The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-02

that Congressman Mckinley of Illinois was to be chosen treasurer of the re- publican national committee. As the re- suit of William Nelson Cromwell's visit the original slate was broken and his candidate, George R. Sheldon, was named as the treasurer of the national committee.
 CromweI's Influence.
 This was only the beginning of the potent influence that William Nelson Cromwell has exercised in high-up re- publican circles, following the adjourn ment of the republican national conven- tion. After naming the treasurer of the republican national committee MT. Cromwell was made a member of the executive committee of nine, which has immediate direction of the campaign, and later a member of the advisory committed which means that his. serv- ices and talents will be utilized in every way possible by Presidential Candidate Taft.
 Both William Nelson Cromwell and George R. Sheldon are known to the public by reason of tn cir numerous big trust connections. Their selection by MT. Taft for important confidential po- sitions in the conduct of his campaign can have only one significance: Their part will be to collect funds from the wealthy corporations and monopolies with which they are identified and as- sociated. In the light of the letter sent out from republican national headquar- ters in this city, addressed to corpora tions, in which appeals are made for campaign contributions, it Is not diffl- cult to locate the reason that actuated the appointment of republicans of the Cromwell and Sheldon types as That passers" for the republican party. The personnel of tn csc Republican Guard fans of Reform" becomes still more im- portant, when the failure of the re- publican national convention to enact a publicity law and the defeat of a pub licity plank by an overwhelming ma jority in that convention is taken into consideration.
 "Guardans of Reform"
 The campaign text book gives some thing of the personnel of the finance and executive committees with which MT. Taft has surrounded himself in this cam paign. Some of these republican guard fans of reform are thus identified for the benefit of the voting public.
 William Nelson Cromwell of New York 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. 9 Wall street. muti-millonaire and officer and director in more than 20 corporations. Frederick w. Upham of Chicago, a millionaire several times over, member of the state board of review, which passes upon the amount of taxes which corporations and large estates should pay in Illinois, and director in several corporations.
 | Charles F. Brooker of Connecticut, mill lionaire, engaged in the banking and rail- way business, and vice president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford I Railroad company, against which a gov- ernment suit is now pending. l Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, multi millionaire son-in-law of the late George l M. Pullman and now vice president of and heavily interested in that widely known monopoly, the Pullman Palace 1 Car company.
 1 T. Coleman DuPont of Delaware, best known as member of the DuPont Pow 1 der company, controlling factor in the | powder trust whose milking of the federal | treasury in powder contracts has been thoroughly exposed in Congress and l against which a suit is now pending, brought by the department of justice, l for It's dissolution.
 Boss Quay's Heir. | And last, but by no means least, the great political reformer of Pennsylvania, | Bois Penrose, the political heir of Boss Quay and, since the latters death, boss of the corrupt political machine in Phila- l delphia and Pennsylvania, a machine | which has not been equalled 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 subscriptions | are to be made until after the election. ask the compilers of the democratic text book.
 Messrs Cromwell and Sheldon and | their associates, as detailed above,
 whom MT. Taft has selected to run the republican campaign in & financial, executive and advisory ca-
 pacity, have list of trust connections
 probably unsurpassed by any other set of men of like number within the bounds
 of this country. They should be able to
 do equally as good work in a national
 way as Is being done by Mir. Fred w.
 Upham In Chicago MT. Upham, who
 Is the assistant treasurer of the repub-
 lican national committee, Is a member
 of the board of review which passes on
 the amount of taxes corporations and
 large estates shall pay in the city of Chi
 cago and the state of Illinois. MT. Up
 ham has been busy during the past few
 days addressing letters to corporations
 whose property he will assess In which
 he makes urgent appeals for campaign
 contributions to the republican national
 committee Several copies of these let
 ters, which MT. Upham addressed to Chi
 cago corporations, at least one of which ] is quasi public enterprise. are now 1 in possession of officials at democratic