The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-22
Refused an Endorsement by the
Ohio Republicans
Which Included the Name of
Senator Foraker.
WHOLE STORY is OUT.
President Roosevelt Makes Pub
lie a Letter
Written by the Presidential
Candidate in July.

Oyster Bay, Sept. 22.-Secretary Loeb
has given to representatives of the
press a formal statement by the presi-
dent which was called forth by the re-
cent exchanges between w. r. Hearst
and Senator Foraker of Ohio. Mr..
Hearst. in public utterances, had ac-
cused the senator of relations with the
Standard Oil company inconsistent
with his duties as a senator and his
attitude as representative of Repub-
lican policies and professions. In his
statement President Roosevelt makes
another appeal for the support of Mr..
Taft and declares his defeat would
bring lasting satisfaction to but one
set of men, namely, to those men who,
as shown in the correspondence pub
lished by Mr.. Hearst. were behind Mr..
Foraker, the opponent of Mr.. Taft
within his own party. and who now
are behind Governor Haskell and his
associates, the opponents of Mr.. Taft
in the opposite party"
The statement embodies a letter
written by Taft to a friend in Ohio on
July 20, 1907, in which the present Re-
publican candidate for the presidency
refused to acquiesce in the plan of the
Ohio state central committee to in
dorse Mr.. Taft for the presidency and
Mr.. Foraker for reelection to the SEN
ate in a single resolution. The presi-
tude has always been directly opposed
to that charged against Senator For
aker by Mr.. Hearst regarding the
money interests. The president cites
the Brownsville affair as a case where
the agitation was a phase of the ef-
fort by the representatives of certain
law defying corporations to bring dis
credit upon the administration. 1t was.
he says, in large part, mot a genuine
agitation on behalf of the colored men
at ALL
Roosevelt's Statement.
The presidents statement follows:
I'm view of Mr.. Hearst's disclosure
about Senator Foraker. I made public
the following letter written by Mr..
Taft on July 29, 1907. to a friend in
Ohio, prominent in Ohio politics who
wrote him before the meeting of the
state central committee asking wheth-
er he would object to the committee
passing a resolution indorsing Mr.. Taft
for president and Mr.. Foraker for sem
ator in the interest of harmony. A
COPY Of this letter was submitted to
me at the time, but after the original
had been sent. 1t was not intended
for publication but it was understood
if necessary it should be published
at personally know the strongest
pressure by various leaders was
brought on Mr.. Taft at that time to
consent to the proposed arrangement
and he was informed by leading men
from other states that If he would con-
sent to this arrangement All opposition
on the part of Mr.. Foraker, and on
the part of some of Mr.. Foraker's in
huential friends, in the senate and else
where would cease, and that Mr.. Taft's
nomination for the presidency would be
assured but Mr.. Taft declined for one
moment to consider any possible adj
vantage to himself where what he re-
garded as a great principle was at
stake. His attitude on this question as
well as on countless questions con-
vinced me that of all the men in this
union, he was the man pre-eminently
fit in point of uprightness and charac-
ter for fearless and aggressive honesty
and of fitness for championing the
rights of the people as whole, to be
president.
Senator Foraker has been leader
among those members of congress OK
both parties who resolutely opposed the
great policies of internal reform Tor
which the administration has made
itself responsible. His attitude has
been that of certain other public men
(notably as shown in this same corre-
published by Mr.. Hearst by
Governor Haskell of Oklahoma.) There
is a striking difference in one respect,
however. in this present position OF
Governor Haskell and Senator Foraker.
Governor Haskell stands high in the
councils of Mr.. Bryan and is the treas
urer Of his national campaign commit
tee. Senator Foraker represents only
the forces which in embittered fashion
+.
which were definitely deprived of pow
er within the Republican party when
Mr. Taft was nominated. The publica-
ton of this correspondence not merely
justifies in striking fashion the action
of the American but also casts a Curl
Gus sidelight on the attacks made upon
the administration both in the Denver
convention which nominated Mr.
Bryan and in the course of Mr.. Bryan's
Only One Way.
ssrrhere is but one way to preserve
and perpetuate the great reforms, the
great advances in righteousness and
upright and fair dealing which have
marked the management of the affairs
Of the national government during the
last seven years; and that is by elect
ing Mr.. Taft. To defeat him will bring
lasting satisfaction to but one set OF
men, namely, those men who, as shown
in the correspondence published by Mr..
Hearst were behind Mr.. Foraker, the
opponent of Mr.. Taft within his own
party. and who are now behind Gov
arnor Haskell and his associates, the
oponents of Mr.. Taft in the opposite
party.
ests which have shown such hostility
to the administration and now to Mr..
Taft have grown to oppose the admin
on various matters not con-
nected with those which mark the real
point of difference. For instance the
entire agitation over Brownsville was
IN large part not a genuine agitation
On behalf of colored men at all, but
merely one phase of the effort by the
of certain law defying
to bring discredit upon
The administration because it was
to cut out the evils connected.
not only with the corrupt use OF
wealth. but especially with the corrupt
between certain business men
of large fortunes and certain politicians