Show i I Ha Harmon and Wickersham Corn Compared n aged to Formers Former's Discredit GEORGE T T. OLIVER the junior representative representative rep rep- r from Pennsylvania in I the ho Senate of the United l' Stales is is a la lawyer er as well as being mall many times a millionaire and a politician who vho ho knows what to do when to do o it and the he best e t way in which to do it also he lie owns two excellent newspapers newspapers news news- p papers a p e r s in In Ini i P Pit Pittsburg i 11 t. t s b h u r jr go f x I When he was wasa a n young man mant t he worked in iii his grandfathers grandfather er cr ers er's s y t r sho shop and read readi while he i law w f 1 Y J 1 w was 8 se sewing Dg y harness c it is IS t t said of hint him fH j t that 1 I he Ie con could II l t sew cw more harness har har- I har-I x ness Mess in ill a day daythan r- r than an any har liar tJ iJ Hess ness maker in in I w f t P e Nowa Nowadays ys lawyers lawyers law Jaw a- a ad admit d m i t that he lie read SENATOR OLI EIt law to some purpose he never did much at the law bu business because because because be be- cause he made money money- so 80 fast in the steel business and in real estate and the other lines of human vocation vocation vo yo- vo- vo cation open to a young man of an inquiring mind and a retentive fist that he left the legal profession to those who had more time and needed money Besides being a heavy y stockholder in the Unit United cd States Steel corporation as well as half a dozen ozen lesser steel concerns various arious banks and every ever other sort of business that looks as though it might pay dividends if carefully nursed and given its medicine at the proper intervals Senator Oliver manages hi his own fortune of various milli millions ns a as well ell as the estates of two deceased Sed brothers each of whom had mall mail many more millions than did George T. T who being the baby of the family was not permitted to mako make mak so o much money o Consequently what Senator Oliver does not know about business governmental policies that affect affect affect af af- trade and laws that have their bearing upon the prosperity of commercial ventures would not be worth considering So when he cast a baleful eye upon Senator Pomerene of Ohio the other day clay and aud proceeded to tell Pomerene what Harmon had not done when attorney general in comparison with what Wickersham has done don and is doing doing Pomerene Pomerene being one of the chief backers of Harmon as candidate candidate can can- for President the President the Ohio senators senator's attempt to frown down the presumptuous Pittsburg standpatter stand stand- pat patter palter ter who would dare to question a great and good goodman goodman man like Harmon might be he said saia to have fallen short of a glittering an and scintillating success Senator OI Oliver er is not m much ch for inches but those directors who have sat with him about the mahogany mahogany any table in the directors' directors room of large corporations corporations corpora corpora- Hons have hae learned that he lie does not depend upon his stature for his bigness nor upon his avoirdupois for his weight The act therefore of staring down the doughty Pittsburg millionaire is attended with much r risk k not to s1 say t potentiality of defeat Senator Pomerene opined that Attorney General Wickersham should be bc severely se reprimanded for not r giving sufficient consideration to the criminal fear features features fea fea- tures tunes of the Sherman law Pomerene has been audibly dissatisfied with Mr 11 Wickersham for some sometime some sometime time and r it is of record that Senator Oliver was biding g just such an opportunity as 38 came when Pomerene Porno Porn Porn- o erene crone criticised Ir r. r Wickersham at the meeting of the committee on interstate commerce which is examining examining ex ex- ex- ex the trust problem with a view vie to additional legislation The Sherman law as at present constituted w was wason s son on the statute books at the time Governor Harmon of Ohio was attorney general in the cabinet of President Pr ident G Grover Gro rover Clef Cle eland Harmon Hannon did attempt one prosecution under it but it was vas so illy conducted that it amounted amount d to nothing Attorney General Wickersham in the opinion of Senator Oliver under under under un un- un- un der the direction l of President Taft has done more to rehabilitate the Sherman act give it point and effectiveness than any law officer who has sat in ina a Presidents President council chamber since the law was enacted d. d Not only does the Pittsburg senator believe believe believe be be- lieve that but he is able to produce data sufficient to convince the most skeptical eal So it happened that when Senator Pomerene mounted his his' hobby to the effect that it was most reprehensible in the Department of Justice not to tobe tobe tobe be tearing great holes in the empyrean in an effort to enforce the criminal provisions of the Sherman n act Senator Oliver proceeded to give his opinion o of an attorney general who has resurrected resurrect d the Sherman Sherman Sherman Sher Sher- man act and conducted ya various ous successful prose- prose of it in c comparison with an attorney general general gen gen- eral who and practically declared the act a dead l letter tetter The fhe Associated Press reporter who the affair said II An An incipient outbreak outbreak outbreak out out- I break seemed imminent But he was mistaken incipient outbreaks do not occur when Senator Oliver is in hailing distance Any outbreaks t that at occur occur when he is i in the offing are fuU fully developed ae back action triple triple- triple expansion disturbances with the small person of the Pittsburg senator as the storm center centor Mr rr Oliver Oiher who is so s wise wise a person that he can I guide the destinies destinies of two successful newspapers and keep them both fighting for the same policies whether they be popular or unpopular unpopular- has not been in the Senate very long but has become thoroughly acclimated He is a modest unassuming sort of a plutocrat and does not look as though he lie even cven suspected suspected suspected sus sus- himself of having money his is a sort of qui quiet t force that is manifested subconsciously but t with th telling effect Senator Pomerene is better acquainted with the junior Pennsylvania senator than he once was has been a demagogue s so long ong that thai the thc habit has become fixed and permanent It is said of him that he never deceived dece cd anybody anybody anybody any any- body but himself not due however to lack hick of ef ef- ef- ef fort In any event Sen Senator tor Pomerene is not at all al dec deceived as to Senator Oliver A AiT Ai g anti crusade has been launched in inthe inthe inthe the cast east and seems to be attaining quite respectable respectable respect respect- able proportions The public generally o will sympathize sympathize sym sym- with it although it has become accustomed to paying the salaries of waiters street car porters por- por 1 bellboys and cloakroom attendants for so many years waTS that it has been a custom difficult to io break The Ebe Pullman company will be forced to reduce its dividend rate in case the crusade should become popularly effective I |