Evening journal., 1910-09-01
CALLS POST
EDITOR A LIAR
ROOSevelt'S Bitter Reply to
New York Newspapers
Attack on Him
TOOK NO HARTMAN
MONEY TO BUY VOTES

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.--Contributing
Editor Roosevelt. In the Outlook. out
to-day. prints telegraphed answer TO
the recent charges made by the New
York Evening Post In which he em-
ploys adjective and invective in the
true Rooseveltian manner. After
quoting at length from the editorial
and its intimation that he was at
tacling tho corporations to make
them support him, Roosevelt SAYS:
I'm the struggle for honest politics,
there is no more place for a liar than
there is for a thief. and in the move
ment designed to put an end TO the
domination OF the thief. but little good
can be derived from the assistance
OF the liar.
"Of course objection will be made to
my use OF this language My answer
is that ! am using it merely scien-
uhcally and descriptively. aud because
no other terms express the, facts with
the necessary precision. I'm the arti-
Gle In which the Evening Post comes
TO the defense of those i'm the present
control OF the Republican party hl
New York state, whom it affected to
oppose In the past. the Evening Post,
through whatever editor personally
wrote the article. practiced every
known form OF mendacity. -
AS far as ! am concerned every
man visited the White House openly
and Mr.. Hartman among the others
| took no money from Mr.. Hartman,
secretly 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 tho foul
est and basest lie
The statement of tho Post is not
only false and malicious. Is not only
l in direct contradiction OF the facts.
but is such that Il could only have
been made by a man who. knowing
the facts, deliberately intended to per-
vert them Such an act stands on
level of infamy with the worst act
ever performed by a corrupt member
Of a Legislature or city official aud
stamps the writer with the same moral
brand that stamps the bribe takcr."
The Post Editorial.
A part OF the Posts editorial. which
aroused the ire of the Colonel fol-
/ lows:
THE thing goes beyond a display Of
bad taste AS such IL is shocking. but
II is. besides. an exhibition Of moral
inpudence. 4 will make the corpora
tions come to time shouted Roosevelt.
to the mob But did he not really
mean that he would make them como
/ down with the cash TO elect him as he
did before2 For a man with Mr.. Roose-
velts proved record II rs simply dis
gusting humbug for him TO rant about
the corporations upon whose treas
urers he fawned when he was Presi
dent and wanted their money for hi
campaign Does he think that nobod
has memory which goes back TO IN
: life insurance Investigations. and thf
everybody has forgotten the $4,000
taken from widows and orphans an
added to Theodore RoOsevelt's pOlitl
cal corruption fund? Did he not tax
a big check from the Beef Trust AM
glad to get it? And nov he Is goini
10 make the corporations come 4
timel One can have respect for a sin
cere radical. for an hoost fanatic. fol
an agitatOr or leveller who believe.
that he is doing Gods will; but II
is hard to be patient with a man who
1 talks big but acts means, whose eye
is always to the main chance politi-
/ cally. and who lets no friendship. no
! generosity. no principle. no moral
/ scrupie stand Tor moment between
himself and the goal upon which he
has set his overmastering ambition.
such wild and whirling words as
Mr. Roosevelt uttered yesterday are a
curse TO public life. They arouse pas
sions without directing II. They give
no one a clear idea of what the speak
er meant. except that he sought TO in
fame the crowd and make mischief.
/ He Eliminates against crooked mon.
| He Is going to 'cinch the crooks. Why
not be specific? Whom does he
mean7'