Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1912 — An Indelible Stain. [ARTICLE]

An Indelible Stain.

Political experts think they see in Mr. Roosevelt’s latest attempt to exonerate hihiself in the Harriman matter the evidence that he is an active candidate for the presidency. If that is his object in digging up this now ancient scandal, it is a melancholy failure. The more the Harriman business is.. discussed the more everybody concerned with it is smirched. Not one word of that ugly record could be washed out, eVen if all the dead men named were to come back, like Peter Grimm in the play, and swear that everything now said in explanation is true as gospel. What the facts show and what is admitted-are enough to make that record anything but a campaign document in behalf of a candidate for the presidency.—New York Press.