Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-24
KERN DECLARES THAT FAIR
HEARING Is DUE HASKELL
Points Out Business Connections OF
Some Republican Committeeman.

BALTIMORE. Md. september .4.-Jonn
w. Kern. the democratic nominee for the
vice presidency, in addresses before two
political meetings last night took up the
cudgels in defense of Gov. Haskell of
Oklahoma against the charge made by
w. r. Hearst of former utilization with
the Sta ndard Oil Company, and attacked
President Roosevelt for his letter on the
subject. He also took occasion to reply
to statements made by Attorney General
Bonaparte in an interview called forth
by charges made by W. j. Bryan, demo-
cratic presidential nominee that the So
called steel trust was permitted to exist
in defiance of law.
Presidents Course Criticised.
Referring to the charges against Gov.
Haskell. Mr.. Kern said:
"These charges were made by man
hitherto denounced by the President as
utterly untrustworthy. The President of
the United States. who has had much
to say about square deal seized upon
the unsupported charge of the man re-
ferred to. and yesterday proceeded to
rail Historically at the democratic party
| for having as the treasurer of its or
ganization a man whom he. the Presi-
| dent, has convicted over positive denial
without hearing, on charges made by a
man on whose reliability Mr. Roosevelt
| himself has placed the seal of disap-
prevail.
/ Under our system of jurisprudence,
every man is presumed innocent until his
guilt is satisfactorily shown. a square
DEAL even as interpreted by half civil
lied people, demands this. The evidence
at hand tends to confirm the presump
ton as to Gov. Haskell. He is at all
| events entitled to a hearing before he
| is condemned by any fair minded man.
If after a hearing there should be any
doubt of Gov. Haskelrs innocence. his
] i.l urifI 6om0nrQ
national committee will cease, and that
will be the best evidence of the good
| faith OF our party.
But when did Mr.. Roosevelt become
so sensitive as to the previous or even
the present business connections Of the
| officers of the several political organlza-
| tons?
Republican Committeeman.
WAS his conscience shocked when the
| trust magnates and tariff benefciaries
! forced the election of George r. Sheldon
as treasurer of the republican national
| committed knowing as he did of Mr..
| Sheldon's connection with twenty or more
| corporations? Did he object to the ap-
| pointment of Frederick w. tpham, a
member of the Illinois board of review
which passes upon the amount of taxes
the corporations and large estates in that
state shall pay? Was his conscience
aroused when he learned few weeks ago
that on Mr.. Upham's motion a menu
| Der of that board the assessment of the
| Chicago street railway had been reduced
| about $1OOOO,00O from the amount fixed
BY the assessors? The officials of that
| corporation will be ungrateful, indeed if
they fail to respond with liberal individual
campaign contributions on the demand of
| Mr.. Cpham
Was Mr.. Roosevelt in any wise Of
| Tended at the makeup OF the executive
committee of his party? Did he object
to the appointment of Mr.. Charles +.
| BROKER, vice president of the New York.
New Haven and Hartford Railroad Com
pany a corporation now defendant in a
| suit by the government. Has he mani
| that committee of Mr.. Du Pont, mem
Der of the Du Pont Powder Company. a
| controlling factor in the powder trust
| against which the government is now pro-
| ceeding cautiously on account of its vio-
| lation of the law? AS civil service ie-
! former did the President experience any
| shock at the appointment of Bots Penrose
| of Pennsylvania on that committee? And
| what did he think of the choice of Mr..
Frank o. LoWden, of Illinois. connected
as he is with that widely known and felt
monopoly the Pullman Palace Car Com
pany? If the appointment of Gov. Has
| kell a man recently Endorsed by the peo-
pie of a great state and made their gov
| ernor so offends the President, what da-
| tribes may we expect from him when he
| familiarizes himself with the personnel
| of the executive committee of his own
party,