Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-10-21
ATTACK ON TENER
WAS BOOMERANG
Reputable Editors Repudlate
journalistic Mendacity.
NOT A SINGLE DIRECT CHARGE
Candidate For Governor Helped Rather
Than Injured by the Work of the
Mud Singers.

Mud Singers.
Reputable newspapers throughout
Pennsylvania are resenting and con-
demning the dsgraceful journalistic
attacks that have been made on John
X. Tener the Republican nominee for
governor.
Misrepresentation of scandalous
character have been made In the at
tempt to ruin the reputation of Mr..
Tener, but investigations into the facts
of the case have shown that Mr.. Tener
has acted in a thoroughly honorable
and upright manner in every transac-
tion that has been referred to and
through which his political enemies
have sought to place him in a false
light before the people.
The efforts of sensational newspa-
per to have it appear that Mr.. Tener.
through his connection with the Public
Utilities Corporation, has placed him.
self in position to forfeit the sup
port of his fellow citizens as a candi-
date for governor, have failed signally.
Not a solitary fact has been sub
mitted showing that Mr.. Tener should
be criticised for any act in relation to
this company. While it Is admitted
that up to date the enterprise has not
been profitable. reputable business
men who are interested in the cor
poration are convinced that it will ulti.
mately be successful.
Mr.. Tener met the attack upon him
with prompt and sweeping disavowal
Of any wrongdoing.
ut is palpable attempt to besmirch
my character" said he, land to ques-
tion my integrity, without the slight
est justification and without scin-
tilla of fact to base an intimation Of
wrongdoing upon my part
"The article" he declared, SIS an eff.
fort to promote the selfish and pecun-
iary interests of a mercenary and de.
generate publication There is abso.
lutely nothing to conceal. l became
connected with the company through
w. L. Christman, reputable attorney
In Philadelphia. When l found | could
not give the time to the company |
severed my connection with 1t abso-
lutely, never having accepted any OF
its stock. My relations with the COM
pany were entirely straightforward and
honorable in every respect"
Mr. Christman, to whom Mr. Tener
referred, is one Of the leading men,
bers of the Philadelphia bar and
man of the highest reputation in the
community. He Is now president of the
company, which was formed, among
other things, to construct a railroad
on the coast of Oregon to open up
big lumber field. Mr.. Tener was voted
$4,000 worth of stock, but declined to
accept it. He was connected with the
company for but two months, when he
resigned.
A number of we'll known business
| men are on the board of directors OF
the company. including Simeon Mer-
rell. president of the Yost Manufactur-
ing company, Of Meadville, Pa; VIII
liam B. Margerum a merchant In the
Reading Terminal market Philadel.
| phia General Russell Thayer. who Ia
also director in the Philadelphia and
| Suburban Elevated Railroad company;
| Colonel William Bender Wilson. for.
merly of the Pennsylvania railroad.
and for whom the Pennsylvania legis'
lature voted a medal of honor for dis.
tinguished services during the Civil
| War; W. w. Pinkerton. of the Pinker.
ton Construction company: Frederick
Schoff. a manufacturer who has been
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