People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — WHO IS HOBART? [ARTICLE]

WHO IS HOBART?

The People Are Asking and They Should Be Informed. When it was announced that the St. Louie convention had elected to the second place with McKinley, one Hobart, the public asked, “Who under the sun is Hobart?” * The Penny Press has made an investigation and ascertains that Mr. Hobart is a gentleman of many parts. Here are a few of said parts: He is President of the Passaic W’ater Company, of the Acquackanock Water Company, of the Morris County Railroad, and the Patterson Electric Railway Companies; a director of the New Yorfk, Susquehanna and Western, and the Lehigh and Hudson River railroad companies, of the First National Bank of Paterson, of the Paterson Savings institution, the Barbour Brothers’ Company,* the Pioneer Silk Company, the Peoples’ Gas Light Company, and the Paterson Electric Light‘Company. Mr. Hobart is also an attorney of many parts; that is to say, he is corporation counsel for the East Jersey Water Company, the West Milford Wa>ter Storage Company, the Montclair Water Company, and other allied interests of the big water syndicate. He is also a director in the Long Branch Water Company, and the Highland Water Company, Treasurer of the Cedar Lawn Cemetery Company, and several land companies, and holds the position of President and Director in a dozen other small corporations. Mr. Hobart belongs to the controlling board of a big railway pool. On Dec. 30 last he was selected one of three arbitrators by thirty railroad presidents, who represent the Joint Traffic Association. These arbitrators are to finally hear and settle aU .differences that arise among the members. The asseoiation represents fee greatest aggregation of railroad capital in the world. Mr. Hobart’s btuy aommercial life has been a successful one. He is said to be worth more than $1,000,000. It ia not .necessary to carry Mr. Hobart’s: career further. He has been incidentally * member of the National Republicans Committee for several years, and has been through the experience of “frying fat” oat of tho manufacturers, bankers and railways.

she reason for his nomination is clear. He is to supply, either from bis own pocket or from the pockets of corporations with which he is connected, a large installment of campaign money for rhe purpose of corrupting American politics and defeating the will’ of the American people at the polls in November. He is to accomplish by purchase what was once by arms, to deliver' the country into the hands of its enemies.—Minneapolis Penny Press.