The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1909-01-20
SOME HOT SHOT
FROM BRADLEY
Poured intOPoliticalAnat-
omy of Roberts.
AND FEDERAL OFfICE-HOLDERS
Kentucky'S Republican Sen
atOr Uses YitriOl In His
Fountain Pen.

Lcuisvilk. KY, Jan. 16-Just b1
SHOW that Roosevelt and Tillman have
not u complete corner on big iclks"
and 'pitchforks," Senhtor-e,ect w. o.
Brldley had turned loose another
bcmbst ell teFe in the form CT a sign
ed sta ement.
The shot is aimed ait Collector nf
Internal Revenue Sam J. ROBBERS, at
Lexington, but it scatters sufficiently
t. put few lead balls into the skin
tf Federal officeholders in Kentucky
and elsewhere.
In tire statement tte Ken lucky Sem
ator repeatedly tells the Collector thh,
his statements have been "falsci and
untrue" He also dcsignhtesl r. d.
erts as a creature" and asks Elm
WY he does not come out like a
man. IF, indeed, me is a man"
Sna cr Bradley aglin says THAT he
will recommend just as quickly a
Taft man fer a Federal appointment
as he will Fairbanks man, and tAad
he and Ire President-elcct artl friend
ly He asserts, h9wevrF, 'hht ''he had
a right as am American citizen tc! ex-
press tis preference for ,he Preai-
Dental nomination, ais he was Meth
er Federal office holder nor az slavI,
but exercised all the rights ct a
freeman"
Ire Senator's let er to- Roberts is
ais follows:
I'm your paper pf the 3rd n JAN
uaTy yJu dodge the issue presented
in my previous letter. and the inge-
nui y of your special pleading is equal
ed aI-ne by its mendlcity. While
condemning me fer whit you haN1
been pleased 10 call vindictiveness,yo you
undertake to answer the chlrga Of
the vindictiveness Of yourself and
others to me, by arguir& at length
10 slow thht y-n We're net vindictive
to Mr. Fairbanks.
"Y.ou know that nI charge of this
chanac er was made against ycn and
while by ycnr silence you admit yoUr
vindictiveness to mrb you undertake
to pr5ye Fiat you were noS vindictive
as to some otker person. WHY try
20 hide behind this transparent de-
Tense? Why not admit like al man, If
indeed you are man, that you and
others Of your ilk, assaulted a man,
in thu; most vindictive and libe!ous
manner, and instead Of turning yclur
bat cries ON Mr. Fairbanks, turned
them upon me.
"You charge / venOmously denpunc-
ed Fed nll cfficeaolders. TtlsJ is false.
l did condemn them in MO uncertain
terms, and l condemn them yet 1t
is a Notorious fact that they RAW,
time md again banded together and
acted in concert politically; not only
in ViJladon of Civl Service rules,
but common propriety as we'll, con-
trolling party nominations which
proved disastrous,
"You say expressed hte opinion
that THE labor element and ths. ne
groes, in my Judgment, would nit
in many instances vote for Mr.. Taft,
and that therfI was grave danger, in
my judgmen., as to whether I've could
carry certain states. This WAS my
hpmest opinion derived fncm CONVEX
stations amd information recedveH from
many persons and statements in, the
press. Was 1t treason fer me to- expires
thai opinion because yOh and a few OF
your kind fei. that ycm were NOM
arohs ct all you surveyed ind would
nJt brack opposition?
your statement thht the campaign
in Kentucky was directed tol the emf
Of colored men md work
ingmen against Mr.. Taft, if intended
to- apply to me, is false, / did NOT
STATE at any time that either of the
classes named should hhve, amy feeling
of animosity toward Mr.. Taft, or that
such feeling was Justified. simply
raada tie statement that whether jus
tifiable or mot, there was a Telling
against Mr.. Taft's nomination.
''In the campaign I made mot bne
mkind or uncomplimentary word was
uttered against Mr.. Roosevelt or Mr.
uttered against Mr.. Roosevelt
or Mr.. Taft: ON the con-