The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-09-01
Roosevelt Says n. Y.
Newspaper Is Liar

NEW YORK. Sept. 1.-The Outlook
for the current week contains sign
ed editorial article by Contributing
Editor Theodore Roosevelt on Men
dacious Journalism Ii Is in answer
to an editorial article in the Evening
Port of Aug &c. Col Roosevelt writes:
THE Evening Post Is not in IT.
self sufficiently important to warrant
ali answer, but as representing class
with whose hostility 1t is necessary
TO reckon in any genuine movement
while to speak OF 1t.
II have never for one moment count
ed upon the support OF the Evening
Post or of those whom Ii represents
in the effort for cleanliness and de-
cency within the eRpu5.ican party, be-
cause the Evening Post would sup
port such movement only on condi-
tion that 1t Was not part OF a large.
movement for the betterment OF social
conditions. But this Is not all. In the
struggle for honest politics there is
no more a place for the liar than there
is for the thief. and In a movement
designed to put an end to the domin-
ion of the thief but little good can be
derived from the assistance of the
liar.
"Of course objection will be made
10 my use of this language. My an
swer is that | am using Ii merely
scientifically and descriptively, and
because no other terms express the
facts with the necessary precision.
In the article In which the Evening
Post comes to the defense of those in
present control of the Republican par
" in New York state, whom 1t has
affected to oppose in the past, the
Evening Post, through whatever editor
personally wrote the article, practiced
every known form OF mendacity.
ITO take but one instance out OF
the many in this article. the Evening
Post saws:
"'It was Roosevelt who asked Har-
riman to come to the White House Sc
cretly, who took his money TO buy
votes in New York and who after
ward wrote to MY Dear Sherman"
yes, the same Sherman, reviling the
capitalists to whom he had previously
written saying: You and | are prac-
tical men,"
Not only is every important state
ment In this sentence false. but the
writer who wrote It knew 1t was false.
AS far as | was concerned, every man
visited the White House openly, and
MrM. Hartman among the others.
took no money from Mr.. Hartman Sc
cretly 70 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 as we'll to you after
election as before, but | owuld like
to see you some time before l write
my message.
"As a matter OF fact, when Mr..
Hartman called 1t was to complain
that the national committee would not
turn over for the use of the state
campaign in which he was interested
funds to run that campaign and 10 ask
me to tell Cortelyou to give him aid
for the state campaign.
Mr.. Cortelyou is familiar with the
facts.
III OllltI NOTuS. TIC stdltIutHb VI
the Evening Post Is not only false
and malicious, IL not only in direct
contradiction Of the facts, but Is such
that II could only have been made by
a man who. knowing the facts. DELHI
erately intended TO pervert them. Such
an act stands on level OF infamy
with the worst act ever performed
ny a corrupt member of a legislature.
or city official, and stamps the writer
with the same moral stigma that
stamps the bride taker.
The article speaks of my having
attacked corporations and. referring
directly to my Ohio speeches. OF my
having sought to infame 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 contro-
versy with a corporation. My state
ment was in effect that the first duty
Of the officials was to- put down dis
order and to put down mob violence.
and that after such action had been
taken then II was the dirty Of tine on
Gals to investigate the corporation