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DAILY EAST OKEGOMAN, PENDLETON, OREGON. MONDAY, SEITEMISKK 28, 1908.
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Milwaukee, WIh., Kept. 28. Defend
iiiK hlH knowl((lK (if Governor IIiih
ki'll HKiiliiHt the chnrRiiH which have
been Ih'oukIU nuliist him "until tho
charKi'H can he examined in nomc
court where plirtlsaliHhlp 1o-h not
bins," William J. Bryan, democratic
candidate for prexldmt, on his way
from MadlHon to thlH city, Saturday
nlKht, Rave out for publication his re
ply to 1'reHldeiit ItouKevelt'K recent
letter, In rcnponne to IiIh telegram on
the Huliject. The letter follows:
Milwaukee, WIh., Sept. 26, 1908.
Hon, Theodore Roosevelt, President
of the United States, Washington,
V. C.
Dear Sir: While I have not yet re
ceived your letter and shall not until
I reach home next week, I have read
a copy of It In the press and beg leave
to submit tho following reply:
Mr, Haxkell having voluntarily re
signed from the committee that he
might be more free to prosecute those
who have brought charges against
him, I need not discuss the question
of his guilt or Innocence further than
to say that the public service which
he has rendered and the vote of confi
dence from the people of his state
ought to protect him from condemna
tion until the charges can be examin
ed in some court where partisanship
does not bias ruiil where campaign
exigencies do not compel prejudgment.
I would not deem It necessary to mi
dress you further but for the fact that
you seize upon the charges and at
tempt to make poIitlc:i 1 capital out
of them. You even charge that my
connection with Mr. HaskelTs selec
tion as a member of 'the resolutions,
committee and as treasurer of the
committee raises a question as to my
sincerity as an opponent of trusts and
monopolies. ,.s an individual, and as
the candidate of my party. I resent
the charge and repel the Insinuation.
I have been In public life for 18 years
and have been sufficiently conspicu
ous to make my conduct a matter of
public interest. I have passed through
two presidential campaigns In which
party feeling ran high and epithet was
exhausted. I have no hesitation In
raying that you cannot find an act, a
word or a thought of mine to Justify
your partisan charge.
Know lluk-ll Only its Good Man,
I have never been Informed of any
(barge that had been made against
Mr. Haskell connecting him with the
Standard Oil company or with any
other trust. hail known him as a
leader In the constitution of Oklaho
ma and hail known him as one of the
men principally responsible for the
excellent constitution which has since
hi en adopted by n majority of 100.000
70.000 of which was furnished by re
publicans. I had known his election
to the governorship of that great
young state by a majority of some
30,000; I had known that the consti
tution was adopted and that Governor
Haskell was elected In spite of tho
efforts of your administration and in
spite if the speeches made In Okla
homa by Mr. Taft.
Why Dldn'l Taft Denounce Illni.
You say that It was a matter of
crmmon notoriety that Mr. Haskell
was connected with the Standard Oil
company.
I have a right to assume that If
so serious nn objection had existed
to Mr. Haskell's election and had been
n matter of common notoriety !n Ohio
a you say. Judge Taft would have fel1
It his conscientious duty to warn the
people If Oklahoma when he spoke
there. If he did not have the knowl
edge, why can 1t be assumed that I
had it? And If he had It. how can
you excuse his failure to communicate
the Information to the people of Okla- I
linma? If you feel It youh patriotic
duly to denounce Haskell when he Is
only a member of the national organ
ization, how much woi.M Mr. Taft
liave felt It his patriotic duty to de
nounce Mr. Haskell when he was as
piring to be the chief executive of a
great state?
I could have had no knowledge of
the suit to which you refer when he
was appointed chairman of the reso
lutions committee of the democratic
national convention, because the suit
was begun while he was at Denver
and as n matter of fact 1 did not know
nnythlng of the nature of the suit
until he was made treasurer of the
national committee and no fair-minded
person can decide upon the merits
of your charge without an examina
tion of the provisions of the enabling
net passed by the republican congress,
and the provisions of the license of
franchises Issued to the oil company
by your administration.
Outlook Story Hum Xo Weight.
I need hardly refer to the newly
found evidence upon w hich you lay so
much stress, viz: the article In the
Outlook of September B. I.v atten
tion was never called to that article
until I rend the published copy of
your letter, and while I have grenf
ri spect for the Outlook and l suppose
I have for the writer (nlthough you
do not give his name) I would hardly
IVel Justified In deciding as promptly
as yon do. on an ex parte statement,
without Investigation.
Says Ci'lllclsniH Arc I'njust.
