The sun., 1896-10-31
JOURNAL LIES ABoUr ROOSEVELT.
Fool Report or His Speech Backed Up
by u sspurioua "Interview."

a Fool Report or Hi. speech Backed Up
by Spurious " Interview"
President Theodore Roosevelt of the Police
Board is indignant over the advantage taken
by the Journal Of an incompetent report of
his speech at the Wool Exchange on Tuesday
last in the botched and garbled account of
his speech which the Journal received he was
quoted follows:
MIR. Bryan and his adherents have appealed to the
bascst In all the land the farmers. II they
not so. then why do they believe that he can make
81 OF so centsr He tells them 1t can be brought
about by free royalty-the right to burn and
plunder without the Interference Of the police.
Eut this man back OF Bryan, Gov. Altgeld of ILL.,
rois is far moro dangerous than the boy who Is
anxious precipitate another civil war. AtSeld
typnes the danger that walks In the night. He
talks much, breaches reputation, but takeS every
penny from his employees.
The Journal was the only paper which
printed this report Of the speech. absurd as it
was on its face.
This report. which was copied by the Wash
inUon Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer" said
President Roosevelt yesterday, lis a lie from
beginning to end. without the slightest basis
whatsoever In fact. and the reporter who gave
it out as mine was promptly discharged by
the United Press on my complaint. My speech
was in substance one have male in n dozen
different places, and which has been reported
correctly again % and again IN IN several n.h dfersnt rent
the reporter was tring to repeat | cannot i'm
agine. supnose he got u tumble of words
chosen from different sentences.
I'm one part OF tho speech stated that we
appealed TO the patriotism of the farmers as a
base self-interrst when he tried to bride those
who would allow themselves /" be bribcd with
offers OF allowing them to repudiatc half their
.l..l,t ,,,h out f,NEfN m Of hair
workmen. This was the only time ! used tho
word base. in my speech. What the Eeoort
idea | stated that Mr.. Altgold ard his kind
tried to bribc the workingInan with oil ers of
free riot Its an Offset for cutting his wages in
'It is of course. almost too norsenscal for
discussion To suppose that spoke of the farm
cis AS base class. OF the contrary. what l
said was that we appealed TO Class,an that
were certain TO have on our side the great
bulk of the farmers exactly as we have the
great bulk OF the wurkingmen. simply be cause
thcy aro sure to .CsDond t. the rHllying cry OF
rntriotism decent government. and orderly
liberty. When the reporter says ! used the
word hoy hc must refer to some phrase in my
speech in which used the expression boy ora
tor never made the slightest reference to
lis being desirous Of precipitat!nG n civil war.
'ln this instance the J0mhdl merely gave
helped seeing was on its face ridicnlous false
hood. Tut in yesterdays issue 1t maze, ana to-
day reitsr"tsa aHothST Tt statement q, which was
ment is one Of the editors of the journal. Mr..
Willis, Abbot: met him two or three weeks
introduced To me on the train. and camc over
to my section and entered into conversation.
Among other things he said that MIR. Aitxeid
was II very nice man whom he much wished
me 10 meet. l promptly responded that l
woald certainly decline to meet him. for /
opponent, hut as man who ranked with
Dehs. C1xcy. and other meters 10 mob vio-
Frcfai "I" q GoveTnment YER from pIunanr CHlcaSe @
intD the condiiion.:ot Paris during the Com
mune, md wno in my opinion, was an enemy
to all that WAS truest and best in American
life. and man who, II 70 had his way would
throw this country Into anarchy, with all that
Mr. sHbh6ts conception Of the the ordinary 'ta. de-.
crncels of intercourse between gentlemen was
%wcver: Hon ] did not care: rap about @ his maHinc
IL public. providing he made public what /
actually said. and not something thar l
lint now two or three weeks after the con-
vcrsaton.; he actually puts it in quotation
legged Interview from end 10 end with deliber-
ne inventions. Not only did l never "ake
cn tine swo1 ns 'hS he quotes
and standing men up against n wall TO be
shot and similar nonsense, butI never made
which could he twisted into them by any man
win the rn most r1dimsntary desire to !ell tho
truth. IN" ne, statement n is tissue OF false
IAN amusing feature OF Mr.. Abbots re-
pepltuG Ms private coppycrsatIon that am
Gi:'tc willing he should repeat II ho states
what really said-was the fact that he made
number of statements about his own paper
which would require considerable cxplana-
ton. He belongs TO the wcll-known type OF
POLITICAL rcfOrner who is always trying 10
cure everything with some kind OF political
qua"k medicine
When Le VAS expatiotinE upon the way
those whom he called the masses would he rlc-
sHtrd by free silver Rnd Altgeidiam could nor
resist asking him II he thought that ns ono
s'cp to"ard-thr nillepnium il would tend to
make hls own, paper cleaner. less sensational,
ard more truthful; whcreupou he frankly nd
m,i1"d that lac was utterly disgusted with its
sensational and similar qualities, but that he
supposed 1t WAS necessary TO ndOpt them as a
means uf undertaking the U'ord In the est
nation Of the multitude; which, M / pointed
out, MAS rather an odd yiew in one who
form and elevate tho multitude.
In .sumwlhE-np ! wish "a. repeat tnnt both
IL" irhGdNcnt report of my speech 10 which
the J"mum originally gave currency and also
one 1f the editors Of tho Journal had with ma
are nOt-mcrely fals"hoOds, but are particularly
clumsy ca'npa!gn falsehoods at that. ! sec
hat on the strcngth OF III, 80 falsehoods Tam
many club which is vociferously nrlifinv
under tic banner of free silver and free riot
has demanded my removal from office. cor
daily auUrr cihte the desi:e Of these gentle
men 70 hgt" removed from Office either Inyself
r any other Police commissioner who dec ines
t. Kermit IA" principles of the Chicago Mat
forl. Ia lac lut into practical operation In Ills
As for the JmTuaI. such cartoons as those
which Il has r"crni'y plbllshed showing Gen.
Miles sitlIa- a. ,"hr - look NJ on the buicI erv
~ W3rhlhtmrn ~ soldiers or. OF Mr.. Hunnl
mon lang rom lamp posts. are as Infamous
invitrn" Is tn riot as any speech ever made ar
my ion ever taken by It's per hero, GOV. Alt
preaching OF anarchy tho Journal should add
tho practice OF mendacity," -. :. a, - -