The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-23
President in Al Position Where
He Must Either Support
Hearst oreRetract.
DEMANDS WATERPROOF OF
CHARGES AGAINSTfiASKELL
Governor Says, in View of His
Chiefs Action, He viii Not
Issue Statement.
Especial to the Evening star.1

in a telegram to President Roosevelt,
putting it.up TO. him either to support
William T.. Hearst in his accusation
against GoiernersHaskell o~fgOklahoma,
or retract the charges made in his own
statement Monday. Mr.. Bryan's tele-
gram is as follows:
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of
the, United States: .as ~
Dear Sir-Inta statement given out
by you yesterday and published in this
mornings papers you indorse a charge
made against Governor Haskell of Ok
lahonia. to the effect that lie was once
il the employ of the Standard OIL Com
lpaay, and as such employee was con-
nected with an attempt to bride or in
fiuence Acknowledgement Monnett OF
Ohio to dismiss suits pending against
the Standard Oil Company.
In iniorsing this charge you attack
the Democratic party and it's candidate,
saying that Governor Haskell s .ands
high in the councils of Mr.. Bryan ar
ia the treasurer of his national am
paign committee And you add that
the publication of this correspondence
not merely justifies in striking fashion
the action ef the administration, bu
also casts a curiou sidelight on the at
tacks made upon the administrat'o J..
both in the Denver convention whicl
nominated Mr.. Bryan and in the course
OF Mr.. Bryan's campaign.
Demands Full investigation.
Your charge is so serious that [
cannot allow it to go unnoticed. CIV
/ lennon. IJaclfoH has daniCH that la va & 30
aver employed by the Standard Oil /.
Company in any capacity or was ever
connected in any way whatever with il
or with the transaction upon which =
your charge is based. Governor Has
kell demanded ar investigation at the
time the charge was first made, offering
to appear ard testify, and he demands
an investigation now.
II aglee with you that II Governor
Haskell is guilty as charged he is mt
to be connected with the Democratic
National Committee and I am sure you
will agree with me that If he is iprct >
SO damning an accusation.
"As the selection of Governor HASKELL
as chairman of the committee on reso-
~lutions at Denver and also as treasurer
of the Democratic National COMMITTEES
had my approval and Endorsement, I
feel it my duty to demand an immedi-
ate investigation of a charge against
him, Endorsed by the President of the
United States. aat aff
Your high position. as well as your
sense of justice. would prevent your
giving sanction and circulation to such
a charge without proof, and I respect
fully request, therefore, that you FUR
oiSh any proof mhicb won have in yDIV
possession, or If, you have no proof, l
request that you indicate a method by
which the truth may be ascertained.
without consulting Mr.. Haskell. |
will agree that he will appear for in
vestigation before any tribunal, public
or private, which o may indicate,
. n l will further agree that his con
nection with the national
and with this campaign shall cease In
the event hat the decision of such
tribunal connects him in any way with
this charge, or in case you, after an in
v~estigation of the facts, say that you
believe him guilty of the charges made.
"As the candidate of the Democratic
party : shall not permit any responsible
member of the Republican organization
TO misrerresent the attitude of the
Democratic party in the present ram
paign. / have assisted you to the OK
tent of my ability in remedial measures
which I deemed for the public good
which YOU ave undertaken; / have
urged Democrats to support such meas
urcs and l have advocated more. radical
measures against private m~onopolies
than either you or your party associ-
atcs have been willing to undertake,
1.-THE platform of the Democratic
party is clear and specific on this SUD-
ject, as on other subjects. while tie
Platform of the Republican party is
uncertain and evasive.
1.-The Democratic candidate for Vice
President, Mr.. Kern, Joined with me in
requesting the Democratic National
Committee TO fix a .naximum of $40, 600
for individual contributions and to pub
fish before the e,ectiorsall contributions
above S100. and the committee acted
favorably upon this request. The Re
publican candidate and the Republican
National Committee proposed, not pub
LEGATION before the election, but pub
LEGATION after the election.
II submit that our committee has
given the better evidence of its free
dom. from connection With, or obliga-
ton to. tue predatory interests, Our
COMMITTEES has not Knowingly received
: u 0fio u eh tAJ ~
poratlon known as a trust, and it will
not receive any money from such. If
any money is contributed by such per-
sons without the knowledge of the COM
mittee. it will be returned as soon as
the fact is discovered.
THE Democratic party Is making an
honest and an honorable fight in dc
Tense of the principles and policies
enunciated in its platform, and it ex-
poets and will demand fair and honor
able treatment from those who are in
charge Of he Republican campaign.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES truly
yours, w ]. BRYAN"
B 1917 A@l
GUTHRIE, Okla, Sept. Ex-Governor
Haskell today declined to issue a state
ment in reply to pdlla 9 Roosevelt and
Eearst- Standard OIL charges, for the
%reasons he said, that. WillianlaJ. Bryan
had, answered them Yesterday in his
telegram to President Roosevelt.
COMPARISONS ARE. DANGEROUS.
"Aiman.told me this morning ! looked