River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-01

road Company; director Mount Morris
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; director, The Plaza Bank: d.
rector, Republican Iron and Steel Com
pany; director Somerset Coal Company;
director State Safe Deposit Vaults; pres
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, YoIkville Bank.
John r. Mclean of Ohio.
John r. Mclean is editor Of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer. He is president Of the
holder Capital Traction Company, di-
rector in the American Security and
Trust Company, bondholder District Of
Columbia bonds and owner Of $1,000. 900
In real estate in Washington, D. c. He
has been repudiated by his own party in
his own State.
Thomas S. Martin of West Vir inia.
Thomas S. Martin is a United States
Senator, railroad lawyer, and was
counsel for the old Chesapeake & Ohio
Railroad and other corporations which
contributed literally for campaign pur-
poses. lie is a stakeholder in many Vir-
United States Senate was due largely to
these interests.
Col. James NJ. Guffey of Pennsylvania.
Colonel J. NJ. Guffey is closely asso-
ciated with Standard Oil interests and
with silver mining III the West. He 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
Company, vice president of the Wheeling
wv. Val 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 straddling policy on the
silver question in 1896. He was asso-
ciated IN railway investments in Phila-
delph!a with r. A. b. Widener and In
is essentially a supporter Of trusts and
corporations
Timothy r. 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
De duucu. NIL COIu ~h6y cl VI Iilc bouSdI
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-
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!