Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-12-21
SAY ROOSEVELT
SUGGESTED THE
GARY MEETING
Cynical Take This View of
New York big Business"
Session.
OTHERS FEEL COLONEL
SEEKS THE NOMINATION
Dinner Guests Represented Bill
lions-Lindabury's Shot
at Wilson.
OTHERS FEEL COLONEL
SEEKS THE NOMINATION
special to the Evening star.

Special 10 tnt ENentUE star.
NEW YORK. Dec. 21.-The cynical
in financial and political circles now
say that the colonel beat Barnes to
it Friday night" at the Gary dinner
here, which seems certain to become
one of the most celebrated social
functions of the year. The 'ity In
their reference is the group of "big
business" men who win have much to
say concerning the financing of next
years political campaigns. It is their
theory that Theodore Roosevelt was
the one to suggest the gathering.
Others take a directly opposite view.
They believe that the big business
men present took the initiative, and
in a desire to beat Wilson at any
cost devised this means of sounding
the colonel. A few went even further
and said that big business wishes
the colonel TO be the Republican can
didate, and the dinner was sugges-
tion to the men in control of the Re-
publican party machinery.
Interest in this variety of opinion
here is manifesting itself in many
directions. especially in Washington.
Paul NJ. Warburg, of the Federal Re
serve Board and formerly a member
VI Inc uItil u MUM. 41DCD q NSO-s Seaiiie
all the way from Washington to learn
why his former chief, Jacob H. Schiff,
attended the gathering.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
and Secretary to the President Tu-
multy both have held extended con-
versations over the telephone with
friends in this city. Both seemed
to be more concerned about how the
gathering was being interpreted than
with other phases.
Very little has been said yet by any
of the seventeen men present. who
are themselves worth an aggregate
of 81, ,000, ,000, 900 and represent a dozen
times that amount, or one-tenth OF
all the wealth in the United States
Said Little.
Two of them have said a little,
however. Richard V. Lindabury, OF
Newark, counsel for the United States
Steel Corporation, when asked If he
were not one of those who urged
President Wilson 10 enter politics and
assisted in his campaigns, replied,
Yes. / suppose it is true but III
never do it again.
George w. Perkins, chief financial
hacker of the Progressive party, who
was another of the guests, said tha;
If the Republican party leaders
Ignore the wishes of the people. as
they did in 1912. I'm afraid that
Colonel Roosevelt will have 10 be
drafted again"
Mr.. Lindabury is staying in thi:
city at present. His law office is ir
Newark. He is counsel for the United
States Steel Corporation, and wa:
present at the Gary dinner, and was
aaan vesferdav 1Chiie anI1earfupe rs
counsel for the defense in the trial OF
eleven directors of the New Hayer
system in the United States District
Court. He was asked wnat sfgnifi.
canoe he attached to the fact that al
those who were at the dinner were
making such a mystery over IT, Mr.
Lindabury, who is credited with be-
ing the man who induced Woodrow
Wilson to become governor of New
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