The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-29

The following open letter iron George L. Fox wos handed to ex-Goy ernor Mclean last night shortly be fore his speech asking him to answel the questions asked in hls speech Tht ex-governor made no reference what soever to tho letter in the course 0 hls speech nor did he refer to tn, substance of it. Here Is the letter.
 An open letter to eX-Governoj George P. Mclean,
 October 2S, 1908.
 l have read your speech last Thurs day reported In the Waterbury, Re, publican In defense of Mir. Lllley, witt mingled regret and indignation, for 1 seems to me the clever plea of law. yer, defending his client and not thC utterance of patriot wishing to have his fellow countrymen find out the truth, You know that your fellow. townsman, Dr. Bridge a friend oi yours and mine, devoted the leisure oi his summer vacation to Investigating thoroughly the evidence against Lii. ley, reading through all the evidence and came to the decided conviction that all which the report of the con- gressiona committee said about hin was true Before he fully made up his mind he secured through you an interview with MT, Lllley in order to hear his defense and not condemn him without q hearing, Mr. Lilleys statement and bearing at that inter view were such as to confirm pr. Bridge In his belief that in this mat ter MT. Lllley had not been seriously sinned against by any one, but was himself an atrocious sinner. He has been refused by both the Hartford Times and Hartford Courant any op- portunity of courteously showing the grounds of his belief and has printed them in the Journal-Courier,
 You are to address the citizens of New Haven tonight in defense of Mir. Lllley, and therefore adopt the ex- cellent English practice of "heckling" you by asking you to answer before that audience the following questions, which closely bear upon MT Lilley's candidacy, so that every one of your hearers may clearly know what you consider 10 be the truth
 What Is Mir. Lllleys alleged req son why he refused b appear before the committee after they had reopen ed the investigation at his request, or to defend himself on the floor of the house, when he had told his friends that he would appear there, wnen the report was submitted and tell the truth7
 2-When he said to Congressman sherman that he would withdraw his motion for an Investigation. if the could be opened again to other companies, but would not with draw, except on those terms, did he not show that he valued the sordid in terests of the Lake company above the honor and good name of his coun- try, of congress or of the republican party? In that case is it not the duty of every earnest patriot and every loy- al republican to knife him at the polls?
 S-What is the essential distinction between his action on the matter and the crime of blackmail which is de- fined by Webster as an "eXtortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure or cen sure?"
 4--Will you explain to your hearers In full the facts which you flppantly in your Waterbury speech, as "stenograpner's mistakes" and do not omit the facts about the Ednboro letter?
 5--Did not the choice If submarine boats In the last analysis between the two companies rest with the Marix board of naval officers, and did they not report unanimously against the clients of Mir. Lilley?
 6-Must they not have been reach ed by the alleged corruption, if 1t was effective in determining tho award?
 Will you name any of the twen .y-three formal conclusions of the fin condemnation of MT. .illey that are essentially untrue, and itate in what respect they are untrue?
 S-If there is any fact or statement n the report of the Investigating com nlttee that is not borne out by the published evidence, would not his able md astute lawyers, thoroughly famil- ar with the case, Frank T. Brown md Stiles Judson, have long before his have pointed it out. to succor him m the pitiless storm of righteous and just indignation, which has deserved y rained upon him during the last three months?
 Hoping that you will give frank and square answer to these questions before your New Haven audience, and thus help them in the search for the