The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-27
HE'S SPENT $4,000.
Amount Laid Ont by Lawson for Adj
vertising and Telegraph.

New York, Dec. 27.-Thomas w. Law
son is said to hold three documents that
are full of terror for certain financial
giants he is attacking. One of the men
who has figured in Lawson's "Frenzied
Finance campaign is authority for this
statement. He is an enemy of Lawson
whom he describes as an 'anarchistic
gambler" but he gives Lawson credit
for playing a great and spectacular
game with consummate dash and skill
In explaining the secret hold Lawson
has on his enemies, the club he is hold
ing over them, this man of the oppoSi-
ton said:
"Of altruism, of Observation-Disclosures OF
public spirit, there is not a particle in
all his work. He is playing for his own
hand and is interested in the public only
as il strengthens his hand. The success
of his big bear raid on Amalgamated
was only an incident in the general
scheme. although it Melted him about
81, zoo, 900 at a time when he needed 1t
most. Revenge is what he wants, re-
venge and money. And if he wrings the
money out of the hard hands that held
it, his revenge will be complete. 1t is
hardly blackmail for the Bostonian be-
lieves he is simply collecting a debt
from INSCRIPTIONS men by the only
means in his power.
TT is a big game Lawson is playing,
and a dangerous one. for he is back
ing the strongest interests in the coun-
try. But their very strength constr
tutes their weakness. Where a smaller
man could defy Lawson, his arch enc
my has too much to lose in the Smash
he knows would follow exposure: In
that you have the whole secret of Law
sons methods and intentions.
These three documents really are
letters addressed to Lawson when he
was trusted implicitly by Henry H.
Rogers and John d. Rockefeller, and
contain the key to the situation. l
doubt if anyone knows exactly what
their contents are outside of Lawson
and certain men who can afford as lit
tie as he to have them laid before the
public. 1 understand they eStabl1Sh,
in general, full proof of one OF the
most criminal and fragrant stock JOB
bling deals that ever robbed the public
of millions for the benefit of the mil
lionaires. Note that not one of the
men Lawson has attacked can be in
duced to talk.
I'm the game that now is being
played Lawson may be said to have
opened the pot and the others are
waiting to see how he will bet. If 1T
is a bluff Henry H. Rogers himself has
not had the courage to call it. If 1t
comes to showdown he will play his
hand to the limit. But he thinks he
has Rogers and the others where they
will We to lay down to him and he
wants to be in a position to bury his
hand in the deck again without ever
having shown it except to those who
know already how the deck had been
stacked.
do 1 think Rogers will settle? If 1
know the man as we'll as 1 think do
he would die rather than settle now.
The fight has been carried too far.
OF course he may be of another mind
later on. There are forces within
forces and forces back of forces. There
is one man who might induce him to
com promise. Self-preservation is the
first law of nature, and if the storm
which Lawson has been making
threatens to become cyclonic John D.
Rockefeller may compel Rogers to sue
for peace. Rockefeller is too old to
court trouble. He wants to end his
days in quietude.
Lawson has spent $14S,0Oo, am
informed, on advertising and in tele-
graph tolls since he embarked on his
campaign. There is nothing in the
history of finance to equal this lavish
expenditure for publicity in a case of
personal warfare" 4