Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-09-11
TR. TAKESHAND
INSURER CASE
Answering Letters From Accused Gov
ernOr Raps Hard Those Who Are
Now Prosecuting Executive.

Albany, N. Y, Sept. 4-Col. Theodore
Roosevelt has advised Governor Sui
ger to make a full and straightfor-
ward explanation and answer in refer
ence to the charges" which resulted
in the governors impeachment.
In a letter replying to two COM
mu%nications relating to the guberna-
torial situation SEM by the governor
to the former president while he was
travelling in the west, Colonel Roose-
Welt says:
"You owe it to yourself and to all
those who have supported you to take
the earliest opportunity to answer the
charges made against you"
Makes Letter Public.
Governor SulZer made the RoOse-
welt letter public today without COM
TGent. Asked if he would follow the
former presidents suggestions, the
governor referred his interrogators to
Lis general denial of the charges is
sued on advice of counsel August 1,
three days prior to the adoption of the
impeachment resolution by the assem-
bly,.
my explanation will be given at the
Impeachment trial." the governor de-
clared.
Colonel R%oosevelt's letter, in part,
follows:
"On my return from Arizona I re-
ceived your two letters. 1 believe ]
thoroughly understand the assault now
being made upon you. l have yet to
meet a single person who believes,
or even pretends to believe, that IL
single honest motive has animated the
proceedings of your antagonists. From
hir. Murphy himself to the legislators
Who obeyed his directions, there is no
possible question that all your assail-
ants are the enemies Of the public and
that their enemies of the public and
domination of the state government,
and that the conspiracy against you
has not one saving impulse behind it
that cal in the remotest degree be as
cribed to patriotism or civic spirit or
to anything save the basest impulse of
crooked politics. We have never seen
a more startling example of the power
of the invisible government under the
present system.
"The extraordinary thing is that the
conservative upholders of this present
system should have witnessed the de-
CroeS OF the Invisible car
ried out within foul hours and who
nevertheless denOunce as revolution
airy our proposals for changes in the
form of government whereby the DELHI
crate Judgment of the majority of the
voters may be executed within a space
Of time no shorter than that required
for the execution of their deliberate
judgment in the choice of a president
of the United States.
Let me add one thing, my dear
governor. You owe it to yourself and
to all those who have supported you
to take the earliest opportunity to
answer the charges made against you.
That the purposes of those bringing
the charges are wholly evil, I am sure
that all honest men feel. Moreover, I
am sure that honest men feel that the
assault made upon you by your foes is
due to your having stood up for the
principles of good government and de-
cent citizenship, even when it was nee
sary to defy the will of the bosses of
the two parties, and especially Of your
own, and to stand in the way of the
success of the corrupt schemes of the
party machines managers"