The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-11

MT. LOeb, according to Mr.. Douglass
letter, said the president was deter
mined that Mr.. Douglass should rec
ommend another appointment.
Mr.. Foraker said that Mr.. Douglass
had told Mr.. Bryson that il would be
advisable for him to come to Wash
ington and take the matter up himself
After receiving a reply dated Dec. 3
in which BrysOn said he would be in
Washington within a day or so, Doug
lass saw the president The story OF
the conference at the White House
was told in a letter which Douglass
Immediately sent to Bryson himself
saying:
Bluntly Told.
1.-The president bluntly told me that
l would have to recommend another
man."
Mr.. Douglass said that he urged the
president to reconsider, but that he
was insistent
Mr.. Foraker said he did not want to
comment upon the correspondence be-
yOnd showing the pressure that had
been brought to bear on one man who
had expressed his personal views on a
matter of which he had a right to ex-
press them, to "coerce" as the presi-
dent has said in his letter.
Views of Mr.. Bryson.
Mr.. Bryson then sent letter to Mr.
Douglass, said Mr.. Foraker, in which
he gave his view of the situation. He
said that in his interview he had said
that Taft was losing and Foraker
gaining in Ohio and that Taft, if nom-
mated. could not carry his state. Mr..
Bryson reiterated this and declared
that it was true He said that he has
always been in favor of the president s
policies and that nothing had ever APP
peared in his paper in OPPOSITION to the
administration. He reviewed some of
the things he had printed however. in
Guiding the statement that the pres
ident would be compelled to take an
other nomination. because with Taft
as a candidate, the labor, capital and
negro vote will be eliminated. He as
serted that the presidents statement
of his (Bryson's) activities, as report
ed to Mr. Douglass. was entirely
wrong, and in conclusion Mr.. BrysOn
said:
Bryan Could Beat Taft.
4 favor the president. but not his
candidate, and l shall not so long as |
think Bryan can beat him at the
polls"
The letter contained a declaration of
political independence so Gar as eX-
pressing preference for . candidates is
concerned and Mr.. BrysOn announced
that while he would like to continue
in office he would not do so by the sac
rifice of his independence and the pres
ident could have the office for some
one who was willing to carry out his
wishes in all matters. Mr.. Foraker
characterized the letter by Mr.. Bry-
son, IAN able, frank, candid statement.
with no beating about the bush in it,"
He said that he supposed Mr.. Doug
lass had laid it before the president
and that the president decided to send
i'm the nomination. Mr.. Foraker gave
the president entire credit for seeing
the justice Of such course, in view of
the manly reply made by Mr. Bryson
TO the criticism that he had made of
him.
Many Such Cases.
Mr.. Foraker asserted he could estab-
lish to the entire satisfaction of any
unbiased mind that there are a hun
dred such cases in Ohio. He said that
the estimate was no eXaggeration, al
though the presidents hand could not
be traced to all of them. He said they
had been engineered by men who rep
resented the president. During his
statement TIC SbildlOI MdS CDIilDtlltu 10
suspend in order that the senate might
receive a message from the president.
The appearance of the White house
messenger at this juncture provoked
much merriment No reply was made
to Mr.. FOraker's remarks.
The reading by Senator Foraker in
the senate of certain correspondence
between Representative Douglass OF
Ohio and c. II. BrysOn, postmaster of
Athens Ohio, in support of the charge
that President Roosevelt had utilized
federal offices to advance the political
fortunes of Secretary Taft. caused Mr..
Douglass, on the floor of the house of
representatives, to read another letter
of his to Mr.. Brysen, which he said
Mr.. Foraker had failed TO read. Mr..
Douglass said he was unable to I'M
derstand how Mr.. Foraker came by the
letters, which were private, or why he
failed TO read all of them unless it was
he did not have them.
The letter was in reply TO one
from Mr.. Brysor1, who had acknowl-
edged himself a Foraker man and who
had made the assertion that the presi-
dent would not appoint strong men to
public Office.
He Got the Job.
In his letter to Mr. Bryson Mr.
Douglass declared that he was making
a mountain out of a mole hill, and in
order to disabuse his mind about the
presidents feeling toward candidates
for public office suggested that Mr
BTysOn come TO Washington and have
a talk with the president.
MIR. Douglass declared that he had
recommended MI BrysOn for the post
mastership and the president had APP
pointed him. The whole incident. ."
Mr.. Douglass remarked, illustrates
not the disposition of the president to
wage possible war upon any man who
is not of his way of thinking, but
rather the same generosity and broad
mindedness which he has always ex-
hibited in appointing to offices men fit
in aH-Rrx- wa y 70 fSI1 than,