The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-10-03
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
CAMPAIGN GIFTS FOR WILSON

paign contributors to the national
democratic committee:
I'm the list of names of $4,000
contributors we find that of jacob
Sch1ff, a wealthy gentleman, but who
at the head of "A great New York
banking house, has financed "a mum
Der OF the largest Ryan enterprises
Ihere, too. for a like mount ap-
pears the name of Mr.. Wells. some
OF whose financial investments are in
properties affiliated with, if not aux
Hilary to, the Steel Trust. We take il
that Mr.. Wells never asked the pro
1essors consent to make this large
contribution He has spared the pro
fessor the pain of having to decline
money he wants and needs in his
campaign. The same considerateness
Will explain the $4,000 contribution
made by the wealthy New York bank
err, Henry Goldman, and 1t can even
explain the $1,000 contribution by
Perry Belmont, one of the trio of
undesirable citizens Mr.. Bryan
wanted to evict from the Baltimore
convention as being more plutocratic
than democratic.
MIR. Wells has exercised delicacv
as we'll as skill in all of this. Both
the delicacy and the skill appear in
the publishing, at this time, of the
list OF contributors of 500 or more.
The professor is being delicately adj
vised or who 1t Il thai is bearing the
financial heat ana burden of the day.
III he wants to protest, he has the
opportunity. Let him speak now or
forever after hold his peace"
Ryan and Belmont were Bryan's
foils in the Baltimore convention.
He insisted loudly and dramatically
that these two gentlemen should not
be allowed to dominate the demo-
cratic party. Bryan did not go so far
as to say that Wilson's nomination
would be enough to break the poll
tical power of these men. He did not
care to vouch for Gov. Wilson to that
extent.
Therefore it is strictly pertinent
to the present campaign that Bel
mont money and Ryan money is be-
ing used to finance Wilson's efforts
to obtain the presidency. 1t is signi-
ficant further that one prominent
in the steel trust has contributed the
maximum amount allowed by the
committee from one individual.
BIZ VndAaI A1x@.- 80
servative financiers should not find
the prospect of u democratic admin
lstration quite to their liking. True.
ii would probably bring on a period
OF depression if the free trade policy
OF the party is carried out, But these
men of wealth can play the market
on either side. They can make money
by buying at low prices as we'll as by
selling at high prices. But they have
nothlng to fear from Wilson'S acad-
emic theories about the control of
organized wealth. They know that
a general negative law. RELYING unon
the courts Tor its enforcement, would
prove no more efficient than has the
utterly futile Sherman law. III is ,
remarkable fact that, although the
great monopolies have come into AK
lstence almost entirely since the en-
of the Sherman law. Gov
wilson is of opinion that some sim
liar measure would suffice to break
up these monopolies.
Another reason why the democrat ;
&c party appeals to the reactionarv
capitalist is that it has never chamn- !,
loned distinctive reforms. Ii has
never been a progressive party. In ALI /,
lhe ngnts that have been made i'm
by progressive republicans {
10 secure railroad regulation, pure
food, direct election of Senators. and
"a alloH VI resources. the dem
ocrats have either contented them c
selves with looking on or have act .
laily joined the opposition. Every u
BODY knows that the Solid South in d
he democratic party is most emphat- u
cally reactionary and everybody u
that Tammany Hall, the other o.
'reat power in the democratic party. 8
3 unqualifiedly and uncompromis- u
ngly opposed not only to progressive u
overnment but also to decent gov q
rnment. az
So why shouldn't the Ryans. repre- 'r
snting the tobacco trust, and the re- er
r~esentatives of the steel trust and pr
lie Belmonts. acting for a variety of TIN
Dig financial interests, give their tn
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