The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-09-17

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Itosthe defense Of those In present con.
troll 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. isiil
Probably the Evening Post regards
the decalogue as outworn; but ifait
win turn to It and read the eighth and
ninth commandments, It VIII see that
bearing false witness Is condemned
as strongly as theft itself. To take but
one instance out ofSthe many in this
article the Evening Post says:a at
was Roosevelt who asked Hartman. to
come 70 the White House secretly;
who took his money to buy votes In
New York; and who afterwards wrote
Iitos' MY Dear sherman'-yes, the same
,shernia 7reviling thei capitalist to
whom heihad previously written, say!
Ing You and I! are practical men,"
mot only Is every important statement
in this Sentence false, but the writer
who wrote It knew Il, was false. As
far as ] was concerned, every man
visited the White House openly, and
Mr.: Hartman among the others. Il
took no money from Mr.! Hartman SCI
scretly or openly to buy votes or for
any other purpose: Whoever wrote
the article In the Evening Post I'M
question, knew that this, was the, foul.
est and basest' lie when he wrote thei
sentence for he quotes the same LETT
tier IN which 1 had written tosMr. Hars::
riman as follows: What l have to-
say, to you can be said to you as welll
after electionlas before, but / would
like to see you some time before +
write my message" T. am quoting
without the letter before me, but thet
.quotation' is substantially, 10 not ver.l
bally,. accurate. That statement in,
this letter to Hartman is of coursel
on Its face absolutely Incompatible
with any, thought that I was asking,
him for campaign funds for It Is of
course out Of tie question that, I could
letell him equally we'll what had to-
say after election if itireferred in any
possible way to- getting money beforet
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 factSwhen Nj. Harri.3
man called Il 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 Isl familiar with the facts, In
other words, the statement of the Ese.l
ming Post is not only false and MALI
,cious, is not only in. direct contradic.'
ton Of the facts, but Is such that IL
could only have been made by a man
who, knowing the facts, deliberately
intended to pervert them. Such an
act stands on a7levelf 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 that
stamps the bribe-takers tis
T have seen only tefegraphic' ab.'
istract of the icle.lapparently. con.
timing quotations from It. Practical
ly every statement made: 3 In these!
quotations is ,falsehood so
To but one more shall allude. The
article speaks Of my having attacked
corporations, and, referring directly to
| my Ohio speeches, Of my having
Sought to infiame the mob and make
mischief" In. those speeches the
prime stand took was against mob
violence as shown, by the labor people
who are engaged In controversy with
a corporation. Ny 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 It was the
duty OF officials to investigate the cor.
poration, and II 1t had, done wrong to
make 1t pay the penalty Of It's wrongs
and to provide against the wrongdo.
ing IN. tho future. til but another
instance OF the peculiar baseness, the
peculiar moral obliauity, Of the Eve.
ming Post that It should pervert the
truth in so shameless a fashion.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Cheyenne, wyo. August q. 1slof