The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-15
TEDDY STEALS MARCH
False Reports as to Where
abOuts Sent Out.
HE RESTS IN COUNTRY
SENDS A LETTER OF DEFENSE TO
DON M. DICKINSON.

Spring Station, KY, Oct. 14.-Here,
since early morning. eighteen miles
from Lexington, Governor Roosevelt's
special train has rested on a Louisville
81 Nashville sidetrack. The candidate
for vice president, accompanied by Les
lie Combs. chairman of the Republican
state central committee; Mrs. Coombs,
Major Hersey and Curtis Guild. jr
spent the day at the residence of A. J.
Alexander, situated IN the center of a
farm comprising $500 acres. Not fifty
persons in Kentucky, save those resid-
ing here, know where Governor .Roose-
Welt is resting. Before leaving Louis
tile word was given out that the train
would proceed at once to Lexington,
but a secret order directed that it stop
over Sunday in the country to enable
the governor to recover from the IA
ugue caused by his hard work of the
last few days.
The rest brought about the desired
physical Frightening The governor
voice has almost entirely lost its huski-
ness, and he says he feels as we'll as on
tomorrow morning the special will
leave for Lexington, arriving there at
a. m.
Letter From Dickinson.
Tonight Governor Roosevelt gave out
an open letter TO Don NJ. Dickinson of
Michigan, in response to the following
from Mr.. Dickinson:
Detroit, Mich, Oct. 11.-My Dear
Sir: Yesterday and today Mr.. Bryan is
speaking in this state. The ro-Bryan
papers publish this morning, among
other things, the following report Of his
utteranceS:
HE talked about trusts in every
town in which he spoke. In six of these
towns today the question was fired at
bryan by Republicans, VINO asked him
to explain about the ice trust. He had
an answer that made the crowd guy
the queSt1Oner every time. It was:
There is a Republican governor and a
Republican legislature in New York
and what have they done to throttle
the ice trust? Answer me that. But
then you know the Republican COVER
rOr of New York has no time to bother
With the ice trust. for he is too busy
cut here telling you about it
The same charge was made by Mr..
Bryan at length in Nebraska. and all
the press of the country had your an
swer to ii, given, I 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 1 am under the impression also
that you recommended the legislation
under which such a trust might be
reached in New York.
your friend,
Roosevelt Makes Reply.
Governor Roosevelts reply, dated
Evansville, Ind, Oct. u, follows:
Il thank you very much for your let
ter of the I1th inst. When Mr.. Bryan
talks as in the quotation contained in
your letter, he simply says what he
either knows or ought to know to be
without the slightest foundation in fact.
de made a similar statement in Ne
braska. 1 then answered and asked
him in return whether he would pay
the obligations OF the government IN
gold or silver, if elected. He never an
swered my question, but as my state
ment was printed broadcast he must
have seen it, and therefore he must
know that there is no warrant in fact
for the statement about the ice trust
In my message to the New York legis-
latuTe recommended certain action
about trusts. The legislature did not
act along the line l suggested, but it did
pass a very stringent antitrust bill
introduced by a Democrat, and signed
it The attorney general il now pro-
ceeding against the ice trust and this
Dill Mr. Croker and his fellOw-stOck-
holders in the ice trust, through their
attorneys, are fighting us on technical
legal points through every stage of the
proceedings.
Now, as I said, Mr.. Bryan knows all
this from my previous answer. He
knows perfectly well that I cannot
suppress the ice trust in any manner
EnaI
the attorney general is proceeding
against it 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 contains stock
holders as wealthy as Mr.. Croker and
his associates. Mr.. Bryan knows that
where the attorney general is under
taking these proceedings, L have abso-
Iuteiy nothing to do with them. He
therefore knows that I have taken
every step that can be possibly taken
in che matter Under these circum-
stances II is unnecessary for NE to
comment upon his continual repetition
of statement which he must know has
not the slightest foundation on fact
Doubt as to Legality.
Whether the ice trust can legally
be dissolved is a question which must
be settled by the courts and similarly
IT IS a question to be decided in ac-
cordance with the law whether or not
any of the Tammany leaders who hold
stock IN Il are amenable under the law.
The trust itself is certainly one that
can be said TO be a bad trust dealing
as it does in an article of necessity for
the poor Of New York. have no doubt,
however, that most of the stockholders
have invested in 1t simply as they
would invest in any other corporation.
The striking point is that among the
heaviest of these investors appear the
Tammany Bryanite leaders, who, in
JUNCTION with Mr.. Bryan, are loud
est in denOuncing trusts. Hypocrisy
could be carried no farther than il has
been carried by these men and their
defenders In the Tammany state con-
Vention in New York they actually de-
nounced the ice trust in their political
capacity, while in their private capacity
they were stockholders in il, and
through their counsel were doing every
thing to prevent it's dissolution by the
attorney leral.
''Mr BRYAN is now eoine. To Now
York to be the political guest of Mr.
Croker, the ice trust beneficiary. He
is going there to try to help Mr.. Croker
get control OF the state of New York
and bring it down to the level of in
fanny TO which the Tammany govern
ment has reduced the city of New York
Again it came to me that this needs no
further comment than is implied in the