Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1907 — THOSE PRACTICAL POLITICIANS. [ARTICLE]

THOSE PRACTICAL POLITICIANS.

The Illinois state board of pardons has denied the application of Paul Stensland, the convicted Chicago bank wrecker, and he will have to serve out .his full sentence, some seven years yet. He was sent up for fourteen years. A. bulletin was issued by the officials of the Anti-Saloon League a few days ago showing that this is rapidly becoming a “dry” state. Since the enactment of the Moore remonstrance law two years ago 955 saloons have been put out of business, There are now 723 dry townships as against 547 when the law took effect. There are now 50 dry city wards, seven dry counties and 21 dry county seats There are only 293 “wet” townships. The bulletin says that 1,284,853 people now live in dry territory, where as but 810,099 lived two years ago in localities where there were no saloons.

The mystery concerning the campaign fund raised by Edward Henry Harriman on Oct. 29, 1904, “at the personal solicitation of President Roosevelt has been cleared upby the New York World and is set forth below. The amount of that fund, names of the subscribers thereto and the manner of its collection by Mr. Harriman and United States Senator Chauncey M. Depew have been obtained from a source that leaves no room for question. The exact amount of the fund was $260,000, not $200,000, as has been stated. The names of the subscribers to it and the amount given by each of them are as follows: Edward Harrimansso,ooo H. McK.Twomblv (representing the Vanderbilt interests),,.. .25,000 Chauncey M. Depew (personal). 25,000 James Hazen Hyde, 25,000 The Equitable Life Assurance Society.... 10,000 J. Pierpont Morgan 10,000 George W. Perkins (New York Life Insurance Company).. 10,000 H, H. Roger% John D. Archbold and John D. Rockefeller (Standard Oil Company)... 30,000 James Speyer and Banking Ininterests .. io.oOo Cornelius N. Bliss (personal).. 10,000 Seven Friends of Senator Depew, $5,000 each...; 35,000 Sent to Mr. Harriman in smaller donations 20,000

Total $260,000 This sum of money, exceeding by $60,000 the amount estimated by George B. Cortelyoa, Chairman of the Republican National Com* mittee, and B. B. Odell, jr., Chairman of the Republican State Committee, to be necessary to insure the election of Mr. Roosevelt as President and Mr. Higgins as Governor, was collected by Mr. Harrigan and Senator Depew and turned over by Mr. Harriman to Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer, of

the Republican National Committee. Mr. Bliss gave his check for the full amount to Mr. Cortelyon. The latter retained $60,000 of it for his own uses in the State and gave hie check for the remaining $200,000 to Mr. Odell.