The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-11
THE SYSTEM
NEVER SLEEPS
Senator LafoIIette sag That PresI-
dent Wilson Has Been
Imposed Up
on.
APPOINTMENT MISTAKE
Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury
Williams Is Member Of the sys-
tenn, SO He
Charges.

United Press Leased Wire Service
MADISON, Wis, April l1.-Under
the heading The System at Work,
Senator Robert NJ. LaFollette, in a
signed editorial on the first page Of
this weeks issue of LaFollette's
Weekly, has the following comment to
make on the appointment by Presi-
dent Wilson Of John Shelton Williams
as assistant secretary of the treasury:
Under the Roosevelt and Taft adj
ministrations, the combined interests
were all-powerful in the treasury de-
partment.
One after another, the high officials
of this department filed their places
of trust in manner 80 acceptable to
the system that they we're rewarded
with lucrative positions at the hands
of the money power when the time
came for them to retire from the
public service" This was more
especially true of Rooseyelt's appoint
ments.
And now, one month after the
fourth of March, men are asking:
Are the representatives Of the In
terlocking directorate to secure a
strangle-hold upon the treasury de-
! partment under the Wilson admins
/ tration?"
Until few days ago 1t was Officials
| ly announced that Robert Wooley, OF
Virginia, would be appointed assist
ant secretary Of the treasury. Mr..
Wooley is an able, scholarly gentle
man, a student of government finance,
a well-known publicist who has sup
ported progressive measures. He was
employed by the Stanley committee,
to make special investigation of the
| financial operations of the United
States Steel trust. In one of his mis-
cellaneous magazine articles, Mr..
Washington real estate ring and the
connection of Mr. c. G. Glover with
its operations.
Mr.. Glover is the president of the
Riggs National bank. This is a system
bank with very close connections with
the National City bank of New York,
] the head of the Standard Oil group
Mr. Glover, both for personal reasons
and business reasons, was opposed to
Mr.. Wocley's appointment as assist
ant secretary of the treasury. Mr..
Wooley was not appointed.
Either Mr. Glover. or some one
with like interests persuaded Presi-
dent Wilson to appoint John Shelton
Williams assistant secretary of the
| treasury. Mr.. Williams has qualifica-
! lions which would be recognized any
where in Wall street as admirably
fitting him for this position He is
member Of the Metropolitan (million-
/ aires) club, of Sixtieth street, New
York. He organized the Seaboard Air
! Line railway system and was its pres
ltdent from 1899 to 1904. He is presi-
4 dent of the Georgia and Florida COM
Ipany; director of the Raleigh and
4 Charleston railroad company, and
| chairman Of the board OF directors
He is president of the Bank Of Rich
mond; president OF the National Bank
of Virginia; a director of the Mary
land Casualty company; a director of
THE Southern Investment company:
/ director of the Seaboard Air Line
railway company. On the board OF
directors Of the Air Line, Mr. Will
liams is associated with H. Clay
| Pierce, Norman B. Ream, B. F. Yoak-
I'm, and other system representatives.