The Minneapolis journal., 1906-11-05
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POWERFUL, SYSTEM
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Rogers, with Vast Resources Of
Standard. on, Seeks Illi-
nois Central.
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Despite Heavy Odds Brave Rail
road Chief: Refuses to
Show White Flag.
Special to The Journal.

opoStaA ~ -"e
board the M&Ysa Pennsylvania % spec special Vbel
trayed by supposed friends and appar-
emily hopeless1y beaten In his spectacu-
lar fight to save the Illinois Central
railway from falling into the grasp of
Edward H.. Hartman. President Stuy-
vesant Fish is speeding to New York,
grimly refusing to show the white flag.
Like all great fighters. Mr.. Fish, re-
fuses to acknowledge defeat, and his
sole purpose in the fight is to conquer
the Wall street crowd which is relent-
lessly pushing him to the wall. The
Puritan blood which is surging thru
Mr.. Fish's veins knows no such word
as defeat, and before "Wednesday Wall
street and the rest ofsthe world are
going to see Mr.. Fish's stubborn,
remarkable battle,s that one man had
waged against a $1,000, 100000 combine
which Mr.. Fish declares is rapidly
closing its strong grasp upon the trans
Portation facilities. of the country.
The fight may be lost in the direct
ors' meeting Wednesday,; but it will be
then taken into the meeting Of the
stockholders.
Oil Trust in Fight
~ In the meantime the WARNING is
served on E. H. Hartman that it will
stand him in hand to go into the bat
tie with more than merely one-ffth or
one-fourth Of the stock which he and
Wall street control. Mr.. Fish is Ger.
tain that one year frhm now he can
again muster the proxies Of the same
10000 or 100000 shares which were
voluntarily showeTed upon him this
year, and with these he will fight an.
other battle with the rank and file of
the stockholders back Of, him, and with
the hope that victory will rbe his:
/ The desperate straits that the Hi.
nois Centra1's president finds himself
in can be appreciated when it is known
and can nowsbe stated with positive as.
surance that H:..sH. Rogers and Stand.
ard Oil are in the fight Sand are direct
ing It with the same tactics which have
nsthe past landed them victorious
- Tom z Lawson ,Rfiitha9shis & frenzied
finance was ne8#ery more+. strongly u ur
against " The syste1al'' tran is Sfu1y-,ves We
ant Fish todaYsss a[t was iii II. H
Rogers office that all Of tie June and
July conferences were held with a view
to bringing peace. It was inksthe Of
fee of III. III. Rogers that the alleged
trap was laid in which Mr.. Fish and
his associates have become enmeshed
It is: oH. III. Rogers hand that is direct
Ing and managing the fight, and the
stake, according to Stuyvesant Fish! is
the. future Of. the great transcoTtinen
Etal railroad system, which Hartman
controls and which 7 is headed by The
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
railways. >. - -. :..t 4.,-..~ % :
Panama Canal Fatal.
The future Panama canal and %its
effect on freight rates, is the bogie
which is threatening thes great Harri
man system, the system which has beer
built with the backing Of Standard Oh
and which Rogers now proposes to pro
tect, according to Attorney j. B. Dill
at any cost. This is the great meat II
the deal, and this is why the big -braine6
railroad man is fighting tooth and mai
against the moneyed power Of the
,"system." @,.:.> .zsosy
When your correspondent asked
B. Dill how he knew H. H. Rogers was
in the fight he replied: eff boy i.
throwing stones at me and dool
opens and a man says Sonny, come in,
| naturally think the man is<his, father
The man at whom the stones are being
who is throwing the stones is, Edward
II. Hartman, the man beckoning in tht
door is II. II. Rogers, and the family
is complete"
The tentative plan Of the Hartman
people at this time is to make Vice
President j. T. Harahan the successor
Of President Fish, who learned his fate
yesterday when Harahan, for years his
associate in the Illinois Central man
agement, told him he had betrayed an6
opposed him for the presidency Of the
system. Mr.. Fish departed at once
for New York, to be followed q, few
hours later by Harahan s.s