Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-29
GEORGE n. EARLE, WHO WAS
WoRSTED IN SUGAR TRUST
FIGHT, GIVES EVIDENCE.
HAD CHANGED HIS MIND
ABOUT TEDDY's GREATNESS
Thinks Former President Lost Prefer
ence For Larger Game in Pursuit Of
Trusts-Alleges President Suppressed
Some Of Earle's Letters Giving Facts
and Conditions.

former President Roosevelt on the
So called sugar trust. made before the
house sugar committee today by
George II. Earle. of Philadelphia,
aroused a vigorous defense OF Mr..
OF Kansas. who said the former presi
dent relied on Attorney General Bona
parte for advice. and there was no evil
dence before the committee that he
had acted from improper motives.
think Theodore Roosevelt was the
greatest man in the universe and the
people OF Kansas still do" declared
George r. Earle, Jr. Of Philadelphia.
when he resumed his testimony today
before the house sugar trust investigat-
ing committee Mr.. Earle told how Mr.
sugar trust and the tariff.
Mr.. Earle, who was the most active
pursuer OF the American Sugar Rehn-
ing Company after the wrecking OF the
Real Estate Trust Company and the
closing OF the Pennsylvania Sugar Re-
flning Company, told the committee
yesterday that former President Roose-
welt had lost his preference for big
game" In not prosecuting the sugar
trust officials in that case.
Have you ever had any trouble with
a ots
wick today
None at all"
correspondence Suppressed.
Mr.. Earle, who declared he made re-
peated efforts to induce the federal
authorities to take up the case. also
declared that considerable Of his cor
respondence with Mr. Roosevelt In re-
lation to the case was not communicat
ed to the senate when a resolution was
passed calling for all papers. Mr.. Earle
submitted to the committee two let
ters he said he wrote to Mr.. Roosevelt
subsequent to the one bearing date of
Sept 81, 1906 submitted to the senate.
THAT letter was not all I wrote to
Mr.. Roosevelt" said Mr.. Earle In re-
sponse to a query by Chairman Hard
wick "I wrote several that never saw
the light Of day, and I have been able
to find two Of them"
"Mr. Roosevelt had lost hts prefer
ence for large game and l was mis-
taken" declared Mr.. Earle when he
concluded. He then read another let
ter which he wrote to Mr.. Roosevelt
under date Of Oct 81, 1906. In this
letter. after apologizing for his i'm
portunity, he said:
II thought that the case that had
come to my attention in the perform
ance Of an unsought truth both might
enable the government to enforce
most important statute hitherto un-
used and. at the same time. to demon
strate that the ott-made assertion OF
the trust that they Wore but technical
ly. not morally. gully OF crime. was
untrue When I found a case OF first
impression. where there was proof OF
what I consider pure villainy, I thought
It nv duty to lay 1t directly before
YOU And have. or had, no other end
to serve
Purdy Was Enthusiastic.
Mr. Earle declared = had seen
Assistant Attorney General Purdy, ex
planned the case to him and thought
that the government was going to
press the case.
"Purdy told me- said Mr.. Earle.
"that he wanted all the details. I
gave them to him. After he heard them
he jumped up and said. Well send
them all to Jail" He said they wanted
to get the best man In the United
States as special counsel In the case
and asked me how James VI. Beck,
former assistant attorney general,
would do
"phat was before Mr.. Beck became
counsel for the American Sugar Refin-
ing Company, was 1t not?' asked Chair
man Hardwick.
The witness criticised former At
torney General Bonaparte and said
that when he assumed office he de-
SPARED Of government action and be-
gan a civil suit.
Mr. Bonaparte never submitted any
thing except BRIEFS favorable to the
American Sugar Refining Company
and they were bad briefs. at that" Mr..
Earle declared.