The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-25
DECLARES THAT STANDARD OH,
MAN RAISED \ $4,000. 1000
FUND IN THE 1895 CAM
PAIGN TO MAKE THE
ELECTION OF WIN.
MCKINLEY GER
TAIN.
TWO VALISES FULL
OF MONEY, he SAYS
Were Taken to Wilmington and Used
to End Fight Over Bay State Gas
ReCeivership, He Asserts. .AddiCk's
"HeeIers" Failed to Get the Cash,

Thomas Lawson charges that Hen
| ~ II. Rogers President of the Anal
gamated Copper Company and one of
| the leaders of the Standard Oil group,
directed the raising of a $5,000,000
fund to buy five doubtful States for
The charge is made in the January is
The charge is made in the anuary is
sue of Everybodys Magazine, the sale
of which Mr.. Rogers tried vainly to
stop by threatening criminal libel pro-
ceedings against the American News
Company, which is the general dis
tributing agent for periodicals and
magazines.
Lawson makes the charge in con-
nection with his exposure of the secret
of the Bay State Gas fight between j.
Edward Addicks, of Delaware, and Mr.
Rogers. Lawson for Addicks. had ar
ranged settlement with Rogers by
which the latter was to be paid &c.
10000 on a special date for his rival
gas pima Stin Boston and other i'm
portant concessions. The money was
TO be raised by a new issue of Bay
State Gas stock.
Everything was running smoothly,
when Roger Foster, a We'll known New
York lawyer, acting for a client, threw
receivership, Dwight Braman being
appointed receiver. The receivership
proceedings were put through with
such rush in the Delaware courts
that Addicks only knew of it after
the receiver had been named.
Disaster Faced Spectators.
Unless the receiver could be dis
charged and Addicks regain posses
sion of the company all hope of rails
ing the money necessary to perfect
the settlement arranged with Rogers
would have to be abandoned; the war
would be continued, and Lawson, Adj
dicks and all of their following crush
ed. Lawson hints that AddickS con-
templated suicide when he first heard
of the receivership.
Lawson says he went to see the Bos-
ton broker to learn if the receivership
could be ended. He asked the broker:
whats the price ?" and the latter he
says, replied: $4,000 for the lawyer
and his client, who had 100000 of
Bay State bonds, and $4,000 for
himself and those behind him. Law
son said he told the brOker-receiver
that the only hope of getting the
money was from Mr.. Rogers saying:
THE question is how to get Rogers
to advance 50 large Il sum in such a
tcklish business. He does not want to
get mixed up in a matter in which any
one mans treachery might mean State
prison"
Lawson then visited Mr.. Rogers. He
says in his article:
Rogers refused absolutely to be a
party to any payment that could be
traced back to him. He canVasSed the
sources OF hazard; first, through
treachery on the part of Foster Bra
man or Addicks. he might be accused
~ hi
Addicks might blackmail him by
charging him with conspiracy, or d
conspiracy charge might be brought
by Bay State stockholders ana he be
held for tremendous damages. He re-
fused to put himself into any such
trap. l put forward dozen ways to
meet the emergency, but he would
have none of them.
Rogers Alleged Plan.
FINALLY he suggested "a method
which was certainly perfect of its kind.
He began by letting me into the Sc
cret that the chances OF a Mckinley
victory in the election the following
week looked pretty bad. and that
the latest canvass OF the States showed
that unless something radical were
done Bryan would surely win. Hanna
had called into consultation half a
dozen OF the biggest financicrS in Wall
street, and it was decided to turn at
least, five of the doubtful States. To
do this $4,000. 900 had been raised I'M
der Rogers direction, to be turned
over TO Mark Hanna and McKinley'S
cousin. Osborne. through John Moore.
the Wall street broker, who was act
ing as Rogers representative in col
iecting the money
1T would be legitimate for the Ma
tional Committee to pay out money to
carry DelaaWre. and he (Rogers)
would arrange it that the coin TO sat
lSfy Braman and Foster should come |
this channel Thus he would |
be completely protected.
Lawson, said Mr.. Rogers, looking |
at me with deadly seriousness, his |
voice charged with conviction if |
Rryan's elected there will be such a |
panic in this country as the world has |
never seen, and with his money ideas |
and the aZy-headed radicals he will |
call TO Washington to administer the |
nations affairs business will surely be |
destroyed and the working people suf- |
fer untold misery. You know we all |
nate to do what Uncle Mark says is |
necessary, but it's a case of some of |
US sacrificing something for the coun-
try good. Bryan's election would set |
our country back a century, and | be-
IieVe it's the sacred duty of every,
honest American to do what he can
to save his land from such a calam-
itV''