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Milwaukee, Sept. 20, 1908...
H<m. Theodore Roosevelt, Presi
dent or the Failed States. Wash
ington. D. V.:
Dear Sir:—.While I have not re
ceived your letter and shall not
unit I reach home next week. I have
read a copy of it in the press, nud
b*'K leave to submit the following
reply;
.Mr. Haskcss having, voluntarily
resigned trom the committee that
he m.ght bo more free to prosecute
■flHose who have broujfh.t charges
against him, I need not discuss the
question of hi3 guilt or innocence,
further than to say that public ser
vice which he has rendered and ttw
vote of confidence which he has re
ceived from the people of his state,
ought to protect him from condem
nation until the charges can be ex
amined in some court where parti
sanship does not bias, and where
campaign exigencies do not compel
prejudgment. I would not% deem it
necessary to address you further,
but for the fact that you seize up
on the charges and attempt to make
political capital out of them. You
^ven charge that my connection
with Mr. Haskell's selection as a
member of the resolutions commit
tee and as treasurer of the commit
tee raises a question a* to my sin
cerity as au pppunent of trusts and
monopolies. As an individual and
as the candidate of my party, I re
sent the charge and repel the in
sinuation. I have been in public
life for eighteen years, and I have
been sufficiently conspicuous to
make my conduct a matter of pub
lic Interest, i have passed through
two presidential campaigns in which
party feeling ran high and epithet
was exhausted. I have no hesita
tion In saying you cannot find an
act. a word, or a thought of mine
to justify partisan charge.
I had never been informed jf any
charge that bad been made against
Mr. Haskell connecting hfcm with
the Standard Oil Company or any
other trust. I had known him as
the leader in the constitutional con
vention of Oklahoma, and had
known him as one of the men prin
cipally responsible for the excellent
constitution which has since luwn
adopted, and adopted by a majority
of over 100,000, seventy thousand
of which was furnished by Republi
cans. 1 had known of his election
to the governorship of that great
young state by a majority of some
30.000. I had known that the con
M.tutlon ^ as adopted and that Gov
ernor Haskell was elected in spite
of the effort of your administration
and in spite of the speeches made
in Oklahoma by Mr. Taft.
-viK TAhT DERELICT IN DUTY.
You way that, it was a matter of
common notoriety that Mr Haskell
■was connected with the Standard
O I Company. I have a right to
as uni.* that If so serious an ob
Jf<Mon had existed to Mr. Haskell's
elect'.an and had been a matter of
common notoriety in Ohio, as you
say. Judge Taft would have fHt It
his conscientious duty to warn th*
people when he spoke in Oklahoma
If he did not have the knowledge
why can It be assumed that I had
it? And If h»* had it, how can you
excuse hLs failure to communicate
'he nformatlon to the people of
Oklahoma? If you feed Jt your pa
trlotlc duty to denounce Mr. Has
kell when he is only a member of
the national organization, how
much would Mr. Taft have felt it his
patriotic duty to denounce Mr. Hav
k» U when he was aspiring to he
the Chl»f executive of a great state?
I * mid not have had knowledge
of the iuit to which you refer when
h»- was appo nted eba rmao of the
rcao ution* committee of the Dem*
oeratlr national convention, because
the ii t wa.i beg in while he was at
fx nver and n» a mattf r of fact, I
did not know .nythlng of the na
ture of the suit until after h< wa
n a treasurer of the national com
mittee and no fair minded p*r»on
deeid. II;,'>c th.* r'.’ of your
f harge w thout nn ax- minatlon <>•.
■tie pr /v sons of the nabling ao
pa.-s 1 hy a .Republican COOgP-lM,
and *he j r .ivis'on of the licence of
• he 'ranch 1 so jjn. j<-d to the oil com
pat ;, by your ad m.nlst ration.
! n Rd hard’y rei< r to the newly
f ’tirid cv lienee u,<on which you lay j
•° much sfresr. viz*. The article!
Hie Outlook, of Hept- mlVT T> My
attention was never cal’, -d to that I
ANSWE
MR. ROC
| article until I read the published
; ropy of your letter, and while I have
rcepect for The Outlook, and I sup
pose | have for the wr tor (although
>’‘*u <!<> not give h k name), i would
hardly feel justified In deciding as
promptly as you do on an ex parte
! statement without Investigation.
You present an indictment against
oir:' platform deelarat Iona on the
' trust question, but you do uot refer
to all .»r tin- planks, and do not d ai
justly with those to which you do
refer. Our platform declares in fa
vor of "vigorous enforcement of
the criminal law against guilty
trust magnates and oftleials.” Your
platform does not contain any such
demand. Will you say that your
platform Is better than ours in that
respect? Our platform demands
that corporations beyond a cortalri
siao bo compelled to soli at the
sumo price in all parts of the coun
try, due allowance being made for!
the cost of transportation. Wi.l '
you deny that this Is in the inter-j
•»t of the consumer and in the in-1
forest or the smaller competitors?
