Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-07-01
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EARLE. ATTACKS !
ROOSEVELT 5 /: I. FOR
DODG|NG CASE
ass asB ~
Criticises. Former President
for Refusing to Prosecute
Trust; Madison Lays the
Blame on Bonaparte.s


tack on former President Roosevelt
On the ground that he had not prose
cuted the so-called sugar trust, made
before the house sugar committee to-
day by George H. Earle, Of Phtladel-
phia, aroused a vigorous defense of Mr..
Roosevelt by Representative Madison
Of Kansas, who said the former presi-
dent relied on Attorney General Bona
parte for advice and there was no evil
hence before the committee to show he
had acted from improper motives.
"I used to think Theodore Roosevelt
was the greatest man in the universe
and the people OF Kansas still do
declared George H, Earle. Jr., OF Phii-
adelphia when he resumed his testi-
mony today.
Mr.. Earle, who was the most active
pursuer OF the American Sugar Re
ifntrE company, after the wrecking OF
the Real Estate Trust company, and
the closing OF the Pennsylvania Sugar
Refining company. told the commit
tee yesterday that former President
Roosevelt had ''lost his preference for
big game" in not prosecuting the
sugar trust officials In that case.
"Have you ever had any trouble
with Mr.. ROOSEVELT" asked Chairman
Hardwick today.
None at all"
M. Earle was objecting to the fail
ure OF the government to prosecute
lormer heads OF the American Sugar
Remind company for the wrecking
81 the Real Estate Trust company OF
Philadelphia IN the Pennsylvania
Sugar Refining company deal in 1906
Of which Earle was receiver.
Mr.. Earle, who declered he MADE
repeated efforts to induce the federal
authorities to take up the case, also
declared that considerable OF MS cor
respondence with Mr.. Roosevelt IN re-
lation to the case was not commu-
nicated to the senate when resolu-
lion was passed calling for all papers.
Mr.. Earle submitted to the commit
Tee two letters he said he wrote to Mr..
Roosevelt subsequent to the one bear
Ing date of September 81, 1905, sub.
mitted to the senate.
Never Saw tho Light.
''That letter was not all I wrote to
Mr.. Roosevelt" said Mr.. Earle In re-
spouse to a query by Chairman Hard
wick. II wrote several that never saw
the hight of day, and have been able
10 find two, Of them"
"Read them,'' said Mr.. Hardwick.
"On Oct. i, 1906" Mr.. Earle replied.
nothing having been done by the gov
srnment in this case, wrote another
letter to Mr.. Roosevelt"
Here the witness began reading
copy of that letter In which he said,
being an alumnus of Harvard. as was
Mr.. Roosevelt, that II began to labor
under tho horrible suspicion that this
might prove the first occasion upon
which ,p79' asked assistance of go and
did not get it,
The remainder Of the letter follows.
sSeriously, mean the matter OF the
Rrecking Of the Real Estate Trust
company by the sugar trust. If Justice
should be done, it needs the promptest
attention from the attorney genea1.
I have seen number of the conspira-
tors who wrecked this institution for
The benefit and at the instigation OF
the sugar trust, and am, in myself.
Z magazine Of evidence against them;
but while we have been waiting and
doing nothing, others have been IN
sensely active, and these very persons
WHO were not 10 uSlp LAo oi0 INV WIZ
holding all documents and evidence
1T their command.
Charges Infamous Conspiracy.
III we could have jointly acted
little earlier we might have got some
original papers which we greatly need
and may find 1t vey difacult to get
now: but I have copies and can prove
them, although not all the facts that
establish the infamy of this con-
spiracy -" =
"It has often happened that you have
been able to punish. the oppressors OF
the public, but there has really been
no occasion where there has been sub
stantial evidence against so many OF
the first rank: and totally misjudge
-FOUR character If you have lost your
preference for large game.
"Mr. Roosevelt had lost his prefer
ence for large game and was mis-
taken." declered Mr.. Earle when he
concluded. -
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