You present an Indictment against
our platform declaration on the trust
question, but you do not refer to all
of the plnnks and do not deal Justly
with those to which you do refer. Our
platform declares In favor of the vig
orous enforcement of the criminal
law against guilty magnates and of
ficials. Your platform does not con
tain any such demand. Will you say
that your platform Is betler than ours
In that respect?t Our pint form de
mands that corporations beyond a cer
tain size be compelled to sell nt the
same price In all parts of the country,
due allowance being made for the cost
of transportation. Will you deny that
this is In the Interest of the consumer
and In the Interest of the smaller com
petitors? We present a plan under
which no corporation will bo permit
ted to control more than one-half of
the total product. It haK been stated
that the steel company with your ex
ptess consent, purchased one of Its
largest rivals and thus obtained con
tiol of more than 50 per cent of the
total output. Will yon insist that in
permitting this you showed less fa
vor to the monopolistic corporations
than I do in opposing them? You
quote at length from a spech made by
Governor Hughes In which he ridi
cules one of our anti-trust remedies.
Is this the same Governor Hughes
who was counted as one of the Ilio
vjio endeavored to defeat Mr. Taft,
When, as you Insisted, Mr. Taft rep
resented the "reformers" of your
party nnd his opponents the reaction
ary element? Did not Governor
Hughes have tho support of the New
York delegation In the convention and
Is not New York the home of many re
publicans most conspicuous In their
connection with the law defying cor
porations? You are certainly
aware of the fact that In the statement
filed by George R. Sheldon, treasurer
of the republican state committee two
years ago, after Mr. Hughes' election,
It appears that the following contri
butions were made to the campaign
fund: J. P. Morgan, $20,000; John D.
Rockefeller. $f000; Andrew Carnegie,
$iio00; Charles M. Schwab, $2000;
John W. Gates, $2000; W. E. Corey,
$2000; W. Nelson Cromwell $1000;
W. F. Havem. yer, $K00; M. M. Duke,
$.r00. Several of these are known to
be officially connected with the trusts.
Would tho fact that these gentlemen
contributed to his campaign fund
strengthen or weaken his testimony
against the reasonableness 'of our anti
trust remedy?
You cannot have failed to notice
that Governor Hughes In his speech
assumed the role of the critic and not
that of the constructive statesman.
Any one possessing vivid Imagination
and a pen can find objections to rem
edial measures. Lord Macauley Is
quoted as saying that eloquent and
learned men could be found to dispute
the law of gravitation If there were
any advantage to he gained by It. Hut
when "known abuses" are to be cured,
an ounce of remedy Is worth a pound
of fault-finding.
As you quote from Governor
Hughes, I take It for granted that Mr.
Taft has not yet expressed himself in
a satisfactory manner on the subject
for you would naturally prefer to
quote from the presidential candidate
wherever possible.
Trusts Ilililnd Taft.
You say. "let us repeat that no law
defying corporation has any other
reason to fear from you save what It
will suffer in the general paralysis of
business," etc. Referring to the last
part of the sentence first, I might
question your ability to act as an ex
pert as to panic preventives, since you
r.ow have one on your hands, hut as
to your charges that no law defying
remedies which I favor, permit me to
suggest that your testimony on this
subject Is not conclusive. You are a
witness, to be sure, hut your Interest
la the result of the election must be
taken Into consideration In weighing
yi ur testimony. There Is better evl
ibnco. The trust magnates know their
own Interests In the result of the elec
tion must be taken Into consideration
lion and they are supporting
Judge Taft. Not one of the
trust magnates helped to secure my
ni initiation, while It Is a matter of
"common notoriety" that they were
conspicuous In the republican conven
tion and It Is equally a matter of
"common notoriety" that they are
supporting your party In the cam
paign. If you will name a single of
ficial connected with "a law defying
corporation." monopoly or trust, who
has declared or will declare that he is
supporting me, I will publicly warn
him that I will enforce against him
the present criminal law and will en
force against him also t)i, laws de
manded In the democratic platform
as soon as these laws can be enacted.
Hcluriw to Public QiicMlnn.
Hut there Is another fact that rais
ed a presumption In favor of our party
and against your party. I referred to
It in my former letter to you, but you
inadvertently overlooked It In your
reply, and the members of your cabi
net, called In for consultation, evi
dently did not notice it. Instated that
we had not knowingly received a dol
lar from any official connected with
a corporation known as a trust and
that any money so i " rived would be
returned as sin.' we received
knowledge of the fact. I now remind
yen that your convention deliberately
rtjected, by a vote of 9 to 1, the plank
favoring publicity as to campaign con
tributions. Mr. Taft lias repudiated
the action of the convention and re
bukeTI the members of the convention
by declaring himself In favor of a pub
licity law, but he favors publicity
after the election, while w e favor pub
licity before the election, Which do
you regard as the better plan to lot
the people know before the election
what Influences are at work or lit
them know after the election?
Will Not Refore Election.
Are you willing to say that any
public interest was served in 1904 by
concealing until after the elections the
contributions made to the republican
campaign committee by Mr. Harri
nian and those collected by him from
others'.' Are you willing to say that
the publication before the election of
the contributions then made would
have had no effect on the election. As
I have said, we shall publish the
l. nines of contributors above $100,
Will you ask your national committee
to publish before the election the con
tributions above $100? Or, If you re
gard this too small a sum, take con
tributions above $1000 or, if this also
Is too small, take contributions above
H 0,000? if not, what reason can you
give to the public for not doing so? I
Insist that our willingness to let the
public know the sources from which
we receive contributions raises a pre-
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