The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-28
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: MONDAY SEPTEMBER 81 1908

l. III GALL LAM III
Hughes as reason to distrust Governor
Hughes attitude toward corporations,
and / am obliged to say that this can
not be sincere on your part, for you
know well what the governors atti-
tude has been throughout his term.
You quote the subscription of~Mr. Har-
riman to my campaign. although you
know well that it does not interfere
with any action taken by me as
against Mr.. Hartman, and ask If it
would not have affected the campaign
| IL known. Thereby you have furnished
an excellent reason for refusing to meet
your proposal for you make it evident
that to adopt your proposal would give
| to every man who cared merely for
partisan success the chance, by pre-
cisely the argument you have now
made, to create to more purpose the
false impression that you are now seek
ing 10 create. Mr. lTaft's reputation,
Mr. Taft's acts on the bench and in
the executive service, show that he
could not be swayed in any shape or
way by any consideration, save the
public interest, and that the fact Of
any man contributing, or failing to
contribute, would not in any way in
fluence his action any more than it has
| influenced my action or the action of
Governor Hughes.
Publication After Election.
Il emphatically approve of the pub
LEGATION of campaign expenses after the
election, whether provided for by law
or not. You have shown by this letter
of yours that if the contributions to
Mr.. Hughes campaign fund had reen
made public before election you and
those who act with you would have
striven to give the false impression
that Mr.. Hughes was unfit to be en-
trusted with the position of governor;
and you have shown by this letter Of
yours that if Mr.. Harriman's contribu-
ton to the campaign fund of 1904 (and
incidentally. l may mention that 1 am
informed that this particular conIribu-
ton was not used for the national CAM
paign. but in the New York state cam
paign), had been known before the cleo
ton, you and your supporters would
have endeavored to use the fact of it's
having been made as an insincere and
untruthful argument to show that
could not be trusted TO deal out exact
justice to Mr.. Hartman. No stronger
argument against your proposition has
yet been advanced than this that you
have unconsciously advanced.
AS TO T1dSkCIt.
81 now come to the important part
of your letter, your attitude toward Mr.
Haskell. You state that Mr.. Haskell
has voluntarily resigned from the COM
mittee. You speak highly of the pub
lie service which he has rendered, and
protest against any condemnation of
him except 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 the people in
endeavoring to get equity and fair deal
ing-as they should obtain among high
minded men-from great business cor
porations and from individuals like Mr.
Haskell.
Apparently you disclaim even ask
ing Mr.. Haskell to retire from the posi-
ton in which you placed him. so that
he retired of his own free will, and
you utter no word of condemnation of
his gross offenses against public de-
cency and honesty. On the contrary
you strive to make it appear that his
misconduct in reference to the Stand
ard Oil company is all of which he is
accused: whereas, shameless though
this particular act of his is, it is no
worse than countless others in his ca
reer.
Taft and Foraker.
II contrast your action in this case
with that of Mr.. Taft in reference to
Senator Foraker Mr. Taft's statement
when the question of his nomination
was at stake was that he would rather
not accept it at the price of sacrificing
principle by supporting Mr.. Foraker Cor
senator. You do not venture in so
much as the slightest possible manner
to censure Mr. Haskell for his mani
tested misdeeds; and you ask that he be
held guiltless of them unless convicted in
a court of law. although you well know
that as regards the worst of them no
action i'm a court of la wwould lie You
say you We're ignorant of Mr. Haskelrs
record. If so, IL was wilful ignorance
on your part. | call your attention to
the letter of Mr.. l.. T. Russell. editor
of the Morning Democrat of Ardmore,
Okla, in which, writing to you on Sep
TENDER "a. 1905 he states:
If you were ignorant of such
charges 1t is because you refused 20
read them when presented to you when
you visited oklahoma last fall in the
interest of Candidate Haskell At that
time / formally presented to you ten
typewriter pages of charges against
Mr. Haskell, covering 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 After 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 private
individuals whom he has wronged, ard
the United States government, on be-
half of helpless Indians whom he has
wronged, are striving to have the
courts so deal with him. Mr.. NJ L.
Mott, national attorney for the Creek
nation, writes me as follows:
In October, 1906. Mr.. Foulke of
Richmond, Ind, was sent to investigate
the matter of the townsite frauds i'm
the Creek nation. Mr.. Foulkes report
is in the hands of the secretary # the
interior All narties connactad with