VOL.. XLVI NO. 14,471.
PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1907.
PRICE. FIVE CENTS.
T1R HAS BURNED
ALL HIS BRIDGES
Is in Presidential Race
to Finish.
GIVES UP HOPE OF ERMINE
Crafty Scheme of Ohio Sena
tors to Kill Boom.
AIM TO ALIENATE FRIENDS
Secretary Has Abandoned Ambition
to Be Chief Justice and Block
Enemies' Game Cannon Is
Still a Candidate.
WASHINGTON, April 24. (Special.)
Becretary Taft .is in the Presidential raca
to stay. He will direct his fight to the
end. If the Chief Justiceship of the
Gupreme Court was offered him, he would
not take it. The Secretary does not
know the little details of politics, but
he is fast mastering the bigger game,
and his friends predict that he will run
his own campaign and will not place his
affairs in the keeping of any man.
An intimate friend of Mr. Taft talked
with the Secretary today and afterward
made an explanation of the Secretary's
attitude, which is accepted here as
authorized. The Ohio Senators, he said,
Mr. Dick particularly, are circulating the
story that Mr. Taft would drop his
chances for the Presidency on the very
eve of the National convention for the
coveted woolsack. This is a crafty at
tack. Naturally the man of politics might
well hesitate to link his fortunes with
a candidate who might desert him at any
moment during the canvass, leaving him
to the scant mercy of a successful op
position. Crafty Trick of Enemies.
There is no doubt that many Ohio Re
publicans have been wavering because of
the doubt suggested by the Senatorial
propaganda as to whether Mr. Taft
would stick. The friend asserted that the
Senators have been shrewd enough to
keep this story out of print, because,
once it came to the surface, an official
denial might be expected from Mr. Taft's
managers. The charge has been
whispered from man to man, and It has
been backed with a statement that no
less a person than Mr. Taft himself
told Elmer Dover sometimes the name of
Senator Murray Crane is used that the
offer of the chief Justiceship would mean
Mr. Taft's instant withdrawal from the
Presidential field. By this means and
others, a doubt has been skilfully raised
In other states than Ohio as to the sin
cerity of the Taft boom.
Taft Is In Fight to Finish.
The facts are exactly contrary to this
rumor circulated by the opposition. When
Mr. Taft permitted his brother to use
his name in connection with the Presi
dency, he told Charles P. Taft that he
would give up his dearest ambition, the
Chief Justiceship, while his friends
thought it proper to continue efforts for
his nomination as President.
In short, Mr. Taft is enlisted for the
whole war.
Speaker Cannon is a Presidential can
didate. He has not withdrawn from the
race In favor of Vice-President Fairbanks
or anv other candidate and has no pres
ent intention of doing so. This statement
is made after a talk with the Speaker,
who reached Washington today on his
way to the Jamestown Exposition.
ROOSEVELT MEN ALL THROUGH
Hitchcock Thus Describes Sentiment
of Southern Republicans.
"WASHINGTON, April 24. First Assist
ant Postmaster General Hitchcock re
turned today from the South, where he
has been for the past week, primarily on
an Inspection tour of the Southern post
offices. Mr. Hitchcock said he had
learned only today that his trip had been
given political significance In newspapers
In the North, in which the statement ap
peared that he was on a mission for the
President to ascertain at first hand re
garding any new direction In the Repub
lican sentiment In the South. Mr. Hitch
cock denied with emphasis that Presi
dent Roosevelt directed his movements.
"It Is true while my trip was partially
one of inspection," he said, "and one
which I had planned months ago, I dis
cussed politics to some extent. This was
only natural, as I was called on by many
Southern Republicans officially connect
ed with the Government and otherwise
Interested.
"I saw no evidence to Justify published
reports of dissatisfaction in the ranks of
some of the Republicans In the South,
such as organization of opposing move
ments and that sort of thing, which we
have been hearing about for some time.
In those states which I visited South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida the Re
publicans are in hearty accord with the
administration. They are Roosevelt men
through and through."
Referring again to the question of op
posing organization, Mr. Hitchcock re
marked that of course there were "dis
gruntled and discredited men" who have
dropped out of the old organizations, but
that such were In the minority.
Official Vote of Michigan.
LAXSmO, Mich., April 34. The official
canvass- of the votes cast at the state
election in April shows Republican plur
alities exceeding 100.000 except in the con
tests for regents of the University. Su
preme Judge Carpenter led the ticket
with a plurality of 111,191.
