The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-28
OvERTURES TO
WALL STREET
Roosevelt Trying to Curry
Favor With the Financiers.
SENATOR ALDRICH is BUSY
ELIHU ROOT ALSO DOING mis-
sIoNARY' WORK.
ospeoial to The IIerald.)

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Washington, Feb. 27.-The Roosevelt
administration is at last making over
lures to Wal street. The ageEt con
Quoting the negotiations is United
states Senator Aldrich Of Rhode Island,
and it IS assured that he is vel chosen,
since he IS the father-in-law Of John
ID. Rockefeller. 81. Senator Aldrich' 3
mission Is To assure the leading imam
ciers and large commercial companies
that they have nothing to fear from
President Roosevelt should he secure a
second term. Senator AldTich is not
marching into Wall street with brass
band i'm fun play advertising his opera
tions, nor does he go like the Mormon
missionaries without pusse and scrip.
but all the same with Industry, he Is
influencing the Interests of the street.
and soiemnly assuring them that what
he has TO say is true When il is point
ed out TO him. as IL has been more than
once. that two of the four planks the
president has publicly declared he viii
stand OBJ IN the coming campaign are,
first. his attack ON the principle on
which the Northern Securities company
is based, and which the legal depart
ment OF his administration has pushed
to the court Of last resort. and, sec
ond, his attitude ana participation in
the great coal strike of d year ago. stu
shakes ne the senatorial head and re-
peats the assurances that the great
financial and large commercial inter
eSts of the Couctry have nothing 10
fear from President Roosevelt.
Acting as Agent.
In short. there are people in the fnau-
ci3l district who do not hesitate 10 say
that senator Aldrich is acting as Pres
ident Ro0seVelts political agent. and
that his mission is 10 placate the great
financial and large commercial inter
ests and allay their fears as 10 the acts
and recommendations Of the present adj
ministration intended to be VOte-get-
tiers. And it is asserted with a chuckle
that the agent is well chosen since he
Is the father-in-law of John d. Rock
efeller, IT, That Senator Aldrich has
been busy In his visits to fuanciers
and hat he has given them assurances
VIII not be denied. for it cannot be.
That this mission is a part OF well
defined plan is also asserted ana proof
is offered in this: That no person prom
/ iuent IN finance and commerce goes to
Washington but he is invited 10 dine
at the White House. while the fact is
communicated. nos by the diner. To the
press. One of the present diners at the
White House was John ". Gates. He
said so i'm ''the street many times after
mis- return from Washington. and each
time he added. "Roosevelts bark Is
worse than his bite 4. j. Cassatt.
who is q Democrat and is the head of
q monster railway system which viii
be- in an extraordinary positions If the
contention of the administration in the
Northern Securities case is sustained.
was a diner at the White House but q
short time ago. q fact that was widely
spread by the press at that time 1t Is
/ but a day or two ago that the an
nouucement was made in the press
that J. Pierpont Morgan ard John 4.
Mccall had been received at the White
House this week.
Root Also Busy.
! Another Wall street agent of the adj
ministratiOn is the late secretary OF
war. Eiihu Root. Mr.. Root, who has
resumed his practice Of law in New
York city. is i'm close touch with the
/ large corporate interests .centered there
and. like Senator AIdrich. he has q
( definite mission to perform in convinc-
/ ing these interests that their welfare IS
{ better assured i'm the keeping Of Pres
/ ident Roosevelt than it would be in the
/ hands of a Democratic president. il Is
/ pointed out that even should con
/ serVatiVe eastern Democrat be elected
4 10 the presidency the influence sur
rounding his administration would he o
! the socialistic order, ard entirely inim
lea Ito business stability. Tn fact. ;
carefully devised plan is in operation
10 DIacate and allay the fears OF tn
1 business interests and hold these in
Z ffrr-a-fe I'm line for Roosevelt.