The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-01
IS HARRIMAN
 DIRECTINGs
HIS RIGHT HAND MAN CROMWELL DICTATED TREAsURER OF RE
 PUBLICAN COMMITTEE.
Some of the Men Who Are Engaged in the "Fatfryfngv Business--An of Them Have Favors to Ask
 Of the Government.

Cnicago, llL, Aug. Sl.-tSpeclal)-
 'Repuhlican Guardians of Reform" Is
 the subject of a chapter in the forth
 coming Democratic campaign text book
 advance sheets of which were receiv-
 ed today at Democratic headquarters
 from the publishers. This particular
 chapter, which will be read with in-
 terest. Is devoted to the personnel of
 the men whom Mir. Taft has selected
 to conduct his campaign. and who are
 his chief advisers in in exec
 utive advisory. and financial way.
 Wm. Nelson Cromwell, the personal
 and legal representative of l.. H. Har-
 riman. and probably the most con-
 spicuous trust lawyer in this coun-
 try. is the central figure of these
 Republican Guardians of Reform" :"
 The others who share honors with
 him in this chapter In the text book
 are the nine members of the Execu-
 tive Committee whom the Republican
 Presidential candidate selected im-
 mediately following his nomination at
 the Chicago Convention.
 The story of how William Nelson
 Cromwell succeeded to the mantle of
 his employer E. H. Hartman, as of
 ficial fiat fryer" for the Republican
 Party in this Presidential contest is
 told in detail It begins with tele-
 gram Mir. Cromwell sent from New
 York to Judge Taft at Hot Springs,
 Va, in which the request was made
 that the selection of Treasurer of the
 Republican National Committee be de-
 ferred until the arrival Of the New
 York Trust promoter at the Virginia
 resort. This telegram is matter of
 historic record. having been publish
 ed generally in the press at the time.
 The following day the press associa-
 tions chronicled the arrival of Mir.
 (tFnfn Nva a4 f1
 schedule. He immediately went into
 executive session with Presidential
 Candidate Taft For several days it had been the general understanding Throughout the country that Congress- man Mckinley of Illinois was to be chosen Treasurer of the Republican National Committee. As the result of William Nelson CraomweIl's visit, the original slate was broken and his can- didate. George R. Sheldon, was named as the Treasurer of the National Com mfttee.
 This was only the beginning of the potent influence that William Nell son Cromwell has exercised in high up Republican circles. following the adjournment of the Republican Ma yional Convention. After naming the treasurer of the Republican National committee Mir. Cromwell was made A member of the Executive Committee of nines which has immediate direction of the campaign, and later a member of the Executive Committee of nine, which has immediate direction of the campaign, I'd later a member of the Adytsory Committee, which means that his services and talents will be utiliz- ed in every way possible by Presiden- tial Candidate Taft.
 Both William Nelson Cromwell and George R. Sheldon are known to the kxf -R I.l- big trust connections. Their selection by Mr. Taft for important confidential positions in the conduct of his cam paign can have only one significance. Their part will be to collect funds From the wealthy corporations and monopolies with which they are iden- tified and associated. In the light of the letter sent out from Republican Natlonal headquarters in this city ad- dressed to corporations, in which ap- pealsf are made for campaign eontri- buttons, 1t is not difficult to locate the reason that aetuated the appointment Of Republicans of the Cromwell and sheldon type as That passers" for the Republican Party. The personnel of these Republican Guardians of Re- form becomes stilI more important when the failure Of the Republican National Convention to enact a pub- hcity law and the defeat of a pubIici- ty plank by an overwh elming majority In that convention. is taken into con sideration.
 The campaign text book gives some thing of the personnel of the finance and Executive Committees with which Mr. Taft has surrounded himself in this campaign. Some of these "Repub- lican Guardians of Reform" are thus identified for the benefit of the voting public.
 tfxxysrtfo,.. rS.....,,.u.t , 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 Rumsey Sheldon. of No. Wall Street. multi-miilionaire and off, cer and director in more than twenty corporations.
 Frederick W. Upham, of Chicago, a several times over. mem Der of the State Board of Review which passes upon the amount of taxes which corporations and large States should pay in Illinois, and a director in several corporations.
 Charles F. Brooker. of Connecticut, engaged in the banking and railway business. and Vice Pres ident of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, against which a government suit is now pending.
 Frank O. Lowden. of Illinois, multi son-in-law of the laet George M. Pullman and now vice pres ideut and heavily interested in that | widely known monopoly, the Pullman Palace Car Co.
 T. Coleman Du Pont, of Delaware. | best known as a member of the Du | Pont Powder Company, controlling | factor in the powder trust whose milk | ing of the Federal Treasury in pow | der contracts has been thoroughly ex- | posed in Congress and against which | a suit Is now pending. brought by the 1 Department of Justice, for it's dissolu- ton.
 And last but by no means least, the | great political reformer of Pennsyl- | vania. Bois Penrose, the political heir | of Boss Quay and. since the latter's | death, boss of the corrupt political | in Philadelphia and Pennsyl- | vania. a machine which has not been | 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 sub | scriptions are to be made until after |