SHOULD WITHDRAW REFUSAL
Cummins Says Roosevelt Should Ac
cept Nomination.
PES MOINES, Iowa, April 24. In a
letter addressed to George K. Bowers,
of Orange. Iowa, Governor Cummins
declares President Roosevelt should
withdraw nis statement that he will
not accept a renomlnation. The letter
was written In response to an inquiry
concerning presidential polities.
"There Is a great deal being said,"
writes the Governor, "with regard to
the candidate for President, but it is
vastly more important that we succeed
in announcing a platform that will be
expressive of our purposes than It is
now to determine who the candidate
shall be.
"Personally I believe that President
Roosevelt's plain duty is to withdraw
his former statement and to say that,
under the demand now made and the
evident state of the public mind, he
will accept another nomination, if it
is tendered to him with practical un
animity." MACHINE CUTS OFF GILLETTE
Man Who Exposed Filtration Steal
Xot Wanted by Reyburn.
PHILADELPHIA, April 24. Major Cas
sius Gillette, who left the United States
Army to become chief of the Bureau of
Filtration In this city, today tendered his
resignation at the request of Director of
Public Works George Stearns. . Major
Gillette came to Philadelphia- In- June;
1905. under permission of Secretary Taft
to Investigate the filtration plant. He
reported that the city had been robbed
of several million dollars.' '
Mayor Weaver, whose .term .of -office
was expiring, induced Major Gillette to
become Chief of the Filtration Bureau,
to succeed John .W. Hill, removed.
Mayor Reyburn said the resignation of
Major Gillette had been asked as a mat
ter of economy.
Taft Not Ready for Politics.
WASHINGTON, April 24. In answer to
a specltlc question as to whether he in
tended to make any announcement In the
near future regarding his political pur
poses. Secretary Taft today said that he
certainly would make no such statement
before his Ohio trip, which begins Friday,
and he was not prepared to state whether
he would have anything to say after that
trip.
Cannon Denies Fairbanks Tarn.
WASHINGTON, April 24. Speaker
Cannon today emphatically denied a re
port that he had agreed to deliver the
Illinois delegation to the Republican Na
tional Convention of next year to Vice-,
President Fairbanks.
TRAGIC END OF TWO LIS
JILTED GIRL SHOOTS FORMER
LOVER A?fD SELF.
News of His Intended Marriage to
Another Infuriates Miss Belle
Stroup.
OIL CITY, April 24. Thaddeus Stevens
Ross, of this city, was shot three times
and instantly killed today by Miss Belle
Stroup. The woman then shot herself
through the heart. The tragedy occurred
In the office of Dr. George W. Magee
while the physician was at lunch. Both
victims were members of prominent fami
lies. Ross was to have been married
tonight at 9 o'clock to Miss Druisella
Sampsell, of this city. There were no
witnesses to the shooting. The murderess
and suicide was a former sweetheart of
the dead man.
Ross was dining at home with his
family discussing the coming marriage
ceremony when the telephone bell rang.
His father answered the call and a
woman's voice Inquired for "Thad."- The
young man after answering informed the
family he had to go to the doctor's office
for a few minutes, but would return as
soon as he could. This was the last time
his parents saw him alive.
Miss Stroup arrived at noon from Brad
ford, Pa., where she had been employed
In a hospital, and went directly to the
office of Dr. Magee. Finding nobody in
the office she called Ross on the tele
phone and asked him to come to the
office and see her. When Dr. Magee re
turned from lunch he found the dead
bodies.
In a chair In a corner of the office
sat Ross, his head lying back on the
chair and blood streaming from a bullet
wound In his neck. His forehead was
burned with powder where a bullet had
entered his brain. Another ball had
pierced his heart. Miss Stroup was lying
a few feet away. Blood was flowing from
a wound in her left side.
MISS STROUP IS ILL A AYEEK
Bradford Milliner Who Kills Her
Faithless Lover.
BRADFORD, Pa., April 24 Miss Hala
Belle Stroup. who killed Thaddens Ross
at Oil City today, conducted a dressmak
ing establishment here. For a week she
has been 11L On Tuesday a letter was
received by her from Ross announcing
his coming marriage with another young
woman." It 1s said that Ross had prom
ised to marry her, the wedding day hav
ing been set for some day, in July next.
Miss Stroup was not an attache of a
hospital aa stated.
