The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-10-20
HARMON RETAINS
Sworn Testimony Shows Thai
Governors App0intGeS Fraud
duIGntIy Collected Money
From the State, but Are
Not Removed From Office.

Not Removed From Office.
GOVERNOR HARMON MADE HIS
WINNING CAMPAIGN BY cHARG-
ING THAT THE STATE HOUSE
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
TERVIEW GIVEN TO ALL THE Po"
LlTIcAL CORRESPONDENTS AT
THE CAPITAL, SAID EVERY
CRATER WOULD BE SENT TO
THE PENITENTIARY 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. HAR.
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 TEsTl
MoNY:
DAVID STALEY DREAMER long
Mr.. Harmon's most active co-Iaborel
in alleging Republican graft, had sc
convincing a reputation as cham
rion of official integrity and civit
righteousness that he tricked the
| Beatty committee into letting MIN ge
upon the witness stand, thereby sc
curing immunity from punishment
for uttering a false voucher which
was discovered next day. When at
tending the Democratic convention o
his home county he charged the stat
for four days expenses to anothe
city as if on public business. Whel
the congressional convention met a
| Steubenville, he made simila
charge for three days. When asket
about charge of $4 for hotel far
one day at Bellaire, he admitted tn
money had been spent in hotel a
Steubenyille on that day while h
was at the convention, but he coul
not recall the name or location o
the hotel.
He swore that on eleven difteren
times, on that many consecutive FIR
DAYS when he went for three days a
state charge to St. Clairsville h
went to investigate suspicious fires
When confronted with his own prin
ed report which showed there ha
not been an incendiary fire in Be
mont county during that year, he cor
fessed that he went only to see hi
family. He paid back $31O.60.
HAMILTON G. DEWEEsE, Will
chief assistant fire marshal unde
David S. Creamer uttered two falls
vouchers for witness fees he had nc
paid and is now under indictmer
for it.
The Beatty committee develope
the fact that Creamer, the only we
advertise5 Nemesis of graft, Iearne
of this crime within week but keI
DeWeese in position o. King voucl
ers for more than a year-till RI
publican succeeded him.
1t was also shown that Governo
Harmon, the Saint George of tn
dragon Graft" was given by Cream
er, as early as February of last yea
both oral and documentary .Videnc
of the guilt of DeWeese.
When the governor needed the FIJI
ley Democratic machine to renom
nate and re-elect him DeWeese we
given a place as examiner of bull
ing and loan associations, and sti
holds it while out under bond.
JOHN w. ZUBER, State Fire Ma
shaI, "put it back" the amount bein
but $t96.35. He had not been in O
flee long.
IRVING B. LENTZ, Creamers fir
lieutenant in Belmont County. We
Zuber's first deputy, disgorged $463.2
When it was shown by the prot
committee that Lentz went at stat
expense for railway and livery
visit his father on the farm an
charged a dollar to the state for or
feed for the livery team a bystandt
thought him an apt pupil of his p
tron, Mr.. Creamer, who grated stree
car tickets at seven for a quarter.
JOHN n. NEWMAN, one time ca
didate on the Democratic ticket fl
secretary of state and the man Go
ernor Harmon repeatedly said cou
have anything he wanted, was mao
chief assistant under Zuber and
now. The Beatty committee foun
that while in charge of the fire ma
shal's Office in Dayton under Creamt
he had grated from the state, RAJ
way fare to 80 home forty miles
sleep and for his meals at a Dayto
hotel. When the Howe investiga
ing committee was created thes
items appeared in his expense a
counts NJ more. Previous to th
: time he had been visiting the capt.
: for matters of political interest abo1
J Once in four weeks at state expens
| but subsequently he charged fro
r Dayton to Springfield and return al
paid his own fare from there to c
lumbus on the trolley. He has NJ
paid it back and gives as an excu'
, that creamer told him to. The amour
was $685..
JOHN P. BRENNAN, now eashl
In the state treasury, was first de
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