The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-28
THEODORE THE GREAT
REPLIES TO MR., BRYAN
Continued from Page I.

base my distinctions on conduct. not
on relative wealth. When the same
men who were leaders in the steel cor
poration acted in connection with the
Northern Securities suit in a manner
which l regarded as contrary TO the
law, by my direction successful suit
was Immediately undertaken against
them. If they violate the law in con-
nection with any act of the steel cor
poration l will Immediately proceed
against them. Until they do violate
the law they Will be treated precisely
as any other corporation. great or
small, which obeys the law. is treated.
Prosecution of Hartman.
Il treat each man and each corpora
ton with view solely to whether ne
or 1t is acting rightly on a given occa-
sion. Let me give you an example.
have proceeded against the corporation
of which Mr.. h. II. Hartman is the
head on certain points where | believe
they have violated the law. But when,
In connection with the breaking of the
Salton sea dam, one OF the Hartman
corporations repaired the dam, L last
winter did everything l could to have
congress reimburse Mr.. Hartman for
so much of the obligation as | felt
ought 10 come upon the United States.
j would hold myself unfit to be presi-
dent If, because / prosecuted Mr.. Har-
riman where l thought he had broken
the law. ! yet hesitated to do him JUS
tice where | thought the facts required
that justice should be done him. In
exactly the same way / have acted and
shall act as regards the steel corpora
ton.
Quotes ST. Louis Paper.
you ask me to name a single Off
cial connected with a law-defying cor
poration who has declared or who will
declare that he is supporting you. In
a st. Louis paper which reaches me at
the same time that the papers con-
tanning this published letter of yours.
l find a statement from Judge Henry
s. Priest. attorney for the Waters
Pierce Oil company, the western sub
sidiary or representative of the Stand
ard Oil company. in which he an
nounces that he is for Bryan, and
states that Wall street believes that
Bryan will be elected. In response to
the question as 10 whether he could
quote any of the Standard Oil mag
mates as feeling that way, he an
swered:
90 l did not say l saw any of the Of
ficials of the Standard Oil company. l
am giving you what | found was the
drift of opinion among well-posted pol
lllCidiS Us wen DdHhtIS
- L guess Governor Haskell is all
right. They have not proved anything
on him, have they?'
What the Clipping Says.
"The newspaper clipping goes on to
say that Judge Priest was one of the
lawyers who fought Attorney General
Haoley in the states custer suit
against the Waters-Pierce and Repub-
4. nsr If.-l fffea fS,
connected with the big corporations,
and his firm is counsel for the United
States steel company and the North
ern American interests in st. Louis.
Judge Priest is credited with originat-
ing this phrase:
a Bribery is a conventional Of
Tense" which he used I'm an argument
at the trial of r. NJ Snyder, the Kan
sas City millionaire. now dead
Acknowledges the Corn.
You say that the trust magnates
know their own interests and are sup
porting Judge Taft. SO far as their in
terests are simply interests of the bus
mess community and especially of the
wage workers. l believe they will sup
port Judge Taft So far as they have
special interests which are to them
more important than the general bust
ness welfare. I believe they will sup
port YOU I base this belief upon what
happened in 1896 Your success then
would. in my belief. have been a ca
lamity for the country from the stand
point of the welfare of the business
men, farmers and wOrkingmen. just as.
i'm my belief. your success now would
be a calamity to the country. both
from the standpoint of business, and
especially of the interests of the wage
worker. and from the standpoint of
morals. One of your supporters, the
New York World. in February last
printed list of contributions TO your
campaign fund of 1896 containing the
names of individuals and corporations
owning silver mines who made contri
buttons to the aggregate amount of
S2sS, 600. one of these contributions be-
ing of sl59.000. and another of $4,000,
etc. etc. Now. all the great financial
magnates who then contributed to your
campaign fund would have preferred
business prosperity to business adver-
slty. other things being equal: but they
would rather have had the immense
profit that would have accrued to them