The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-04
WALL STREET IN LINE
OPPOSITION TO ROOSEVELT IS
 DISAPPEARING.
Financiers Fear Hearst-Jamss St!ll man, President of National City Bank, a Friend of the
 President.

Walter Wellman's Special to Chicago 1 Record-Herald.
 l It ia asserted confidently by friends of President Roosevelt that during the com ling six weeks there will be a great change of sentiment in Wall Street as to
 the desirability of the reelection of the President. They go so far as to predict that within a short time a large share or the hostility of the leading men of the financial district will have disappeared
 It has not escaped general notice that l James Stillman was a guest at the White House last week. MT. Stillman is presi- dent of the National City Bank, the strongest financial institution in the metropolis. He is and long has been a warm admirer of President Roosevelt and when the proper time comes will not be backward about expressing his views. It is commonly supposed that MT. Stillman Is merely one of MT. Rockefeller's hired men, and that the Rockefeller interests fully control the City Bank. Good in- formation received here is to the effect that Mir. Stillman. while on the friendlist terms with John D. Rockefeller and the whole Standard Oil crowd, is not only the nominal but the actual head of the City Bank. He has full control of that insti- tuition through his own holdings and the trusteeships which have been reposed in nm ana IS IlOL D0uOAuSIl u lHc fellers of any other outside interests for his authority or place. It Is we'll known that MT. Stillman is now one of the small group of most powerful men in the world of American finance. He ranks with the Rockefellers, the Vanderblts. MT. Gould
 MT. Morgan, MT. Schiff, Mir. Belmont and Mir. Hartman. In some respects he is one of the most powerful men in New York and his influence is as wide as that of any of his compeers. He has ever been a conservative, banker of the best type, and not a promoter or speculator
 MT. Stillman's admiration for and faith in President Roosevelt is no new notion, but the result of years of careful observa- tion and study of the man. Mutual friends, aware of MT. Stillman's opinioHs of MT. Roosevelt, managed to bring the President and fnancler together last week. they having several pleasant con ferences at the White House. If MT. Stillman exerts his influence in New York to secure a fairer and tuster judg- ment of the President than has obtained in the past there is little doubt that he will have many listeners and followers. The truth appears to be that the lead
 ing men in New York who have so bit
 terly opposed the President in the past
 really do not know just what they base , their antagonlSm upon. some or them
 flew into a rage when the Northern Secu 1 rites case was ordered, but in their
 calmer moments they have been com
 pelled to admit this was not such a
 revolutionary and radical action as they
 at first thought 1t. Not few of the
 best authorities in Wall Street, Mir. Still
 man among them, believe the Northern
 Securities suit saved Wall Street and the
 country from untold evils by checking
 the wild era of speculation and avertins
 a great crash. Apart from this one in-
 stance, even the Presidents most bitter
 opponents cannot point to another ex-
 ample of what they have liked to call ] his reckless impetuousness and his pen
 chant for getting the country into trouble There are men in New York who just now begin to awaken to a realization oi
 the fact that a great danger menaces the Democratic party-the danger that tho radicals of the Bryan stripe may after al } gain ascendeucy in the organization ane name Hearst or some man like Hears as the Democratic candidate. It is no generally assumed that it is possible To- Hearst to win. but the manner in whlci