New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-08
TRUSTS FUND A SECRET.
SHEEHAN GUARDED 1T.
Why Parker Was Able to Say Cor
porations Hadn't Contributed.

| requested tho Democratic national oamps ign
! managers Mr.. President, that they should not
receive, directly or indirectly, from any trust
that ! proposed II elected, to enter upon the
discharge of the duties of that great office un-
hamPered by any obligation to interests or to
men.
said to them that would rather be defeated
than to be fettered in the effort TO accomplish
reforms that soreIy needed And am ad-
vIsed by them that my request has been
scrgPuIousIy resPeeted.-(Judge Parkers speech
The Fact.-Iwo Democratic campaign funds
one made up OF trust contributions, Segregated
in w. F. Sheehan's custody. Other general con-
tributions in charge of George Foster Peabody.
Judge Parker able to make his statement
to his friends at the Kings County Democratic
Club on Saturday night, because there are two
Democratic campaign funds. One is the general
fund intrusted to George Foster Peabody.
philanthropst and Civil Service reforner. The
other is a segregated fund, in the custody of
William T. Sheehan.
Judge Parker had in mind only the Peabody
fund when he made his somewhat incompre-
hensible statement on Saturday night He
didn't know then, and does not know now, much
about the fund in the custody of William F.
Sheehan. He prefers not to know much about
it, because it came directly from interests which
expect reward in the shape of class legislation in
case Parker should be elected
Contributions from the Standard Oil Com
from George F. Baer, president of the Philadel-
phia and Reading Coal Company are alleged
to have found their way into this segregated
fund in the custody of Mr.. Sheehan. The men
who, it is understood, steered these contribu-
tions into this fund Senator Gorman of
Maryland; James Smith, jr of New-Jersey;
John r. Mclean, of Cincinnati, and August Bel
mont.
When the George Foster Peabody campaign
fund dry, four weeks ago. Mr.. Peabody sent
tion that dollars and half dollars would not be
scorned At the same time William f. Shee-
hans fund was getting along comfortably with
good fat contributions from the trusts named.
That how it happened that there was
plenty of money to spend on sending out docu-
ments got up by faovrites of the National
Executive Committee while Democratic news
papers in the South and West printing
appeals for dollars and half dollars in behalf of
the poor mans party" as Mr.. Belmont likes
to call his subway political organization.
The Republican National Committee has proof
that President Baer of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad, who conceived a strong per-
sonal dislike for the president when the Presi-
dent brought about a settlement of the coal
strike declared in the presence of witnesses
that he would go to any length to beat RoOSe
welt this year. The attitude of certain other
corporation heads whose money was given in
lavish quantities TO William F. Sheehan and
August Belmont similar TO that of Mr
Baer.
Apprehending that they would be charged
with being allied with trusts the Parker mana
gers at the beginning of the campaign arranged
the Peabody campaign reasury, but that it
should so direct to Mr.. Sheehan's strong box.