The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-09-15

TO the defense of those in present con.
trol OF the Republican party in New
YORK state, whom ii 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 II II
VIII turn to 1t 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: at
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 the same
Sherman-reviling the capitalist to
whom he had previously written, say
ing: You and are practical men,"
Not only is every important statement
In this sentence false, but the writer
who wrote 1t knew II was false. AS
far as | was concerned, every man
visited the White House openly, and
Mr.. Hartman among the others.
took no money from Mr.. Hartman Sc
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 had written to Mr.. Har-
riman as follows: What ! have to
say to you can be said to you as well
after election as before, but l would
| like to see you some time before |
write my message" 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 l was asking
him for campaign funds, for 1t is OF
course out Of the question that l could
tell him equally we'll what l had to
say after election IL 1t referred in any
| pOSSlDlC way W bCelihb AhOhSy cSio' "
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 Mr.. Harri'
man called 1t was to complain that the
national committee would not turn
over for the use of the state cam.
paign in which he was interested
funds to run that campaign, and to
ask me to tell Cortelyou to give him
aid for the state campaign. Mr.. Cor
telyou is familiar with the facts. In
other words, the statement of the Eve
ming Post Is not only false and mall
cious, is not only in direct contradic'
ton of the facts, but is such that II
could only have been made by man
who. knowing the facts, deliberately
intended to pervert them. Such an
act stands on level of infamy with
the worst act ever performed by a
corrupt member of the legislature or
city official. and stamps the writer
with the same moral brand tha'
stamps the bribe-taker.
| have seen only telegraphlc ap
stract of the article, apparently con
tanning quotations from 1t. Practical
" every statement made In these
quotations is a falsehood.
To but one more shall allude. The
article speaks of my having attacked
CORPORATIONS, and, referring directly &c
nv Ohio speeches, OF my having
sought to infame the mob and make
mischief" In those speeches the
prime stand I took was against moi
violence as shown by the labor people
who are engaged in controversy VIII
a corporation. My statement was II
effect that the first duty of the state
and the first duty of the officials was
m nut down disorder and to put do~r
moh violence. and that after sucf
action had been taken, then it was the
dutv of officials to investigate the cor
noration. and II It had done wrong u
make It pay the penalty of its wrongs
and to provide against the wrongdo
ing in the future. 1t is but another
instance of the peculiar baseness, thu
neculiar moral obliquity, OF the Eve
ming Post that 1t should pervert the
truth In so shameless a fashion.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Cheyenne, Wyo., August ~ 1911