Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-24
DYNAMITE BLAST FOR
BRYAN AND HASKELL
President Roosevelt Pens Warm
Reply to Telegram Of the
Peerless One
OKLAHOMA MAN ExcoRlATED
President Declares His Actions Are
seandaIous and That He is Unfit to
/ Hold Public Office - 1ryan's Prom
/ ises FslIaoious. Hi. Remedies Chin
| sricaI.

orical.,
washington. Sept. 24.-President
Roosevelt last night made his first in
lection Of his personal brand of ginger
into the national campaign. Incident
ally he also injected a little vitriol into
the hide Of Governor Haskell, treasurer
of the democratic national committee
and Mr.. Bryan's prospective nominee
for secretary Of the treasury. The pres
adent did not overlook Mr.. Bryan and
gave him a few blunt opinions as to
his associates, theories, and promises
incidentally digging up q few of his
buried fallacies.
The medium for the presidents
strenuous jump into the political arena
was an answer to Mr.. Bryan's recent
Telegram in which he protested to the
president about his utterances regard
dng Mr.. Haskell's Standard OIL affil-
iations, Mr.. Bryan demanding proof of
the charges and promising that in the
event OF their substantiation he would
kick the Oklahoma governor out of the
campaign.
Excoriation for Haskell.
The presidents reply, which is in the
form OF q letter to Mr.. Bryan and
which was mailed to him last night, adj
dressed to Fairview, Lincoln, Neb., dis
misses for the time being the Ohio
Standard Oil Haskell imbroglio, the
president ssy1ng ttssat In the statement
which gave ofYense to Mr.. Bryan he
purposely made no Allusion to the Ohio
matter Mr.. Roosevelt said that In spite
of the significance of the Ohio incl
dent he would not at this time make
any reference to II, inferentially inti-
mating that he did not regard the In
cident as q closed one.
President Roosevelt takes for his
Haskell text In the letter to Mr.. Bryan
the governors action in Oklahoma
when he stopped legal proceedings
brought by the attorney general of
Oklahoma to prevent the Prairie State
Oil and Gas company, an ally of the
Standard, from illegally laying pipe
) lines thruout the state. The president
after reciting the facts declares that
the evidence conclusively demonstrates
that Haskell was controlled by the
Rockefeller corporation.
Haskell Unfit! Disgraeeful!
After contrasting Mr.. Bryan's de-
fense Of Governor Haskell as against
Mr.. Taft's reputation Of Foraker in
connection with the Hearst charges
<ho ST. f1nr
proceeds to declare that Governor Has
aell's utter unfitness for association
with any man anxious to appeal to
the American people on a moral issue
mas been abundantly shown by other
acts OF his as governor OF Oklahoma. /"
The president condemns Governor
Haskclls conduct in connection with
various matters as disgraceful and
scandalous and calls special attention
to what he describes as "prostituttng
ito base purposes the state university" /"
This charge against the governor rests
on an article in The Outlook, from
which the president quotes, and which,
he says, forms the conclusion that Gov
ernor Haskell is unworthy OF any POSI-
tion in public life.
The latter portion Of Mr.. Roosevelt's 8
deliverance Is devoted to criticism Of
Mr.. Bryan's plan for regulating the
trusts, which he characterizes as a
measure that sounds more radical than
any advocated by the republicans but
which in practice would not work.
Concluding, Mr.. Roosevelt declares that
no law defying corporation has any
thing to fear from MIR. Bryan save
w.sat it would suffer from the general
n isis of business" which would
fol- democratic success.
Full Text Of Letter.
The full text OF the letter follows:
.sThe white House. Washington, D.
c., Sept. "a, 190S.-Dear Sir; In your
telegram you speak of so much of the
charge against Governor Haskell as
dealt with his relations, while IN Ohio,
with the Standard Oil company You
omit the charge as to his relations
with the Standard OIL interests, as
shown by this action while governor
Of Oklahoma, his very summer, this
action being in part taken while if1e
was at Denver, where, as you state.
he was by your wish made chairman
of the committee which drafted the
platform upon which you are stand
ing.
I'm my statement I purposely made
no specific allusion to the Ohio mat
ter, and shall at this time make none,
in spite of its significance, and in spite
OF the further fact that Governor Has
kelps close relation with the Standard
Oil interests while he was in Ohio was
a matter of common notoriety. In Ok
aa1aoma it Is a matter of court record
BY this court record it appears that
the attorney general of the state, elect
ed by the people, obtained an injunc-
ton to prevent the Prairie Oil and Gas
company from building pipe line:
and that Governor Haskell found this
out while he was at Denver, as appears
by the representations for the disso-
lution of the injunction made in his
name on behalf of. the. state before
court of superior jurisdiction to that
which issued the injunction. In this
tAe governor states that the acting