Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1912-05-02
J. P. MORGAN IS
AGAINST WILSON
Moneyed Interests Behind Fight
TO Prevent His Nomination.
STATEMENT BY COL. AS. BACON

Champ ciark's Connection With the
Financial Po~srs 10 Traced Through
Ex- Senator Psttiorsw Of South Da.
kota-Why They Hate tho Governor
Of Now Jersey.
In a booklet written by Colonel Alex
ander S. Bacon of New York and is-
sued by the Woodrow Wilson man
agenent J. +. Morgan Il Co., with
other money interests. are specifically
charged with being behind the fight
against Governor Wilson.
Colonel Bacon traces the connection
through ex-senator Richard Francis
Pettigrew Of South Dakota. one Of the
leading managers Of the Champ Clark
cause. Pettigrew has written many
letters for circulation through the mid
die west. saying things which the Will
son people declare are untrue
Senator Pettigrew. Colonel Bacon
says. has always been servant to
James j. Hill and the Hill railroads
and has boosted that Hill enabled him
to make half n million dollars. Now,
says Colonel Bacon:
The bankers for the Hill lines and
the interests for years identified with
the Hill properties are ]. p. Morgan &
Co. The fact that Pettigrew Is taking
the lead In this crusade against Wilson
lends considerable weight to an impress
sion that Is pretty general as to the
real forces fighting Wilson. Wilson Is
the one man, above all, whom the spe-
cial interests are determined to defeat.
The financial powers hate him not
only because they regard Wilson as a
dangerous man" but because they re.
gard him as "a traitor to his class"
They hate him for his attempts to de-
mocratize Princeton; for his refusal to
let their representative, ex-senator
James Smith, return to the United
States senate: for the popular meas
ures he has placed upon the statute
books in New Jersey: for his refusal to
take their money for campaign pur-
poses They hoped for better things
than this from Woodrow Wilson; at
first they regarded him rs one OF them
selves-taking the popular side. Wilson
has unbiased himself.
Above all. these forces know that
once Wilson Is elected they will lose
control of the government. Senator
Pettigrew Is precisely the type OF man
these forces would select to serve their
ends
The plan Of campaign engineered
against Wilson is no secret. Pettigrew
is loudly campaigning for Speaker
Clark. Pettigrew and his fellow cam
paigners. however, care nothing for
Clark. Wall street cares nothing for
Clark Had Pettigrew all the electoral
votes In his hands at this moment he
would not cast them for Clark. What
Wall street wants to do is to defeat
Wilson. 1t has collected large cam.
paign fund. not to nominate Clark. but
to destroy the New Jersey man.
Likewise politicians Of the moneyed
interests are pushing the candidates OF
several men all against Wilson. AS the
sugar trust years ago testified that 1t
contributed to the campaign Of both
parties, so the Wall street fnanciers
are now supplying money to the back.
ers Of Underwood, Harmon and Clark.
They realize that there Is only one ma
tional candidate-Wilson. Clark, I'm
derwood and Harmon have followings
only In certain localities. while Wilson
Is strong in every state. They have
therefore determined as fixed policy
to use the favorite sons in states where
they are especially strong merely as
tools to keep the delegates from Will
son. Underwood Is strong In Alabama,
and as a southern man naturally finds
favor In other southern states.
Mr.. Harmon is presumably popular
In Ohio and perhaps in the several
eastern stand pat states. so Wall street
pushes Harmon ahead In these quar-
tiers, keeping Underwood and Clark
out of the struggle. Similarly Clark
ought to be strong In the west, and so
the anti Wilson managers push his can
dldacy In these sections. 1t Is In II
campaign Of this kind that men like
Pettlgrew, In spite Of his record have
4 certain usefulness,