The Washington times., 1912-04-26

setts that. with his intimate knowledge
of the facts, Mr.. Roosevelt's linking my
name with Iorimer's for the purpose of
inducing the people OF Illinois to vote
against me On account of their feeling
against Senator Lorimer was not giving
me square deal.
False Charges.
Mr.. Roosevelt charges that / have
been receiving stolen goods" that /
have profited "by the use of dirty in
struments" to secure delegates. can
not, of course, be sufficiently familiar
with the facts in the primaries and con-
ventions of each State to be able to
say with certainty that in SO many con-
tests there have been no unfair acts
committed in my behalf. In the eager
ness and anxiety of partisans, some few
such acts are to be expected. All can
say is that no instance has been brought
to my attention in which specifications
of fraud have been sustained by any
evidence whatever.
The Payne bill as II passed the House
was a better bill than as It passed the
Senate. It had more substantial reduc-
tions though not so many. In neither
the House nor the Senate, however, was
Schedule K substantially changed as 1t
ought to have been. I signed the bill,
not because liked It, but because I
believed 1t was the best could get
and II was a vastly better bill than
the Dingley bill, whose place 1t took.
Has Mr.. Roosevelt ever condemned the
Payne bill? Does he say he would not
have signed 1t IL 1t had been presented
to him under conditions that I had to
meet? He has never said that as far as
-
of 1910. adopted by the convention of
Payne bill and approved its passage Is
II square deal, therefore, for him to
charge me with not being a progressive
when all that I did was to deal with
TO get as much as l could of the legise
lation promised out of that party, torn
as It was by. faction? OF course,
conferred with the regular Republican
and through them we redeemed the
promises Of the Republican platform to
an extent that no political platform had
ever been redeemed before.
The Oil Case.
I disagree with Mr.. Roosevelt as TO
the effectiveness Of the Standard OIL
Company decree. think that in a
rea sonable time the result of the decree
will show that the antitrust law is n
most useful statute. The nominal IN
crease in the price of the stock OF the
constituent companies (for the actual
sales are not many Is due to the fact
that the public has been heretofore de-
MED knowledge OF the real amount of
money and capital which each of these
companies have. and now 1t is known
Inquire among the independent oil com.
panies ana it will be found that today
there is more competition. both in the
purchase of crude oil and the sale OF
refined oil, than for twenty years and
this even though the price of oil has
gone up. 1t was true that the Stand
ard Oil Company, when 1t suited its
price Of oil. ana keep iown the demand
for crude oil. Now 1t has lost control
and the market will follow the law Of
supply and demand.
With CHARACTERISTIC boldness and lack
CT facts or evidence. and resting on his
false and distorted construction of my
language as to government by a repre-
sentative s.e1t tive part Of the peorle. Mr. Eoose-
called interests and special privilege.
II nothing else would serve, the record
of my administration as to suits against
railways to Stoo increase OF rates and
suits against trusts of all kinds to dis
solve them and to punish their direc-
tors. must show to a fair.minded public
ties among lawbreakers, or those seek
ing special privileges.
One of the real reasons why Mr..
Roosevelt ought not to be selected as a
candidate of any party is the natural
distrust that the whole business COM
munity will have in respect to the meas
ures which Mr.. Roosevelt will propose
in order TO effect a revolution in the in
terest of social justice which he advo-
Gates so strongly and defines so vaguely.
! affirm that the nomination of Mr..
| Roosevelt would extend through the
business community a feeling of such
distrust as to the future as to interfere
with the good times which, II business
Is let alone and present conditions con-
tinue, will expand into the most en-