Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-10-11
These Provide the Funds,

With Mrs. Rumsey on the Finance
Committee are Mrs. Robert Bacon,
whose husband was translated from
the House Of Morgan to be Roosevelt's
Assistant Secretary of State, and later
Ambassador to France; Mrs. Ber-
nard H. Ridder, wife of one of the
proprietors of the New York Stats
Zeitung, leader Of the German propa-
ganda against President Wilson; Mrs.
w. H. Croker, widow of the Cali
fornia mining and railroad multimil-
liOnaire. ..-. ...... $780,.
On the Train Fund Committee are
Mrs Daniel Guggenheim, Of the Smell
ter Trust; Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
representing inherited millions of rail-
read capital; Mrs. Harry Payne Whit
ney, daughter Of the late Cornelius
Vanderbilt; Miss Maude Wetmore, Of
the wealthy Rhode Island family of
that name; Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Long
worth, daughter Of Theodore Roose-
welt, whose husband is Nicholas Long
worth, in Congress from Ohio.
Many of the junketers who are 60
ing along to do the speaking are pro-
fessional women, who could not afford
the luxury of special trains nor the
diversion of campaigning without pay.
But back Of them, with their money
and the glamour that attaches to their
gilded names, are the women standing
as financial sponsors for this greatest
society show that ever was put on
wheels.
Some of these wives and daughters
of the super-rich will 60 along on this
mission and with their presence, If
not with their oratory, will warn the
women of the west-who are already
saved unless the women cast their
vote for the candidate Of plutocracy.
The letterhead from Republican
campaign headquarters gives only the
names of the Train Fund Committee
as above, but besides them there is an
additional committee in charge of this
feature of the Hughes campaign.
Others in on the Junket.
On this committee appear in ad-
dition to the foregoing members, the
following:
Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury, whose hus-
band Is Philadelphia partner Of ]. P.
Morgan & Co.; Mrs. Fl. o. Havemeyer,
wife of the Sugar Trust and Standard
Oil magnate; Mrs. Phoebe Hearst,
mother Of William Randolph Hearst,
owner Of millions in American mines
and Mexican plantations; Mrs. o. b.
P. Belmont, who has undertaken to
raise half million dollars to defeat
President Wilson; Mrs. John Hays
Hammond, wife of the multimillion-
aire mining man; Mrs. Mary Dreier,
New York society leader, Of wealthy
German family with strong antipathy
to President Wilson.
A leading attorney of Pocatello,
Idaho, writing to the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, says:
II read with deep interest Of the
preparations of the Silk Stocking,
Poodle Dog, Feminine Brigade that is
soon to start on its million dollar spe-
cial across the continent to awaken
the enthusiasm Of the mothers and
women who carry the burden Of our
national greatness on their shoulders,
to vote for their idol, Hughes.
1T will not be difficult for the rank
and file of the common people to see
the hypocrisy of this movement"
When Sumner Scored.
Once when Charles Sumner was In
London he gave ready reply. At
a dinner given in his honor he spoke
Of "the ashes" of some dead hero !
"Ashes! What American English"
rudely broke in an Englishman; dust,
you mean. Mr.. Sumner. We don't burn
our dead in this country" yet" in
stantly replied Mr. Sumner, with a
courteous smile, 'yOur poet Gray tells
us that Even in our ashes live their
wcnted fires" The American was
not criticized again that evening.