The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-23
ATTACK ON GOV. HASKELL
 IS DEEMED UNJUSTIFIABLE
Nebraskan Won't Permit Misrepre-
 sentation of Party.
srr. Bryan Demands An Immediate investigation For Governor Has ken And Asks President Roosevelt For His
 Proofs.


 petroit. Mich., Sept. 22-The most se,,sa tional development in the present campaign was the sending today py William J. Bryan. Democratic canoi- date for President. of a telegram to president Roosevelt, demanding that he produce proof that Governor Charles N Haskell. of Oklahoma. Treasurer or fhe Democratic National Committee. ever was connected with the standaro oil Company ont for publication just before MT. Rrvan,s departure for Ann Arbor. late in the afternoon.
 Tbe nrorram of the local committee included an opportunity to MT. Bryan to take a long rest in the forenoon but the statement of President Hoose. welt, published this morning, m wn.ea the President endorsed the char ges made against Governor Haskell by w: T Hearst that Governor Haskell had heen connected with the Standard Oii Company and had attempted to oripe Attorney General Frank Monnett. or Ohio. was sufficient to cause nlm to forego that much needed luxury ana devote himself to the subject of pre- nartnx a reply. He called to his as- ststance. John E. Lamb. of Indiana: Edwiu O. Wood. National Committee man from Michigan. and several others of the Democratic leaders, ana aiso held lengthy conferences over the long dfsfance telephone with New York and Altogether Mir. Bryan consumed live hours An these consultations before concluding to address his telegram to the chief executive. Up to late z hour tonight he had received no reply from MT. Roosevelt.
 Arriving here at s:so o'clock this morning, Mir. Bryan was given rous- ing reception He was met py nix crowd at the station and thousands ot men on the way to work chsered him x as he proceedee in .n 1 sus0mo i,,,ss plss 4p ~, thA Pontchartratn Hotel. So occupied yvas he with the consideration or the question of replying to Mir. Roosevelt $ statement that he was enabled only briely to address . gathering of prom tnent Democrats from various parts or the country who had come nere ID con-
 Crittcism of President.
 The Journey to Ann Arbor was made In his special car and upon his arrival there he was accorded cordial greet lug. To gathering of several tnous- ands of persons. Mir. Bryan, speaking from the balcony of the Cook House. directed his remarks particularly to young men, discussing during an hour and a half the tariff. the trust ques- ton, the labor question, government guarantees of bank deposits the Demo cratic Party's attitude on the injune- ton question and on contempt or court trials and severely criticizing Judge Tart for hls characterization of the Democratic platform plank on this question as loosely drawn.
 Ar. Bryan said that in every country in the world there would be found two parties. one essentially Democratic; the other aristocratic.
 And want to impress on the mind of every young man," he said, that everywhere the Democratic Party IS the growing party and the artsticrauc party is the dying party. The Repub- Iican Party in this country" he contin- ued, 'manifests several wrong tenden- cies The Republican administration today is extravagant. Those who con- trol 1t live in environment contrary to economy They are surrounded by tax eaters. not tax payers.
 Another wrong tendency in that party is to interfere with the right Or the people to a free choice of their President and to permit the bringing of prestige of high office to dtcta- tlon of the successor to the I'resi- dency.
 ..I have commended the Presidons when I believed his actions to be for good, but l believe that his attempt 70
 
 precedent. You may tell me tlsat in this~case you have great confidence n the Presidents judgment. but want Co remind you that you cannot defend q monarchy on the ground that king is occasionally A good man. And the precedent may be used by bad Pres ident, and once established. can hardly be resisted"
 MT. Bryan criticised the "despotiO" rules of the House of Representatives and asserted that the Republican Party had chosen for It's Vice Presidential candidate a man who stood next to speaker Cannon in the enforcement ot these rules.
 He then discussed the plank in the Democratic platform with regard to injunctions and trials for indirect con tempt of court, quoting Judge Taft's criticism that the plank was loosely drawn and was an attack on the judi cial system.
 T shall commence today" he said "to demand that MT. Taft withdraw from his position in regard to these blanks in our platform. It is slander- ous and libellous."
 In the course of his remarks MT Bryan reiterated his plsise that Ii elected he would not be candidate toI A second term.
 Returning to Detroit shortly after c o'clock, MT. Bryan addressed a monster Democratic rally in the Ldght Guard Armory. Outside there were thous. ands of people whose desire for admis- sion availed them nothing as thS building was packed to the doors. but in order to not entirely disappoint them. he gave them short overflow talk.
 In both addresses he compared ths platforms of the two parties and went over practically the same ground hG did at Ann Arbor.
 Telegram to Roosevelt.
 vAit. Mr. Bryan uses the most aggras- sive language.
 MT. Bryan serves notice on the Presl- daDt that as the candidate of the Demo cratic party T shall not permit any responsible member of the Republican organization to misrepresent the Demo cratic party in the present campaign.