The Washington times., 1905-08-16
TALK OF FRICK
FOR THE CABINET
Mention of Millionaire Ex-
cites Keystone State.
ORGANIZED LABOR OBJECTS
Fight Against Andrew Carnegie and
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ORGANIZED LABOR OBJECTS
Fight Against Andrew Carnegie and
Action in Homestead Strike Is
vividly Recalled.

The possibility that Henry Clay Frick.
chief of the lieutenants Of Andrew Car
negie in the earlier years OF the steel
kings career. now his sworn enemy
and bitter rival, may become a member
of the Presidential Cabinet affords the
most interesting gossip OF great politics
and great affairs that has come out of
Pennsylvania in long time.
F'rick has been many -rears in the eye
of the public He is still credited by
a large proportion of the people in the
coal and coke region with the making
of Carnegie Whether this be true or
not, IT is well known that Carnegie. in
time, came to fear and distrust him. and
that at length there was a split between
the two, which went TO the courts,
and IN which Mr. Frick won by the
most magnificent bluT ever made in the
game of big business.
Frick's Great Wealth
Frich is worth-but nobody guesses at
his wealth II is popular 10 guess the
wealth of Mr.. Rockefeller at a billion
ana of Mr. Carnegie at d half billion.
Frick may be worth as much as Car
negie. but il is unlikely; ne is more like
Iy worth $100, ,000 oG0 He Is the foremost
citizen OF Pittsburg. the leader in all
commercial and civic enterprises. He is
magnifcentiy equipped for such a pos;
as the Secretaryship Of the Treasury.
and on the other hand ii would be hard
To ind in the nation man less avail
able for such q position, in the strictly
political sense.
Labor has not forgotten that 1t was
Henry G. Frick who defeated the Repub-
lcan party in the Presidential contest OF
lS92 That was the year Harrison MADE
his second run for the Presidency. Frick
was the executive OF the Carnegie-F'rick
properties in the western Pennsylvania
field, then just coming into the dOmi-
mating greatness that fOTeShadOwed the
day when they should become the basis
OF the most gigantic of all the trusts.
Unwilling 10 make terms with his EN-
ployes. Frick permitted them TO declare
the Homestead strike. That strike, with
its riots and its misery, its battles be
tween PinkertOns and working men, its
killings and matmings, occupied the
cOuntry's attention the entire summer OF
1872 Harrison was running agalnsI
Cleveland, and Cleveland HAD inaugu-
rated his tariff campaign. Democratic
orators rang In the changes on the name
of F'rick on protection, on prosperity
on every claim that the Republicans
could advance In defense OF the McKin-
ley tariff, and on election day the COun-
try went Democratic.
Henry Clay FTiCk was about as
thC' Fehly 4 scored man AS there was
Ia country on the day when. in the
down by an anarchist, Alexander Berk
man. He was both shot and stabbed
Berkmap was arrested, glOried IN his
deed. and, being convicted on several
charges, was sentenced to serve an ag-
gregate of twenty-five years in the
western Pennsylvania penitentiary. He
has earned some good time, and Is en-
titled 10 he released just about at the
time when. if the Cabinet story is true
:, rick would become Secretary of the
Treasury.