Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02
STIMSON REPLIES TO
CHARGES OF STANTON
LincoIn-RooseveIt Leader Asks
Candidate to Reply to
Questions

Marshall Stimson, prominent Lincoln
Roosevelt league and Good Govern
ment worker, yesterday addressed a
open letter to Philip A. Stanton, tn
Republican machine candidate for goN
ernor, denying certain erroneous cor
structions which have been given
the opposition press to Stimson's re
port of his interview with former Pres
ident Roosevelt.
Mr.. Stimbson also asks Stanton
couple of pertinent questions, request
ing him to reply through the news
papers. His letter follows:
Hon. Philip A. Stanton.
My Dear Sir: For the past two
days your newspaper organ has
published a series of articles in
which by means of statements, mis-
statements and half statements
they try to make it appear that l
have attempted to misrepIesent
Theodore Roosevelts attitude in
connection with the primary cam
paign in California They give some
quotations from an interview In the
Express of June 18, but they neglect
to print this statement which 1
give verbatim:
Colonel Roosevelt has informed
all of those who have seen him."
T6Dlieu MI. ollulSOlly llldI llO WOulu
take no part in the present primary
fight himself He is taking every
means at his command to become
thoroughly informed on the situa-
ton in all parts of the United
States.'
In my interview with him I
did not request his support for
the Lincoln Roosevelt Republican
league or Hiram Johnson, it's can
didate for governor, and no, such
request has been made by any one.
OF all the candidates for governor
none of them except yourself are
reputed to have made any request
of Colonel Roosevelt for his in
dorsement. If you have made such
a request, Roosevelt's telegram can
be nothing but denial OF the
same.
AS the public is interested in this
matter, l will ask you two ques-
tions which may throw some light
on the matter. and if you care to
do so I should be glad to have
public reply to the following ques-
tions:
First: Have you not stated, both
in private and in public, that you
would have the support and in
dorsement Of Colonel Roosevelt in
your campaign for nomination for
governor?
Second: Have you not. by letter
or otherwise, or through friends,
requested Colonel Roosevelt to
make some statement for you or
write a letter which could be inter-
preted as an Endorsement of your
self and used to aid you in your
campaign?
1 give this letter to the press and
request that you do the same with
your reply, -
MARSHALL STIMSON.
Last night stanton sent the follow
ing letter to Stimson:
Mr.. Marshall Stimson,
Los Angeles, Cal
NV Dear Mr.. Stimson: Yours of
this date is to hand. Permit me to
say in reply that any correspond
ence I may have had with Colonel
Roosevelt, other than the telegram
he authorized me to make public,
is in confidence. and, unlike your
self, I cannot violate a confidence.
Evidently you had not read the
telegram Colonel Roosevelt sent to
Fremont older of the San Fran
cisco Bulletin, which was published
in the Express of this city today,
when YOU wrote your letter to me.
In this telegram Colonel Roosevelt
saws: "It was the statements in
the Johnson papers that I sent
Pinchot to speak for Johnson
which rendered my statement inn
perative.'
You cannot expect me, Mr.. Stim-
son, to pull you out of the hole
your attempts to violate the conf
dence of Colonel Roosevelt have
mt Won in Respectfully,
PHILIP A. STANTON.