The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-15
ROOSEVELT ANSWERS BRYAN
LATTER MISREPRESENTTNG IA CTS
ABOUT THE zee TRUST.
Fighting the States Prosecution on
Every Technical Legal Point-The
Governors Power in the Matter Linn
ited-C Case In Attorney G encrnHs Hands.

Spring Station, Ky, Oct. H.-Here
since early this morning eighteen miles
from Lexington. Governor Roosevelt's S
spcial train has remained on the Louis
vile and Nashville side track. Tonight
| Governor Roosevelt gave out an open
letter from Don M. Dickinson of Mich
igan in response to the following to Mr..
| Dickinson:
Detroit, Mich, Oct IL, 1900,
my dear sir: Yesterday and to-day
Mr.. Bryan is speaking in this state,
The pro-Bryan paper publishes this
morning among other things the fol-
lowing report of his utterances:
He talked about trusts in every
town he spoke. In six of these towns
to-day the question was fired at Bryan
by republicans who asked him to eX-
plain about the trusts. He had an an
swer that made the crowd guy the
questioner every time. 1t was: There
is republican governor and repub-
llcan legislature in New York, and
what have they done toNthrottle the ice
trust? He is too busy out here telling
you about it
"tThe same charge was made by Mr.,
Bryan at length in Nebraska and all
the press of the country had your an
swer to it. given, think, in a speech
In the same state. Every reader of the
papers, too knows of your action as
governor In respect to the ice trust,
and ! am under the impression also that
you recommended the legislation under
which such trust might be reached in
New York.
Governor Roosevelt's reply follows
my dear sir: I thank you very much
for your letter of the 18th instant.
When Mr.. Bryan talks as in the quota
tion contained in your letter he simply
says what he either knows or ought to
know to be without the slightest foun->
dation in fact. He made similar
statement In Nebraska. I then answer
ed him and asked him in return
whether he would pay the obligations
of the government in gold or in silver
If elected. He never answered NV
question, but as my statement was
printed broadcast he must have seen it
and therefore he must know that there
is no warrant in fact for the statement
as to the ice trust.
In my message to the New York
legislature I recommended certain ac
tion about trusts. The legislature did
not act along the line I suggested. but
it did pass a very stringent antitrust
bill introduced by a democrat, and I
signed it, The attorney general is now
proceeding against the ice trust under
this bill. Mr.. Croker and his fellow
stockholders in the ice trust, through
their attorneys, are fighting us on tech
nical legal points through every stage
of the proceedings.
Nov, as l say, Mr.. Bryan knows all
this from my previous answers. He
knows perfectly well that 1 cannot sun
press the ice trust in any manner save
by due process of law, and that the at
torney general is proceeding against If
under the law and is being namperad by
the delays inevitable in attacking a cor
poration we'll defended by able LAWYERS
when the corporation contains stock
holders as wealthy as Mr.. Croker and
his associates. Mr.. Bryan knows that
where the attorney general is undertake
ing these proceedings 1 have absolutely
nothing to do with them. He therefore
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