The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-28
MIR. TYNER TO 1 MIR. ROOSEVELT Fearful Arraignment of
 President. AGED MANS INDIGNATION Accuses Executive of Malici-
 0uSly Lying. Declares That He Seeks no vindica- ton, But Merely Afforded Oppsr- tuaity for Roosevelt to Do Manly Act.

for the post office department. who was removed from office by the press ident and later tried and acquitted on charges in connection with alleged postal frauds. tonight made public the following letter sent by him to the president:
 Washington. D. C., Oct. 8, 1904.
 sir:-Immediateiy after the publi- cation of your extraordinary "Procla- nation last November declaring me guilty, without hearing or trial, of 'sgross corruption acceptance of bribes and other misconduct in office. I filed with you an emphatic denial of every charge in toto and asked for an opportunity to prove my innocence.
 You ignored this humble protest and after I had exhausted every means Of establishing my innocence and had been promptly acquitted by jury up- on the indictments you caused to be found against me, I again petitfoned you to withdraw your unwarranted Proclamation" of guilt.
 Unfair and Unjust.
 In reply to this received your sec retary.s letter of June 24. which was so unfair and unjust and so clearly owed its character to the exigencies of your presidential campaign that l considered 1t unworthy of notice. es- pecially as you withheld 1t from the public. Even now I should make no reply if there had not recently ap- peared ins popular magazine an "in- spired. article which uses tho very phraseology of your letter and which is such a deliberate tissue of false- hoods and is circulated for such an evident purpose that I cannot ignore 1t.
 lv1.,. ,,...,...tstnx .t.....u.A .h.4 | was guilty of '.gross corruption" and of accepting bribes, etc, while assis- tant attorney general for the post- office department was not made in q Message to Congress aS you now asFert, Cougress was not even in session. For obvious reasons 1t was made Tn "Prociamation" directly to the public with the usual limelight accessories.
 If your statements had been made to Congress in the course of. and as part of your official- al-duties--though no such duty could devolve upon the President under our constitution as you well know-I should not have adressed you personally; but as you went outside your rights and duties as chief magis- trate and in defiance Of every establish ed principle of law and even' without hearing or without evidence, rashly and impetuously pronounced me guilty of these grave crimes and to these charges lent the weight of your great ofice. I felt that you should be given the opportunity to justify yourself or to retraot
 Accusations Proven False. Your accusations are false and have been proven false. but have no further means of establishing these except by hauling you into the courts and I have | too much respect for the high office | which you occupy to do this. My object in writing you was to give you 1 the opportunity to do a just and manly act and to vindicate yourself. not me- do not need your vindication. can face my Eternal Judge with entire | peace of mind.
 Your effort to override the verdict of court and jury by specious distinction l between the crimes you say you refer ! red to In your proclamation" and con | spiracy to commit those crimes might be less contemptible if it's unfairness l and intent were not so obvious and if ! you did not know that every act re- l ferred to in the Bristow report was l fully before the jury on the charge of corruption" bribery" and ''miscon- l duct in office." Had there been any evidence of wrongdoing 1t would have been offered and admitted. but there was none; and you know 1t.
 In my letter to you of December 2, 1 1908. protesting against your unwar- ranted proclamation" I defied you to produce a scintilla of evidence to sup port your accusation and prayed that my life might be spared to face these charges; and now after have gone to trial and every act of my private and of hcial life has been laid bare and not a particle of evidence has been produced against me. you seek to shield yourself by saying that I was not tried for what you accused me of but for something else. That Is false as the records show. and you know it.
 Ready tO stand Trial.
 r am guilty of crimes other than those charged in the indictments found against me, then why was I not indict- ed and tried for them also? And as my life is still spared me am ready now, groundless and unjust as I know your charges are, to stand trial.
 Executive pressure secured three in. dictments against me; maybe 1t can procure others. No technicalities nor pleas of limitation will be interposed to prevent you from proving your sert- ous charges. Naturally. at my age and in my condition. I have no desire to be again hauled into the criminal court, but In order to preserve my record of forty years of public service untarnish- ed am willing to undergo if neces- sary any ordeal. I know I am inno- cent. and you know there Is no truth full evidence against me. And your statements ought not to stand. In my several letters addressed to you I merely demanded what I con ceived to be my rights as an Amer lean citizen. I am asking no favors. I wanted neither your sympathy nor that of jury; but as for eighty years of my life I tried to do right unto others so hoped they might do right unto me. If any citizen of our repub- lie can stand convicted by Presidential proclamation, their law Is a farce and no mans reputation is safe. You preach Square deal to every man." why not practice 1t? Asking that this protest may be filed with the record of my case, I am
 Very respectfully,
 James IT. Tyner Theodore Roosevelt.
 President of the United States.