The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-01

take to make a cornparison between you and me. I still have vour letter of last winter which shall be glad to publish. with your permission. advocat- ing your idea of interstate commerce of whiskey into prohibition territory. It was your answer to my appeal for assistance and would freeze the hearts of any honest public official seeking to administer the laws of his state as the people by their votes had made the law.
 Mir Roosevelt, let us not leave this Standard oil fquestion without inviting from you information that we really need. You made a ruling that 4.Se0 acres of land was the limit that any person or corporation directly or i'm directly could obtain under lease for oil purposes in the Indian Territory and renewed the lease on 6S.000 acres of ,Osage land to the Indian Territory Illuminating Company and you knew that an agent of the Standard oil Com pany owned majority of the stock. Why did you give him monopoly on the Osage oil lands? Again. Mrs. Barnsdale, the we'll known representa- tive of the Standard oil Company. has leased, as I am advised by MT. Shea of Bartiesville, little over 100000 acres Of Indian allotments in the In- dian Territory and am advised that on account of the controversy brought to your attention. you knew of these excessive lease holdings. Why did you do this7 -
 q have also in hand d letter to Dem his Flynn from the Treasury Depart. ment at Washington, advising that the public printing Of Oklahoma territory should be let to the State Capital Print Ing Company. without receiving com petitfye bids, this being the. same print ing which. associated with Flynn. Me- Guire and Burford. all ex-Reppb lican territorial ofiiceho1ders Is now sued by the State of Oklahoma to recover S195.- 900 of alleged, printing bills. uniaw- fully taken from that territory treas- ury. What have you to say to this MT. Roosevelt?
 "You criticize my directing the dis- missal of the suit against the Prairie oil and Gas Company. which could not have been successfully maintained ny the State. Tell mo. please. what your req son was for directing the dismissal of the suit against the Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad being prosecut- ed by Judson Harmon and Judson. special counsel. when the facts dis closed that 8 member of your cabinet (Paul Morton). was being uncovered as the prime offender? Answer this, will you?
 Tell me, Mir. Roosevelt, if you were a friend of the Delaware Indians and why you approved the lease of an inn mense area of Delaware Indian lands after Secretary Hitchcock refused to do so. and what explanation have you to make on this oil lease proposition and its connection with the Standard oil Company? ft
 "Mr Roosevelt, you certainly ought for purity. You say you did not. Four years ago the corporation was contri- outing to your election until the eIec- bargains and sales between you and Mir. Cortelyou and the corrupt in- fluences of Wall street. You have known this for two years and Mir. Cor telyou Is still member of your cab inet.
 False Statements.
 You also include a pretended let ter from Attorney General West but as the records of b6th his office and mine will show every essential state ment to be false, I assume that you have been as reckless in quoting his letter as you have been on all other propositions. and therefore shall await an official copy of his letter before as- suming that you have truthfully copied, but on receipt of verified copy I shall certainly respond
  prosperity panic was at its height you made the statement that you had sim ply turned on the lights and were not responsible for what 1t disclosed: in other words. you entered plea of confession and avoidance. In later communication to you I shall show In numerous particular instances where your plea of avoidance should be con- demned and verdict of guilty rem dered against you.
 Now, MT. Roosevelt, while you are reflecting on these questions, will you justify yourself in giving faith or credit to any statement that has come to you from your political associate Mir Hearst whom two years ago. you branded as the man chiefly responsi- bIe for the assassination of cur late President?
 "Remembar. Mfr. Roosevelt. If at your next cabinet meeting you decide to try me under any of your present. past or future charges, before your cabi- net sitting as a jury to try an honest man. that I challenge MT. Cortelyou for cause.
 And I further beg to inquire. should your Crown Prince William be elected to the Presidency of the United States, would we necessarily understand that our missionaries in foreign lands were to be called home to convert him to that standard where he would be qual- ified to take a solemn oath in the pres ence of Almighty God?
 "Yours truly