The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-10-08

Your action in thus flying to the help
of your candidate does not pertain tc
your Office As President. 1t Is as a Re.
publican and partisan that you speak.
Since you have descended thus from
your high official s. at to take active
part in the pending campaign between
Mr.. Taft and Mr. Bryan you challenge
to the list every lover of fair play, and
claim the right as your fellow citizen to
criticise your conduct.
protest that the President has no
right thus tc interfere with the freedom
of elections
protest that it is unbecoming Pres
/ dent Of the United States to become n
violent partisan and to throw the weight
/ of his high office into the scales when
they are being balanced By the sovereign
voters.
As lawyer protest that the evidence
upon which your accusations rest Is in
competent and wholly insufficient to
support the charges fathered by you.
protest as an American that often.
sive parti.anship, while holding the Of
flee Of President is without precedent
in the history Of our country that it il
high handed and dangerous to our free
institutions.
You declare in your statement that to
defeat Mr. Taft will be to bring last.
ing satisfaction TO one set Of men who
are now behind Gov. Haskell and his as
sociate- GOu mention the effort of
certain law-defying" corporations to
bring discredit upon the your admins,
tration because it was seeking to cut
ont the evil connected not only with
the corrupt use of wealth, but especially
with the corrupt alliance with certain
business men Of large fortune and GER
| tain politicians Of great influence Nou
claim that you consistently prosecuted
all offenders Of great wealth.
! In view Of these protestatiOns does il
not seem little queer that you call.
ed to your Cabinet Mr. Paul Morton,
one Of the heads Of the Santa Fe System,
confessed vloaror Of the rebate law;
that you failed to have him prosecuted
! for these Ctienses, Notwithstanding his
confession and the report os your own
commission .of which ok Attorney Gen.
e'al Harmon was a member recon
meDdipg such prosecution? That you
have never prosecuted criminalIy any
trust magnate? That you have never
put out Of business or controlled a
single trust? That during your admin
i-traton trusts have multiplied and
ilourished as never beforeT
In your statement you exhibit the ut
most concern for the welfare Of the PEG.
pie AZ against the law deiying' corpo
ratons. Isn't is little queer" that
you have never attempted to put in jail
"A single one Of the members Of those
law defying' corporations or to enforce
AKA I-i al VI llIflll lIlt iIiIilIdt Jaw
in such cases made and provided? That
you put in your Cabinet Mr. Knox the
attorney Of some of those same law
defying corporationsl That you made
Assistant Secretary Of State Mr.. Bacon.
the partner Of j. Pierpont Morgan?
In your zeal tor the severance of the
alliance between certain business men
| If large fortune and certain politicians
of great influence, isn't ii queer that
you put and keep in your Cabinet men
like these? And if it be Il disgrace and
scandal for Gov Haskell to be connect.
ed with the management of n political
campaign why isn't il u disgrace and
a scandal to have your administration
connected with it attorneys for the
trusts, viOlatOra Of the interstate com
meyCo law, a partner of j. Pierpont
Morgan and men of that ilkG If Has
kell is a disgrace to Bryan, why il it
nected with the management of his
finance committee Mr.. Cromwell the
representative OF the Hartman inter
ests, of the Standard Oil and of the
Sugar Trust; Mr.. Sheldon, organizer of
the Ship building Trust Mr. Hitchcock
the inventor of the steam roller poll
tics and host of other trust magnates
aud representatives. If Mr.. Tafts or
ganization is reeking with the agents OF
the trusts how does it lie in his mouth
to complain Of Gov. Haskell? Had the
Republican party not better take the
beam out of its own eye before it un.
dertakes to take the mote out of the
Democratic eyer
In recent statements you declare that
Mr.. Bryan would be a menace to the
prosperity of the country. Does this
not come with bad grace from the, presi-
dent whose term Of office il marked
with one of the worst panics the coun.
try has ever had2 Surely, Mr. Presi.
dent, you do not regard your admins.
tration rs menace to the country.