The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-26
4 DENIAL PROMPTLY SMASHED,

4 one WHONl ne " b' III vs.
, wav, and meets charges against himsel
l by flat denials But in the case IN
| volved in tho charges made by Rep
resentative Augustus j. Gardner oi
Massachusetts, he is squarely caught
in falsehood when he made his denials
The Tribune of Tuesday morning con
tanned the gist Of Representative Gard
ners charges, these being that Col
Roosevelt. in spite of his persona
knowledge by direct correspondence
with President Taft, that the Presi-
dent had no connection whatever with
the Lorimer case, Roosevelt STILL in
his campaign in Illinois, coupled the
President with Lorimer in common
connection and denunciation. Mr..
Gardner further charged that re-
port Of Herbert Knox Smith, Commis-
sioner of Corporations, with regard TO
the Harvester Trust. had been sup
pressed, that Roosevelt as President had
advised postponement of the suits
against the Harvester trust. and further
that Roosevelt, in his dealing with
trusts, "made exceptions in instituting
proceedings against favorite trusts of
Roosevelt, -
On Wednesday morning, The Tribune
carried Col Roosevelt 5 denial which,
on the first part with regard to Lori
mer, admitted that he had coupled
President Taft with Lorimer in Hi
nois, but claimed Justification for it
because "Taft Senator's were sup
porting Lorimer. He did not in any
way undertake TO show any connec
tion of President Taft with the Lori
mer case. and his reason for coupling
the Presidents name with that OF
Lorimer in Illinois was a mere infer
encc of his own. having no substan-
tisl base whatever, and the whole mat
ter being rcfuted by personal letters
which he had from President Taft. In
this Roosevelt went decidedly lame,
as The Tribune said yesterday morn
ing.
Passing then to the alleged sup
pressed report, Col. Roosevelt denied
that there had been any suppression
at all, and with respect to the Har-
vester Trust, he fortified his denial
with kilograms from mmissioner
Smith and former Attorney General
Bonaparte, In treating Of tins matter
yesterday morning, we suggested that
proba bly, the denial was technical
rather than candid; and this turns out
to be the fact, for it was not strictly
report that the commissioner
made with respect to the matter
charged, but a letter written direct to
A report notwithstanding. On this
letter, (then) President Roosevelt
wrote to the Attorney General advis
ing delay in the prosecution OF the
Harvester trust, stating that il was a
technical matter ANYWAY, that delay
would in no wise affect the equities Of
the ease, and directing that no suit
he brought before hearing from the
President. This correspondence, it, ap-
pears, was melted by the objection OF
Mr.. Perkins, who was then with the
John T. Morgan house. and who had
made the threats referred TO by Com.
missioner Smith that "if, after all
the endcsvors of this company and the
other Morgan interests to uphold the
policies Of the administration and to
adopt their methods of modern pub.
lcity, the company was now going to
be attacked in purely technical case.
the interests he represented were going
to fight, -
Not only, therefore, were Represen-
tative Gardner's charges specifically
and exactly true, but Col Roosevelt g
denials were not even technically
evasive: they were plain, blunt false
hoods throughout, Former Attorney
General Bonaparte and Commissioner
Smith are also covered with confusion
by reason of denisls that are now
shown 10 be unsubstantiated. II is sell
dom that public man of any dis
tinction whatever is so clearly caught
IN absolute untrutb as Col Roosevelt
has been caught in this case. His de-
mails are shown by the record to bo
not clumsy evasions, not skillful pre-.
varications, but unadultersted, straight
forward lies. We imagine that this
development brought forward by Mr..
Gardner Will be the death blow to
Roosevelt's aspirations, not only to
the Presidency this year, but TO any
preferment at the hands Of the Ameri-
can people at any time heneeforth; for
when man is caught in absolute.
brazen lies. told in his own defense
and for his own advantage, the people
of the United States must necessarily.
as candid, honest folk, have done with
him for ever.
THE PINCHoT PAMPHLET.