The Green Forest tribune., 1910-09-16

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 to the defense of those in present con- trol of the Republican party in New York state, whom it has affected to oppose in the past, the Evening Post through whatever editor personally wrote the article, practised every known form of mendacity.
 Probably the Evening Post regards the decalogue as outworn; but if 1t will turn to it and read the eighth and ninth commandments, it will see that bearing false witness is condemned as strongly as theft itself. To take but one instance out of the many in this article, the Evening Post says Tt was Roosevelt who asked Hartman to come to the White House secretly, who took his money to buy votes In New York, and who afterwards wrote to My Dear Sherman-yes the same Sherman-reviling the capitalist to whom he had previously written, say ing: You and I are practical men, Not only is every important statement in this sentence false. but the writer who wrote it knew it was false As far as l was concerned, every man visited the White House openly, and MT. Hartman among the others. I took no money from MT Hartman se- cretly or openly to buy votes or for any other purpose Whoever wrote the article in the Evening Post in question knew that this was the foul est and basest lie when he wrote the sentence, for he quotes the same let ter in which I had written to MT. liar riman as follows: What l have to say to you can be said to you as well after election as before, but I would like to see you some time before I write my message 1 am quoting without the letter before me, but the quotation is substantially if not yer bally. accurate That statement in this letter to Hartman is of course on it's face absolutely incompatible with any thought that I was asking him for campaign funds, for it is of course out of the question that I could tell him equally we'll what I had to say after election if it referred in any possible way to getting money before election. This Is so clear that any pretense of misunderstanding is proof positive of the basest dishonesty in whoever wrote the article in question. As a matter of fact, when MT. Harri- man called it was to complain that the national committee would not turn over for the use of the state cam paign in which he was interested lr- f1 hot icn fn ask me to tell Cortelyou to give him aid for the state campaign. MT. Cor telyou is familiar with the facts, In other words, the statement of the Eve ming Post is not only false and mali c1ous, is not only in direct contradic- tion of the facts, but Is such that it could only have been made by a man who, knowing the facts, deliberately intended to pervert them. Such an act stands on a level of infamy with the worst act ever performed by corrupt member of the legislature or city official. and stamps the writer with the same moral brand that stamps the bribe-taker
 I have seen only a telegraphic ab- stract of the article, apparently con- taining quotations from it. Practical ly every statement made in these quotations is a falsehood.
 To but one more shall l allude The article speaks of my having attacked corporations, and, referring directly to my Ohio speeches, of my having sought to inflame the mob and make mischief" In those speeches the prime stand I took was against mob violence as shown by the labor people who are engaged in controversy with a corporation. My statement was in effect that the first duty of the state and the first duty of the officials was 10 put down disorder and to put down mob violence, and that after such action had been taken, then 1t was the duty of officials to investigate the cor poration, and if it had done wrong to make 1t pay the penalty of it's wrongs and to provide against the wrongdo- ing in the future. It is but another instance of the peculiar baseness, the peculiar moral obliquity, of the Eve ming Post that it should pervert the truth in so shameless a fashion.
 THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
 Cheyenne Wyo.. August 27, 1910.