The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-05
IRIS Counsel Show Five to
Bolster "CrOOkcd Bust
ness" Charge.
ALL DEALT WITH
STATE PRINTING
T. D. Roosevelt Says Grady
Told Him of Bipartisan
Agreement.

SYRACUSE. May i.--Col. Roosevelt's
nryers and the Colonel himself are
thoroughly confident tonight that
hey have found the weak joint in the
amor Of MIR. Barnes. As they figure
f.. they put in some pretty good ticks
to-day in justification of the alleged
lbsllous article.
They seem to be quite sure that
they have made something more than
beginning in showing that Mr..
Barnes was link between crooked
politics and crooked business and that
nent with Mr.. Murphy and Tammany.
They think that they impressed the
ary ,9.daj with certain hard wrung
emissions from reluctant Albanians
ial with certain frank statements
made by Assistant Secretary OF the
Navy Franklin u. Roosevelt and by
Thomas :. HUFF who was Senator
Pats confidential secretary and let
l,r her back in 1901 and for two years
Asreafter
Developments Of the Dn,.
Their belief is that the succession
Of hesitating admissions, the heartily
gwen testimony of Mr.. HUFF. a series
Of letters written by Barnes to Sena-
Or Platt in 1898 and 1904 and facts
and figures extracted from official
records printing company books and
private papers 20 to show the follow
ls things:
That Mr.. Barnes was intensely anX-
nls to get and keep control of pub
&c printing.
That he appealed to Senator Plat
To call off possible competitors and to
gsi Platts aid in controlling public
plating
That he was aware OF the methods
ty which the three big printing com
liGles uf Albany got valuable con-
gacts
That he participated III profits de-
rved from colluslve bidding and over
Garses
That he was familiar with and a
'o1kholder in the business of the
/. Il. Lyon Company, which received
NA0oooO worth If printing contracts
e me course of fifteen years, although
frequently nigh bidder.
thlt M Barnes. although not APP
rr!gs by name In the opera tiona of
I' lrlnuu- rims was virtually tn"
owner Of the Albany Journal Com
tay which sublet contracts and
Which WAS successfully sued by the
sJty ,o recover 5000 in over
Carges
That cost sheets of the +. Il. Lyon
company, minutes Of stockholders and
-iee'prs' meetings and other data,
sMch should nave been preserved as
tearing On he actual cost OF printing
al the division of the profits and az
l VINO wrr" the actual beneticiaries,
Lave been destroyed or mislaid.
That some Of the witnesses who
'rre familiar with the printing ring
tperations have been able TO rcmcm-
'F everything necessary to support
he good Hlth of the business and
very little about Mr.. Barucs's act.vi-
lsa or about Ovcrcharsing.
Many obstacles ~urIU0uutcd.
These matters. which We're got
''0le the Jury in one way or another
we're not revealed except after the
-4'dest Kind II digging on the part
Mr.. Bowers and his associates
hostile Witnesses, lost records and q
'eF'u! tangic of figures and uacon'
L-efp1 -. IL ,.-ti I
ana adjusted And dn the time tn,
Nsacs Of Nj. i,Ins in lighting the in
Hanction of every bit of painfully
seahed evidence increased the diff
sIles OF the task.
ASIDE from the very important bu
''sr'Some array OF bidding tibulationi
ga STOCK hook figures aud printini
'4s'hess tcohnicalities, the Roosevelt
"uhsel arc inclined to think that theil
u's' ere"'ye effort Of the day was IL
To'lng directly that Mr.. Barnes wa!
f'"ohal'y Interested in printing con
."'s' They had already established
'helr satisfaction at least, that h
'" politically powerful. Their mex
~.ye was To link politics and printing
'hey sought to do this by five let
au IN 1899 and in 1904 in which Mr.
S1a'Hes complained that Lemucl L
I~es Of New York city was backing
,Wlht!nI competitor; that Mr.. Barne
sum been able to get his share o
,.Onc printing, that j. Sloat Fasset
Ellnra had worked against hi
m"ls to get business because h
rna'nes) rad not backed Fassett TO
s"ernor against Levi l.. Morton. an
which he appealed generally I
"ha'or f'latt for more consideration
IN these letters he displayed famili
,W, with the details Of bidding 70
,."nc printing, notably prices mad
he J, B, Lyon Company, and pro
ta against the establishment O
'"U'ner printing plant in Albany.
,nai'hes was so mad at Quigg that l.
G,- pretty harsh language, calm
80 lnsolont" and Considerable" 10
by" ne vas sharply chided by Senate
NV Who wrote that he didn't wan
ssurts ''''"s ''"''e' e'' NV VI
IL. '%Ause Col. Archie Baxter, clerk G
senate, wouldn't turn over certai