The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-22
Says Ohio Senator Has Always
Been Enemy to Reforms
And Policies Inaugurated by
Administration.
URGENT APPEAL FOR
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE.
His Defeat Would Bring Graft
tude to That Class of Men
Who Have Backed Foraker
And Haskell.

Oyster Bay, N Y, Sept. 22.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt in formal statement
takes a hand in the Hearst-Foraker
controversy. He sees in the expose
by w. R. Hearst nothing that can re-
fleet in any way on the political affil-
iations of w. H. Taft, but, on the con-
trary, he finds in the record of the
nominee and his stand In regard to
Senator Foraker and those involved
with Foraker additional reason for
the election of Taft.
President Roosevelt bluntly denoun-
ces Senator Foraker as having been
an enemy to the reforms and policies
inaugurated by the administration dur
ing the last seven years.
Points Out Taft's Foes.
The president formally makes an
other appeal for the support of Taft,
and declares that his defeat would
bring lasting satisfaction to but lone
set of men-namely, to those men
who, as shown in the correspondence
published by Mr.. Hearst. were behind
Mr.. Foraker. the opponent Of Mr..
Taft, in the opposite party
The presidents statement embodies
letter written by Mr.. Taft to a
friend in Ohio on July 20, 1907, in
which the present republican candi-
date for the presidency refuses to ac-
quiesce in the plan of the Ohio state
central committee to indorse Mr.. Taft
for the presidency and Mr.. Foraker
for reelection to the senate in a sim
gle resolution.
Law Defiers Scored.
The president points out that Mr..
Taft's attitude has always been direct
ly opposed to that charged against
Senator Foraker by Mr.. Hearst re-
garding the moneyed interests. The
president cites the Brownsville affair
as case where the agitation was a
phase of the effort ''by the represen-
tatives of certain law-defying corpor-
ations to bring discredit upon the ad-
ministration." 1t was. he says, in
| large part, mot a genuine agitation
on behalf of colored men at ALL
RooseveIts Statement.
President Roosevelt's statement is
as follows:
In view of Mr.. Hearst's disclosures
about Senator Foraker | make public
the following letter written by Mr.
Taft on July 90 1907, to friend in
Ohio, prominent in Ohio politics, who
wrote him before the NEE ting of the
state central committee asking wheth.
er he would object to the committee
passing a resolution indorsing Mr.
Taft for president and Mr.. Foraker
for senator, in the interest of har-
mony. A copy of this letter was sub.
| mitted to me at the time, but after the
original had been sent it was not in,
tended for publication, but it was un.
derstood that if necessary it should
be published.
| personally know the strongest
pressure by various party leaders was
brought on Mr.. Taft at that time to
consent to the proposed arrangement
and he was informed by leading men
from other states that if he would con
sent to this arrangement all opposi
tion on the part of Mr.. Foraker and
on the part of some of Mr.. Foraker's
influential friends in the senate and
elsewhere would cease and that Mr.
Taft's nomination for the presidency
would be assured
! But Mr.. Taft declined for one nom
ent to consider any possible advant
age to himself where what he regard
ed as great principle was at stake
His attitude on this question, as well
as on countless questions, convinced
me that of all men in this Union he
| was the man pre-eminent1y fit, in
point of uprightness and character
and fearless and aggressive honesty
| and of fitness for championing the
rights of the people as a whole, to be
president.
Leader Against Reforms.
Senator Foraker has been a leader
among those members of congress oil
both parties who have resolutely op
posed the great policies of internal re
form for which the administration has
made itself responsible. His attitude
has been that Of certain other public
men, notably (as shown in this same
correspondence published by Mr.
Hearst,) Governor Haskell Of Oklaho
ma.
| There is striking difference in one
respect. however, in the present posi-
tions of Governor Haskell and Senator
| Foraker.
Governor Haskell stands high in the
councils of Mr.. Bryan and is the treas
urer of his national campaign commit
| tee.
Senator Foraker represents only the
forces which in embittered fashion
fought the nomination Of Mr. Taft and
which were definitely deprived OF