Mr. Warburg—“My answer would please you probably; but I shall not answer that, but will repeat that I will not discuss my partners’ affairs.”
Senator Bristow—“Yes. I understood you to say Saturday that you were a Republican, but when Mr. Roosevelt became a candidate, you then became a sympathizer with Mr. Wilson and supported him?”
Mr. Warburg—“Yes.”
Senator Bristow—“While your brother was supporting Mr. Taft?”
Mr. Warburg—“Yes.”
Senator Bristow—“And I was interested to know whether any member of your firm supported Mr. Roosevelt.”
Mr. Warburg—“It is a matter of record that there are.”
Senator Bristow—“That there are some of them who did?”
Mr. Warburg—“Oh, yes.”
Senator Bristow—“Will you please indicate—or do you care to indicate—what members of your firm supported Mr. Roosevelt in that campaign?”
Mr. Warburg—“No, sir; I shall have to go on the principle that I cannot disclose the business of a member of my firm.”
The result was this: that in a three-cornered fight between three candidates, Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson, the men who constituted the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, chief Jewish financial institution of the United States, distributed their support among all three. Schiff for Wilson; Felix Warburg for Taft; and an unknown for Roosevelt—was that unknown Mr. Kahn? In any case, Wilson won, and the above