Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-02

road Company; director. Mount Morria
Bank; director, Mutual Bank: director,
The National Bank Of North America:
director, The National Park Bank; d.
rector, New York & Long Island Ter
minal Railway Company; director, North
American Transportation and Trading
Company; trustee. North American Trust
Company; director. The Plaza Bank; d.
rector, Republican Iron and Steel Com
pany: director, Somerset Coal Company;
director. state safe Deposit Vaults; pres
ident and director. Subway Realty Com
pany: director, Union National Bank Of
New Orleans; director. Westchester
Racing Associations: director. Westing-
house Electric and Manufacturing Com
pany: director. Windsor Trust Company;
director, Yorkyilie Bank.
John X. Mclean of Ohio.
John r. Mclean Is editor OF the Gin
cinnati Enquirer. He IL president Of the
Washington Gas Light Company, bond
holder Capital Traction Company. di
rector In the American Security and
Trust Company, a bondholder District OF
Columbia bonds and owner Of sl,0o0,ooo
In real estate In Washington. D. c. He
has been repudiated by his own party In
his own State.
Thomas 5. Martin of West vir -inia.
Thomas S. Martin is United States
Senator, a railroad lawyer. and was
counsel for the old Chesapeake & Ohio
Railroad and other corporations which
contributed literally for campaign pur-
poses. He is a stakeholder In many Nir-
ginia corporations and his election to the
United States Senate was due largely to
these interests.
Col. James Nj. Guffey of Pennsylvania.
Colonel j. NJ Guffey Is closely asso-
cisted with Standard Oil interests and
with silver mining In the West. lie has
extensive corporate affiliations. lie Is
president OF the Bellevue Natural Gas
Company. vice president of the West
moreland and Cambria Natural Gas Com
pany, president of the United Fuel Gas
yipa nrpcfdAnf Of Wheeling
CIV. Va Natural Gas Company, president
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 straddlng policy on the
ciated In railway investments in Phila-
delphia with L. A. b. Widener and In
New York with John ID. Crimmins. He
is essentially supporter OF trusts and
corporations.
Timothy Il. Ryan of Wisconsin.
Timothy E. Ryan of Wisconsin Is prom
inent as the legal adviser of railroad aud
other corporations, and has been engaged
In all the important litigation In Wauke-
sha County In the last twelve years. lie
was the Democratic candidate for the
United States Senate in 1893.
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:
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-
nlitting 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
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