IDAHO DEPUTY KILLS MAN
Billy Quinn Shot In Early Morning
Saloon Row.
WALLACE. Idaho, April 25. Special.)
Deputy Sheriff C. C. Hicks shot and
fatally wounded Billy Quinn at 1 o'clock
j here this (Thursday) morning. The
shooting took place in the bar-room of
the Wallace Hotel. Quinn was leaning
against the bar when Hicks entered.
Quinn said: "Here comes , my Missouri
friend." Hicks replied. "Don't talk to
me -like 'that." and whipped out hin re
volver and shot.
The bullet entered the right side and
three doctors pronounced the wound
fatal. Hicks is in jail. There was said
to have been no trouble whatever be
tween the men, and the tragedy is sup
posed to be simply the result of a
drunken whim.
CAR SHORTAGE IS
STILL IMMENSE
Due Solely to Increase
of Traffic.
RAILROADS PROPOSE REMEDY
Increase Penalty for Delay in
Returning Cars.
SOME ROADS BORROW CARS
Stern Measures Against Delinquents.
Ultimatum Sent Steel Trust De
manding Better Rails up to
the Canadian Standard.
CHICAGO, April 34. (Special.) During
the month of February the railroads of
the United States were, it is estimated,
nearly 160,000 cars short of the demands
made upon them by the actual traffic
offered for transportation. This amazing
fact was given to the American Railway
Association at its closing session today
and the knowledge of it won the day for
some drastic measures to correct the evil.
The problem of car shortage, the oper
ating men declared, is today the greatest
and the gravest which the railroads have
to face and to solve. It was stated that a
searching investigation disclosed the fact
that the car shortage is not due to de
creased car efficiency, as the records
showed that the average daily movement
of all freight cars had been 2S.4 miles.
It was therefore concluded that the short
age is due to the extraordinary increase
in the demands made upon the railroads.
Measures of Relief Proposed.
. The committee also reported that it had
confirmed the general opinion that a
great deal can be accomplished to im
prove the situation which has been ef
fecting a partial paralysis of the business
of the country: First, by the railroads
themselves; second, by the railroads in
their relations to the public, and third,
by the railroads in their relations with
each other.
The question of increasing public safety
has been an engrossing topic at the
American Railway Association. It was
said in a report adopted today that many
of the recent disastrous wrecks could be
traced directly to Imperfect rails, and
these, it is said, could be traced to undue
haste at the steel mills in Ailing orders.
Demand for Better Rails.
Railway managers have made it plain
to the makers of steel rails in this coun
try that they want something as good
as that furnished the Canadian Pacific
admittedly the best rails in the world.
Samples of these rails have been sent to
the steel trust mills, together with the
formula of their manufacture, accom
panied by an invitation which amounts
to an ultimatum to produce a better rail,
or at least one as good.
A reply was received through the Frick
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mills that the Canadian rails or formula
could not be improved upon and that the
product was as perfect as the science of
the age could make It - It was explained
that, when these rails are made, they are
subjected to a most rigid test In order to
get as near absolute safety as possible.
The samples are frozen with liquid air
to a temperature . of . 2Q0. .degrees below
zero and then battered with a trip-hammer.
Batches which do not stand this
test are: rejected. Consequently; - broken
rails are practically unheard of In Canada.
REMEDY FOR CAR SHORTAGE
Railroads Propose to Expose Delin
quents Better Rails Demanded.
CHICAGO, April 24. Decisive action was
taken here today by the American Rail
way Association to. remedy the car short
age, which for several months has been
causing so much worry among shippers
throughout the country. The failure of
some roads to furnish a sufficient quota
of equipment for their own traffio and
the failure to provide and enforce proper
Patrick Calhoun, President of the
United Railroads of San Francisco,
Who Seiuses Demands of Carmen's
Union.
rules' for the return of foreign cars to
their own roads are responsible for the
shortage, and to remedy the evil the asso
ciation today adopted a rule, to be .con
firmed later by letter ballot of all .the
railroads, providing that any railroad
which hereafter shall not promptly return
to its owner, after unloading, ' all cars
consigned to it will be penalized $5 for
each car so misused, to be Jald to the
owner of the car. This penalty is in addi
tion to the per diem charge" of 60 cents,
which, after July 1, each railroad must
pay for each car not its own which may
be on' Irs lines.
