ciated with Standard Oil interests ana
with silver mining In the West he mas
president of the Bellevue Natural Gas
Company, vice president Of the vest
moreland and Cambria Natural Gas Com
pany, president Of the United Fuel Gas
Company, vice president Of the Wheeling
CIV. Va Natural Gas Company, Pressiiuleent
Of the Trade Dollar Mining and Milling
Company Of Silver City. Idaho, and the
principal owner Of the Florida Mountain
Mining and Milling Company of Idaho.
James Smith, Jr., of New Jersey.
James Smith, Jr., was former United
States Senator from New Jersey, and was
noted for his straddling policy on the
ciated In railway investments In Phila-
delphia with p. A. B. Widener and in
New York with John D. Crimmins. He
is essentially a supporter of trusts and
corporations.
Timothy T.. Ryan of Wisconsin.
Timothy E. Ryan Of Wisconsin is prom
inent as the legal adviser of railroad and
other corporations, and has been engaged
in all the important litigation in Wauke-
sha County in the last twelve years He
was the Democratic candidate for the
United States Senate in 1899.
To this somewhat informative list may
be added: Mr.. Cord Meyer of the Sugar
Trust, chairman of the Democratic State
Committee of New York, and Mr.. Pat
McCarren, chairman Of the State Execu-
tive Committee and legislative agent Of
both the Sugar Trust and the Standard
Oil.
Chairman Taggart further announces:
1.-The National Campaign Executive
Committee will have the advice Of Sen
ator Germans judgment and experience,
he agreeing to keep in close touch with
the management at all times" 1t was
Senator German who fixed" the Wilson
tariff bill in such shape for the benefit
Of the Sugar Trust that President Cleve-
land refused to sign the measure, per-
hitting it to become a law in default
of executive action by him!
From the foregoing list of powerful
trust members and agents, managing the
campaign of Judge Parker, it is readily
understood that the New York World
must easily have convinced itself that
the TRUSTS ARE IN A POLITICAL
CONSPIRACY TO SMASH THEM
SELVES!