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Show Lawton't Hal Rtraoved. Several elastic halo are being torn from the heroic brow o'f Thoma W. LawsOn by a writer 111 Public Opinion. Tracing the origin of this Boston bugaboo of the stock market, the Public Opinion writer finds him first in a bucket shop in Providence, R. I. From thence he blossomed into a promoter of several pretentious organizations that failed, notably nota-bly the Grand Rivers enterprise in Kentucky, which, planned a magnificent city out of nothingness and had nothing left when the bubble collapsed. Out of these several failures Lawson, according to the Public Opinion writer, flourished and "came again." His subsequent career is traced in frenzied endeavors en-deavors to control the stock market by fair means or foul, always with the end in view of plucking the public while feathering 'his own downy neet. In his practice of "frenzied finance" Lawson is said to have built up a wonderful machine for manipulating ma-nipulating the greatest gambling institution in the world on Wall street. "Covert baying of stocks," says this writer, "is one of Mr. Lawson's specialties, for it frequently happens that when Lawson recommends the public to buy he is in truth selling, and when he recommends recom-mends them to sell, he buys. These transaction; are invariably carried on in the names of others, and to 'Diamond Jack and his subordinates falls tho management of this branch of Mr. Lawson's business, busi-ness, as far as. New York is concerned. "Working the press by telegrams and write-ups has always been a strongly marked characteristic of this self-proclaimed financial regenerator. During Dur-ing the recent panic Lawson dispatched and paid for more than 3000 words of telegraphic matter daily to each of the principal newspapers of th country, and even at 'day press rates' his bill for telegraphing during that period must have amounted amount-ed to a well-nigh fabulous sum. As for laudatory biographical matter, inserted gratuitously by. tho cozened newspapers, but for which the special writers wri-ters were handsomely paid by Lawson, the writer has no less than an even dor.en of these pinchbeck halos on his desk at this moment." Lawson has received such a severe set-back that this newest "Napoleon of finance'' may never be 'heard from again, but this expose of the man and his methods may prove valuable in educating the public to beware of the buncombe of such financiers. |