Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-22
PRESIDENT GOES
 AFTER FORAKER
Has Letter Showing Taft
 Disliked Senator.
PUBLISHES THE DOCUMENT

Nominee Stated He Did Not Care For
 Presidency H It Had to Come by
 Compromise In . Matter of Principle.
 Roosevelt Calls Accused Statesman .
 RssoIuts Opponent of "PoIioiss of In
 tsrnsI Reform"
 Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sept. 22.-Secre-
 tary Loeb made public formal state-
 ment by the president, which was call
 ed forth by the recent exchanges be-
 tween William R. Hearst and Senator
 utterances had accused the senator of | relations with the Standard oil com pany inconsistent with his duties as Q I senator and his attitude as represen-
 tative of Republican policies and pro-
 fessions. In his statement President
 Roosevelt makes another appeal for the support of Mir. Taft and declares l that his defeat would bring Tasting
 satisfaction to but one set of men | namely, to those men who, as shown in the correspondence published by Mir. Hearst, were behind Mir. Foraker, the opponent of Mir. Taft, within his own party, and who now are behind Governor Haskell and his associates, the opponents of MT. Taft in the oppo-
 site party" Refers to Brownsville.
 The statement in part reads:
 Senator Foraker has been leader
 among those members of congress Of
 both parties who have resolutely op-
 posed the great policies of internal re-
 form for which the administration has
 made itself responsible. His attitude
 has been that of certain other public
 men, notably (as shown in this same correspondence published by MT.
 Hearst) Governor Haskell of Okla
 homa. There is striking difference in one respect, however, in the present positions of Governor Haskell and
 Senator Foraker. Governor Haskell stands high in the councils of Mir. Bryan and Is the treasurer of his na- tional campaign committee. Senator Foraker represents only the forces which in imbittered fashion fought the nomination of MT. Taft.
 '.The entire agitation over Browns vile was in large part not a genuine agitation on behalf of colored men at all, but merely one phase of the effort by the representatives of certain law defying corporations to bring discredit 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 business men of large fortunes and certain politi- clans of great influence. The venomous hostility of these interests and of their special representatives in public life and in the press to the nomination of Mfr. 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 consistently prosecuting all offenders of great wealth, precisely as it has prosecuted all other offenders"
 Taft's Letter.
 The letter of Mir Taft is as follows:
 CT wish to express myself with as much emphasis as possible as to whether would object to compromise resolution which shall include an in- dorsement of myself for the presidency and Senator Foraker for the senator ship. In my judgment it would be not only great mistake something more. It would be accepted necessarily as a compromise on my behalf and there fore with my acquiescence or at least with the acquiescence of my friends, for whose action am more or less re- sponsible. It would totally misrepre- sent my position. I don't care for the 1 presidency if it has to come by com promise with Senator Foraker or any one else in a matter of principle. He | has opposed the vital policies and prin- ciples of the administration and in his 1 opposition has seized upon and magni- | fled an important but incidental mat 1 ter to embarrass the administration, 1 using in this without scruple blind 1 race prejudice to accomplish his main purpose.
 Representing the policies of the l administration, I cannot stultify my 0n1f hy i, I compromise which necessarily involves | the admission that the Republicans of | Ohio regard this fundamental differ | ence of opinion as of no importance | and one that can be waived in the in- terest of party harmony or the settle ment of factional differences
 ''I publish this letter without Mr. | Taft's knowledge. because feel it my | duty to the public that his attitude | should be known. The man who un- resists temptation. who cannot be swerved by any considera- | tlon of personal interest from follow | ing the course which his lofty concep- ton of duty dictates to him, the man | whose whole concern is for the welfare of the people and who has proved in a lifetime cf difficult and useful public service his extraordinary capacity as an administrator. is surely the man of all others to be intrusted with the pres idency. appeal to all good citizens, to all high minded, conscientious men who love their country for the sake Of