The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-05
HE SAYS TELL ALL
Col. ROOseveIt's Letter of Ad-
vice to SulZer.
Urges the Governor to Explain
His Conduct Fully.

Albany, N. Y. Sept. 5.-Colonel Theo-
dore Roosevelt has advised Governor
Sulzer to make full and straightfor-
ward explanation and answer in refer
the governors impeachment
In a letter replying to two communi-
cations sent by the governor to the for
mer president while he was travelling
in the west. Colonel Roosevelt 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"
Governor Sulzer made the Roosevelt
letter public today without comment
Asked if he would follow the former
Presidents suggestion, the governor re-
ferred his interrogators to his general
denial of the charges made by the
Frawley committee, issued on the ad-
vice of his counsel on August 10, three
days prior to the adoption of the i'm
parchment resolution by the assembly.
My explanation will be given at the
impeachment trial." the governor de-
clared.
Roosevelt's Letter.
Colonel Roosevelt's letter follows:
ION my return from Arizona I have
received two letters. I thank you for
them. I believe I thoroughly under
stand the as. -ult that is now being
made upon you. I have yet to meet a
single person who believes, or even
pretends to believe that a single hon.
est motive has animated the proceed
ings of your antagonist.
From Mr.. Murphy himself to the
legislators who obeyed his directions,
there is no possible question that all
of your assailants are the enemies of
the public and that their aim is to ac-
quire the evil domination of the state
government and that the conspiracy
against you was not one having i'm
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est degree be ascribed to patriotism or
civic spirit or to anything save the
basest impulse of crooked politics.
I'VE have never seen a more start
ling example of the power of the in
visible government under the present
system.
The Invisible Government.
1.-The extraordinary thing is that the
conservatives. upholders of this pres
ent system should have witnessed the
DEGREES of the invisible government
carried out within twenty-four hours
and nevertheless denounce as revolu-
tionary our proposal for changes in
the form of government whereby the
deliberate judgment Of the majority of
the voters may be executed within
space of time, no shorter than that re-
quired for the execution Of their de-
Hberate judgment in the choice of the
president of the United States.
ernor. You owe it to yourself and to
all those who have supported you to
take the earliest opportunity to an
swer the charges made against you.
That the purpose 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
essary 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 machine managers.
But there is also among honest men
a desire for full and straightforward
explanation and answer in reference to
the charges made against you and I
very earnestly hope that as soon as
possible this explanation and answer
will be made"