The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-28
DECLARES THE
LETTER FORGED
Roosevelt Denies Authorship of
Anti-LabOr Document.
BUTTE MINERS ARE EXCITED
MATTER CAME UP OVER COLO
RADIO STRIKE.

D UTE, Mont. sept. 27.-Nnen SEN
d ator Fairbanks and his party ar
rived here they found the Repub-
lican leaders considerably exercised
over the publication i'm the Miners
Magazine published at Denver by the
Western Federation of Miners, OF What
purported TO be denunciauon of la
Dor unions by President Roosevelt, ami
a denial of Tie authenticity by the
president The presidents contrddic-
ton was sent to former Senator Lee
Mantle. I'm response TO a telegram Of
inquiry from him, and was as follows:
White House
Washington, Sept IS
"Hon. Lee Mantle. Butte.
Your telegram received. The letter
you refer TO purpOrting 10 be- adj
dressed 10 me by Mr.. Michael DOnneuy
and printed in the Miners Magazine of.
Sept. -, is, of course, an absurd apd
impudent forgery. I have written no
such letter nor amy letter even re-
semblinS it, TO Mr. DOnuelly. nor any
one else. / have written Air. Dounciiv
requesting 20 know if he has received
any such letter and requesting him. If
So to at once lay ID before the dis,rict
attorney of Chicago TO find out whether
it is possible to discover and punish
The forger. (Signed)
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
Purport of the Letter.
The letter in which the president was
represented to have made his attack
upon union labor was addressed -
Donuelly, president of the Butchers
and Meat Cutters union Of Chicago.
The document is given i'm full with
President EOOseVelt'g name attached.
but without date. and lis stated that Dc
was written i'm response 10 an appeal
by Donnelly 90 him to interfere for the
settlement Of the hate butchers strike.
Following are some extracts from it,
Il stand ready 60 do,as my hlGstriouS
predecessor. Grover Cleveland. did. and
assert the power of this nation against
all local nullifierS.'
Last summer I felt imDelled to
write letter calling upon my country
men to put down lynching. But labor
Union terrorism and crime are as -grcat
a national menace as lynch law
with an Iron Hand"
let me tell you that the first duty
Of the officers of the law. whether they
be sheriff. constable, municipal officers.
mayors, governors or the president
himself. is TO maintain public order and
put DOWN the mon Win an IRON mana.
After advising Donnelly TO put stop
to the strike. the president Is repre-
sented as saying: In any ease bc as
sUred | will keep my hands Off unless
your folly brings you into collision
with the laws OF the United States,
when my hand viii so in a way. yOu
Will not like. So far as am concerned.
YOU have barked up the wrong tree
am not 10 be either wEcedled or fright
ened into meddling with what is none
of my business
Where They Got 1t.
Denver. Sept. 27.-Secretary W d
Haywood of the Western Federation
Of Miners said tonight that the a.
pUted letter of President Roosevelt %
President Douneliy of the Butchers
union was copied from the Wiscons:I
TOiler. Secretary Haywood said re
did not know where the Toiler was
published.
So far us the letter of President
Roosevelt having been a forgery Sec
rotary Haywood says he was no.
aware OF Il.
The Miners Magazine is published
under the direction Of the Federation
and both President Meyer and Secrc-
tary Haywood take an active part an
its direction