The Washington times., 1906-12-25
Seeks Stock Control of
Northern Pacific for
Big Combine.

In an article in PearsGn's Magazine
for January James Creelman tells some
news about President ROOsevelts fight
10 smash the control OF Wall street in
the National Government BE writes.
In the back rooms Of Wall street
Theodore Roosevelt is known as Il med
dler. Pale, WrinkIed captains OF specu-
lation and great arch mill.Onaires, upon
the waving OF whose hands the tide of
prices rises or falls, viii tell you to-
day bitterly that he is the most med
dIesome President the country has ever
had, either IN peace or war. and that
his meddling has unsettled the existing
order and loosed upon the American
continent wild forces OF political. eco
nomic and social revolution.
''AIr. Roosevelt is meddler It is
iu his blood. He has meddled with
the predatory elements of life. four
legged and two-leggeds the crack of
his rife in the West has been no more
destructive than the Whisk of his Off
cial pen in the East, he has traIIed
his game as faithfully in Wall street
as in the mountains of Colorado or the
Dakota Bad Lands; nor has he failed
10 bring down the big beasts Of politics.
Hartman Against President.
1T is not so many weeks since Ed
ward Henry Hartman, president Of
the Union Pacific Railroad Company
and overload OF countless American
corporate combinations representing,
literally. a billion of dollars. said pri-
Vately that President Roosevelt must
he got rid OF politically at any cost.
Mr.. Hartman is a Republican and has
secretly exercised great power in his
party.
But If you put Roosevelt out OF
power you VIII have TO take Bryan or
Hearst. are you prepared for that?'
Yes said Mr.. Hartman passion
ately. IN take Bryan or Hearst rather
than Roosevelt We cannot De worse
on than We are now with that man in
the White House. I'll take any one
rather than Roosevelt: for. if il comes
TO that. we can get at the other crowd
''Adr. Roosevelt has meddled with
Hnancial-poIiucal plans of Mr.. Harri-
man and his acompIices- therefore the
fOrked fingers and the Kissed anathema
maranatha.
"Mr- Hartman is the successor of
JAY Gould in the field of manipula-
tive finance. He is "a small. spectaclcd
man. with large forehead and slight.
narrow c--In. lie has deep-set gray eyes
and a dark-skinnod. expressionless face.
Ills jaws are short and wide; his nose
is straight thin and pointed.
He looks like a Frenchman of the
small professional type. His manner
is cold and dry. But for the lines of
muscular contraction on either side of
the chin, running almost from the cor
ners OF the secreuve mouth 10 the thin,
WiTy neck. ana an OCCASIONAL punching
0t the jaws 1t would be hard To recon
Gle the weakness of Mr.. Hariman's
dwindlinE lower face with rhe terrific
force which he sometimes displays i'm
MS cedseless struggle Tor money and
power,
Hartman Tempting Hill.
Mr. Hartman is a man Of black vim
dictiveness. and remarkable energy. He
can tght openly, but his great strokes
are delivered in secret. on the day of
the great corner of Northern Pacific
stock, when Wall street staggered under
the blows OF the COntendng Hartman
and Morgan forces, and thousands of
men and womgn were ruined in a few
hours, Mr.. Hartman sat on a sofa in
New York, and tempted James j. Hill.
president OF the Great Northern Rail-
road Company 10 surrender stock con-
irol or the Northern Pacific line DrOmis-
ing t0 pay for the treachery by making
him president of the Union Pacific Rail-
road Company.
Then there will be two railroad men
DO the COunty-Cassa-t iu the East and
Hill in the West said Mr.. Hartman.
watching the massive counteuance OF
Mr- Hi for sign Of weakness
THAT was a critical moment in the
history of the country, for upon Mr.
ifills answer huns the whole future OF
transcontinental traffic in America
Mr.. Hin told Mr. Hartman that
The ownership of the Northern Pacific
line by the Union Pacific interests
device 90 destroy cOmpetiJiOn-wa for
hidden by law, and declared that the
thing could moi be done.
Tried to Kill Him.
Yet. forgetting that memorable
scene. Mr.. Hill later on, in company
with ]. Pierpont Morgan. attempted 10
unite the Great Northern and the