Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-09
vHHLDoH OFFICIAL FAT TRIER
List of Those from Whom He Got
 Contributions
Republican Treasurer is Director in 2i Corporations-Isaised Big Fund in 1900 = Recon.
 mended by Standard
 oil Attorney.

the trusts and financial concerns are most interested in the election of MT. Taft or MT. Bryan, the Democratic Ma tional Committee Calls attention to a few of the controlling spirits in the Republican Committee who are ac- lively interested in trusts and monop- olies.
 At the head of the list stands George R. Sheldon, treasurer of the Republi- can National Committee. Mr Shcldon's selection for this important post of of- ficial fiat frier" was made upon rec ommendation of Wm. Nelson Crom- well. the great corporation lawyer of Wall Street, attorney for the Panama Canal Company, E. H. Hartman, the Standard Oil Company. the Sugar Trust, Kuhn, Loeb & Co.,, bankers and brokers, and other favored interests. Almost immediately after his appoint ment, MT. Sheldon is reported to have received contribution from MT. Crom. well, amounting to $50.000.
 MT. Sheldon is a multi.millionaire, the active head of the banking firm of w. c. Sheldon & Co.,, Wall Street. According to the Directory of Direc- tors.' for the present year, MT. Shell don's name appears as a director in the following 21 corporations:
 American Locomotive Company.
 American Locomotive Automobile Company,
 Bethlehem Steel Corporation,
 Cincinnati Northern Railroad Com pany.
 Detroit Edison Company,
 Electrical Securities Corporation,
 Laclede Gaslight Company,
 Locomotive and Machine Company of Montreal (limited),
 Locomotive Security Company.
 Metropolitan Trust Company,
 Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co,
 Milwaukee. Light Heat and Trac- tion Co.,,
 National Copper Bank,
 New Jersey Terminal Dock and I'm. provement Co.,,
 North American Co,
 Republic Steel & Iron Co.,, of New Jersey,
 Rogers Locomotive Works,
 St. Louis Transit Co.,,
 Union Bag & Paper Go. of New Jer. sey.
 Union Electric Light & Power Co.,,
 Union Electric Light 6 Power Co.,,
 of St. Louis.
 MT. Sheldon's connection with the Locomotive Trust places him in close connection with the railroads of the country, where he is able to procure their campaign contributions. He is also a confidential agent of J. Pier pont Morgan in his Wall street deals, and assisted in the formation of the Shipbuilding trust. His North Ameri- can company controls the traction in- terests of St. Paul and Minneapolis. He is president of the Union League club. of which Rockefeller, Morgan, Carnegie and other powers in Wall street are also members. He is also said to be member of 20 other clubs whose membership includes practi- cally all of the operators in Wall street.
 In 1906 MT. Sheldon was treasurer of the New York State Republican committee, and succeeded so we'll in frying the fat from the interests that Mir. Cromwell recommended him for a similar job with the National com mittee. According to the sworn state- ment of MT. Sheldon, published after the campaign, he raised $333,923.6o chiefly from these interests.
 The following is a partial list of tho contributors as shown in MT. Shel. don's statement:
 J. Pierpont Morgan, Wall street
 banker and promoter .$20, 900 Levi P. Morgan. banker. Wall
 street ... 10000 John D. Rockefeller. of Stand
 ard oil ................... 5000 Andrew Carnegie ........... 5000 Chauncey M. Depew, railroad
 and Standard oil senator :. 5000 H. R. Rollins, financier ....... 5000 Jacob H. SchifY. favored banker 2,500 Harvey Fisk & Sons. bankers
 and brokers .............. 2,500 Kuhn, Loeb & Co. bankers and
 fiscal agents .............. 2,50o J. & w. Seligman & O.. bank
 CTS and fiscal agents ....... 2,5oo Chas. w. Schwab, steel trust
 and other trust corps. ....... 2.ooo c. R. Mackey. Postal Telegraph
 Co. ................... 2,000 John W. Gates, stock gambler
 and trust operator ......... 2,000 W. E. Corey, Prest. U. s. Steel
 Corp. ................-. z,VUV ". c. Sheldon 6 Co. bankers
 and fiscal agents ........... 2,000 John Jacob Astor. tenement
 house owner ............... 1000 Wm. Nelson Cromwell, trust
 lawyer .................... 1000 Cornelius Vanderbilt, railroad
 interests ................... 1000 W. K. Vanderbilt, IT,, railroad
 interests ............s... 1.oes Edwin Gould. railroad interests 1000 W. F. Havemeyer. sugar trust. S5J B. N. Duke. tobacco trust ..... 900 D. O. Mills ................... 500 Fl. M. FlaRIer. standard On 8eo