The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-01
I0kahomas Governor Throws Down Gauntlet and Gives NoQuarter-Says President Is Without Fair
 ness, Justice or Integrity.
Declares That Roosevelt Finds Impossible to Tell the Truth About Anything and Has Made Many False
 Statements Knowingly. e.#

ticie and rive the world the impress
 sion that we were improperly using
 the money Appropriated to conduct
 that institution.
 -Four charge that vetoed child
 labor law, you have not apologized
 for. notwithstanding you know. that
 did 1t with the approval of union
 labor and that our State constitution
 which you said was 70 bad, your 0pin-
 ion of 1t would not look well in print.
 contains more child labor legislation
 than all yen have recommended to
 the New York Legislature as Govern
 or. or to the Congress of the United
 States as President and that have approved fourteen acts of our Iegis-
 lature passed at the solicitation of
 union labor.
 Petty Politics.
 You said In your first statement
 that had suits brought aganist me to recover title to Creek Indian land.
 Adopting your usual policy. you flee from that statement without just apology and adopt the statement now
 that It was government township lots
 mat you charged me with being sued
 Tor. xes. believe am defendant as to certain government township
 lots Tn one of nearly eleven thousand
 suits that you have had brought aSainst as many different honorable ana nighminded citizens of this State curing this presidential campaign year. and you will not undertake to deny that petty politics for the pur- pose Of Repubiicantzing about twenty thousand Rdian voters. was your sole motive Tor having those suits brou xi,
 ana l charge you with Knowing that
 tnere has been no delay in these cases.
 s5ai,h". .nat occaaoned by the courts u.sniioeratlons. taken by himself as tune ne deemed necessary to consider wnether or not there is any merit In the petition filed by your attorney. fou see that on that land question you VIII see that get a hearing in court. Yes sir. will come to your nearing. Call to your assistance all the power that your high ofice com
 mahds: present your case in any form you Hke I am ready to meet 1t and before its conclusion. the people of Am erica will be disgusted that they ever elected you president of the United States. You refer to a statement made by Attorney Walker in the trial of a law suit In New York. Even with your ex-
 perience. you should know that there Is nor probably court day in the year
 but what in hundred cases through
 out the union. some excited and disap-
 pointed lawyer has referred unkindly
 to the witness on the other side Your reference to the case of the Illinois Steel Company in the name of their office
 boy. Charles Loder. Is a contemptible enort on your part to tell part of the facts only, where the whole truth
 would spoil the story. I am convinced
 that you know that case Is still on trail and that delay was occasioned by
 the steel company concealing its books and records and secreting witnesses You even come down to a trifiing mat ter at Muskogee and say that firm of
 lawyers have sued me for a $500 fee and obtained judgment.
 You know that there Is onthing to trihing for you to refer when driven from your untruthful positions onmat- ters of real consequence and even here you show the impossibility of your telling the truth. There is no such judgment and I am convinced you knew you were repeating a false state- ment when you said so.
 You have new story about oppres- sing union labor. MT. Roosevelt. I will allow my record as public official to be compared with your record as a public official. and I submit to any la bor union judge of all that I have not
 only done many more things in the in- terest of labor than YOU. but that my word has never been found wanting
 when necessary in that behalf. It is | unnecessary to ask if you can say so much-I know you cannot. It Is s.ill fresh in the minds of the people, and
 union laborers and farmers unionists and other advocates of honest and hu-
 mane government that the sixteen ob- jections that you raised to our constitu- ton struck at the very vitals of honest government Your threat to turn down our constitution because 1t contained a provision for jury trials in contempt cases is only one of the many things that you criticized and I thank God to this day that I had the courage to challenge you at that time to turn down our constitution on that ground. | if you dared to do so. You said that vour opinion of our constitution would not look well in print. Mir liar | riman and J. P. Morgan said the same | thing but Samuel Gompers said the constitution of oklahoma was the best ever written. I expected you to agree with Morgan and Hartman, and, or course. was not surprised.
 Challenges Comparison.
 "MoralIy, you challenge comparison. Mir Roosevelt. I should not under