The age-herald., 1900-10-15
ROOSEVELT IN THE
 LAND OF BOURBON
The Rough Rider Rests on a Ken-
 lucky Stock Farm.
DISCUSSES THE ICE TRUST
Answers a Letter and Takes MT. Bryan to Task for His Attack on the Trusts Explains His
 Official Acts

Spring Station, Ky, October H.-Here, since early this morning, eighteen miles from Lexington, in country of colonels beautiful women, blooded horses the great est stock farms in the world, and hospital ity of superlative degree, Governor Roose- velt's special train has rested on side track.
 The candidate for Vice President, accom- panied by Leslie Combs, of the Republican State Central Committee, Major Horsey of Rough Rider fame, and Col. Curtis Guild, Jr., spent the day at the residence of A. J. Alexander. situated in the center of a farm comprising three thousand and three hundred acres. Not fifty persons in Ken lucky, save those residing here, know where Governor Roosevelt is resting. Be- fore leaving Louisville word was given out that the train would proceed at once to Lexington, but secret order directed that 1t stop over Sunday in the country to enable the Governor to recover from fatigue
 The rest brought about the desired physi- cal brightening. The Governors voice has almost entirely lost it's huskiness.
 Early tomorrow morning the special train will leave for Lexington, arriving there at a. m.
 Tonight Governor Roosevelt gave out an open letter to Don M. Dickinson of Mchi- gan, in response to the following from MT. Dickinson:
 The Dickinson Letter
 ''Detroit, Mich, Oct. Il, 1900.
 My Dear Sir-Yesterday and today MT. Bryan is speaking in this State. The pro- Bryan paper here this morning. among other things, has the following report of his utterances
 " He talked about the trust in every town he spoke in. In six of these towns today the question was fired at Bryan by Repub- lieans who asked him to explain about the Ice trust. He had an answer that made the crowd guy the questioner every time. It was there Is a Republican Governor and Republican Legislature in New York, and what have they done to throttle the ice trust? Answer me that. But then you know the Republican Governor of New York has no time to bother with the ice trust for he is too busy out here telling you about it.
 "The same charge was made by MT. Bryan at length in Nebraska and all the press of the country had your answer 10 it. given, think, in a speech in the same State. Every reader of the papers, too, knows of your action as Governor in re- spect to the Ice trust and I am under the impression also that you recommended the legislation under which such trust might be reached in New York. Your friend,
 DON M DICKINSON" "Hon Theodore Roosevelt, Terre Haute
 Ind'
 Governor RooseveIt's Answer
 Governor Roosevelt's reply follows: "Hon. Don M Dickinson, Detroit Mich
 My Dear Sir:-I thank you very much for your letter of the 11th instant. When MT. Bryan talks as in the quotation tained in your letter he simply says what he either knows ought to know to be without the slightest foundation in fact He made similar statement in Nebraska I then answered him and asked him in turn whether he would pay the obligations of the government in gold or silver, If elected He never answered my 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 Legisla- ture I recommended certain action about trusts. The Legislature did not act along the line I suggested, but it did pass very stringent antitrust bill introduced by Democrat and I signed it. The attorney general is now proceeding against the ice trust under this bill. MT. Croker and his fellow stockholders in the ice trust, with their attorneys, are fighting technical legal points through every stage of the proceedings.
 "Now, as I say, MT. Bryan knows all this from my previous answer He knows perfectly we'll that I cannot Suppress the Ice trust in any manner save by due pro- cess of law and that the attorney general is proceeding against 1t under the law and is being hampered by the delays inevitable in attacking a corporation well defended by able lawyers retained, as is natural, when the corporation stockholders are as wealthy as MT. Croker and his associates. MT. Bryan knows that the attorney gen. eral is undertaking these proceedings and have absolutely nothing to do with them. He therefore knows that l have taken every step that can be possibly taken in the matter. Under these circumstances it is unnecessary for me to comment upon his continual repetition of statement which he must know has not the slightest foundation in fact.
 Whether the ice trust can legally be dissolved is question which must be set tied by the courts and similarly 1t is question to be settled in accordance with law whether or not any of the Tammany leaders who hold stock in the trust are amenable under the law. The trust itself is certainly one that can be said to be bad trust, dealing it does with an ar ticle of necessity for the poor of New York. I have no doubt however, that most of the stockholders have invested in it simp- ly as they would invest in any other cor poration The striking point ds that among the heaviest of these investors appear the Tammany Bryanite leaders, who, in con- function with MT. Bryan, are loudest in de-