In order to make the new rule more
effective, the principle of publicity is to
be invoked through the instrumentality
of the so-called car-clearing-house, recent
ly established in Chicago. Through the
new rule the chairman of the clearing
house committee Is now authorized to
send to each of the roads a statement
comprising the information already col
lected as to the car location, percentage
of equipment on line, total owned and
unfilled cars or car orders. This, .the as
sociation believes, will enable each rail
road in the country . to know exactly
which lines are delinquent in the matter
of furnishing adequate cars or failing to
return cars to their home lines.
The report of the committee on stand
ard rail selections was adopted unani
mously, and the steel rail manufacturers
will be told that the present rails are not
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LAY TRIBUTE ON
ABODES OF VICE
Police Force Found
Rotten to Core.
SHAMEFACED SAN FRANCISCO
Captain Mooney Tells Revolt
ing Story.
REGULAR RATES OF GRAFT
Grand Jury Informed How Aban
doned Women and Keepers of
Ix)w Dives Make Bay City
Peace Officers Very Rich.
GRAFT RATES EN TENDERLOIN.
Weekly charge for police protec
tion,' houses of Ill-fame Patrolmen
on the beat, $5; sergeants, $15; cap
tains, $23; chief of police, $75 to
J 100.
Barbary Coast - dancehall dives
Captains and chief of police. $50.
All-night sporting saloons Cap
tains and chief of police, $50.
Gambling bouses Police graft va
ries according to the size of the place
and volume of business. Average price
for protection, patrolmen on the beat,
$5; sergeants, $15; captains, $23;
chief of police, $75 to $100.
SAN FRANCISCO, April M. (Special.)
It Is impossible to make even an approxi
mate estimate of the total amount of
money which the police have' extorted
from keepers of houses of ill-fame, gam.
bling houses and other dens of vice. After
the great disaster of laBt April or as
soon as the new tenderloin began to bnlld
up and the Barbary Coast district began
to establish itself, a schedule of prices
for protected vice was formulated. This,
schedule has been rigidly adhered to.
' In the case of houses of ill-fame, the
proprietors were required to pay the pa
trolmen on the beat the sum of $5, the
sergeants, $15, the captains $3 and the
Chief of Police $T5 to $100 every week for
the privilege of conducting their ne
farious business. The gambling houses
were assessed according to their ability
to pay, but the average price for police
protection was about the same as the
houses of prostitution.
The dives along Pacific street and in
the Barbary Coast district were required
to pay $50 every week to the police cap
tain and the chief, those two function
aries presumably dividing the money. The
sporting saloons, where women of the
night-life congregated, were taxed a sim
ilar amount.
This amazing condition of affairs has
existed ever since the establishment of
the new tenderloin and the upbuilding of
the Chinatown and Barbary Coast dis
tricts. Assistant District Attorney Heney
and W. J. Burns long suspected the state
of affairs and some evidence was gath
ered by them, but the complete revela
tion did not come until Captain of Police
John Mooney enlightened them. Mooney
has even told Heney and the grand jury
how the toll on the underworld was col
lected. He has given an account of the
methods pursued by Chief of Police
Dinan, the names of the collectors, the
names of the police captains, who, not
daring to trust ' others to collect their
graft, went In person to the landladies
of the houses of ill-fame and received
their blackmail in cash every week.
Grafters Trust Xot Each Other.
According to the story 'Mooney has told
the grand Juryi the patrolmen collected
their regular $5 graft from the houses on
their beat In person. The sergeants fol
lowed the same course, going in person
to the houses of their district. Some of
them collected for their captains, but
most of the captains preferred to collect
themselves. The notorious "Kid" Sulll.
van was one of Dinan's collection agents,
but the graft is so large that he had to
employ others to help out.
As a result of these revelations, the
grafting members of the Police Depart
ment will be relentlessly prosecuted by
the District Attorney. In many instances
the rank and file are held far less culpa
ble than the superiors. Had discipline
been preserved and had their superiors
set an example of probity. It Is believed
by the graft prosecutors that the patrol
men would have remained honest.
Under the existing circumstances many
excuses are found for them, but the ac
tions of Dinan and many of his captains
and sergeants cannot be condoned.
Chief Dinan is supposed to be a rich
man as the result of the graft from pro.
tected vice, and some of the captains are
nearly as well off. It has been Impossible
to ascertain to what extent other officers
of the municipal government shared In
the graft.
POLICE WD TILLMAN
EXCITING INCIDENTS MARK HIS
LECTURE AT PITTSBURG.
