The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-01

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 | authrie. okla.. sspt. Ex-Governor
 Charles N. Ksskeli. late Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee,
 tonight gave out . long letter to Presr
 ident Roosevelt. in which he repeats his already published defense to the
 charges made by him. The ietter De-
 gins:
 -Yesterday. was engaged in writ ing . communication to you as the Chief Magistrate of the United States.
 assuming that few days of renectioh
 might have brought you to realiza-
 tion of the fact that the people of our
 country had placed you>in the highest
 position Of authority and respect Ano
 with the authority. you had assUmeo.
 the obligation of meting out equal and exact justice to every citizen or
 our country, and that reaining your
 obligation, you would know enat one
 of the principles of free government
 h that no man shall be ocnoemheo
 without hearing; knowing tnat not
 one word that you have ever spoken p,
 concerning me was of your personal
 knowledge, but entirely hearsay
 which has reached your ears as . re. suit of intense parttsan conflict; that von do not know me personally. and never heard word from my lips. ssThs serious charsctsr of your charge sh ouid have suggested e you tnat you. as Chief ExecYtive. anousr r..p PrS. | before making such hearsay statements your own declarations. arh erefore.. would have appealed fo VOL d second time to designate some tribunal that might hear both
 sides of the question, investigating as
 to the truth and only condemn when
 guilt has been reasonably establish cd,
 but being interrupted by receiving
 newspaper which contains your last
 statement. I lay aside my appeal for
 justice to you for the reason tnat
 am convinced that no matter how
 dignified,l great and honorable the or flee of President may be. the present situation clearly demonstrates the iact that the occupant of that omce may be without fairness, justice or ihtes- rity. You have clearly demonstrated by hearsav statement and vaciilatlng
 from one charge to another that va rious of your charges were wtnout
 information and. therefore. abanooneo' and yet without displaying the man hood to apologize TOT the ao'1 motSar truthful statement. you seek another
 issue. It leads me to assert that snail seek justice againt you before the peo- nle and in the court not subject to your
 domination. Frankly speaking. could have arrived at no other conclusioh than that you, in your reckiess pa. tisanship and disresard'ng the rignts of others. would pack court of "A jury"
 . Evaded the Issue.
 "your attack upon me finally rested ,non my conduct on the Prairie- oil and Gas Company in this state. have said that you were respohsipie for granting a franchise. petore sla.e hood. thereby creating vested rishts. You seek to evade the issue anu ar wrong impressions. You said the tn- tarior Department had no power e1- cent where crossing an Indian reseI Sstion You would have your readers helieve that Indian Territory was then conducting its own government ano that only parts of the same were in- dian reservations. MT Roose'el,, you know 1t is not true. you know al .ne land was Indian land without county tnwnsy.jn or territorial government. what halo of integrity surrounoeo you ,ast waek. like the mist mas 1adeo n,av and the Interior Department holds the record which convicts you: ..In the office of the interior nartment the records will speak between uS say tiot SON that franchise. say that you dld |. ot the solicitation of Senator De- new and others. and that within sew days thereafter. chiefly by SUD- scrlntions of Standard oil men, 'ac- cordinR to MT. Hartman. the sum or two hundred and sixty thousand dol- l lars in cash was added to your cam paign fund. ..,,nA ,,s records of the Interior Department on l inc subject of the franchise and marx vou now, Mir. Roosevelt. you must not | garble the records nor suppress any | of them. The public shall know the truth. It may have been sufficient Tour | years ago for you to wipe out the
 truthful statement made 1y 1uage | Darker by simply calling him a liar, | hut that was four years ago. and your | con,royersy now Is with a man who l u,iIl not accept a bluff in exchange | Cor A receipt In full settlement. In any character of statement you make | that I have at any time during my en-
 tire life had any connection whatever
 or of any character wlsn , .ne o.shaara & | Oil Company or any or It's sub- com
 oaries am ready to refute and to | show that such statement Is false
 "you charged me with having at
 ,ennted to bribe the Attorney General
 oS Ohio. That was presumably nine
 Years ago. You have abandoned that
 yyoaition. charles P. Taft says through
 b,s nanar that no evidence was ever
 nroauued that would convict me of | the charge.
 | ,uestion. you pretended to quote from The outlook Magazine. but how dis honestly you enlarged on the maga- | zine article. That article charged me with sub bstituting Democratic for Re- | publican professors for political pur- poses. I have shown that statement | to be false. but I charge you with try