The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20
COL. GEORGE HARVEY
From the New. York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 \ T is to the everlasting credit and glory
 of our esteemed contemporary the Times that by diiigent investigation at Washington 1t should have uncovered the miserable truth about Col George Harvey. In vague sort of way it ap- pears that the White House itself is the source of the Times information; cir cumstance which certainly does not dl- minish the interest of the facts now re- vealed.
 The substance of the dlsclosure-if we may be permitted to boil down news matter so sensational--is that Col. George Harvey is not merely the gallant soldier, the patriotic philosopher, the accomp- lished Epicurean, the benevolent journal ist the amiable butterfly of fashion that he has seemed to the superficial observer to be. Loeb or somebody else. has now unmasked him as one of the most deeply and darkly implicated initiates of the rich mems or five million dollar conspir- acy and. Furthermore, he is shown to have joined the gang of plutocratic vil lains not by reason of honest if mistaken and deplorable, conviction, but from one of the most paltry of motives. resentment of social slight. We quote from the Times:
 Tt was recalled today that during the peace negotiations at Portsmouth in the fall of 1905, Colonel Harvey issued invi tations to NJ. Witte and some other mem- bers of the Russian delegation for din ner. M. Witte did not accept this invi- tation as the story of today goes, and the reason intimated was that on making Investigations as to who Colonel Harvey was he found out that his would-be host was in fact the representative and mouth piece of J. P. Morgan. From what was said the inference was drawn that it was through officials of this government that M. Witte derived the information on which he declined the honor of dining with Colonel Harvey. At any rate. ever since that invitation was refused Colonel Har- vey has held the administration, and par ticularly Mir. Roosevelt, responsible for his discomfiture, and has acted accord ingly."
 That, and not any genuine solicitude for the preservation of the institutions which the fathers and founders be- queathed to us. is "the real reason for the bitter shafts which Colonel Harvey has been launching at the President lately"
 Bad enough. but the files of the New York newspapers enable us to supple ment the Times narrative with even more damning facts.
 The dinner having been ordered and per haps paid for in advance, and Mir. J. Pier pont Morgan having signied his inten- ton to be present to meet NJ. Witte, and erous instigation of MT. Roosevelts ai- ministration, the honor of dining with Colonel Harvey. how was that representa- tive and mouthpiece of plutocracy to cover his discontinue? What did Colonel Harvey do? He did what any thoroughly bold and bad son of intrigue would do under the circumstances. He hired some body to impersonate Witte and impudent- ly placed the fraudulent Russian states man at the banquet table between him self and MT. J. P. Morgan. He check mated the administration contempitble aloofness by dressing up another dummy guest to resemble the Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of State. and produced him before the assembled guests and seated him next to himself at the table. To omit no detail of deception. he likewise introduced a simulated Baron Rosen. Will it be believed. on the testimony of the New York newspapers of September ! :. 1905. that Col. George Harvey had the