The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-22
ROOSEVELT TAKES A HAND Strikes Senator Foraker
 a Blow. STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT Uses Hearst Charges to Appeal for
 Taft. Declares Moneyed Interests are Behsna Governor Hssken and His As- socintes, While Republi-
 cans are Clean.
STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT

Oyster Bay, Sept 21.--Late today Secretary Loeb gave to the press a formal statement by the President which was called forth by the recent exchanges between William R. Hearst and Senator Foraker of Ohio.
 MT. Hearst in public utterances had accused the Senator of relations with | the Standard Oil Company inconsistent With his duties as a Senator. and his attitude as a representative of the Re-
 publican policies and professions. In today's statement President Roosevelt makes another appeal for
 the support of MT. Taft and declares
 that his defeat would bring Tasting satisfaction to but one set of men, namely, to thosee men who, as shown | in the correspondence published by Mir.
 Hearst were behind MT. Foraker, the opponent of Mir. Taft within hts own party, and who now are behind Gov l ernor Haskell and his associates, the | opponents of Mir. Taft in the oppos-
 ite party"
 The statement embodies a letter written by Mir. Taft to a friend in Ohio on July 20. 1907. in which the Republican candidate for the Prssi- dency refuses to acquiesce in the plan of the Ohio State Central Committee
 to endorse MT. Taft for the Presi- dency and Mir. Foraker for reelection
 to the Senate in single resolution. The President points out that Mir. Tafts attitude has always been di-
 rectly oppised to that charged against Senator Foraker by Mr Hearst re- garding the moneyed interests. Reosevelt's Statement.
 President Roosevelt made public the following statement today:
 Tn view of Mir. Hearst's disclosures | about Senator Foraker, l make public
 the following letter written by Mir. | "a an Itflu Ohio. prominent in Ohio politics. who wrote him before the meeting of the l State Central Committee asking
 whether he would object to the com
 mittee passing resolution endorsing
 MT. Taft for Prestdent. and Mr. Fora
 ker for Senator, in the interest of har..
 mony. A copy of this letter was sub
 mitted to me at the time. but after the original had been sent. It was not fof publication. but 1t was understood that
 if necessary 1t should be published: personally know that the strong. | est pressure by various party leadsrs.
 was brought on Mr. Taft Ut that tinis
 to consent to the proposed arranRu, ment. and he was informed by leadfss '
 men from other States, that if he would consent to this arrahgement. aii
 opposition on the part of Mr. Foral< es
 ana on the part of some of Mr. For. | aker's influential friends in the Sena te
 and elsewhere, would cease and that Mr. Tafts nomination for the Pres : ldency would be assured But Mr.
 Taft declined for one moment to con-
 sider any possible advantage to him.
 self where what he regarded as q great principle was at stake His af-
 titude on this question, as we'll as on | countless questions. convinced me that | Of all the men in this Union. he was
 the man pre-eminently fit in point of
 uprightness and character. and fear
 less and aggressive honesty and of fst- | ness for championing the rights of tha 1 people as whole. to be President. Senator Foraker has been a leader among those members of Congress of both parties who have resoiutely on- | posed the great policies of internal re-
 form for which the administration has
 made itself responsible His attitude
 has been that of curtain other public
 men notably (as shown in this same
 correspondence published by Mir
 Hearst about Governor Haskell, of Ok
 lahoma.) There is striking differ
 ence in one respect, however, in the
 present positions of Governor Haskell ! and Senator Foraker. Governor Has, kell stands high In the councils of MT. Bryan and is tho Treasurer of his Ea- tional Campaign Committee. Senator Foraker represents only the forces
 which in embittered fashion fought tho nomination of Mir Taft and which
 were definitely deprived of power with in the Republican Party when Mir Taft
 was nominated. The publication of this correspondence not merely justifes in striking fashion, the action of the ad-
 mtnistration but also casts a curious side light on the attacks made upon
 the administration both in the Denver convention which nominated MT. Bryan
 and in the course of Mir. Bryans carn- paign.
 Appeals for Taft.
 There IS but one way to preserve
 and perpetuate the great reforms, the
 great advances in righteousness and upright and fair dealing which hava
 marked the management of the affairs
 of the National Government during the last seven years, and that is by elect ing Mr. Taft. To defeat him will bring
 lasting satisfaction to but one set of
 men, namely, to those men who, as
 shown in the correspondence published by MT. Hearst, were behind MT. For
 aker. the opponent of Mfr Taft within his own party and who are now behind Governor Haskell and his associates.
 the opponents of Mir. Taft in the op- posite party.
 The great and sinister monied in- terests which have shown such hos tility to the administration and nov
 to Mir. Taft. have grown to oppose the administration on various matters not
 connected with those which mark the real point Of difference. For instance,
 the entire agitation over Brownsville
 was in large part not a genuine agifa-
 tion on behalf of the colored men at
 all, but merely one phase of the effort
 by the representatives of certain law | defytng corporations to bring discredlt upon the administration because 1t was
 seeking to cut out the evils connected,
 not only with the corrupt use of
 wealth. but especially with the corrupt | alliance between certain businsss men of large fortunes and certain politI-
 clans of great office. The venomoua ! hostility of these interests and of their
 special representatives In public life and in the press, to the nomination. Of MT. Taft was merely the natural se- quence of their hostility to the meas ures of the administration for the reg ulation of great corporations doing an | interstate business and to the attitude of the administration in constantly prosecuting all offenders of great