Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-09-29
BRYAN REPiI:S
TO PRESIDENT
(Continued from Page L.

INV nartv. resent the charges ana
repel the insinuation. | have been III
public life eighteen years and | nave
been sufficiently conspicuous 10 MAKE
nv conduct a matter OF puDllc III
teres. have passed through TWO
presjdeutial campaigns, in which party
feeling ran high and epithet was eA-
hausted. I have no hesitation In say
ing Won cannot find an act, word or
thought of mine to justify your par
tisan charge"
Denies Previous information Against
Haskell.
Rryan then declares he had never
been informed of any charge tha'
had been made against Haskell con
Meeting him with the Standard Oll
company or with any other trust. lie
continues with a statement of knoWl-
edge of Haskell through political al
fairs in Oklahoma AS to the article
nuoted from the Outlook by the pres
ident Bryan says he will lnNestlgdte
before expressing an opinion. You pre-
sent an Indictment, says Bryan
against our platform declaration on tne
trust question, but you do not reter q
all the planks and do not deai 1usliS
with those to which you do refer. oui
nlatform declares in favor of 'N1gor-
n,1s enforcement of criminal la"
against guilty trust magnates and OF
fcials." Your platform does not con
tain any such demand. Will you say
your platform is better than ours II
that respect? Our platform demands
that corporations beyond certain SIZE
be compelled to sell at the same price
in ali parts Of the country, due allow
ance being made for the cost of trans
portation. Will you deny that this !:
in the interest Of the consumer and II
the interest of smaller competitors
We present a plan under which ne
corporation will be permitted to con
troll more than half of the total prod
uct. Bryan here makes his statemen
about the steel company above referfeH
to.
Roosevelt as a Panic Export.
He questions Roosevelt's ability a
an expert as to panic preventatives
.Since you now have one on you
hands," He insists that trust mag
mates are supporting Taft and thel
makes this challenge: IF you WI
names "a single official connected Wit
a law defying corporation monopol
or trust, who has declared or will de
clare he is supporting me, l will pub
licly warn him that 1 will enforc
against him the present criminal lay
and will enforce against him also tn
laws demanded in the democratic plat
form as soon as these laws can b
enacted"
Brvan then refers to his forme
statement that no corporation had con
tributed a dollar to his campaign
spoke of the defeat by republicans o
the proposition to the public list o
contributions that Taft declared in ia
yor of such publication after election
and then urges the president to advis
that the republican committee publis
the names before election.
Bryan Challenges Comparison.
In conclusion you say that you as
support for Taft because he stands TO
the moral uplift of the nation. becaus
his deeds have made good his word:
and because the policies to which h
is committed are of immeaSurable con
sequence alike to the honor and inter
ests Of the whole American peole."
care to compare my efforts for tn
moral uplift of the nation with his eff
forts, my deeds with his deeds and tn
policies to which / am committed wit
the policies to which he Is committe
and more than that, if I may assum
that he will follow in your footsteps
dare to compare my ideals of the pres
idency with his. Bryan here criticise
the president for using, he says, hi
great office for partlsanship. and con
cludes with a declaration Of his in
tention not to accept a second term
elected this fall.