The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-11-04
These Provide the Funds.


J nounce.
These Provide the Funds.
With Mrs Rumsey on the Finance
| Committee are Mrs. Robert Bacon,
whose husband wa: translated from
the House Of Morgan" to be Roose-
velt's assistant Secretary Of State, and
| later Ambassador to France; Mrs. Ber-
nard II. Ridder, wife of one of the pro-
prietors of the. New York Stats Zei-
tung, leader of the German propaganda
against President Wilson; Mrs. w. FL.
Crocker, widow of the California min
ing and railroad multi-millionaire.
On the Train Fund Committee are
Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim, of the Smell
ter Trust; Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
representing inherited millions Of rail
road 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-
velt whose husband is Nicholas Long
worth, Representative in Congress
from Ohio.
Many Of the junketers who are going
along to do the speaking are profes-
sional women who have won their own
way in the world-women who could
not afford the luxury Of special trains
nor the diversion of campaigning with
out 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 was ever
put on wheels. Some Of these wives
and daughters of the super-rich will go
along on this mission, and with their
presence, If not with their oratory, viii
warn the women of the West-who
are already voters-that their country
cannot be saved" unless the women
cast their vote for the candidate of plu-
tocracy.
The letterhead from Republican cam
paign 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 addi-
tion to the foregoing members, the fol
lowing:
Mrs E. T. Stotesbury, whose hus-
band is a Philadelphia partner of j. P
Morgan & Co.; Mrs. II. 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. Fl. p.
Belmont, who has undertaken to raise
half a million dollars to defeat Presi-
dent Wilson; Mrs. John Hays Ham
mond, wife of the multi-millionaire
mining man; Mrs Mary Dreier, New
York society leader, of a wealthy Ger
man family with strong antipathy to
President Wilson.
A leading attorney Of PocateIlo, Ida,
writing to the Democratic National
Committee, says:
81 read with deep interest Of the prep
arations of the Silk Stocking, Poodle
Dog Feminine Brigade that is soon
to start on its million dollar special
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 viii not be difficult for the rank
and file Of the common people to see
the hypocrisy Of this movement, fos-
tered by an element whose sacrilegious
fingers are dripping with the fat and
sweat that has been wrung from the
lives Of thousands Of toilers during
the half-century Of Republican control
of this government"