All Whites in Audience Vote Negro
Not Equal to White Denounces
European Critics.
PITTSBURG, April 24. As a precaution
ary measure, 22 detectives and a squad of
uniformed policemen were stationed In
Carnegie Music Hall tonight during the
address Of Senator B. ' R. Tillman, of
South Carolina, who discussed the race
problem. Several exciting incidents oc
curred ,but no trouble resulted. Ten ne
groes were -present.
After declaring the races in the South
were gradually becoming more antagonis
tic, Mr. Tillman called for a vote of the
audience as to whether the negro was the
equal of the white man. The entire audi
ence except the ten negroes voted in the
negative by rising.
Ono man interrupted Mr. Tillman sev
eral times during his address. Mr. Till
man had him admit he came from Eu
rope and then bitterly denounced Euro
peans in America who undertake to Judge
questions concerning this country.
Mr. Tiliman declared Booker T. Wash
lngton was the harbor of refuge to which
people flee when other places fail, and
that Booker T. Washington- was but one
negro in ten million and was half white
at that.
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 66
degrees; minimum, 40.
TODAY'S Fair; easterly winds.
Foreign.
Czar rebukes Colovln for allowing free de
bate In Douma. Page 5.
Sultan 'of Morocco sends army to find Mau-
. champ's murderers. Page 4.
Nicaragua and Salvador sign peace treaty.
Page 4.
National.
Borah has interview with Roosevelt. Page 2.
Government making thorough investigation
of lumber trust. Page 2.
Great demonstration in favor of Moyer and
Haywood proposed. Page 1.
Politics.
Taft In race for Presidency to stay. Page 1.
Cummins says Roosevelt should run for
third term. Page 1.
Tillman lectures on race question at Pitta
burg. Page 1. :
Frank Hitchcock finds Southern Republic
ans for Roosevelt. Page 1.
Domestic.
Haskin on habits of ants. Page 5.
Jilted woman shoots unfaithful lover and
herself. Page 1.
Railroads take action to remedy car short
age and get better rails. Page 1.
Charges and counter-charges at Insurance
hearing before New York legislative
commission. Pago 3. -
Worthtngton finishes speech in defense of
Hermann. Page 3.
Sensational hold-up at Tonopah. Page 3.
Pacific Coaet.
State concluding its case in McManus trial.
Page 12.
Valley lumbermen believe Southern Pacific
faces dilemma. Page 4.
Tacotna tunnel will give Harrlman line easy
grade. Page 12.
Seattle tailors effect agreement. Page 10.
Idaho grand jury returns four Indictments.
Page 12.
Rates of graft on tenderloin collected by
San Francisco police. Page 1.
United Railroads of San Francisco refuse
demands of carmen. Page 4.
Sports.
Los Angeles defeats Portland, 6 to 0.
Trainer Archie Hahn arrives at Pacific Uni
versity. Page 16.
Commercial and Marine.
Celifornia deciduous fruit prospects. Page 17.
First wool sale of year In Eastern Oregon.
Page 17.
Eastern wheat market sstrong and higher.
Page 17-
New York stock market stagnant. Page IT.
Steamer Maori King chartered to load
wheat In Portland. Page 11.
Portland and Vicinity.
"P. T- Barnum," alleged grandson of great
showman, buncoes many Mystic Shrln-
ers. Page 10.
Ordinance decided on at last to abate
Fourth -street steam traffic nuisance.
Page 18.
Occupation tax lifted from a dozen classes,
including doctors and dentists. Page 18.
Crooks bold coup nets S235 from Hugo
Wolfel's jewelry store. Page IS.
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JOIN IN PROTEST
Will Demonstrate
-Against Roosevelt.
IN EVERY CITY ON SAME DAY
Letter of Jaxon Which Brought
Forth Reply.
SAYS CASE WAS PREJUDGED
Calls on Roosevelt to Either Retract
or Give Reasons for Letter Which
Condemned tho Federation
ists as Undesirable.
MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 24. A move
ment, Xational in scope, to set aside a
Moyer-Haywood day early in May, on
which day every union in the country is
to protest against the action of President
Roosevelt In calling Moyer and Haywood
undesirable citizens has been launched in
Milwaukee. The plan contemplates that
the President shall be taken to task also
for his communication to Honore Jaxon,
of Chicago, in which he reiterates his
criticism.
