Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-09-19
REPUBLICAN REFORM" GUARDIANS
PROMINENT TRUST MAGNATES
Something of the AnteCedenS and Trust Affiliations of the
Men in Charge Of the Republican National Cam
pagn. All are Practical Men" of the
Hartman Type.

t, is not difficult to locate the reason
that actuated the appointment of Re
publicans of the Cromwell and Shell.
don type as hat passers" for the Re
publican party. The personnel OF
these Republican guardians of Re
form" becomes still more important,
when the failure of the Republican ma
tional convention to enact a publicity
plank by an overwhelming 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 Re
publican guardians of Reform" are
thus identified for the benefit of the
voting public:
''Wm. Nelson Cromwell of New
York, the great Wall street lawyer,
attorney for the Panama Canal Com
bine, Kuehn. Loeb & Co, the Harri-
man interests the Sugar trust,
Standard Oil Trust, ct al
George Rumsey Sheldon of No. 2
Wall street, multi-millionaire and Of
neer and director in more than twen-
ty corporations.
Frederick w. Upham of Chicago.
millionaire several times over. mem
Der of the State Board of Review
which passes upon the amount of tax
es which corporations and large es-
states should pay in Illinois and a d.
rector in several corporations.
CHARLES F. BROKER of Connecticut.
mllhonalre, engaged IN the banking
ana railway business, and Viee-Pres.
ldent OF the New York, New .fayea
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 presi-
dent of and heavily interested in that
widely known monopoly, the Pullman
Palace Car Co.
T. Coleman Du Point of Delewar,
best known as a member of tbe IN,
Pont Powder COMPANY. co,trolIing
factor in the powder trust. whose
mixing OF the federal treasury in
powder contracts has been thorough
~ exposed in Congress and agains,
Whlch suit is now pending, brought
oy the Department of Justice. for its
And last, but by no means least
the great political reformer of Penn.
sylvania, Bots Penrose, the POLITICAL
heir of Boss Quay and since the lat
ter's death, boss of the corrupt political
in Philadelphia and PennsyJ- |
Vania, machine which has not been |
equaIed in political torpitude since
ne 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 |
,crlptons are to be made until AFTER !
he election? Ask the compilers of |
he Democratic Text Book.
Messrs- Cromwell and Sheldon. and /
helr associates detailed above, whom |
'ir. Taft has selected to run the Re
campaign in a financial, ex- |
scutlve and advisory capacity. have a |
Isl OF trust connections probably I'm. |
urpassed by any other set of men of !
Ike number within the bounds of !
his country. They should be able to
10 equally as good work in a national
way as is being done by Mr.. Fred w
Jpham in Chicago. Mr.. Upham. who |
5 the Assistant Treasurer of the Re
publican National Committee, is a