Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1908 — TRUST MONEY ALL GOES TO TAFT [ARTICLE]

TRUST MONEY ALL GOES TO TAFT

William Nelson Cromwell, the legal representative of E. H. Harriman, and the Wall street lawyer who engineered the Panama deal —which made a "profit" of $36,000,000 for the syndicate made up of himself, Pierpont Morgan, Charles P. Taft and others—was the first big contributor to the Republican campaign fund. He gave $50,000 to the Republican national campaign slush fund. Andrew Carnegie, head of the steel trust, has made a donation of $20,000 toward financing the election of Judge Taft. These are a few of the contributions from trust sources that have reached the public, and indicate very clearly on which side the trust Interests are arrayed in this campaign