The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-25
IT MADE DEPEW LAUGH.
La Toilette Classed the New York
Senator Among the Dummies.

Washington, March 25-In the third
and last installment Of his speech
against the Aldrich currency bill today
Senator LaFollette divided into groups
the names Of the 100 men, who, he said
in a former speech, controlled the cor
porate wealth of the United States.
were dummies.
Narrowed down to the smallest group
he presented two combinations, those
Of the Standard Oil group and J. P.
Morgan. Directly associated with these
financial interests he said were four
teen men, who stood next to them in
the exercise of enormous power. These
men are: w. K. Vanderbilt, George j.
Gould, John Jacob Astor, August Bel
mont, Jacob Schiff, James Speyer, Fred
erick Weyerhauser, E. II. Hartman.
James ]. Hill, Henry C. Frick, Thomas
r. Ryan, ]. Ogden Armour, Louis S.
Swift and w. H. Moore. But even these,
he said, found their best interests
served In working in harmony with
Standard Oil and Morgan.
A second class of men in the list were
the stars Of lesser magnitude" but
men of wealth and power, who worked
in harmony with the combine and a
few of the higher rank Of attorneys and
bank presidents of the system. This
group follows:
c. H. Dodge. J. H. Post, P. A. valen-
tine, c. H. Mccormick, H. Taylor Pyne,
w. D. Sloan, S. S. Palmer, T. x. Hub
bard, Adrian Iselin. jr., Brayton Ives,
G. G. Haven, Frederick Cromwell c. A.
Peabody, w. J. Oakman, G. w. Young,
G. F. Baker, E. J. Berwind, c. L. Blair,
]. F. Dryden, J. B. Duke, D. Guggen-
helm, w. P. Snyder, John Clafin,
a y,ia NJ Rr9dU 1qn1nG q.
Fargo, Edwin Hawley. John r. Hege-
man, D. o. Mills, c. H. Mackay, D. G..
Reid, Charles Steele, F. w. Vanderbilt,
Henry Walters, J. ]. Waterbury, ]. j..
Mitchell, N. B. Ream, Oliver Ames, T.
J. Coolidge, H. L. Higginson, Nathaniel
Thayer, Thomas Dolan, P. A. B. Wide
ner, E. H. Gary, Samuel Rea and E.
B. Morris.
The third group includes the rest of
the list, or the dummies, Senator La
Toilette said: while some Of them ex-
ercise large power and hold many d.
rectorships, it is a delegated power ex-
ercised by them in a mere representa-
tive capacity"
This part Of the list follows:
Edwin s. Marston, Moses Taylor, H.
A. c. Taylor, q. w. Perkins, Francis
M. Bacon, C. S. Fairchild, John w.
Sterling. ]. A. Stillman, G. 8. Whitson,
Otto H. Kahn, Luther Kountze, A. B.
JuIliard, James N. Jarvie, H. P. Whit
ney, G. H. Allen, A. w. Kretch, P. D.
Cravath, v. Morawitz, Paul Morton,
Levi p Morton, J. H. Parker, H C.
Deming, H. H. Vreeland, Frederick
Sturgis, Charles H. Russell, Woodbury.
Langdon, C. N. Bliss, Chauncey M.
Depew, c. w. Morse, A. E. Orr, Oliver
H. Payne, Charles M. Schwab, H. NICK.
Twombley, w S. Webb, E. F. c. Young,
Charles Dawes, James B. Forgan, ]. H.
Converse and E. R. Shipley.
In the list of men, lawyers, bankers
and others who serve merely as dunn
mics taking orders from Morgan and
Standard Oil, Senator LaFollette read
the name of Senator Depew. Depew
was in his seat and threw back his head
and laughed The galleries laughed
also. and so did other senators upon
the floor LaF,ollette did not laugh. He
looked sternly at Depew and waited for
the laughter to subside and then went
On with his speech.