Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-09-24
ROOSEVELT REPLIES TO BRYAN
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breach OF trust. What do the tax
\ payers OF Oklahoma think OF the use
which their public servants are max
ing OF the public funds? What do
they think OF the money due their
sons and daughters and diyerting
II for the benefit of politicians?
Attention to. Bryan.
You close your telegram by say
ing that you expect and will demand
fair and honorable treatment from
those who are In charge OF the re-
publican campaign. am not in
charge, but am greatly interested in
1t. have shown you above fairly
and honorably that Governor Haskell
is man who, on every account
have named. Is unworthy of any po-
sition In our public life. No further
investigation of these facts Is re-
quired. They are spread on the
record before you, and they were
available before Mr.. Haskell was
chosen for his position as treasurer.
You also say that you will not per-
NIT any responsible member of the
republican organization to misrepre-
sent your party in the present cam
paign. You will have no difficulty
In getting me to represent 1t Alright,
for my sole anxiety Is that the peo-
pie OF the country shall understand
this attitude clearly, and shall con-
denim 1t as 1t should be condemned.
You say that you have advocated
more radical measures against pri-
vate monopolies than either | or my
party associates have been willing to
undertake. You have, indeed, advo-
Gated measures that sound more rad
ical, but they have the prime de-
feet that in practice they would not
work.
For several years now / have
been steadily fighting to secure thor
oughly and far-reaching control in
the interest of the public over the
business combinations which do an
interstate business. In this effort |
have been as much hampered by the
extremists, well meaning or other
wise, who demanded visionary and
impractieable radicalism. as by those
extremists, no less dangerous, who
stand for the reactionary refusal to
remedy my grievance. One side, the
side on which | am obliged to say
you have placed yourself, has shown
itself to be just as much the enemy
of progress as the other. hold 1t
entirly natural for any great law
defying corporation to wish to see
you placed in the presidency rather
than Mr.. Taft.
Quotes Gov. Hughes Speech.
Your plans to put a stop to the
abuses of these corporations are
wholly chimerical; how chimerical
your last plan Is you will yourself
see II you read Governor Hughes
speech at Youngstown.
Trusts Need Not Fear Bryan.
Let us repeat that no law-de-
flying corporation has anything to
fear from you, save what II will suffer
In the general paralysis OF business
which any attempt on your part to re-
duce to practice what you advocated
would bring. This paralysis would
efTect the wageworker. the farmer,
the small business man. more than It
would affect the great business man.
But II would affect the latter, too,
Therefore, hope and believe that all
farsighted citizens who wish to see
this country prosperous In material
things will support Mr.. Taft. But
above all | ask for support for him
because he stands for the moral up
lifting of the nation. because his
deeds have made good his words and
because the policies to which he is
committed are of immeasureable con-
sequence alike 10 the honor and the
interests of the whole American peo-
pie. Very truly yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Hon. William Jennings Bryan. Lin
coin Neb."
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