The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-05-24

ing them write The matter in the third
person and never quote him
He then is in a position 70 deny
anything that may come out that is
not pleasing to him. which be does
with a flourish Of trumpets and there
by adds new members to his Ananias
Club. He can not and does not fool
lot of the older correspondents here
They have looked in his trunk and
they know him. But it is very fat
tering to the young correspondents to
have the President Of the United States
pat them on the back and call them
iold boys" and tell them what they
believe TO be the innermost secrets of
the White House. They all go away
and print the same story, thus head
ing OF the story as it should have
been told in the interest Of the truth.
Everybody sees the same story in
the papers all over the country. and
they believe it to be true, else why
should all the papers have printed it |
simultaneously. The man who could
have told the truth about the matter |
has no show. He does not occupy |
the position of President of the Uni
ted States. and if he were to come out |
with the truth the people would not
believe him. So, what's the use, as
the skunks said to one another when
they smelt an automobile as it passed
them on the road.
Here is a little chapter of the Chi }
cago and Alton railroad deal that has
been one of the leading sensations of
the country for some time past, that
never has appeared in print so that
the people could digest the truth. The
administration of Theodore Roosevelt
has proceeded against Mr.. E. H. Har-
riman ON account of this Chicago and
Alton deal. Mr.. Roosevelt is posing
in the attitude of the peoples avenger
and trying to place Mr.. Hartman in
the attitude of the fan who has been :
them. {
Now, what are the facts anent this /
so-called deal? t
1t will be recalled that the Alton :
took place during Ny. t
Harriman's absence in Alaska. He (
has nevertheless been held by public /
opinion chiefly responsible for it, and :
his associates in the scheme, Messrs. C
Gould, Stillman, and Schiff, have in a t
arge measure escaped the condemna- t
ion which has been his portion. The a
dea has prevailed that Mr.. Hartman r
planned the deal before he left for a
Alaska, and that what took place dur a
ng his absence was simply the car O
wing out of his ideas. Il
Mr.. Hartman, to his credit be it Il
aid, has not sought to. escape any 6
blame which attaches to the transac-
ion by shifting the burden upon the
houlders of his associates. His
riends say, however that upon his
eturn from Alaska, he was, in fact,
ispleased at what had been done
While he was away, feeling that mis-
axe had been made. nj
This, however, did not prevent him al
rom going ahead with his accustomed cl
nergy to make success of the trans til
ction. Complete success depended ;
pom making a market for the bonds in
hich had been issued to the Harri- tn
an-G Gould tillman-Schiff syndicate at ce
).
1t is said Mr.. Hartman secured the TO
assage by the State legislature of it
w extending the permissible savings of
INK investment to these Alton bonds. re-
A fact of extraordinary interest in ca
ew of recent developments is that thu
is law was signed by Gov Theodore
Thus the signature of ira
boswell completed the Alton deal by tel
wing the Alton bonds the prestige say
lich attaches to a savings bank in qui
stment, Yet at the very time the pill
sential facts of the Alton readjust- 1.-The
stock-watering, and ALL
d been made public. clio
Seven years later, as President Of by
; United States, Mr.. Roosevelt be- enc
we'd it to be his duty to proceed lift
ainst Mr. Hartman and condemn wei
S very deal which he himself, as will
vernon of New York, had helped to hall
lsummate. T
CHAS. A. EDWARDS. safe
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