Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-24

of the committee to write the platform
on which you stand and put him IN as
treasurer of your campaign committee
LET me add that Governor Haskell
utter unf1tness for any public position
of trust or for association with any
man anxious to make an appeal on 8
moral issue to the American people has
been abundantly shown. wholly IRE
spective of this action of his In con-
nection with Standard Oil interests.
"As an American citizen whoN prizes
his Americanism and his citizenship far
above any question of partisanship
regard it as a scandal and disgrace
that Governor Haskell should be con-
nected with the management of any
national campaign. l have not the
space in this letter to discuss Governor
HaskelPs conduct, for instance, in veto.
ing the child labor bill or the fact thai
his name appears as one of the de-
PENDANTS in various suits brought BY
the government to prevent the Greek
Indians from having their lands fraud
ulently taken, or his connection with
various 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 ar
article in the outlook of September
last under the heading Shall the Peo-
pie Rule--in Oklahoma?
Says He Hasn't Explained
I'm this article wou will see that
Governor Haskell was given full oppor-
tunity to make every explanation and
that he made none.
After setting forth the facts as to
Governor Haskell's conduct the Out
look article concludes as follows
"On this state of affairs we have
two comments to make and two ques-
tions to ask.
1.-The people of Oklahoma are taxed
to support their educational institutions
from the primary school to the uni
versity. They pay their money to have
their children educated. When the
politicians use this money to promote
the interest of a political machine or
a church sect, they are guilty of a
breach of trust. What do the taxpay-
ers of Oklahoma think of the use which
their public servants are making of the
public funds? What do they think
about this financial policy-the taking
of the money due their sons and daugh-
ters and diverting it for the benefit Of
politicians?
"'Governor Haskell was one of Mr..
Bryans right-hand men in the Demo-
cratic convention, and at Mr.. Bryan's s
instance has been made treasurer or
the Democratic national committee. 1t
is appalling to think what would be the
result in the educational systems of the
Philippines and Porto Rico, in the dig
ging of the Panama canal, in the work
OF Irrigation and reforestation, in the
administration of the postoffice, fnte-
rior and agricultural departments, In
the appointments of foreign ministers
and consuls, If the spirit which has
actuated the Democratic authorities in
the state of Oklahoma should be per-
al ,@a 4lNo fod0 0raI
government at Washington.
Turns to Cleveland
"'Governor Haskell by actions which
speak louder than words has declared
his disbelief in Mr.. Cleveland's motto,
"A public Office is public trust" And
Mr. Haskell Is a representative leader
in the Bryan Democracy. What does
Mr.. Bryan think of Mr.. Cleveland's
principle? What do the American peo-
pie think of Mr.. Haskell's contemptu-
Gus reversal of it?'
''You close your telegram by saying
that you expect and will demand fair
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
it. / have shown you above fairly and
honorably that Governor Haskell is
man who, on every account l have
named, is unworthy of any position In
our public life.
mo further investigation of these
facts is required. They are spread on
the record before you, and they were
available before Mr.. Haskell was
chosen for his position as treasurer.
"You also say that you will not per
init any responsible member of the Re
publican organization to misrepresent
the attitude of your party in the pres
ent campaign.
"You will have no difficulty in get
ting me to represent it Alright, for my
sole anxiety is that the people of the
shall understand this attitude
clearly and shall then condemn it as 1t
should be condemned. You say that
you have advocated more radical
measures against private monopolies
than either I or my party associates
have been willing to undertake.
"You have indeed advocated meas
ures that sound more radical, but they
have the prime defect that in practice
they would not work.
IT should not in this letter to you
discuss your attitude on this question
if you did not yourself bring 1t up;
but as you have brought it up l answer
you that in my judgment these meas
ures you advocate would be wholly
ineffective in curing a single evil, and
so far as they had any effect at all
would surely throw the entire business
of the country into hopeless and utter
confusion.
Taft and His Deeds
'I put Mr.. Taft's deeds against your
words. 1 ask that Mr. Taft be judged
by all his deeds, for he wishes none of
them forgotten. I ask that you be
Judged both by the words you wish
and by the words that,
seemingly, you and your party now
desire to have forgotten. I ask that
your present plans for regulating the
trusts be Judged in connection with
your past utterances that you did not
believe in their regulation, but in their
utter destruction; and, again, IN con-
nection with your past utterances to
the effect that only government own
ership by a complicated national and
state system of railroads would avail;
and, again, by your past uterances
when you proposed to remedy all the
sufferings of our people by depre-
ciated currency.
For several years now I have been
steadfastly fighting to secure thor
oughgoing and far-reaching control in
the interest of the public over the bus
iness combinations which do an inter-
state business. In this effort l have
been much hampered by the extrem-
lists, we'll meaning or otherwise, who
demanded visionary and impratcicable
radicalism, as by those other extrem-
lists, no less dangerous. who stand for
the reactionary refusal to remedy my
grievance.
zone side, the side which I am
obliged to say you have placed your
self on, has shown itself to be just
as much the enemy of progress as the
other. I hold it entirely natural for
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