The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-06
Colonel Roosevelt Makes Bitter
Personal Attack Upon Gov
ernOr Of Ohio.
RECORD AS RECEIVER
OF RAILROAD is ASSAILED
Strenuous One Says Object of
Criticism Held Two Jobs at
One Time.
BY Associated Press.

TOLEDO, Nov. 5.-A severe personal
attack on Governor Judson Harmon of
Ohio was made by Theodore Roosevelt
here today in his first speech in the
campaign in Ohio. Colonel Roosevelt
reviewed Governor Harmon Is connection
with the Cincinnati, Hamilton G. Day
ton railroad, Of which he was receiver,
and said the governor had not per
formed his duty the state faithfully.
Colonel Roosevelt's address was deliv-
cred In the Valentine theater. He be-
gan his address by saying that, "In the
Democrat press there had appeared
today telegram addressed to him, and
sent apparently on Governor Har-
IS behalf by Mr.. Howell, former
Democratic candidate for governor. "
The telegram read; "Governor Judson
Harmon is the same Judson Harmon
who as special counsel traced the crime
of rebating to Paul Morton. resigning
when you refused to proceed against
this member of your cabinet. The
message asks Colonel Roosevelt why he
did not act against Mr.. Morton.
The colonel asserted that Mr. Har-
mon failed completely to trace the
crime of rebating to Mr.. Morton. Tho
attorney general, Mr.. Moody, reported
to him, Colonel Roosevelt said, that Mr.
Harmon had produced no evidence what
ever to Justify his recommendation of
action against Mr.. Morton Mr.. Har-
mon, he said, proposed to indict Mr.
Morton, anyway, apparently on the
theory that evidence might subsequent
~ be found that would connect Mr..
Morton with misconduct
Had No Evidence.
Colonel Roosevelt went on to say that
he had sustained the attorney general IS
opinion. directing him to lay all the
evidence on which Mr.. Harmon made
his recommendation before the court.
"This case was brought up before a
Democratic Judge, Judge Phillips,' said
Colonel Roosevelt, "and in his opinion
from the bench he specifically and alb
solutely justified the course Of the at
torney general, stating that there was
no evidence whatever in the case that
in my way Implicated Mr.. Morton.'
Saying that Mr.. Harmon had sought
10 discredit an innocent man, Colonel
Roosevelt took up the receivership of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton,
which he said, was owned by Wall
street, "it being, as I am informed.
one of the Morgan properties and the
Morgan people or whichever interest it
was in Wall street, applying to have
their friend, Mr.. Harmon, made receiv |
err. "He received a salary of $4,000
n year. IT is shown by actual record
that while he was receiver, tho road
under him was engaged continuously i'll
paying damage claims TO certain par |
ties for the purpose Of holding business
under circumstances which clearly indi-
Gated that the payment of such dam
ages served the same purpose as the
payment of rebates.
cit has been shown that the road |
was in a combination wSth other roads |
10 fix rates, such combinations being |
certainly against the spirit and appar-
emily also against the letter Of the |
law The road did not pay it's taxes
10 the state of Ohio. escaping several |
hundred thousand dollars of such taxos |
on the plea. among others, of insolvency. |
Harmon's Two Jobs.
"Mr. Harmon became governor. but |
his dual position as receiver
Of the road at a salary of $4,000 and |
governor at a salary Of 10000. His |
services 10 his two clients, the state of |
Ohio and Wall-stroet owned railroad, |
appear to hnvo been about in proper |
ton to the respective salaries they paid |
him For eight months he continued |
in this position. getting about Sl6 900 |
from the railroad and about $1,000 from |
The state.
"During this time he claims as one
Of his reasons for Justification that as
the railroad was insolvent, it should !
not pay the taxes to his officials. but !
II was not too i.nsolvent to pay him
his salary as receiver of the railroad -
Colonel Roosevelt said Governor Har
mon asserted 'he knew nothing of the
evasion of taxes, of the rebating and |
The combination of the road with other
- OF that is so'' he con
tinued, "what did he mean by accept
ing the position of receiver and draw |
ing Il salary of $4,000 ycar7 If be |
drew n salary like that if was his busi. |
ness TO make himself thoroughly ac.
luainted with what the road under him
was doing. and especially TO see to it |
that it did nothing illegal and that it |
paid its inst debts to the state. -
The colonel said Governor Harmon
had asserted that he did not want to
continue as receiver Of the road, but |
that the Judge would not allow him
to give up the work.
Could Have Resigned
"If Governor Harmon had not been
willing 10 remain as receivcr,' said
Colonel Roosevelt. "no Judge in the
land could have forced him to remain -
lie utilities bill defeated in the Ohio
legislature last winter, against which, he
said, the Democrats in the Legislature
stood almost solIdlv
"Govcrnor Harmon protested that he
knew nothing about it, said Colonel |
Roosevelt, "and by his supine attitude
and failure 10 take a stand he brought
about his own defeat.'i He declared /
The author of the bill had charged pub.
llcly that the governor knew all about |
it and that he himself had gone over it
with the governor He asserted that,
the governor said he was
against petty graft. he had appointed
to Office men who had proved guilty
of the graft which he denounced in
others, and that he had on the ticket
with him one such man who confessed |
and made restitution to the state, Col.
oncl Roosevelt left for Cleveland as
soon as he had concluded.
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