White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-04
Big Business Unites to Pick Republic
can President i'm 1916.

Two important developments lndl-
cate that the big business interests oil
the country, representing manufac-
turing. commercial and financial lines
are determined again TO take a hand
in the coming presidential election
and work for the election of a He
publican president, just is they did
back in 1896, when they united
against Bryan and his free-silyer
notions. Conditions are somewhat
similar now in the business world TO
what they we're then.
The two developments so far indi-
eating the trend of affairs are the
organization in New York during the
last week of the Republican Publicity
committee, with headquarters there,
and ten conference held recently in
New York between Chairman Hilles
and Secretary Reynolds of the Repub7
lean National committee and forty
prominent business men.
Apparently the same efforts are to
be put forth in the interest of a re-
turn to prosperity as were used so
successfully in the 1896 campaign in
behalf of Sound money as against
free silver.
Agains il is to be a campaign of
education" The idea is to be foster
ed among the voters that the Demo-
cratic party is responsible for hard
times and that salvation rests in sup
port of the Republican party. If the
interests now at work have their way
the nomination of the convention
will be a mar identified with big
business and whose name and record
will inspire confidence and attract the
support of men OF affairs of all politi-
cal ereeds.
Such a project necessarily involves
the prerequisite of suitable selection
of delegates to the convention. 1t is
to this work that all efforts will be
bent, to to be carried along simulta-
neously with dissemination of the
idea that business must turn to the
Republican party for rescue.
The avowed object of the Publicity
committee Is to expound Republican
doctrines through the press. Head
quarters are now in charge of men
prominent In both the old line and
progressive wings of the party.
Democratic managers are very sus-
picious of this aggregation of politi-
cal talent. 1t is said in Democratic
circles that this committee will be
watched very closely and upon the
slightest evidence will be hailed be-
fore a congressional committee and
examined.
The alliance of business interests
and Republican politicians is nto only
determined upon, but is we'll under
way. Indeed. instead of making eff
forts to conceal it, every possible
means will be used to exploit the fact
and solicit adherents to the cause.
AS to the question of candidates. 1t
is said there is plenty of available
material. The names mentioned most
frequent by business men are Myron
T. Herrick of Ohio, John w. Weeks
of Massachusetts, United States Su-
preme Court Justice Hughes of New
York, Representative James r. Mann
of Illinois, and Charles w. Fairbanks
of Indiana.
Either of these would be eminently
satisfactory to business men, il is
said by men who are in touch with
the movement. Charles s.. Whitman,
Senator Cummins. Senator Borah and
Senator Sherman of Illinois are to be
placed in the 'favorite son" class. to
get the nomination If they can.
The Weeks boom is the latest to
arrive, but 1t is admitted on all sides
that 1t is on in full blast. Senator
Weeks has an admirable record in
congress, and, of course, there is no
question of his acceptability to bust
ness men. 1t is said that Senator
Weeks will soon make a number of
speeches throughout the country,
and that the people will be given q
chance to look him over"
Human Football OF Sea is Back in
Brooklyn az a Prisoner.
Nathan Cohen, human football be-
tween South America and North
America, whom neither Brazil nor
the United States will permit to land
is a prisoner on the steamship Vas
ari in Brooklyn.
Nathan, who is thirty-five years
old and cannot tell where he was
born. has travelled 33,740 miles for
$45, the price paid for a ticket from
Rio de Janeiro to New York on the
'Vasari in May 1912. The United