The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-11
Branded as a Pipe Dream.


Branded as a Pipe Dream.
Senator Foraker said: The wicked flee
when no man puTsueth. l have not tore
casted the character of any speeches /
am intending to make and if ! had it
would seem incredible to the average mind
that such a story could be anything more
than a misunderstanding pipe dream OF an
over-ambtious correspondent
That the president of the United
States should become personally engage
in a political contest to determine MS
successor is without precedent. unless t
son as to Martin Van Buren,
That he would enter upon such
struggle with a declaration that ne Is 10
set limitations upon the freedom of speech
ofkthOse who may differ from him. ana
that they are to disregard those limita-
tions at their peril is without precedent
even in the case of Jackson, and is so
inconsistent with the dignity of his high
office and the prOprieties always to be
observed. that ! feel it duty toward
the president himself to enter for him.
on my own motion. disclaimer of all
responsibility for such publication.
1.-THE time has not yet come. and no.
body knows that better than the presi-
dent himself. when headlines can be
drawn in debate for anybody to observe,
nor has the time come when any real
man would respect them if they were
drawn.
80 far as 1 am personally concerned.
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none according to my own convictions
whenever and Wherever l may have &C
casiOn TO speak at all.
Latest White House Fake.
Mr.. Foraker characterized as a sort
of companion piece" a published state
ment of the president to his friends. nam
! ing as members of the combination to
do him up for his attitude toward Wall
street E. II. Hartman, j. b. Foraker
and John d. Rockefeller.
IN view of this publication" said Mr..
/ Foraker Il trust that / must without
/ improperly say that until it was given
| out at Washington few days ago
never heard tell of any combination or
trust or conspiracy to oppose the pres
/ ident in anything; much less old ! ever
i hear of the sO-called five-million-dOllar
/ conspiracy Of which we have heard so
much during the last week.
! II trust l may be pardoned for going
/ further and saying l never saw John ID.
/ Rockefeller but once in my life, and that
was twenty years ago or more, while ]
/ was governor of Ohio
\ II had the pleasure of meeting him in
connection with the ceremonies connect
I ed with the laying of the cornerstone Of
the Young Mems Christian association
building at Cleveland. With that single
| exception. / never saw him. never spoke
/ to him and never communicated with him
/ in any way, directly or indirectly.
/ "Mr Hartman ! have seen oftener.
| have seen MIN three times-twice at the
] White House, the last time aS an nOuOIt0
I guest at the wedding ceremonies Of the
presidents daughter. On neither of these
occasions did / have any conversations
/ with him.
was to meet him at a dinner party given
by Senator and Mrs. Depew- where Speak
er Cannon and his daughter. Senator
( Spooner and his wife, Senator Eikins and
his wife, and many others, we're pres
! emit
| Except only the brief conversation of
the evening in the presence of al this
company, l never communicated with hiIu
directly or indirectly on am subject
[ whatever.
Wild, Reckless and Crazy.
81 call attention to this with particu-
Iarity so that at the outset such wild
reckless crazy stories may he put into
the class of campaign literature where
they properly belong
But these stories are but samples OF
many Others. all of which. taken togeth-
! err seem 10 have for their subject the
dissemination of the idea that I am al
war with the policies of President RoOse-
mo man ever occupied the Whit
House who has been identified with sc
many legislative measures as President
( Roosevelt He is a ureless worker HI
is constantly doing. or causing to be
done something of great importance
This is true, not only as to domestic bur
also as to foreign affairs. He has beer
/ president since September. 1901, almost
six years
During all that time ] have supported
all measures that have come before tht
senate of the United States for cOnsid-
Grafton with which he was in any way
identified. except only three.
81 differed from his as TO joint state
hood for New Mexico and Arizona. in
sisting that they should not be forced
into the Union as one state. unless 9
majority of the citizens of each territory
might so vote. The proposition I favored
was adopted by congress and the people
of the territories voted against Joint state
hood That was a proposition about
which men might well differ. There was
no occasion for any bitterness of feeling
in connection with its consideration: and
there was none my part. and l never
heard that there was any on the part oi
the president
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