Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-10-21
Mr.. Pickett's Manchester Speech.

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The greater part Of Mr.. Pickett's
speech in this city last Saturday af-
ternoon was a good natured jolly,
along lines considered permissible
by republican speakers in this cam
paign. But Mr.. Pickett will make
the mistake of his life if he ever uses
any part Of the speech he delivered
In this city III a joint debate with
any fairly well informed democrat
1t is not practicable in newspa-
per article to reply to an entire
speech. Such reply would be en-
tirely too long, and to properly con
slider even a few Of his principal
points will require considerable space.
Mr.. Pickett's attempt to be with
eringly severe upon Mr.. Bryan, on
account of Governor Haskell's prom
'inence in democratic politics, was
far-fetched and not calculated to win
favor with wei informed audience.
In the Denver convention Governor
Haskell distinguished himself in the
fight which resulted in the unseating
OF the Standard Oil delegates from
Pennsylvania and was elected treas
urer of the democratic national
committee. That was before Hearst
produced his unanswerable evidence
against Senator Foraker, and made
his unsupported charges against Has
kell. Years ago, when Haskell was
resident of Ohio, he may have been
in the employ of the President of
Kerosene, but that fact, if it is a
feet, was not publicly known. At
the last election in Oklahoma, Has
kell was a candidate for governor on
the democratic ticket and Bryan
stumped the state for the democrats
ard Taft for the republicans; and
throughout that fierce debate, which
resulted in the overwhelming defeat
of. the republican ticket; Taft never
referred in any. way to the charges
against Haskell which Hearst pre-
sented as a companion piece to the
Feraker-Archbold letters. If these
charges were publicly known would
not Taft have used them to discredit
Haskell, and save that state to his
party on the eve Of presidential
election? And if they were unknown
to- Taft what right has any man tc
assume that they were known to
Bryan?
To avoid embarrassment to his
party, Governor Haskell promptly
resigned the treasurership of its ma
tional committee, and commenced
suit against Hearst in an Omaha
Court for s600,0OO.Oo damages, and
i.sshe establishes what he claims
Hearst will pay heavy damages fol
his attempt to act impartially in his
attacks upon the members of both
OF the old parties.
In sharp contrast with this strain
ing after something to connect Mr..
Bryan with Standard Oil agents, let
US look at conditions in Candidate
Pickett's own party.
Let us commence with Rooseyelt's
letter to my Dear Hartman" who
y the chief manager of the Standard
Oil group of railroads. And how at
the Presidents request Hartman
subscribed $5O,00O.OO to the republi.
can campaign fund, and got his Wall
street friends to subscribe 5000 900. OF
more. And for additional evidence
along this line we will quote from
a recent speech delivered by Judge
Parker in Baltimore. No man at the
American Bar stands higher than
Judge Parl,s /. He was unanimously
elected President of the American
Bar ASSOCIATION at it's meeting held
in st. PAU two yeas ago, and CIV.
cry man who personally knows the
Judge knows Tia. he told the truth
when he sail:
After speaking of Mr.. Harriman's
contribution to the Roosevelt cam.
paign fund in 1904, and President
Roosevelt's recent scathing denunci.
alton of Haskell. Judge Parker went
on to say:
when Roosevelt SO sweepingly
condemned haskell for his alleged
connection with the Standard Oil
company, he perhaps forgot that in
1904 his, Roosevelt's committee
received 100000 from the Standard
Oil Company for the campaign fund,
and used it. And when Treasurer
George B. Cortelyou. of the National
Committee, in that year went to the
Standard Oil Company by appoint
ment to ask for money for the cam
,paign fund, he was not satisfied with
100000, but wanted more.
1t may be true that Roosevelt
wrote to Cortelyou telling him to
send that 100000 back to the Stand,