Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-10-08

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contributors as shown in, Mr.. Shell
don's statement:
J. Pierpont Morgan, Wall street
banker and promoter. $500. 900
street ....................... 10000
on NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 5000
Andrew Carnegie ..... 5000
Chauncey M. Depew, railroad
and Standard Oil senator. -. 5000
H R. Hollins. financier. 5000
Jacob H. Schif, favored banker. $500
Harvey Fisk & Sons, bankers
and brokers .........-...... 2,5O0
Kuhn, Loeb & Co., bankers and
fiscal agents. ................ $500
]. & w. Seligman & Co., bank
ers and fiscal agents. ....... $500
Charles w. Schwab, steel trust
and other trust corporations. 1000
G. r. Mackey, Postal Telegraph
company $500. -......... L,ooV
John w. Gates, stock gambler
and trust operator .......... 1000
w. E. Corey, President U. S.
Steel Corporation. .......... 1000
w. C. Sheldon & Co., bankers
and fiscal agents. ......... 1000
John Jacob Astor, tenement
house owner ............... 1000
lawyer .............r...... 1000
Cornelius Vanderbilt, railroad
terests 1000
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., railroad
interests 1000
Edwin Gould, railroad interests. 1000
w. F. Havemeyer, sugar trust. 800
B. N Duke, tobacco trust. 80. 500
D. o. Mills. ........ 500
H. M. F7agler, Standard Oil.... 500
Arbuckle Bros, coffee tfust.... 500
Henry Clews, Wall street banker ESQ
This is only a partial list Of the
trust magnates and financiers who
contributed to Mr.. Sheldon'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 Mr..
Cromwell gave $1,000 to the state
fund, and increased the amount to
$4,000 for the national campaign.
Fred w. Upham of Chicago is as
sistant treasurer of the Republican
national committee. He is a million
aire several times over, and 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.
He is director in several corpora
tions, and is in charge of the collec-
ton of campaign funds in the west.
On August 81, 1908, after his ay-
pointment as assistant treasurer of
/ the Republican committee Mr.. Upham
sent out thousands OF letters to cor
poration officials whose taxes he
| passes upon as member of the board
of review, urging them to contribute
to the Republican fund as "individ-
uals," and requesting them ito bring
! this matter to the attention Of your
business associates" The sugges-
1 cant.
Five Of the nine members of the
Republican committee are:
Charles T. Ercoker, Connecticut
millionaire, member of. New York
Chamber of Commerce and vice-Dresi-
dent New York New Haven Rail
road Company, against which a gov
eminent suit is new pending and one
of the leading spirits in the brass
trust.
Frank O. Lowden. multi-millionaire
vfce-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.
T. Coleman Du Pont, controlling
factor in, powder trust, against which
the government has suit now pend
ing for dissolution.
Boise Penress, political boss Of
Pennsylvania, head of the corrupt Re
publican organization in Philadelphia
and conspicuous in many corpora
lions.
Roy o. West. chairman of the Re
publican state committee of Illinois
is also chairman OF the board of re
view, which passes ulsn corporation
taxes
Fred 4. Sims. acting chairman o.
the Republican state committee of In
clara, is also chairman Of the stale
tax beard which fasscs uron th,
taxes le7sed against corporations.
Mr.. Da Pont he's been forced to re
sign from the executive committee be
case OF his t-ass connections. b.
Mr. Freezer, aeanst whcSa ool.Is1s
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