Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-10-08

The letter written by Governor
n Haskell, ex-treasurer of the dem
ocratic national committee, which
was made public this week, was
as follows:
Il lay asiSe my appeal for justice
to you for the reason that / am
convinced that, no matter how
dignified, great and honorable the
office of president may be, the
present clearly demonstrates the
fact that the occupant of that of
flee may be without fairness, JUS
tice or integrity.
'You have clearly demonstrated
that, by hearsay, lodging and va
cIllating from one charge 10 an
other, by admitting that various of
your charges were without founda-
ton and therefore abandoned, and
yet without displaying the man
hood to apologize for the former
untruthful statement, you seek an
other issue. 1t leads me to assert
that l shall seek justice against
you before the people and in court
not subject to your domination.
Frankly speaking, could have ar
rived at no other conclusion than
that you, in your reckless PARTISAN
ship and disregard of the rights of
others, would pack a court or fix a
jury.
you said in your first state
ment that l had suits brought
against me to recover title to
Greek Indian lands. l overwhelmed
you on that statement; adopting
your usual policy, you flee from
that statement without just apology
and adopt the statement now that it
was government TOWNSHIP lots that
you charged me with being sued
for. Yes, believe am a defendant
as to certain government townsite
lots in one of nearly 1900 suits
that you have brought against as
many different honorable and high
minded citizens Of this state dur
ing this presidential campaign,
and you will not undertake to deny
that petty politics-for the purpose
|of republicanizing about 20, 600
Indian voters-was your sole mo-
tive for having those suits brought;
and / charge you with knowing
that there has been no delay in the
cases, except that occasioned by
the courts deliberations, taken by
himself as time he deemed neces-
sary to consider whether or not
there is any merit in the petition
filed by your attorney.
''You say that on the land ques-
ton you will see that get hear
ing in court. Yes, sir, welcome
your hearing. Call to YOUR assis-
tance all the power that your high
office commands, present your case
in any form you like. am ready
to meet it and before the conclu-
sion the people of America will be
disguised that they ever elected you
preside Mt of the United States.
''Mr. Roosevelt, l have. said that
you were responsible for the grant,
ing of the franchise to the Prairie
Oil & Gas company before state
hood, thereby creating vested rights
in that company that our state
authority is powerless to interr upt.
You have tried in your last state
ment to cvade this issue. You
have tried to give your readers
wrong impression. Ia the Office
of he interior depar tment the rec
ord will speak as between u.s. l
say that you granted that franchise
l say that you did it at the solicit
alton of Senator Depew and others
and that within few days there
after, chiefly by subscriptions OF
Standard Oil men, according to
Mr.. Hartman. the sum of $500, :
600 in cash was added to your cam
paign fund.
II challenge you to publish the
records of the interior department
on the subject of this franchise,
and mark you now, Mr.. Roosevelt,
you must not garble the records nor
suppress any of them. The pub
lic shall know the truth. 1t may
have been sufficient four years ago
for you to wipe out the truthful
statement made by Judge Parker
by simply calling him a liar, but
that was four years ago, and your
controversy now is with a man
who will not accept a bluft IN ex-
change for a receipt in full settle
ment. In any character OF state
ment you make that | have at any