The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-28

stick with which senator fOTaker
was given his dose and that Mr..
Taft, the heir apparent, did not es-
cape.
The senior Ohio senator has sue
ceeded in stirring up quite a muddle
in the political pool SO far as the
Republicans are concerned, but an
other Cincinnati man, Thomas Saw
yer, Spivey, president of the Victor
Lock and Safe company has still
further complicated matters with a
telegram which he has sent to Pres
ident Roosevelt. The telegram is so
directly to the point in question that
II is here reproduced.
Theodore Roosevelt, White House,
Washington, ID. c.:
'Inasmuoh as you have put off the
robes of state to take an active part
in the political campaign, and as
am an employer of several hundred
wOrkmen who feel the evil effects of
the present indutrial depression, |
do not deem it improper to suggest
that the enforced withdrawal of
Messrs. Haskell ana Dupont from
further official participation in the
conduct of the campaign Is COM
mendable. But as neither of these
gentlemen has been charged with
conduct of which others are not
| equally guilty, 1t would be doing
them gross injury to retain in
your cabinet of campaign advisers
Charles f. Brooker, or the New York
New Haven and Hartford Railroad,
against which are pending antitrust
| suits: william B. Mckinley, the
Illinois traction magnate: George r.
Sheldon, affiliated with Morgan, Har-
rlman and the Standard OIL: Senator
Murray Crane, head OF the Bell Te'-
J ephone trust; Frank G.. Lowden, OF
the Pullman car trust, and Arthur
IL. Vorys, who was disbarred from
practice before the pension depart
ment for alleged fraudulent pension
transactions. | beIleve it is In your
power TO have these men removed
and TO be consistent you should do
this and do II quickly.
(Signed)
THOMAS SAWYER SPIVEY."
This telegram puts II right up to
the president. He insisted that no
proof was necessary IN the case Of
Governor Haskell. He pursued the
same policy with Haskell that he did
with the negro soldiers Of Brown
Vile. Now 1t has been brought right
home TO him and It will be inter-
esting to see whether he will apply
the same principle in dealing with
the Republicans whom Mr.. Spvey
has named and the specific instances
OF contamination and irregularities
/ which he points out.
1T viii be noticed in all of this
fire and cross fire which has been
going on between Democrats and
Republicans, that no intimation has
been given out that Mr.. Bryan has
been contaminated with the trus,
germ. In all of his eighteen years
of public life there has been nc
charge made against him relative to
his honesty or his acts as a public
man or private citizen. This should
recommend him very highly to the
people as man or integrity and Q
man who stands free from all en-.
tangling alliances with the trusts OF
the money power.
To all appearances, this year is tc
; he a year of house cleaning. The
, people are TO be given their inning
Those men who have been affiliated
! in any manner with the trusts are t
be eliminated from public life ant
, men who have clean records anC
! whose hands are not tied are to b.
> elevated to positions of power an,
, trust. The election OF VII lam Jen
. nings Bryan means placing at tn
= head OF the government, a ma
: against whom no charge can be made
! q man who for eighteen years ha
been in the limelight and whose rec
4 ord Is an open book, man who ha
a the courage OF his convictions an
who does not hesitate to act.
= ohioans are dotlbly favored thi
= year In having the opportunity :
d secure two men with clean records
s William j. Bryan In national al
n fairs and Hon. Judson Harmon i
+ state afflrs. That Mr.. Harmon
h not and has not been affiliate
VI with the trusts is shown by his repor
. to President Roosevelt that the hea