The Nevada County picayune., 1908-10-08

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 contributors as shown in Mr Shel- don's statements:
 J. Pierpont Morgan. Wall street
 banker and promoter. ...=.... S20,0oG Levi P, Morton, banker, Wall
 street ...,#.. .=...-.=...-...,.. 20,000 John D. Rockefeller of Standard
 Oil ................... 5000 Andrew Carnegie ............ 5000 Chauncey NJ Depew, railroad
 and Standard Oil senator..... 5000 H. R. Rollins. tinancier 5000 Jacob H. Schiff. favored banker 2500
 and brokers ,..,s......... 2.5OO Kuhn, Loeb X Co, bankers and
 fiscal agents. ................ 2.50o J. X w. Seligman & Co, bank
 CTS and fiscal agents. ........ 2,5O0 Charles W. Schwab, steel trust
 and other trust corporations 200J C. k. Mackey, Postal Telegraph
 Company ............=........ 2OO0 John W. Gates, stock gambler
 and trust operator .......... 2.O00 w E. Corey, President |. $.
 Steel Corporation on............ 2.0O0 w. C. Sheldon X Co, bankers
 and fiscal agents............ 2.OO0 John Jacob Astor, tenement
 house owner ............... 1000 William Nelson Cromwell, trust
 lawyer .....,.,............. 1000 Cornelius Vanderbilt, railroad
 terests ..................... 1000 w. K Vanderbilt, Jr, railroad
 interests ......... ...,... .... .. 1000 Edwin Gould, railroad interests. 1.000 w. F. Havemeyer. sugar trust. 500 B. N. Duke. tobacco trust..... 800 D. 0. Mills .#.................... 300 II. NJ Flagler, Standard Oil. 500 Arbuckle Bros, coffee trust..a 800 Henry Clews, Wall street banker 250
 This is only a partial list of he trust ma2uates and financiers who contributed to Mr Sh aldon's fund An index as to how much more Mr Sheldon may be able to raise from these interests for the national cam paign the fact may be cited that NIT. Cromwell gave $l000 to the state fund, and increased he ameaut 70 $50,000 for the national Campagu
 Fred W UIham Of CLivae is as sistant treasurer of fEe Re ublieaa
  aire several times over. and q mem Der of the state board of review of Illinois. which passes upon the amount of taxes which corporations and large estates shall pay in that state. lie is q director in several corpora tions, and is in charge of the cullec- tion of campaign funds in the west
 On August 2l. 1908. after his ap- 1f..t, the Republican committee Mr. Upham sent out thousands of letters 10 cor poration officials whose taxes he passes upon as member of the board of review. urging them to contribute to the Republican fund as "indivtd- uals.' and requesting them "to bring this matter to the attention of faur business associates" The suggcs- tion implied is regarded as si2uiii. cant.
 Five of the nine members of the Republican committee are:
 Charles F. Erooker, Connecticut millionaire, member of New York Chamber of Commerce and yice-pIe4 dent New York New Haven Rail road Company, against which gov ernment suit is now pending. aud one of the leading spirits in the brass trust.
 Frank o. Lowden, multi.minionaire. vice-president Pullman Palace Car Company. which is a monopoly.
 E. c. Duncan, director Atlantic & North Carolina Railway, and other corporations receiver Seaboard Air Line and official dispenser of patron. age in North Carolina.
 ~ ,1g factor in powder trust, against winch the government has a suit now ueHd- ing for dissolution.
 Boise Penrose, political boss of Pennsylvania, head of the corrupt Re publican organization in Phuadelphfa. and conspicuous in many corpora, ti0ns
 Roy o. West, chairman of the Re publican srate committee of Illinois is also chairman of the board of re. view. which passes upon corporation taxes
 Fred A. Sims, acting chairman of the Republican state committee of In. diana. is also chairman of the state tax board, which passes uuop inc taxes levied against corporations.
 MT Du Pont has been forced to ra. sign from the executive committee he. cause of his trust connections bn, Mir. Brooker, against whose comnanv the government has q suit. is stiIl Q member of the committee.