Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-18
HARRINGTON ON
HARMON'SRECORD
Democratic Warhorse from 0'Neill
Calls Attention to Some History
Made Under Cleveland.
WHAT DEMOCRAT SHOULD KNOW
Especial Attention 10 Drawn to the
'Midnisht Bend Deal, and the
Millions Made by the
Morgans.

NJ F. Harrington writes TO Marc @.
Perkins of Fremont to tell the latter why
he will not be present at the Harmon
harmony conference which Mr.. Perkins
has recently called, After expressing his
Acknowledgement OF the receipt OF the In
yitation. Mr.. Harrington writes:
While l shall not attend your meeting.
as l am opposed TO Harmon. l believe
such meeting Is all right, Just as have
been urging the friends Of the progressive
democratic movement to hold a similar
meeting. II is best for all that the pro-
gressives. who favor Wilson and Clark.
and the reaetionaries, who favor Harmon,
should line up In separate camps for the
primary, so that the people may get to
understand and the issue may be clearly
defined I recognize the right OF any
man TO be q reaotionary who wants to,
and the reason I will not attend your
meeting Is simply because do not agree
with you. The same class OF people are
known as conservatives in England and
they honestly believe In the things that
they advocate.
Deal In Bonds.
I realize there are many good men who
are supporting Judson Harmon. The rea-
son l will not support his cause Is that
l do not view public affairs from the same
standpoint. l know Harmons history
quite well from the day that he became
the general attorney political mani
pulator. and pass peddler for the Gin
clnnat. Hamilton & Dayton railroad. up
to the present time. including. among
other things, the midnight bond deal that
he helped to manipulate In Cleveland's s
administration at o'clock In the morn
ing. and a contract signed by J. p. Nor
gan. who was present. as the contract IT.
self states For ]. p. Morgan & Co. Of
New York and N. NJ. Rothschild & Co. of
London" and which contract gave these
interests the control OF the bonds before
dollar Of money was paid, or the bonds
printed. The bonds were put on the
market. and before they were printed or
any money paid Morgan and Rothschlld
had the bonds sold for more than 5000, 900
above what the government got How
the money was divided is know only to
those who were In the deal. But 1t was
bad enough that. when II was intimated
that a second bond issue might be neees-
sary. the democratic New York World.
which was the most Influential paper in
the election Of Cleveland. appealed by
telegram to every national bank in the
United States, including the banks in
your town and mine, to subscribe for
some Of the proposed issue OF bonds as
matter Of patriotism.
Democrats Ought to Know.
The banks responded and Harmon
and Cleveland, through the publicity
given. were not able to pull Off second
midnight bond deal with j. p. Morgan
& Co, Of New York and N. NJ Rothschild
& Co. OF London Mr.. Harmon. as the
attorney general. acted in preparing this
contract for the government. and J. p.
Morgan & Co. Of New York and N. NJ.
Rothschild & Co. Of London were repre-
scented at the same midnight deal by Mr..
stetson Of New York. who was Ceve-
lands law partner at the time he was
elected president.
Il am extremely glad OF this meeting
Of yours because 1t will start the fight
and ultimately the democrats Of No
braska will find out who Harmon is.'