We represent a plan under which '
no corporation will be permitted to
control more tbau one half of the
otal produot. It has been stated
‘hat the steel company with your!
'press consent, purchased one of ■
its largoet rivals and thus obtained
control of more than CO per cent
’ the total output. Will you in
sist that in permitting this you
showed less favor to the monopolis
. t'c corporations than I do In op
posing It? You quote at length
rrom a speech made by Governor
Hughes in which he ridicule* one of
our anti-trust remedies. Is this
the same Governor Hughes who was
counted as one of the “ullles” who
endeavored to defeat Mr. Taft when,
as you insisted, Mr. Taft represent
<■1 the “reformers’' of your party
•ud his opponent the reactionary
lenient? Did not Governor Hughes
iiave the support of the New York
delegation In the convention, and is
r.ot New York City the homo of
many of the Republicans most con
picuous in their connection with
the law-defying corporations? You
are certainly aware of the fact that
n thv; statement tiled by George R.
Mheldon, fhon treasurer of the Re
publican state committee, two years
ago, after Mr. Hughes’ election it
appears that the following co,»tri
hutions were made to the campaign
fund:
J. P. Morgan, $20,000; John D.
Rockefeller, $r»,000; A. Carnegie,
$2,000; John W. Gate's. $2,000; E.
vV. Corey, $2,000;, W. Nelson Crom
well. $1,000; W. F. Havemeyer,
$is00; B. M. Duke, $800. Several
>f these men are known to be ofll
•ially connected with the trusts.
Would the fact that these gen
lemen contributed to his cam
paign fund strengthen or weaken
his testimony against the reasona
bleness of our antl-truHt remedy?
You cannot have failed to notice
’hat Governor Hughes, In his speech
issumed the role of the critic, am?
not that of the constructive states
man. Any ono possessing a vivid
imagination and a pen can find ob
jections to remedial measures. Lord
lacauley is quoted as saying that
•ioquent and learned men could be
uind to dispute the law of gravi
tation If there were any advantage
o bo gained by it. But when I
known abuses'’ are to be cured, j
n ounce of remedy is worth a i
jund of fault-finding.
As you quote from Governor
iiughes, I take it for granted that
Mr. Taft has not yet expressed him
self in a satisfactory manner on the i
subject, for you wtihild naturally j
prefer to quote from tho presides- '
Hal candidate whenever nosalhle
You «ay: “Iy’t us repeat that no
aw-defy!ng corporation has any
other -oason to fear from you save
'•'hat It will mifW In thj general
paralysis of business,” etc.
Referring to the last part of the
entence. first I might question your
ability to set as an expert as to
an c prevetytatives, since you now
havo one on your hands, hut as to
our charge that no law-defying
corporation has reason to fear the
lirect effort of tho anti-trust rem
'dleg which I favor, permit me to
u 'g«rt »hat your testimony on this
ubjeet Is not conclusive. You are
i w tnoKS, to he sure, but your In
f ro t in the result of the election
muHt be taken Into consideration
- v« ighlng your testimony. Th**r<s
s Lett- r ev denre. The trust rnag
ua»* know their own Interests, and
hey hre supporting Jud^e Taft. Not
one of the trust magnates helped to
*-eure my nomination, while .t is
» matter of "common notoriety”
that they were conspicuous In the
Republican convention an 1 equally
'■ornrnon notoriety that they are
utiporting your jrirty In this cam
o /ui. If you will name a single
offU al connected with a "law-defy
•.? corporation," monopoly or trust
• ho ha-< declared or will declare
*1 at he s support ng me. | will pub
•'1 warn him that I will enforce
igain • him the present crlrti nnl
Isw and w* il enforce against him
< so the law* <|eniandel in the l)em
> ratic platform as soon as these
aw can is- enacted.
Rut there is another fact which
qai-"H a presumption in favor of
•dr party and against your party,
RS
iSEVELT
I referred to it in my former let
ter to you. but you inadvertantly
overlooked .t in your reply, and Hi**
mem bora of your cabinet, called in
for i onsulCtTiTon. evidently did not
notice it. I stated that we had not
knowingly received a dollar from
any of those connected with a cor
porator known as a trust, and that
any money so received, would be
retuiVied ns Boon as wo received
knowledge of the fart. I now re
mind ou that your convention delib
erately rejected by a vote of it to l,
the pk*nlc ruvoring publicity as to
(prapaign contributions. Mr. Taft
has repudiated tho action of the
convention and rebuked the membra
of the convention by declaring hiin
Belf in favor of the publicity law,
but he favors publicity after the
election, while we favor publicity
before the election. Which do you
regard as the better plan? To let
the people know before the election
what influences are <at work or let
them know after the election?
