The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-02

Republican presidential candidate select
ed Immediately following his nomination
at the Chicago convention.
Notorious Cromwell.
The story of how William Nelson Crom-
well succeeded TO the mantle of his enn-
ployer. E. III. Hartman. as official fat
fryer for the Republican party In this
presidential contest. is told in detail II
begins with a telegram Mr.. Cromwell sent
from New York TO Judge Taft at Hot
Springs, Va. in which the request was
made that the selection OF treasurer or
the Republican national committee be de-
ferred until the arrival of the New York
trust promoter at the Virginia resort
This telegram is a matter of historic rec
cd. having been published generally in the
press associations chronicled the arrival
of Mr.. Cromwell at Hot Springs according
10 schedule. He Immediately went into
executive session with Presidential Can
didate Taft. For several days it had been
the general understanding throughout the
country that Congressman Mckinley OF
Illinois was to be chosen treasurer of the
Republican national committee. AS the
result of VIM. Nelson Cromwells visit the
original slate was broken and his candi-
date George r. Sheldon. was named as
The treasurer of the national committee.
High Up In Councils.
This was only the beginning of the po-
tent influence that William Nelson Crom-
well has exercised in high up Republican
circles. following the adjournment of the
Republican national convention. After
naming the treasurer of the Republican
national committee Mr.. Cromwell was
made a member of the executive commit
'tee of nine, which has Immediate direction
the advisory committee, which means that
his services and talents will be utilized
in every way possible by Presidential Can
didate Taft.
Both William Cromwell and George r.
hold Tf,f or IN no n. Nv a
son of their numerous big trust connec-
tons. Their selection by Mr.. Taft for
important confidential positions in the
conduct of his campaign can have only
one significance. Their part will be to
collect funds from the wealthy corpora
tons and monopolies with which they are
Identified and associated. In the light OF
the letter sent out from Republican ma
tional headquarters in this city addressed
to corporations. in which appeals are
made for campaign contributions, 1t Is
not difficult TO locate the reason that dc-
tuated the appointment of Republicans
of the Cromwell and Sheldon type as hat
passers'' for the Republican party. The
personnel Of these Republican Guardians
of Reform" becomes still more important.
when the failure of the Republican ma
tional convention to enact publicity law
and the defeat of a publicity plank by an
overwhelming majority in that convention,
is taken into consideration. &.
Text Book Gives facts.
The campaign text book gives something
of the personnel of the finance and ex-
ecutive committees with which Mr. Taft
has surrounded himself in this campaign.
Reform are thus identified for the ben
eft of the voting public
William Nelson Cromwell of New York,
the great Wall street lawyer. attorney for
the Panama canal combine, Kuehn, Loeb
& Co, the Hartman interests. the sugar
trust. Standard Oil trust, ct al.
George Ramsey Sheldon of Wall street.
multi-millonaire and officer and director
in more than twenty corporations.
Frederick w. Upham of Chicago. mil
lionaire several times over. member of the
State Board OF Review which passes upon
the amount of taxes which corporations
and large estates should pay in Illinois,
and a director in several corporations.
Charles +. BROKER of Connecticut, mill
liOnaire. engaged in the banking and rail-
way business and vice president of the
New York. New Haven & Hartford Rail
road company, against which a govern
ment suit is now pending.
Frank .. Lowden of Illinois, multi-mil-
lionaire son-in-law or the late George NJ.
Pullman and now vice president of and
heavily interested in that widely known
monopoly, the Pullman Palace Car COM
pany.
Powder. Trust Maenate.
T. Coleman Du Pont of Delaware. best
known as a member of the Du Pont Pow
der company controlling factor in the
powder trust whose milking of the federal
treasury in powder contracts has been
thoroughly exposed in congress and
against which a suit is now pending,
brought by the department of justice for
its dissolution.
And last, but by no means least the
great political reformer of Pennsylvania.
Bots Penrose. the political heir of Boss
Quay and. since the latter's death, boss
of the corrupt political machine in Phil
adelphia and Pennsylvania. a machine
which has not been equalled in political
turpitude since the days of Boss Tweed
in New York
Do these facts. which cannot be dis
puted furnish some of the reasons why
no publication of campaign subscriptions
are to be made until after the election,
ask the compilers of the Democratic Text
book
Messrs. Cromwell and Sheldon and their
associates detailed above. whom Mr.. Taft
has selected 10 run the Republican cam
paign in a financial executive and advis-
DRY capacity. have a list of trust con-
nections probably unsurpassed by any
other set of men of like number within
the bounds of this country. They should
be able TO do equally as good work in a
national way as is being done by Mr.
Fred w. Upham in Chicago. Mr.. Upham,
who is the assistant treasurer of the Re-
publican national committee, is a men,