New-York tribune., 1908-09-27
Mr.. BRYAN'S LETTER.
The letter of Mr.. BRYAN is as follows:

The letter Of Mr.. Bryan is as follows:
Milwaukee, September g. 1908
Hon; Theodore Roosevelt. President of the United
Dear Sir: While / have not vet received your
letter and shall not until 1 reach home next week.
to submit the following reply:
the that he might be more fee to 1ro
ecute those who have brought charges against him,
need not discuss the question Of his guilt inno-
cence, further than 70 say that the public service
which he has received from the people of his state
ought TO protect him from condemnation until the
charges can be examined in some court where par
tsanship does not bias and where campaign ext
gen1es 90 not compel would @ not @
the fact that you seize upon the charges and at
even charge that my connection with Mr. Ha askells
selection as member of the resolutions committee
monopoes As an fndtTjduaf and as the canddate t
Of nv party resent the charge and repei the in
sinuation- have been in pubic life for eighteen
years, and have been sufficiently conspicuous to
have passed through two Presidential campaigns
hausted; ] have no hesitation in saving that you
justify your pa partisan charge
l had never been Informed of any charge that
with the Standard Oil Company or with any other
eo @ Of f an N had 9 known
him as one OF the men principally responsible for
adopted adopted by a majority of more than
a hundred thousand, seventy thousand of which
his election the Governorship of that great
/ had known that the constitution adopted and
that Governor Haskell was elected, in spite of the
species made in Oklahoma by Mr., TAFT
You say + that M was matter of WP the the
Standard Oil Company. have right TO assume
HaskeIl's election and had been matter of com
mon ,notoriety, in Ohio. as you say, Judge Taft
the people when he spoke in Oklahoma If he did
not have the %aG why can bo 1T e be y9
cuse his failure communicate the Information
patrotc 20 riot pe duty to 10 denounce Mr. sske when he
is only member Of the natena organzahGnI. gan on
patriotic duty TO denounce Mr.. Haskell when he
was aspiring TO be the chief executive OF great
state?
DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF SUIT.
could have had no knowledge of the suit to
which you refer when he was appointed chairman
of the resolutions committee of the Democratic @
National Convention. because the suit was begun
while he Denver. and. matter of fact,
until after he was made treasurer of the national
committed; and no minded person can decide
animation of the provisions of the enabling
by by b e5se a ssaed hf to N the
Gil company by your administration , o,,,d.noo
upon which YOU lay so much stress viz the article
in The outlook of September 8 Ny attention ion
published copy for OF Tbe OUTLOOK ana and mie Suppose
have for the writer although you do not give
his namel. would hardly feel Justified in deciding
as promptly as you do on an ex parte statement
You present an indictment against our platform
,ecla rations the trust question, but you do not
refer to all of the planks, and DO not deal justly
with those to which you do refer. Our platform
declares in favor of the vigorous enforcement of
the criminal law against guilty trust magnates
and officials" Your platform does not contain t
form Is better than ours in that respect? our
nIafform demands that corporations beyond GER
tain size be compelled 10 sell at the same price IN
ali narts Of the country, due allowance being
mo de for the of transportation. VIII you
IenI that this is i'm the interest of the consumer
and In the interest of the smaller competitors? We
present a plan under which no corporation VIII
ha permitted to control more than one-half Of the
!, ue ,,ro6ucf II has been stated that the steel
oon1nany with your express consent purchased
,s % it's largest rivals, and thus obtained con-
4 tI of more than 30 per cent of the total output
tit!t, 20, insist that permitting this showed
,s a fa,or 10 the monopolistic corporation than
40 You tu auote at length from a speech made by
=, n-nar lou Hughes, in which he ridicules one of
90 LII tr,,st remedies Is this the same Governor
qIbne qGi . who was counted ms one of the allies
7ea,,y red TO defeat Mr.. Taft when, you
WIlo ted Mr. Taft represented the ''reformers' OF
@ ar4v and his opponents the reactionary ele-
.i, .o1i nd not Governor Hughes have the sup
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