The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24
ROOSEVELT SENDS
 ANSWER TO BRYAN
tContinued from Page one.)

against Senator Foraker at that time. however, as there was against Gov ernor Haskell, when as you say, he was. with your approval made treas urer of your campaign committee.
 But Mir. Taft refused to be party to the renomination of Senator For aker, even though it was represented that only thus could he advance hts own interests. showing by actual deeds that his words were true when he said T do not care for the presidency if 1t has to come by compromise with any one on a matter of principle
 with a hundred fold clearer evidence before you as to the connection of Governor Haskell with the Standard oil Co. than Mir. Taft then had as to the connection of Senator Foraker with any corporation, you neverth eless, hay ing secured Governor Haskell as chair man of the committee to write the platform on which you stand. put him in as treasurer of your campaign com mittee.
 Let me add that Governor Haskelrs utter unftness for any public position of trust. or for association with any | man anxious to make an appeal on a moral Issue to the American people, has been abundantly shown wholly ir- respective of this action of his in con- nection with the Standard oil inter ests.
 "As an American citizen who prizes his Americanism and his citizenship far above any question of partisan ship l regard 1t as scandal and a disgrace that Governor Haswell should be connected with the management of any national campaign.
 T have not the space in this letter to discuss Governor Haskells conduct, for instance. in vetoing the child labor bill, or the fact that his name appears Q nf the dafenda n In ortn suits brought by the government to prevent the Creek Indians from hav- | ing certain of their lands fraudulent | ly taken; or his connection with var | ious other matters of the kind but | let me call your attention to his con duct in prostituting to base purposes the State University as set forth in an article in The Outlook of Septem- | Der 5, last, under the heading of Shall l the People Rule in Oklah oma.' In this
 article you will see that Governor Has,
 kell was given full opportunity to | made none.
 | - HaskeIl and Oklahoma. "After setting forth the facts as to | Governor Haskeil's conduct, The Out | look article concludes as follows. | "'On this state of affairs we have l two comments to make and two ques-
 tions to ask. The people of Oklahoma are taxed to support their educational institutions from the primary school to | the university. They pay their money
 to have their children educated. When | the politicians use this money to pro-
 mote the interest of a political ma | chine or a church sect, they are guilty
 of a breach of trust.
 | What do the taxpayers of Okla
 homa think of the use which their pub | lie servants are making of the public | funds? What do they think about this financial policy? The taking of money
 due their sons and daughters and di- verting 1t for the benefit of politicians. | ecclesiastical and civil?
 "'Governor Haskell was one of Mir. 1 Bryan's right hand men in the Demo- 1 cratic convention, and at Mir. Bryan's l instance has been made treasurer of l the Democratic National Committee. It
 is appalling to think what would be the result in the educational systems | of the Philippines and Porto Rico, in
 the digging of the Panama Canal, in the work of irrigation and reforestra- tion, in the administration of the post
 ofice and interior and agricultural do partments, in the appointments of for l eign ministers and consuls if the
 spirit which has actuated the Demo cratic authorities in the State of Ok
 lahoma should be permitted to takC
 control of the Federal Government ai
 Washington.
 "'Governor Haskell. by actions which
 speak louder than words. has declared
 h.s disbelief in Grover Cleveland's
 motto. A public office is a public
 trust And Mir. Haskell Is a represent
 ativs leader of the Bryan Democracy
 What does Mr Bryan think of Mir
 Cleveland's principle? What do the
 American people think of Mir. Haskell's
 contemptuous reversal of it7'
 You close your telegram by saying
 
 and honorable treatment from those
 who are in charge of the Republican
 campaign. I am not In charge of the | campaign but am greatly interested in 1t. l have shown you above fairly and I honorably that Governor Haskell Is a
 man who, on every account I have
 named, Is unworthy of any position in
 tion of these facts is required. They
 are spread on the record before you
 and they were available before MT
 Haskell was chosen for his position al
 treasurer.
 You may also say that you will not
 permit any responsible member of the Republican organization to mIsrepre-
 sent the attitude of your party in the
 present campaign. You will have nc | difficulty in getting me to represent ii l alright, for my sole anxiety is that the people of the country shall understand
 this attitude clearly and shall condemn
 1t as 1t should be condemned. | Criticism of Bryan. l You say that you have advocated more radical measures against private | monopolies than either I or my party | associates have been willing to under | take. You have indeed advocated measures that sound more radical. but icy have the prime defect that in practice they would not work
 T should not in this letter to you discuss your attitude on these ques- tions if you did not yourself bring 1t
 up, but as you have brought 1t up.
 ] answer you that in my judgment the measures you advocate would be wh ol- ly ineffective in curing a single evIl and so far as they had any effect at all. would merely throw the entire
 business of the country into hopeless and utter confusion.
 T put MT. Tafts deeds against your words. I ask that Mir. Taft be judged by all his deeds. for he wish
 es none of them forgotten. I ask that you be judged both by the words you
 wish remembered and by the words that seemingly you and your party now desire to have forgotten. l ask that your present plan for regulating the trusts be judged in connection with your past utterances that
 you did not believe in their regula- ton but in their destruction: and again in connection with your past utterances to the effect that only government ownership by a complicat-
 cd national and State system of rail-
 roads would avail; and again. by your past utterances when you proposed to