The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-22

| large sums, possibly two-thirds of the
entire am cunt, in Connecticut and New
Jersey within about forty-eight hours of
election day. when 1t would be too late
for the Republicans to counterfeit this
effort to capture the floating vote.
Free Hand I'm Indiana.
AS to Indiana, it was decided to give
Tom Taggart free hand. He pledged
himself to carry the state if he had
plenty of men and an abundance of the
best kind of campaign oratory. To aid
/ this plan in Indiana he was to be given
the benefit of the services of William
Jennings Bryan, David B. Hill, John G.
Carlisle, NJ. E. ingalls,, Bourke Cochran,
and others of the aristocracy of Demo-
cratic campaign oratory.
| Nevada was pronounced to be
pocket borough, which Senator New
lands pledged outright to Parker. The
| Smoot fight in Utah. the Mormon Ques-
ton generally in Idaho. the Heinze-
Clark squabble in Montana, and the
| fight on Warren in Wyoming were CT
! ted as local causes to make it probable
that majority of these states would
definitely depended upon for five Dem
Ocratic electors on account of the Ia
Dor troubles there.
Having sketched out this plan of
campaign, which received the indorse-
ment OF Belmont, Sheehan, Delaney
NicOI, and John r. Mclean. it became
necessary to secure real help from cor
porate sources, together with an
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pledges, but in hard cash, which could
be distributed promptly and secretly.
One of the first steps my informant
says, was to induce John D. Rockefel-
Ter, Jr., to visit Esopus. He did SO, and
what he reported tor his father is said
to have convinced the Standard Oil
crowd that it would pay to make a
heavy contribution to Parker's cam
paign fund.
In the second place, Gibbs of the
Pennsylvania railroad, who is the con-
n fi-1 rNE IOrac CNDe1
said to have met Sheehan in extreme.
privacy in New York. Casshtt is
Democrat, and, while his railroad is
intimately associated with Repu blican
been a free lance in other states The
result of this conference is said to be
that Gibbs agreed to use the Pennsyl-
yania influence to carry New Jersey,
Delaware, West Virginia, and Indiana
The Pennsylvania, of course, includes
the Baltimore & Ohio influence, as the
two roads are now run on the "eom-
munity of interests plan.
The third step in the programme was
a conference held by Delaney Nicoll
two or three weeks ago with $50 inf1u-
entail Democratic business men in
New York. To them the plan was I'M
folded, and the statement made that in
case of the election of a Democratic
president a secretary of the treasury
would surely be appointed at least from
the eastern states, and probably from
New York city, so that the business in
terestS at stake there would be able
to control indirectly the financial policy
of the nation, which would be particu
larly desirable in case the threat of
tariff reform under free trade auspices
should unsettle the market.
My friend assured me that all these
conferences had actually been held, and
he even produced typewriter reports
summarizing the result of each talk
As to the outcome, he declared that the
necessary funds had been pledged to
finance the Parker campaign, and that +
this was a separate treasury account !
from the regular campaign fund dis |
bursed through the ordinary channels. !