The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-06-16
SEEK man WHO
THREW BRICK"
Harmon HenChnenE Eager to Know
Who Coached Bryan
MAYOR TOM IS FIRST BLAMED

Suspicion In Some Quarters That
Chairman Finley Had a Hand In
II, but BuiIded Better Than He
Knew.
They may cry "Peace!" "Peace!"
but there will be little peace in the
camp of Ohio Democracy until it is
definitely established exactly whom
it was that inspired William J. Bryan
to hurl that senatorial endorsement
brick towards Governor Harmon.
or surmise and rumor there is a
plenty. One can hear tales Of gum
shoe trips to Lincoln by a trusted
emissaTy, with the suggestion that he
step on Harmon's foot" and make
him take notice. This was some
weeks ago.
Thereafter, each issue of the Com
moner was scanned in vain. Not a
word appeared to bring further worry
into the Ohio Democratic family. And
the time for Bryan's departure for
Europe was fast approaching! He
wouldn't get back until after the Day
ton convention! To raise the issue
then were idle. 1t would be merely
a Scolding-could accomplish no pur'
pose save to get the scolder in bad.
So reminder by wire was dis
patched to Nebraska.
Bryan must have had just enough
time to pen the seething warn
ing to Harmon, and then hurry
for his train without stopping to
read the proof The instigators ex
pected an annoying pin prick. They
found it to be both barrels of choke
bore shotgun. They wished the gov
ernor advised, counseled and admon'
ished. They succeeded in having him
beaten over the head with club.
Small wonder that there has been
rush to cover, and a search for alibis'
First of all, of course. suspicion
turned Johnsonward. The quatre
first into the Harmon mind as the
trouble maker, and he is still regard
ed with deep distrust. But he enjoys
no monopoly of the Harmon ill-will
and the next suspect siezed upon Wa'
Harvey CARRIER, the Democratic ma
tional committeeman, who claimed
two years ago to have discovered ant
made" Harmon, yet who has farec
as badly at his hands as did the late
Matt Quay at the hands of Abou Ber
Harrison.
Going farther afeld, the crime wa:
next fastened onto John ]. Lentz
with the diagram that this hero o.
6ve-minute debate and Of epigran
hoped in some blind way that the in
cident might prove a ladder upoI
which he might climb from down-and
outdom. And even the meek, mild
hammered Kilbourne was mentioned
- the probable chief cOnspirator-
actuated to this base move by thu
1ore-knowledge that if by any miscu'
Of fate the general assembly shoul'
be Democratic, he would stand NJ
chance at all with the rough-neck
who would be on hand to pilot tn
fortunes of John R. Mclean and Me-
Vile Ezra Ingalls,.
And yet all of these guesses ma
be wide of the mark. So far as John
son and CARRIER and mayhap XII
bourne are concerned, had they eI
1oyed the Bryan car on this occasion
the Commoner editorial would hav
been more vitriolic than it was.
would not have presented the case
simply; but would have summed VI
made the argument, charged the jur
and brought in the verdict inside @
the first hundred words.
The fact that those lin the know
were expecting rather mild sugges
ton confirms in many minds the sui
picion that the Honorable Bill Finle
himself was at the bottom of it all.
Finley, has according to this dtag
nosis, a double purpose to serve: II
wants to hold on to the Bryan life
line, and is anxious to establish a
alibi in case a Democratic legislatiV
triumph should yield another Payn
or another Rrice to the United State
senate. Then, when Harmon shoul
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