The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-24
Tells Former President He Was Deceived When he
 Made Appointment
BITTER IN ATTACK
 ON FEDERAL JUDGE
Even Goes So Far as to Say United States Supreme Court Has Been Fixed so People Cannot
 Get Justice

p1t JuStttt
 Tn a letter addressed to Colonel Theo- doie Roosevelt. in care of the Outlook, New York city, and given to the press yesterday. former Governor Braston B. Conner, flays Judge Thomas Jones once again. The former governor answers the letter made public by Judge Jones from Colonel Roosevelt in which the latter said that Judge Jones was appointed fed eral judge only upon the solicitation of TO railroad official
 Governor Conner in his letter covers a wide range and even charges that the United States supreme court has been so fixed that the people cannot get jus tice. He writes as follows
 Hon Theodore Roosevelt, care outlook.
 New York City:
 My Dear Sir:-Some time since the in- ferIor federal judge at Montgomery, Ala, Represented to you that, in baccalaur- cate address made by me at the Southern university, Methodist sechool at Greens boro, Ala. I stated that the Louisville and Nashville railroad had proc0Sed op forced his appointment as judge from you as President In your reply you stated that ex-President Cleveland had first sug gested his name. Enclosed please find copy Of the baccalaureate aHlress, and you will see that made no such alluslon or statement.
 T am also enclosing copy of my reply to Judge Jones' criticism of my valedic- tory message. as governor to tho Alabama
 legislature Near the middle of the fourth column there occurs this section: As to lis appointment as judge, unquestionably he had the ability, unquestionably there was no bribery, but that it was spon- taneous In the mind of the President, that no influence was exercised by any body or any interest is not thinkable; that
 is net the nature of the beast and the jungle MT. Roosevelt himself may not have known it. but the interest was there and made the put-over'
 "TLis contains my written charge on the subject. In an open air speech withou. notes at Oneonta. Ala, I made the state ment that he owed his appointment to the Louisville and Nashville railroad and Booker Washington. and this, in the man ner of the above quotation from my writ ten statement, still charge.
 Jones' Public Service
 MT. Cleveland and Judge Jones did not go to Yale, so possibly that was not the reason for the appointment The extraordinary public service that Colonel Jones rendered was when, as a member of the legislature he de- feated a proposition to give the rail road commission some power. When governor he did the same thing; in both instances he was the Louisville and Nashville attorney. When mem Der of the constitutional convention he fought the grandfather clause of our constitution under which the ignorant negro Is disfranchised, possibly the former of these things commended him to MT, Cleveland through Mir Bel mont or some other railroad source and the latter commended him to MT. Wash ington.
 MT. Cleveland was from New York. ocrats of New York he was largely al lied with the big interest, MT. Belmont, big democrat of New York at that time owned the Louisville and Nash vile railroad. MT Beveridge in mak- ing the keynote speech at your pro- gressive convention in Chicago charged visible and invisible influence in the management of our affairs.
 "'rhe Louisville a/hd Nashville rail- road In Kentucky, Tennessee and Ala ha fna and ie uI a factor in politics as was the national committee who organized the Taft Chicago convention. Mir. Hearst in pub lished letters showing the Standard oil magnate, Mir. Archbolds debauch- cry of our notable public officials men tions MT. Milton II. Smith. president of the Louisville and Nashville rail- road, as his coadjutor along that line
 Like National Committee
 MT Smiths attorney. Hon. Thomas Goode Jones, with methods exactly like the national committee practiced against you at Chicago and in favor of Mir Taft, was nominated for gov ernor These methods you foresaw would be carried out if control of the committee continued in the same hands. Two years later when it came to the renomination and reelection of Cover nor Jones, Kolb running independent just as you are, with Jones as regular nominee the same committee control- ling the election machinery In 20 black belt counties manipulated, counted fin or out as the necessity might be. 50,- 900 votes to overcome the naJorities of the people for Kolb and so was Jones put in. The negro, dead or alive present and voting or not, was a more important factor than at Chicago.
 You state in the Outlook, August 10. The first essential in the progressive programme is the right of the people to rule.' The people of Alabama did not rule then. Tot. state further in the same number The democratic and republican organizations alike represent government of the needy many by professional poli- ticians in the interests of the rich few. This was undoubtedly the case then, and when the same man, now inferior federal judge. by injunction processes in 1907 and 1912 assumed the government of Ala bama. 1t was in the interest of the rich few. ana the cause of human rights and of government efficiency was lost to view
 August 10 you again state: The fun proposal of the national pro- gressive party, a proposal which l ac- cept, which l shall maintain with every legitimate power at my command, and of friends nor prophecies of failure shall divert me. is that the people have the right and shall be given the power to sec to 1t themselves that the government ac- ton taken in their name is really the ac- tion they 6esire, that this government shall be in reality in common. every day life, q government of the people, by the people, for the people
 Three times have the people Of Ala