Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-25

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che tgDItuuty relieved hN I'd
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""ssi'' '''i. -' ', '' "'' wy
more IMAM uny other h's been cast INTO
Prominence n tHe world ol railroads
srs e,,,.. ..,.... tI.. ...u off Nj L.
IT. hartman.
Judge LoN.tt ae hc is better
known battle SCARED veteran that Doe
is from tho urlla Hf many uorDvly
fought railroad wars Boo Texas. has not
courtcd this prominence ON thc cone
trary. as ho remarked only f.W days
ago to Herald reporter 'lf as YOU
say D Hm cast into the lwclicht nay
temporary
But that was merely Judge Love
etts way This tal Texan sef-cUn-
tanned and maetorful is now regarded
as the man 0u whom the mantle off Ed
ward ~ Hartman win fllI There
ore many reasons for This bcnCG and be-
s. only just to say that none % thcm
ouunato from Mr. L0vctt himself tpr
the simple reason that Doc never talks
about himself
Chicf among these reasons s the fact
that Mr. LOvctt for thc last uyc years
has been the chief counsel for AN the
Hartman lines and. Incidentally. tine
personal counsel and confidential AIDE
wiser for Nh Hartman himself
A. .., inSl,el OF iS ,, 5'nge NJ i5','i
NO man was quite so close to the king
OF railroad hnunciers. v was Mr..
IoNett who counscled Mr.. Hartman
during all the trying DAYS OF the
Roosevelt administration when tho
fierce light Of publicity beat down upon
the pucky little head uf the Union
ana Southern pacihcs. Whenever "a
Herald reporter was sent Co see the
railroad president or his chief advisor
MI Hartman was either closcted Win
MI Lotctt in the lattcrs office on the
NTH floor OF the Equitable building
or Mr. Iovctt was 90 be seen emerging
from the offices of Mr.. Hartman. on
the fourth floor of the Same building.
10 was Mr.. Lovctt as the railroad
mans chief counsel who stood between
him and the fierce iuquisitious Of the
interstate commerce commission dur
ing the days of storm and stress, when
the federal inquiry was being maze
for the purpose of forcing am admis-
sion from the head of the Union Pa
cihc that he had prohtcd from the salo
Of stocks TO that railroad system In
cidcntally IL may he pointed out that
Nj Hartman. as result Of the in
quiry, was never called upon 10 make
answer 10 that question. thanks TO the
astuteness of his legal adviser
on. .-,,,- ,,,l.,,, -. ,.,,,,,.
VI ihE LiNNpl'4N r.
To apprcciate Mr. Tovett ono must
meet the man To the general puhlie
i'm tho cast ne is "A man only family
known. He has come only lately from
tho southwest tho land whore i'm "A
rounttv of devoIonment thew are sin
producing the men 81 strong individ-
ualitv The irst lmnression that Afr
I 'ovett makes upop one ts that no no.
longs 10 Inc school OF tbe Abraham
1 jnroln t,na ne has , pair of otiiz-
1iroI e,,es ana a mouth qtip, and ia
termincd maj hreaks mo an amused
ana ar,reing emile ,0bite he is tstlFing
10 Won lie is tai as Tevane are,
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nl,,ing bir, ,,ith questions
;-,,' t,,,,,os.,ior tbst ~ man ,,,ate.
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.tr..,,rti, Tr,,Jo,,bti,ii,, IL 80 ana -
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NJ o,,ctt
For tbese roasons wall straet ana an
mar mar term i,nnIiee rs now asl,ins.