Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1908 — TAFT’S CAMPAIGN HELPERS. [ARTICLE]

TAFT’S CAMPAIGN HELPERS.

Here are the names and occupations of some of the men whom Mr. Taft and his political managers have selected to help them run the Republican cam palgn in a financial, executive and advisory capacity: William Nelson Cromwell of New York, the great Wall street lawyer, attorney for the Panama canal combine, Kuehn, Loeb & Co., the Harriman interests, the sugar trust. Standard Oil trust, et al. George Rumsey Sheldon of. No. 2 Wall street, multi-millionaire and officer and director in more than twenty corporations.

Frederick W. Upham of Chicago, a millionaire several times over, member of the state board of review which passes upon the amount of taxes which corporations and large estates should pay in Illinois, and a director In several corporations. Charles F. Brooker of Connecticut, millionaire, engaged in the banking and railway business, andXvice president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad company, against which a government suit is now pending. < Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, multimillionaire, son-in-law of the late Geo. M. Pullman and now vice president of and heavily interested in that widely known monopoly, the Pullman Palace Car company.

T. Coleman Du Pont of Delaware, best known as a member of the Du Pont Powder company, controlling factor in the powder trust, whose milking of the federal treasury in powder contracts has been thoroughly exposed in congress and against which a suit is now pending, brought by the department of justice for its dissolution. And last, but by no meins least, the great political reformer of Pennsylvania, Bois Penrose, the political heir of Boss Quay and, since the latter's death, boss of the corrupt political ma chine in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, a machine which has not been equaled in political turpitude since the days of Boss Tweed in New York. *

Messrs. Cromwell and Sheldon and their associates detailed above have a list of trust connections probably unsurpassed by any other set of men of like number within the bounds of this country. They should be able to do equally as good work in a national way as is being done by Fred W. Upham in Chicago. Upham, who is the assistant treasurer of the Republican national committee, is, as stated above, a member vs the board of review, which passes on the amount of taxes corporations and large estates shall pay in the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois. He has been busy recently addressing letters to corporations whose property he will assess, in which he makes urgent appeals for campaign contributions to the Republican national committee.