Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-09-10
To RICH MEN
FOR Contributions
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS POINT
WITH ALARM TO WEALTHY
REPUBLICANS.
INFERENCE DRAWN THAT COR.
PORATIONs ARE TO AID IN
THE CAMPAIGN.

Washington, Sept. 6.-After much
thought and careful study OF the sit
uation the democratic national lead
ers have discovered that the republi-
can national ticket has the support Of
some men who have succeeded in bust
ness and who may be convicted Of the
"sin of having money"
Consequently the advance sheets Of
the democratic text book, issued re-
Gently from national Headquarters.
emphasize this situation as il it had
become the chief issue of the cam
paign, special attention being paid 70
William Nelson Cromwell and Ma
tional Treasurer George R sheldon
Republican Guardians of Reform is
the title of this chapter in the demo
cratic book of faith which presents
the conditions which the democrats
view with alarm in the following
gloomy language:
Both William Nelson Cromwell
and George r. Sheldon are known to
the public by reason of their numer-
GUS big trust connections Their So
lection by Mr.. Taft for important con
fidental positions in the conduct OF
his campaign can have only one sig
.nifcance. Their part will be to col
lect funds from the wealthy corpora
lions and monopolies with which they
are identified and associated"
Hidden Motive Is Discerned.
IN The light OF tho letter sent out
from republican national headquar-
tiers, in this city addressed to corpora
tons, in which appeals are made for
campaign contributions, it is not diff
cult to locate the reason that actu-
ated the appointment of republicans
OF the COrmwelI and Sheldon type as
hat passers' for the republican party.
The personnel Of these republican
guardians Of reform becomes still
more important when the defeat Of
a publicity plank by an overwhelming
majority in the national republican
convention is taken into consideration
Some of these republican guard
ians of reform are thus identified for
the benefit Of the voting public:
civilian Nelson Cromwell of New
York, the great Wall street lawyer,
attorney for the Panama canal com
bine Kuehn, Loeb & Co, the Harrt-
man interests, the sugar trust, Stand
ard Oil trust, ct al.
George Rumsey Sheldon Of 2 Wall
street, mutimillionaire and officer and
director in more than twenty corpora
lions.
"Fredericl w. Upham of Chicago, n
millionaire several times over, mem
Der 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.
Still More MiIIionaires.
Charles F. Broker of Connecticut,
millionaire, engaged in the banking
and railway business and vice presl-
dent of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad company
against which a government suit is
now pending.
Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, multi
millionaire son-in-law Of the late
George NJ. Pullman and now vice
president Of and heavily interested in
that widely known monopoly the Pull
man Palace Car company.
OF. Coleman Du Pont of Delaware,
best known as a member Of the Du
Pont Powder company, controlling fac
tor in the powder trust, whose milking
of the federal treasury in power con
tracts has been thoroughly exposed
in congress and against which suit
is now pending, brought by the depart
ment of justice, for it's dissolution.
"And last, but by no means least,
the great political reformer Of Penn
sylvania, Boies Penrose, the political
heir of Boss Quay and, since the lat
ter's death, boss Of the corrupt politi~
cal machine in Philadelphia and
Pennsylvania, a machine which has
not been equaled in political turpi-
tude since the days Of Boss Tweed IN
New York"