Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-03

opposing me because / have fought the
Standard Oil trust and the gas trust
and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit. These
men and other corporation tools Ike
them are the best proof OF the truth
of what | have said, that the men who
are trying to defeat me In this cam.
paign are the men who have been try
ing to rob you for years
He objected to my opposition to Dist
Atty. Jerome, and he praises Jerome as
"a Democrat OF independence above all
against jerome, | have opposed him be-
cause he has been faithless to the peo-
pie and has betrayed the peoples conf
dence.
'Mr Root objects to my opposition to
Mcclellan, and calls him a worthy heir
10 an honored name.
II say that Mcclellan has stolen the
office he now holds and he knows that
he has stolen H. and that the proof of
his theft is I'm those ballot boxes, and !
challenge him now to allow those ballot
boxes to be opened and those votes to
be honestly counted.
II see how Mr. Root, the corpora
ton lawyer and employe of Thomas f.
Ryan, can indorse George b. Mcclellan,
the political puppet of Mr. Ryan and err
Idnu IVY VI ll2c Ahis 'so'N
serves, but can Mr. Root indorse the
theft OF the election In New York City
and the crime BY which the rights of
citizens were outraged and the liberties
Of citizens everywhere threatened
Mr. Root objects TO my opposition Ia
Senator Knox. | have no personal hos
tllty for Knox, and do not think that
| have ever met him or seen him, but
do know that when sent him Document
tary evidence that absolutely convicted
the coal roads Of criminal combination
and of crushing out Independent coal
mine owners, he pocketed the evidence
and refused TO act for two years al
though his United States district attor-
ney, Burnett, had reported to him that
this evidence sustained all my charges
against the coal trust and warranted
their prosecution. and although he rec
commended 10 Knox that the govern
ment Institute proceedings against these
roads In the eastern district Of Pennsyl-
vania.
~ was finally compelled to proceed
outside OF the attorney generals office
and brought my evidence before the In
terstate commerce commission and be-
cause of the interminable delay and in
adequate powers of the interstate com
merce commission introduced the
railroad rate bin in Congress. which
the Republican party takes the credit
for. | positively assert that the Re-
publican party stole the greater part OF
my bill, and that they would have had
a better bill II they had stolen all Of II.
"And that Is also my answer 10 Mr..
Roots criticism of my course In Con-
gress.
"Mr Root objects TO my criticism Of
Thomas Taggart. and goes over from
the the corporation side OF the Repub-
lcan party to defend the national chair
man OF the corporation wing Of the
Democratic party.
II have no, personal feeling against
Mr.. Taggart. | have opposed him be-
GAUGE he conducted gambling resort,
where women and children were allowed
to play. This gambling house has been
closed up by the Republican governor OF
Indiana. 7 have opposed Taggart be-
cause he Is corrupt politician and
represents Belmont and the corpora
tons on the Democratic committee.
have opposed him because he stands In
opposition 10 honest DEMOCRATS and
honest American citizens everywhere.
81 have opposed Parker. Williams,
Woodruff, Towne. Cannon and others
only when they have oppoled the peo-.
pie, and always will oppose them
when they oppose the people.
II do not conduct my campaign or my
newspapers according 10 my personal
prejudlces. but for the interest of hon
est citizens.
Finally. I say that the same recog-
nized and unwritten rule that makes
the president OF the United States
president OF the people, and not OF any
faction or section. should apply to tho
officers OF his administration. and that
when Elihu Root, secretary Of state Of
the United States. drags his high fed
eral office into state election and into
personal and partisan attack. he de-
grades his office to his own level"