The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1910-09-22


to the defense of those in present con-
tro! 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 II 1t
will turn to 1t and read the eighth and
ninth commandments, 1t will see that
bearing false witness Is condemned
as strongly as theft itself. To take but
n instance out of the many in this
article, the Evening Post says: ct
was Roosevelt who asked Ha- riman 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-revil;og 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
II "lOGC IL hIIS" II was lolSC- Ao
70 " 7 was concerned. every man
r~ white House openly, and
'1r. ' ~-e the others. l
took TO rc~n~ Hartman Sc
c~nt!v Or O. - 20 = ties or for
Nv o. r"~~-o ~" ~",.~ wrote
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question k-cw tr1t I'll ~ac 80 -oul-
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GartNpna. FOR he rrotNe tie enne let
~ ~ v-"ich I had v~+"o - VT. Har-
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ron 10 c"iI r. vcrl as rfl
. -Er ,C"'~I as h"'c~e. ut 7 would
lilo TO see Won some time before I
10 nv message" I am quoting
without Tie letter before ne, but the
quotation Is substantially, If not YER
bally. accurate. That statement in
this letter to Hartman is of course
or it's face absolutely incompatible
with any thought that I was asking
him for camDaign funds, for It is Of
curse out Of the question that I could
tell him equally well what I had to
say after election If it referred in any
possible wav to getting MONEY before
election. This is so clear that any
pre+ense of misunderstanding is proof
positive of the basest dishonesty in
whoever wrote the article in question.
AS a matter of fact. when Mr.. Harri-
nan called II was to complain that the
national committee would not u
over for the use of the state cam
paign in which be was interested
funds TO run that campaign, and to
ask me to tell Cortelyou to give him
AID for the state campaign. Mr.. Cor
te}you is familiar with the facts. In
other words, the statement of the Eve
ming Post is not only false and mali
ton 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 eve performed by a
corrupt member of the legislature or
city official. and stamps the writer
with the same moral brand that
stamps the b~ribe-taker.
| have Eel only a Geographic abb
stract of the article. apparently con-
tanning quotGtions from It. Practical
ly every statement made In these
quotations is a falsehoa6.
To but one more shall ! allIde. The
article speaks of my having attacked
corporations, and. referring directly to
my Ohio speeches, q my having
sought to inflame 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. My statement was in
effect that the first duty Of the state
and the first duty Of the officials was
TO put down disorder and to put down
mob violence. and that after such
action had been taken, then II was the
duty Of officials to Investigate the cor
poration, and If It had lone wrong 20
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 bsseness, the
peculiar moral obiiquity, Of the Eve
ming Post hat 1t should pervert the
truth in so shameless a fashion.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Cheyenne. Wyo. August n. 1910,