Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-06-02
NOM PARTISAN LEAGUE
TO WORK FOR WILSON
Many Leading Business and Pro.
feSSiOnal Men to Give Strong
Support TO Reelection of
Democratic President

Washington, May 2S.-Thc cam
pnlgn for the reelection of Woodrow
wilson Will be furthercd by nation
wide, nonpartisian league, composed of
! business men, capitalist, phliunthro-
pists, editors and other independents
who. ordinarily take no part what
ever III active politics.
The announcement of this league
was made here today following in.
formal conferences between it's organ
lzcrS, many of whom came to Wash
inEton to attend the meeting of the
peace advocates. The names of II proup
of these organizers were also made
publicc todav To Indicate the trcmcn-
dous Importance of the part such an
organization must necessarily play in
II national campaign.
Many of these men have never be-
Tore appeared i'll Il fight for the clcc-
ton of Il President and but few of
them have ever supported II Democrat
for that Office, either by their vote or
their voice. The names of the mcm-
bers of the organization committee
is composed of the following:
jacob Schilr, of New York, banker
and philanthropist; a. B. Fnrquhnr.
of York, Pa, manufacturer and econo-
mist; Norman llapgood, of Washing
ton and New York, editor; Joseph w.
Hartman, President Hartman Ma
tlonal Bank, Of New York; Charles X.
Crane,of Wood's Hole, Mass, banker:
Cleveland ii. Dodge, of New York,
merchant; Charles IL. Jones. of Boston
manufacturer; Henry Bruerc, of New
fork, municipal official; lsidor jacobs,
OF San Francisco, Gamer; Larmar
Hardy, corporation counsel of New
York; Rathbone Gardner, Of Provi
dcnce, X. l., Republican leader; Rus
sell Whitman, of Evanson, H., Pro
grcssive; Ray S. Baker, of Amherst.
Mass, writer; William T.. Sweet, of
Denver, Colo, banker; Otto II. NAL
lory, of Philadelphia, capitalist;
Lawrence A. Woods. of Pittsburgh,
Republican lawyer; Paul Fuller, New
York, lawyer; John j. Murphy, tcnc-
ment house commissioner, Of New
York; Joseph NJ. Price. of New York,
manufacturer; Richard l.. Jones, of
Madison, Wis, editor; Herbert Quick
OF Springfield, o., editor; Samuel
Fels, of Philadelphia, manufacturers;
Clarence Howard, of st. Louis, Mo-,
manufacturer; Bernard N. Baker, of
Baltimore, capitalist; Graham Tny-
Ior, of Chicago, editor; William Kent,
Independent Congressman from Gala
fornia; Jno. ID. Crimmins, of New
York, Capitalist.
Wilson Will be Supported by Men
oil business.
This roster points vcrv clearly to
the fact that President Wilson will be
actively supported by class of men
IN the coming campaign that no other
Democratic candidate in generation
has been able to attract that is by
the men of business. And this support
has come to Mr.. Wilson without the
surrender by him of n single convic-
ton as to what constitutes legitimate
enterprise in this country.
This group of men, some of them
controlling millions of dollars of in
vcstments, and most of them repre-
sentatives of the best element of Am
crican industry, are prompted to en-
gage. IN political campaign in the
presidents behalf because he has been
able TO accomplish two vital things
honorable peace and abundant pros
perity. Such support can be accounted
for on those grounds, if there were
no other.
An interesting circumstance abou,
the organization of this league is the
willingness of such men as compose
it's committee to lend themselves TO II
Democratic campaign before the Re
publicans have had time to offer them
Il candidate, and therefore, choice.
In the ordinary course of such move
ments, the real Independents of the
country await the action of the two
national conventions, and then decide
which Of the two candidates and plat
forms is most worthy of confidence