The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-09-28

lldd DttH hllpNi UtloFe tue tlcNlloil ypu
and your supporters would have en-
dcayored to use the fact Of It's having
been made as an insineere and un-
truthful argument to show that ! could
not be trusted TO deal out exact JUS
tice to Mr. Hartman. No stronger
argument against your proposition has
yet been advanced than this that you
have unconsclously advanced,
Letter vs., Spirit of Law.
now come to the important part
OF your letter, your attitude toward
Mr. Haskell. You state that Mr. Has
kell has involuntarily resigned from
the committee. You speak highly Of
the public service which he has rem
dered and protest against any con-
demnatlon Of him save such as may
come In a court. Out Of your own
mouth you are condemned. You
thereby set UP that standard Of law
honesty" which has been the bane
Of this people In eneeavorng to get
equity and fair dealng-as they
should obtain among high minded
men--from great business corpora
lions, and from individuals like Mr..
Haskell. Apparently you disclaim
even asking Mr.. Haskell to retire from
the position In which you placed him,
so that he retires of his own free
will; and you utter no word of con-
domination of his gross offenses
against public decency and honesty.
On the contrary, you strive to make
1t appear that his misconduct in ref
erence to the Standard Oil company
is all Of which he Is accused, whereas
shameless though this particular act
of his is, II Is no worse than countless
others in his career.
Bryan's Attitude Attacked.
/ contrast your action In this case
with that of Mr., Taft in reference TO
Senator Foraker. Mr.. Tafts statement
when the question OF his nomination
was at stake was that he would rather
not accept Il at the price OF sacrificing
principle by supporting Mr.. Foraker for
senator. You do not venture in so
much as the slightest possible manner
even to ccnsure Mr.. Haskell for his
manifold misdeeds; and you ask that
he be held guiltless Of them unless con-
yIeted In court OF law; although you
well know that as regards the worst
of them no action IN court of law
would lie, You say you were ignorant
of Mr.. Haskelrs record, II so, II was
wilful ignorance on your part. call
your attention to the letter Of Mr. L. I,
Russell, the editor OF the Morning Dem
ocrat, OF Ardmore. oklahoma in which,
writing to you on September a. 1908,
he states,
IF you were ignorant OF such
charges It was because you re-
fused TO read them when presented to
you when You visited oklahoma last
fall in the interest Of Candidate Has
kell. At that time personally pre-
scented to you ten typewritten pages
OF charges against Mr.. Haskell. COW
ering his operations in Ohio. New York,
Arkansas, Texas and oklahoma. The
charges recently made by Mr.. Hearst
were all made by me at that time
Courts Convicted Haskell.
you ask that we leave the courts
to deal with Mr.. Haskell AS to some
matters the courts have already dealt
with him. As to others. various pri-
vate individuals whom he has wrong
ed, and the United States government
on behalf Of helpless Indians whom
he has wronged, are striving to have
the courts so deal with him. NJ. u.
Mott, national attorney for the Creek
Nation, writes me as follows:
I'm October, 1906, Mr. Foulke, Of
Richmond, Indiana, was sent to inves-
tigate the matter of town site frauds
in the Creek Nation. Mr.. Foulke's
report Is In the hands Of the secretary
of the Interior. All parties connected
with these town site frauds have used
the same means and methods. Upon
the report filed by Mr.. Foulle, l as
attorney for the Creek Nation, was
directed by the secretary of the In
terror to file suits in equity for the
cancellation of all deeds to town lots
in the Creek Nation where the same
had been secured by fraud. Proceed
ing upon instructions and after full
investigation Governor Haskell among
others has secured deeds TO quito a
number of lots In Muskogee by con
spiraey and fraud; that he had had
these lots scheduled in the name Of
Dummies" or Straw men who lived
In the state of Ohio and elsewhere, md
had them quit claim back to him
without consideration. BY this dis
honest means he succeeded in getting
deeds to large number of lots be-
longing to the Creeks at one-half their
appraised value / have filed quite a
number OF suits against Governor
Haskell In which conspiracy and fraud
Is charged and the major of consum-
mating It is set out in detail Haskell
has not filed any answer In any of
these cases. He has simply through
his attorney filed dllatory motions
such as demurters, pleading to the
jurisdiction, etc. He dare not answer
and deny the allegations set up In our
bill; such an answer would be a
sworn lie and known to be by the
large number of straw men and
dummies he used in perfeeting the
fraud"
Haskell VIII Get "Justice."
For this particular act of the man
whose public record you ignore, you
may rest assured that the interior de-
partment will endeavor to see that the
courts, do Justice to him.
When Mr.. Haskell was in New York
various judgments were filed against
him. will not at the moment discuss
the charges of perjury and fraud made
against him by Attorney Albert II
Waller of New York, in connection
with the suit decided by Judge La
combe in March, 1902. But the records
Of the county clerk of New York
county show, that on February q, 1900