Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-28

riman, and ask If 1T would not have
affected the campaign IL known.
Thereby you have furnished an excel
lent 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 par
tisan success the chance, by precise
ly the argument you have made, to
create to more purpose the false i'm
preston that you are now seeking to
create. Mr.. Taft's reputation, Mr..
Tafts acts on the bench and in the ex-
ecutive service show that he could not
be swayed in any shape. or way by
any consideration save the public in
terest and that the fact of any man
contributing or failing to contribute
would In any way influence his action
any more than it has Influenced my
action or the action of Governor
Hughes. l emphatically approve of the
publication of campaign expenses after
the election which are provided for by
the law or not. You have shown by
this letter of yours that If the contri-
buttons to Mr.. Hughes campaign fund
had been made public before election
you and those who act with you would
have striven to give the false impress
sion that Mr.. Hughes was unfit to be
intrusted with the position of governor.
and you have shown by this letter of
yours that if Mr. Harriman's contri-
buttons of 1904 (and incidentally I may
mention that l am informed that this
particular contribution was not used
for the national campaign, but in the
New York state campaign) had been
known before the election you and
your supporters would have endeav-
ored to use the fact as its having been
made as an insincere and untruthful
argument to show that I could not be
trusted to deal out exact justice to
Mr.. Hartman.
mo stronger argument against your
proposition has yet been advanced
than this that you have unconseiously
advanced.
Refers to Haskell
'I 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
court. Out of your own mouth you
are conoemned. You thereby set up
that standard of law honesty which
has been the base of this people in en-
deavoring to get equity and fair deal
ings-as they should obtain among
high-minded men-from great business
corporations and from individuals like
even asking Mr.. Haskell to retire from
the position in which you placed him,
so that he retires of his own accord
and you utter no word of condemna-
tion of his gross offenses against pub
lie decency and honesty. on the con-
trary you strive to make it appear that
bis misconduct in reference TO the
Standard Oil company is all of which
he is accused; whereas, shameless
~ Af 9
is no worse than countless others in
his career.
Taft and Foraker
"T contrast your action in this case
with that of Mr.. Taft in reference to
Senator Foraker. Mr.. Taft's state
ment when the question of his nomi
nation was at stake was that he would
rather not accept it at the price of sac
rificing principle by supporting Mr..
Foraker for senator. You do not Ven-
ture in so much as the slightest possi-
BILE manner to censure Mr. Haskell for
his manifested misdeeds, and you ask
that he be held guiltless of them un-
less convicted in a court of law, al
though you well know that as regards
the worst of them, no action In court
of law would lie. You say you were
ignorant of Mr.. Haskells record. If
so, it was Ignorance on your part. /
call your attention to the letter of L.
7. Russell, editor of the Morning
Democrat of Ardmore, Okla, in which
writing to you on September a. 1908.
he states:
"Tf YOU were ignorant of such
charges it is because you refused to
read them when presented to you when
you visited Oklahoma last fall in the
interest of Candidate Haskell. At that
time l personally presented to you ten
typeWritten pages OF charges against
Mr.. Haskell, covering his operations in
Ohio, New York, Arkansas, Texas and
The charges recently made
by Mr.. Hearst were all made by me at
that time.
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 pri-
vate individuals whom he has wronged
and the United States government on
behalf of helpless Indians whom he has
wronged are striving to have the courts
to deal with him.
IN. L. Mott, attorney for the Creek
Nation, writes me as follows:
In October, 1906, Mr.. Foulke of
Ind, was sent to investi-
gate the matter of the townsite frauds
in the Creek Nation. Mr.. Foulke's re-
port Is in the hands of the secretary
Of the interior All parties connected
with these toWnsite frauds have used
the same means and methods. Upon
the report filed by Mr.. Foulke l, as at
torney for the Creek Nation, was di-
rected by the secretary of the interior
to file suits in equity for the cancella-
ton of all deeds to town lots in the
Creek Nation where the same had been
by fraud. Proceeding upon in
structions and after full investigation
| find that Governor c. N. Haskell,
others, had secured deeds to
quite number of lots in Muskogee by
and fraud; that he had had
dummies or straw men who lived in
the state of Ohio and elsewhere, and
then had them quit claim back to him
without consideration By this dis
honest means he succeeded in getting
deeds to a large number of lots be-
longing to the Creek Indians at one
half their appraised value. I have filed
quite q number of suits against Gov
ernor Haskell in which conspiracy and
fraud is charged and the manner OF
it is set in detail.
Haskell has not filed any answer in any
Of these cases. He has simply, through
his attorney, filed dilatory motions
such as demurrers, pleading to the jur-
isdiction, etc. He dare not answer and
deny the allegations set up in our bill;
such an answer would be a sworn lie
and known to be by the large number
of 'straw" men and dummies he
used in projecting the fraud.
For this particular act of the man |
whose public record you indorse you
may rest assured that the interior de-
partment will endeavor to see that the |
courts do Justice to him.
when Mr.. Haskell was in New |