Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-04-26
7. R. AND PLATT
BOSOM FRIENDS
IN GIVING Jobs
Roosevelt Admits He and New
York BOSS" Consulted on
Appointments.
CONFIDENTIAL LETTERS
ARE PLACED IN EVIDENCE
my Actions as Visible as They
Could Be-" the Colonel
Explains.

SYRACUSE, n. Y, April GA
series of confidential letters taken
from the files kept by the late Thomas
Z. Platt, while he was representing
| the State Of New York in the United
! States Senate, were today read to the
jury trying William Barnes's suit for
| alleged libel against Theodore Roose-
/ Velt IN the Supreme Court here.
some OF the letters were signed by
| Senator Platt, while others were
signed by Colonel Roosevelt. In near
ly all of them the writer's discussed
candidates for Office in the State gov
ernment. and in reply to a question
by Mr. Barnes's counsel, the former
president said without the slightest
hesitation that he consulted freely
with Senator Platt about affairs at
Albany, knowing and realizing at all
times that ne was the boss" of the
Republican party in this State.
One of the letters read during the
forenoon session contained a post
script which read: "All right; III
change the whole Board of Tax AS
SCISSORS"
Brought by Young Plat.
The letters were brought to Syra-
cuse bS the former senator's son and
turned over to counsel for Mr.. Barnes.
Although the colonel could not say
whether he had ever made it known
to the public that he was comforting
with Mr.. Platt over appointments he
denied emphatically that such con-
ferences constituted invisible gov
ernment."
my actions" the witness asserted,
were as visible as they could be-"
Although Syracuse apparently has
become used to having Colonel Roose-
welt as its guest, the crowd that
floclsed in front OF all the doors OF
the Court House here this morning
was larger than on any day last week.
When court opened a stipulation
between counsel that dispositions of
four unnamed witnesses outside the
State should have the same effect as
if the witnesses appeared on the
stand was read into the record. Mr..
WINS, Mr.. Barnes's attorney. then put
into the record letters written by Mr..
Barnes to Colonel Roosevelt and by
| Colonel Roosevelt to Mr.. Barnes and
| to Herbert Parsons. The latter LETT
ters. dated August Il. 1908, were near
fly Identical IN Contents and phrase
ology In one letter Mr.. Barnes dis
cussed Governor Hughes. He said
that should Hughes be elected he
would set up a political machine and
IndI all WHO OppOStQ
would have to "sneak in the back
door or get out of politics."
The reply of Colonel Roosevelt,
written at Oyster Bay, read:
Colonel Roosevelt's Letter.
my dear Mr.. Barnes:
Yesterday 1 saw Sherman, Ben
nett, George Smith, Mike Dady,
Cocks and Hitchcock, chairman of
the national committee, here. I have
been carefully going into the Hughes
matter since L saw you. I appre-
ciate to the full the force of the argu
ments you urged against his renomi-
nation. 1t is not pleasant for me to
support man who has wantonly be-
haved badly to the very men who did
most in securing his selection.
would approve of his turning down in
the public interest, but 1 object to it's
being done wantonly. Moreover, I
appreciate that he has alienated,
quite needlessly, very many voters,
and if we had the right man to put
in his place (the right man from the
standpoint of getting votes) 1 should
say that it was certainly wise to
nominate such a man. But no such
man is in sight, and there does not
seem to be the slightest chance of
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