The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-06
ROOSEVELT MAKES
 APr taL ID VOTERS
In Cleveland Speech He A. tacks Record of Harmon
QUESTION OF REBATES
old Issue Is Ral<ed Up Concerning Paul Morton nnd the Charges of Rebat- ing Which Were Made By
 Governor Harmon
BY JOHN F. PRATT

BY JOHN B. PRATT
 Cleveland, November 5.-(SpeciaL )-Col- onel Theodore Roosevelt made an impas- stoned appeal in & speech before 10000 voters in Central armory tonight. for an unbrol1en republican vote, together with the independent vote, next Tuesday, to defeat the corporation alliance with the democratic party.
 He pointed to the New York state sit uation, with the Tammany combination with the wall street ticker crowd" as 'an indication of the responsibility that has been put upon the voters in this cleo ton. He scored John A. Dix, democrat ic candidate for governor of New York, for his paper trust utilization. Colonel Roosevelt severely attacked Gov. Judson Harmon in an effort to boost the candi- dacy of Harmon's republican adversary. Warren c. Harding. He accused liar rron with being in sympathy with the corporations and charged him with blame for the defeat of a public utilities bill in the Ohio legislature through his "su- pine attitude"
 To get the public utilities corporations under state control he urged the election of Harding.
 Attack Upon Harmon l To crowd that packed the Valentine theatre in Toledo, Colonel Roosevelt, in his attack upon Governor Harmon, said:
 Tn the democratic press today appears | the following telegram, evidently sent to me on Governor Harmon's behalf by 1 Thomas Powell former democratic can didate for governor: Gov. Judson liar mon is the same Judson Harmon who, as special counsel, traced the crime of relating to Paul Morton, resigning when you refused to proceed against this mem- her of your cabinet The writer of the telegram asks why I did not act against P9ul Morton.
 MT. Powell says what is not true. MT. Harmon completely failed to trace the crime of relating to Paul Morton The Attorney General of the United States, afterwards Justice Moody of the supreme court. reported to me officially that Mr. Harmon had not produced so much as the shadow of evidence of any kind to 1 justify his recommendations; the fact be- l ing simply that when Mir Harmon ut 1 terly failed in his effort to duplicate MT Morton he proposed to indict him l anyway, apparently on the theory that | eNlQeuCe HllSHl subsequently bt lOhtid that would connect MT. Morton with mis- conduct, saying that guilt is personal Morton Escapes
 "On going over the case carefully with l the Attorney General it became clear beyond a shadow of doubt that not the smallest particle of testimony connected l Mir. Morton with guilt in this case. l l accordingly sustained the Attorney Gen eral and directed him to lay every par tcle of evidence upon which MT. liar mon had made his recommendation before | the court, when the case came to trial, so that both judge and jury would have before them everything on which MT. Harmon had made his recommendation.
 ''The case was brought before dem- ] ccratic judge-Judge PhilIips-and in his l opinion from the bench he specifically and absolutely and without reservation Justified the course of the Attorney Gen. eral stating that there was no evidence whatever in the case that in any way | implicated MT Morton
 Tn this case there clearly appears that Mir Harmon sought to dscredit an inno- cent man by indicting him when by no possibility could he have been convicted and when the Attorney General reported he did not see why, with the facts be- fore us, any indictment could possibly be made. But 1 shall now take up an incident in MT. Harmons career and apply to it his own theory that guilt is personal,' the difference being that I shall apply it justly, with any one as he ap- piled it unjustly.
 Harmon ns Receiver
 Sometime before he was governor MT. Harmon was appointed receiver of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad, then owned in Wall street. it being, as l i ne fha ties, and the Morgan people, or whatever interest it was in Wall street, applying to have their friend, MT. Harmon, made receiver. He received a salary of $25,000 a year It has been shown by actual record that while he was receiver the road under him was engaged continuous fly in paying damage claims to certain parties for the purpose of holding busi- ness under circumstances which clearly indicate that the payment of the damage claims the same purpose and the pay ment of rebates.
 Tt has also been shown that the road was in a combination with other roads to fix rates, this comes in addition, being certainly against the spirit and apparent l y of also against the letter of the law.
 MT Harmon became governor and con tinued his dual position as receiver of the road at a salary of $25,000 a year and governor at a salary Of $l0oOo a year | His services to his two clients, the state of Ohio, and the Wall street owned rail- way appear to have been about in pro- portion to the respective salaries they paid him. For eight months he con- tinued in ti1is~dual position, getting about $160CO from the railroad and about $70ot from the state. During this time he claims, as one of his reasons for justih- ca ton, that as the railroad was insolvent it should not pay, the taxes to his off cials in his capacity as governor of Ohio but it was not too insolvent to pay him his salary in his other position as re- ceiver of the railroad.
 Duty of Harmon
 "If he drew a salary like that it was his business to make himself thoroughly acquainted with what the road under him was doing, and especially to see tha' 1t did nothing illegal, and that it paid it's just debts to, the state. Let him re- member his own words that guilt is per sonal.' f"
 Speaking of the public utilities bill, the colonel said:
 Although it was by far the most i'm portant bill of the session, Governor liar mon protested that he knew nothing about it and by his supine attitude ano failure to take a stand he brought about it's defeat. The author of the bill has