The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-09-05
ROOSEVELT GIVES
GOOD ADVICE
TO SULzER
Tells Him To Make Clean Breast
OF Matter
ATTACKS TAMMANY FORCES
Advises a Complete Answer to
Charges and Argues in Favor
OF the Recall.
ATTACKS TAMMANY FORCES

Albany, Sept. 5-Col. Theodore
Roosevelt has advised Gov. SulZer TO
make full and straightforward ex-
PLANTATION and answer in reference to
the charges" that resulted in his i'm
parchment. In letter replying to
two communications relating TO the
gubernatorial situation sent by the
governor to the former president
while he was travelling in the West,
Col. Roosevelt says: You owe it to
yourself and to all those who have
supported you to take the earliest OPP
portunity to answer the charges made
against you
Gov. Sulzer made the Roosevelt let
ter public yesterday without com
ment Asked if he would follow the
former presidents suggestion, the
governor referred his interrogators to
his general denial of the charges
made by the Frawley committee, issu
ed on the advice of his counsel on
August 10, three days prior to the
adoption of the impeachment resolu
ton of the Assembly. my explana-
tiCn viii be given at the impeach
ment trial" the governor declared.
Col. RoOsevelts letter follows: "On
my rteurn from Arizona ! have re-
ceived your two letters. | thank you
for them. | believe | thoroughly I'M
derstand the assault that is now be-
ing made upon you. | have yet TO
meet single person who believes. or
even pretends to believe, that a sim
gle honest motive has animated the
proceedings of your antagonists.
From Mr.. Murphy himself to the leg
islatCrs who obeyed his directions
there is no possible question that all
CT your assailants are the enemies of
the public, and that their aim is TO
acquire the evil domination of the
state government, and that the con.
spiracy against you has not one saw
ing Impulse behind it that can in the
remotest degree be ascribed TO patrio.
tism or civic spirit or TO anything
save the basest impulse of crooked
politics. We have never seen a more
invisible government under the pres
ent system.
The extraordinary thing is that the
conservative upholders of this pres
ent system should have witnessed the
DEGREES of the invisible government
carried out within "a hours and who
nevertheless denounce as revolutions
airy our proposal for changes in the
form of government whereby the de-
liberate judgment of the majority of
the voters may be executed within q
space of time no shorter than that re-
quired for The execution OF their de-
lberate judgment in the choice of a
president of the United States.
Let me add one thing, my dear
governor You owe II 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,
| am sure that all honest men feel.
Moreover. ! 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 decent citizenship
even when it was necessary to defy
the will of the bosses of two parties,
and especially of your own, and to
stand in the way OF the success of the
corrupt schemes of the party machine
managers. But there is also among
honest men a desire for a fun and
STRAIGHTFORWARD explanation and an
swer in reference to the charges
made against you, and | very earnest
ly hope that as soon as possible the
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