The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1910-10-13
Sworn Testimony Shows That
Governors AppOInte9S Fraud
dulenlIJ Collected Money
From The State, but Are
Not Removed From Office.

WAS FILLED WITH GRAFTERS,
AND PROMISING TO TURN THEM
OUT. THE CHARGE is NOW TRUE.
WILL HE TURN THEM ouT2 NO.
BECAUSE THEY ARE DEMOCRATS.
GOVERNOR HARMON, IN AN IN.
TERVlEW GIVEN TO ALL THE 70
LlTlcAL CORRESPONDENT AT
THE CAPITAL, SAID EVERY
CRATER WOULD BE SENT TO
THE PENlTENTIARY If HE HAD
TO GO BEFORE THE GRAND JURY
HIMSELF. THE GOVERNOR HAS
NEVER MADE GOOD HIS PROMISE
BECAUSE HE SAW THAT SUCH A
COURSE WOULD DESTROY THE
FINLEY MACHINE UPON WHICH
HIS REELECTION DEPENDS. HAIR
MON HAS NOT MADE GOOD ON
HIS CAMPAIGN PROMISES.
HERE is THE REAL STORY OF
GRAFT IN THE STATE HOUSE.
EVERY UTTERANcE HAS THE
BACKING OF SWORN TEST.
MONY:
DAVID sTALEY DREAMER long
Mr.. Harmon's most active colaborer
in alleging Republican graft, had so
convincing a reputation as a cham
pion of official integrity and civic
righteousness that he tricked the
Beatty committee into letting MIN get
upon the witness stand, thereby Sc
curing immunity from punishment
for utterlng a false voucher which
was discovered next day. When at.
tending the Democratic convention Of
his home county he charged the state
for four days expenses to another
city as n on public business. When
the congressional convention met at
Steubenville he made a similar
charge for three days. When asked
about a charge of 81 for hotel fare
one day at Bellaire. he admitted the
money had been spent in a hotel at
Steubenville on that day while he
was at the convention. but he could
not recall the name or location OF
the hotel.
He swore that on eleven different
times, on that many consecutive Fri
days when he went for three days at
state charge to St. Clairsville he
went to investigate suspicious fires.
When confronted with his own print
ed report which showed there had
not been an incendiary fire IN Bel
mont county during that year, he con-
fessed that he went only to see his
family. He paid back $3l0.60,
HAMILTON G. DEWEESE, while
chief assistant fire marshal under
David s. Creamer, uttered two false
vouchers for witness fees he had not
paid and Is now under indictment
for Il.
The Beatty committee developed
the fact that creamer. the only well
advertised Nemesis of graft, learned
Of this crime within a week hut kept
DeWeese in position o. King vouch-
ers for more than a year-till a Re-
publican succeeded him.
Il was also shown that Governor
Harmon, the Saint George Of the
dragon Graft" was given by Cream
er, as early as February of last year,
both oral and documentary .vidence
OF the guilt of DeWeese.
When the governor needed the Fin
ley Democratic machine to renomi-
nate and re-elect him DeWeese was
given a place as examiner of build
ing and loan associations, and still
holds II while out under bond.
JOHN w. ZUBER, State Fire Mar
shal, "put It back" the amount being
but $196.35. He had not been In Of
flee long.
IRVING q. LENTz, creamer's first
lieutenant In Belmont County. was
Zuber's first deputy, disgorged $463.23.
When 1t was shown by the probe
committee that Lentz went at state
expense for railway and livery to
visit his father on the farm and
charged a dollar to the state for one
feed for the livery team a bystander
thought him an apt pupil of his pa
tron, Mr.. Creamer, who grated street
car tickets at seven for a quarter.
JOHN n. NEWMAN, one time can
dldate on the Democratic ticket for
secretary of state and the man Gov
ernor Harmon repeatedly said could
have anything he wanted, was made
GUlcI assistant unucT EupcT anu 10
now. The Beatty committee found
that while in charge Of the fire mar
shal's Office in Dayton under Creamer
he had grated from the state, rail-
way fare to go home forty miles to
sleep and for his meals at Dayton
hotel. When the Howe investigat-
ing committee was created these
items appeared in his expense ac-
counts No more. Previous to that
time he had been visiting the capital
for matters of political interest about
snce In four weeks at state expense,
but subsequently he charged from
Dayton to Springfield and return and
paid his own fare from there to Co
umbus on the trolley. He has not
paid II back and gives as an excuse
that creamer told him TO. The amount
~ss S225hs
JOHN p. BRENNAN, now cashier
In the state treasury, was first dep
uty under creamer. On the stand hs