Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1908 — HOW WILL YOU VOTE? [ARTICLE]

HOW WILL YOU VOTE?

Will You Vote for Yourself, or to Give More Millione and Power to the Trusts? Do you want to vote more millions into the coffers of the trusts and more power into their hands to crush you? Or do you Intend to vote for your own Interests? In other words, are you going to vote for Taft and Sherman, or Bryan and Kern? —for Marshall or Watson? A letter just sent to many persons in Indiana by the Republican national committee, asking for contributions and saying that “Bryan’s election will be dangerous,” has printed at its head, as members of the advisory committee, etc., the names of the following men: Charles F. Brooker, head of the brass trust, and vice president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, against which a government suit is now pending in the federal courts.

„ Charles Nagel of Missouri, one of the general attorneys of the Standard Oil company. This Standard Oil representative is in charge of Republican national campaign headquarters in Chicago. Frank O. Low’den, multimillionaire son-in-law of the late George M. Pullman, and now the head of the great Pullman Palace Car trust, to which the travelling public pays tribute. T. Coleman Du Pont, the head of the powder trust, which is fighting a suit against dissolution. Boise Penrose, the political “boss” of the corrupt political machine in Pennsylvania.

George R. Sheldon, the personal representative of J. Pierpont Morgan, in the capacity of director in all his trust companies, and who collected trust money for the election of Governor Hughes of New York. William Nelson Cromwell, the legal representative of Edward H. Harriman, and probably the greatest trust lawyer in the United States. Fred W. Upham, the "fat fryer" for the Republican party in the West, and the man who wrote letters to corporations whose property he assessed by virtue of his position as a member of the board of review in Chicago. This is a fine outfit to advise the farmers ■and business men of the-West how to vote. Two of the signers are heads of corporations which are fighting for their existence in the courts. Of course these men think Bryan’s election dangerous; that \is natural when one becomes acquainted vrith their connections. But there Is not a legitimate business man in the nation, small or large, who has any reason to fear a Democratic victory.