The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-08
Trust-Busters' All.

PernapS the greatest aggregation
of busters the country has ever
seen is to be found in high official
places with the democratic party this
year, and If any evidence were want
ing of the determined purpose of the
democracy to get after the trusts and
the money devil and drive them out
of business in the event Of Judge Par
ker's election, a look at the list of
names Of the democratic campaign
managers furnishes it.
George Foster Peabody, the new
treasurer of the democratic national
committee, Is put down as follows In
the DIRECTORY of Directors in the City
that Is official so far as his corporate
connections are concerned:
Alvarez Land & Timber company,
vice president and director; American
Beet Sugar company, director; Compania
Metalurgica Mexicana, first vice president
and director; Conquista Coal Railway
company, director; General Electric COM
pany director; Mexican Coal & Coke
company, vice president and director;
Mexican Mineral Railway company, direc-
tor; Mexican National Construction COM
pany, director; Mexican Northern Rail-
way company, first vice president and
director; Montezuma Lead company, vice
president and director; Morton Trust COM
pany, director; Potosi & Rio Verde Rail-
way company, vice president and director;
Southern. Improvement company of New
York, director.
Undoubtedly, Mr.. Peabody knows
all about the "fat-frying" process, and
oil La
Parker's election, to tell the demo-
cratic party just how to reach the
trusts to best advantage.
The chairman Of the democratic
national executive committee, which
will have charge of the campaign for
Judge Parker, Is of course, a trust.
buster Of high repute, and If yor
also from the Directory of Direc.
tors" concerning w. F. sheehan:
Albany & Hudson Railway company
DIRECTOR Brooklyn Union Elevated Rail.
way company, director; Edison Electric
illuminating company Of Brooklyn, direc
tor; Kings County Electric Light e
Power company director; Lanyon Zine
company, director; Louisville Lighting
company, director; New York Land s
Warehouse company, director; WestcheS
ter Lighting company, director.
Mr.. Sheehan and Mr.. Peabody will
doubtless work together in chasin,
the trusts off the earth, after Judg
Parker's election.
Another member Of the democrati
executive committee is James Smith
Jr.,e Of New Jersey and New York
several times a millionaire, and in tn
Financial Red Book of America" sc
down as tone of the largest manufac
turers Of patent and enamel leather i
the world"
Still another member of the eS
ecutive committee is Colonel 3. N
Guffey Of Pennsylvania, who, accord
ing to who's Who" is probably tn
largest individual oil producer in tn
world, and is engaged in the gold an
silver mining, and has large bitunir
Gus coal holdings" Guffey and Smit
will also be able to give Judge .Parke
important information on the que.
ton of rounding up the trusts in til
interest Of the common people.
One of the chief members of tn
executive committee Of trust-buster
however, and the one Of whom Il
corporations are undoubtedly mo
afraid, is August Belmont, the Amer
can agent Of the Rothschilds, and p1
down in the Directory of Director
as having OFFICIAL connection with Il
following list of corporations:
Alliance Assurance company (London
trustee; American-Asiati Steamsh
company, director: American China D
veIopment company director; Audit cor
pany Of New York. director; Bank (