New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-14
HARMON HITS HARD
AT DRYAN'S COURSE
Governor Declares NebraSkan
Has Not Stated One Fact to
Justify Enmity.
NOT FIT TO PICK WINNER
Executive Points to Record to
Refute Assertion That He
Would Serve Special
Interests.

Wooster Ohio MAY Ex-Governor Jud-
son Harmon began tO-right his campaign
In Ohio for the Presidential nomination
with a reply 10 the attacks made on him
by ~. T. Bryan. He declared he had been
unanimously selected hv the last state con-
venton ds Ohlo's candidate for President,
aud it was not self-sceking which had put
him before the country and subjected him
to the Justification and abuse which are
diseraclng American politics this wear"
Mr.. Harmon said tho watChword adopted
for tho campaign for Governor was liar
NOR has made good" and added:
But there were some who thought ! had
made too good, and 10 Staye off political
bankruptcy from a bipartisan combination
/ had to be beaten. The Commoner's
mailing list was eculod and three separate
circulars sent out filed with falschopd and
denuncintion. They bore Mr.. Bryan pi't-
w" aud urged bis friends TO vote against
me. because my reelection would make
me The candidate for President
! was reelected by more than one hun
dr.l thousand majority, though Colonel
Roosevelt and most Of the Cabinet came
into the state 10 oppose me.
Mr. Harmon told how Bryan had sup
ported him In other years, and continued:
What nave I done which leads him now
10 say ] am not ilt to be even "A justice OF
the peace? He has stated not single
fact from my official record or elsewhere
To Justify his conddct. except that | re-
pudiat@d the platform on the initial tive
and referendum. This is not true. add;
vocated before the Joint caucus and
signed when passed the bill authorizing
resort to II IN municipalities. which was
all our constitution would permit
After mentioning many reform laws
passed during his adminstra ton, includ-
ing acts for protection Of employees. d.
rect election OF federal Senators, and in
come tax. Mr.. Harmon continued in part:
II Mr. Bryan knows Of the many re-
forms accomplished I'm Ohio he Is grossly
unfair 10 me and my comrades In the ad-
ministra ton. If he does not know or
them. then II Is sheer wantonness for
him 10 come into the state OF my birth
and home and try 10 discredit me with
the peopl" without specification or proof,
though even an accused criminal Is en-
titled TO both.
lie would have tho people believe that
| would serve special interests instead OF
the public If I were elected President. II
he really thinks 50 himself he ought TO
have cut my acquaintance long ago. as
would surely do with anybody | thought
capable Of such an Infamous betrayal OF
a public trust.
Was that why put the antitrust law on
It's feet by the three cases in which for the
first time IL WAS enforced?
Was that why / threw up a profitable
employment when President Roosevelt re-
fused In agree with me that guilt is al
WAYS personal and ordered that q rail-
road company only. and not its response
BILE officials should be prosecuted for pay
ing rebates to a trust?
was that why I spent time and effort
to secure a proper public utilities law for
Onto after the interests had got II fixed
10 sui, themselves I'm the Senate? Even as
passed II permits the merger OF competing
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