LETTER SEXT TO ROOSEVELT
Protest W hich Called Forth Denun
ciation of Moyer and Haywood.
CHICAGO, April 24. Following la tho
letter from the Moyer-Haywood Defense
Conference which called forth President
Roosevelt's letter to Honore J. Jaxon:
To the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Pres
ident of the United States.
Dear Sir: This note of Inquiry and protest
Is respectfully addressed to you by the
Moyer-Haywood-Pettlbone Defense Confer
ence of Chicago and Cook County, Illinois.
lis intent is to elicit from your pen either
a denial or a retraction of that portion of
your widely-quoted recent criticism of E.
H. Harrlman, in which you are reported to
have clausifted Charles H, Moyer, Eufnc
V. Debs and William D- Haywood, along
with that railroad magnate, as "undesirable
citizens."
In view of the fact that the three men
thus publicly pilloried are all alike honored
by the esteem and confidence of a large
number of the most honorable and intelli
gent citizens of our common country, we be
lieve that you no less than ourselves will
readily perceive that to place them In the
same class with the railway magnate Is in.
reality and to that extent equivalent to in
vesting the latter gentleman with the com
mendation rather than the censure of the
author of the criticism referred to; and
whether that author shall prove to have
been yourself or some other person endeav
oring without authority to place his own
words In your mouth, our own criticism of
that particular phase of the letter attributed
to you is that the comparison confers alto
gether too high an honor upon a financier
who would himself be among the first to
admit that his activities as thus far. re
vealed to the public have been Inspired by
purely selfish motives rather than by that
overmastering love for humanity which is
the most striking characteristic of Moyer.
Haywood and Pettlbone.
Say He Prejudges Case.
Our principal objctlon, however, is based
upon the fact that of these three men who
in words attributed to the official head of
the whole people have thus been publicly
labeled as "undesirable," two at least are
shortly to be tried for their lives under cir
cumstances which cause the attack thus at
tributed to you to operate as a serious In
fringement upon their constitutional right
to be treated as innocent until by the pro
cesses of the law they shall have been
proved to be guilty.
The Jury which will determine the jus
tice or injustice of the charges which have
been brought against these men has yet to
be drawn. It will be drawn from the ranks
of a community whose members are known
to be eagerly perusing every single item
of current news or comment which has any
bearing upon the important cause which is
shortly to be tried among them, and to
be decided by pome of their number; and it
Is therefore evident and indeed conclusive
that nothing could be more slnisterly cal
culated to prevent a just decision of this
case than would any prejudgment of these
defendants by officers of that very law
which is pledged to Impartiality.
And. of all such invasive and subversive
prejudgments, a prejudgment fulmtnated
with Nation-wide publicity In words attrib
uted to the Nation's leading official must
necessarily be most subversive of that even
Justice between man and man the main
taining of which has always been put tor
ward as the main reason for the creating of
law, and for the placing of the law in au
thority over the lives and liberties of the
people.
Make All Allowance for Him.
It Is against this dangerous prejudgment,
thus widely heralded as a deliverance from
the official head of the Nation, that we
chiefly protest; and we protest all the more
earnestly because up to the time of the
mailing of this note there has appeared no
public eign that the prejudgment in ques
tion has been either withdrawn or contra
dicted by you. While, therefore, we aro
anxious to make every allowance for the
difficulties which naturally environ a man,
who, notwithstanding the inability of any
process of human action to raise a fellow,
human above the common weaknesses and
impulses of our common human nature, is
nevertheless surrounded, through the weak
nesses of other men, with an atmosphere
which constantly tempts him to essay deeds
and utterances which are beyond such power
and wisdom as have been granted to human
nature, we are nevertheless constrained by
our sense of fair play and by our conception
of the requirements of good citizenship to
make such endeavor as we can and may to
find our way through this atmosphere which
surrounds you and to respectfully call your
attention to the fact that the prejudgment
attributed to you is one which does indeed
call Insistently and incessantly for either
denial or retraction by you.
Constitutional Principle Violated.
For, whether really uttered by you or
not but simply because It has been widely
accepted as having been uttered by you
the effect of this prejudgment has been to
cast Into the adverse side of the scale of
Justice the fullx moral weight," not simply
of yourself as an individual citizen, but
rather of the official position which you
occupy, a position which Is the creation and
property, not of yourself, but of the entire
people of the United States, and which
therefore cannot be thus misused or per
verted without serious impairment of both
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MOYER
FRIENDS