Are you willing to say that any
public interest was served In 190 1
by concealing until after the ♦•lec
tion the contributions made to the
Republican campaign fund by Mr.
Harrison and tiioso collected by
him from others?
Are you willing to say that ,hv
publication before election of the
contributions then made would have
no effect on tho election? As I
have said, we shall publish the
names of contributors above ono
hundred dollars. Will you ask your
national committee to publish be
fore election tii« contributions above
one hundred dollars? Or if you
regard this as too small, the con
tributions above ten thousand dol
lars? If not. what reason ran you
give to the public for not doing so?
I ins at that our willingness to lot
the public know tho sources from
which we receive contributions
raises a presumption in our favor
that must be overcome before you
can ask tho people to accept your
statement that the law-defying cor
porations have more to fear from
Republican success than from a
Democratic victory.
In conclusion, you say that you
ask support for Mr. Taft, "because
he stands for the moral uplift of
the nation, because bis deeds have
made good his words, and because
the policies to which he Is com
mlttod are of immeasurable conse
quence alike to the honor and the
Interests of tho whole American
people." I dare to compare my ef
forts for the moral uplift of the
nation with his efforts, my deeds
with his deeds, and the policies to
which I am committed with the
policies to which he is committed,
and more than that, if I may as
sume that he will follow in your
footsteps I dare to compare my ideal
of the presidency with his. I do
not regard it as proper for the pres
ident to use his prestige, his In
fluence or his patronage to aid one
membor of h s party as against an
other who aspires tn office, and 1
regard it as a violation of the obli
gation that the president owes to
the whole people to use an office
that belongs to the whole people
as a party asset for the advance
mont of «a personal friend and po
litical protege. Relieving that the
president should not he tempted co
use that power for his own advan
tage—and it is equally repugnant
to the spirit of our institutions that
he should use 'It for any one else's
advantage—I tried to secure an
amendment to tho constitution ad
mitting the president to a single
term and I have announced in three
campaigns that If elected 1 would
not be a candidate for renomina
tion.
Yours truly,
W. J. RRYAN*.
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rnlana from all over the country ar
•'finding the twentieth convention
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I Ann Arboi, the scat, of the* Unlvon#:
ty of Michigan, the leading football
ami educational institution of tho
west, is facing a prohibition cam
paign which will probably culmi
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i<> spring. The "drys” have met
with unexpected opposition from
one ol' the college professors. Pro
fessor Bradley M. Thompson, of the
law department, has declare 1 une
quivocally in favor tho the prosent
license sy&tom, with strict supervis
or He was here as a student In
the late fifties. when prohibition
prevailed and declares that there
was far more drunkenness among
students under the “dry” regime
than there ha: ever been since.
“Every ninu to ms trade” la an
’Id adage and Is fanijliar to nearly
11 of us. It Is brief In its wording
>ut convey# a great deal In Its mean
ng. It Is merely a terse way of
aylng that a man who makes a spe
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I'hlo specialist knew more about llv
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Trenton, N. J., Sept. 28.—New
Jersey Democrats convened at the
Taylor Opera House today In a state
convention to nomin-ate twelv />res
dentlnl electors. leading dela
gates (lee’afle that Bryan’s recent
tour of New Jersey has greatly In
creased hn popularity and that the
Democrats have a good fighting
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weeks' house-warming celebration
marking the formal opening of the
,iand ome new Masonic, Temple a* 1
Th rtiepih nnd If. streets, was com- |
mcne -d today t»y the Mnsonlr lodges
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NFCX'KKIM (iOYKRNOIt HAS
KELL.
Now York, Sept. 28.—Hermann
Kidder, editor of th«* Staats ZoK
unK. and vice chairman of the pub
licity bureau of the Democratic na
tional committee was Saturday
night appointed by National Chair
man Mack as treasurer of the na
tional committee to succeed Govern
or Charles N. Haskell, of Oklahama
who resigned his position early to
day In Chicago.
The appointment of Mr. Rldder as
treasurer of the committee was
made by telephone a few minutes
before Chairman Mack’s departure
for the west.
Mr. Mack sakl^
”1 am very much pleased that
Mr. KLdder haa seen fU to accept
the responsibilities of the treasur
ership. Ho Is a very high type of
the American business man and
one whoso associations and connec
tions will not bring him under
charge of suspicion of having to do
w'ith those corporations txi which
Democracy la opposed.”
Mr. Rldder will likely leave for
Chicago within a few dayB to take
up the work at headquarters.
Mr. Rldder .was seen at the Hoff
man House and said:
"Mr. Mack offered me the posi
tion of treasurer and I accepted for
the reasons that I favor tarifT re
form and as the only hope Of tariff
reduction ts In the succors of Iiry
in and tho Democratic party, I con
s'dered It my d*ty to take the of
Doo and do everything in my power
to assist the Democratic party to
win. that the people may be re
lieved from the extortion of the
trusts protected by the high tariff.”
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