The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-04-13
INVADES STATE
OF ARCH ENEMY
Harmon Addresses Big Meet
ing at Omaha.
NOT AFRAID OF RECORD

Says Charges That He Favored Spe-
clal Interests Need No Refutatlon
at Home-Expalns Veto Policy and
Why He Let Certain Measures Be-
come Laws Without signature-Ex-
presses Opinion of Progressive
League In Plain Language.
Omaha. April Ex-Governor Judson
Harmon, in his speech at the au-
ditorium before an audience that
packed the building. took occasion to
refute the charges made by William
Jennings Bryan that he Is favored
and backed by Wall street interests
I'm his candidacy for the Democratic
presidential nomination. He also de-
livered several hard blows aimed at
the so-called Democratic Progressive
league. charging that the doorkeeper
at the opening meeting of the league
is now doing time In the Ohio peni-
tentiary for bribery in connection
with the legislative scandals.
Governor Harmon reviewed his
work as governor, explaining his at
titude on the veto question and re-
ferring to the success that has
crowned his efforts to secure an
equitable taxation system for Ohio.
The governor followed Senator Hitch.
cock on the program, and spoke, in
part. as follows:
81 am here by the invitation OF my
good friends in Nebraska and, while
/ am always ayerse TO speaking about
myself, / feel that II Is due to them
TO speak of some matters of public
nature about which falsehOods have
been circulated so wholly unfounded
that persistence In them can not be
ascribed to proper motives. 1t would
not be necessary to do this at home.
Retraeilon Not Forthcoming.
There has been no retraction Of
the published statement that took
part In a sale of government bonds
which occurred months before en-
tered the cabinet. And as the facts
are matters Of public record, making
the charge without enquiry was
mere VantOnness.
"As that Is the only attempt &C
specification under the charge OF IA
voring any interests but those of the
public, it's complete refutatlon dis
credits the charge with every lover
of fair play. When one has been IN
public life as much as : have his
conduct affords a better test Of him
than the assertions of others or his
own.
among the many things il was
my good fortune to accomplish Us
attorney general the one which Is
best known and for which even my
Republican successors have com
mended me. was securing from the
supreme court the first decisions up
holding the Sherman antitrust law
| These were not announced until my
term had expired, but afterward be
came the basis of the cases in which
| that wholesome law was enforced
until the recent ones wherein the
idea Of reasonableness was intro
duced Yet, though these facts ar,
OF common knowledge, the false
statement is reiterated that neg
lected my duty in that regard.
But my Erst election as governor
when Ohio went Republican by al
most 10000 majority, was due to tn,
knowledge Of my public services anC
the belief by the people Of Ohio tina
their continuance would bring abou
reforms whose need had become
urgent.
Made u Campaign Issue.
zone Ct these related TO fayoritlsn
and grating IN connection with tn
deposit in banks Of the public money
While ! WAS making the campaign
largely OH these matters one of m
4 associates en- the ticket, as was al
terward learned. was trying to bette
his prospects by promising deposit
IN case OF his election TO banker
who would give him support by vote
or contributions. This man Is nol
nolsily progressive and fabricatOr 4
chief Of league at whose frs
meeting the doorkeeper was unde
Indictment for bribery In the legii