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Show Is Caustic and Severe in Reply to the Roosevelt Letter and Willing to v;9 Stand Squarely on ifl His Record. V- ; (l 9 PLAINLY QUESTIONS EXECUTIVE'S ! DESIRE TO MEET THE ISSUES jfl Declares That His Utterances as to Campaign Con- B tributions Are Unworthy of One H Holding Highest Office. 1B POCK ISLAND, 111., Sept. 20. "I have lived in vain if your accusations loso mo a single friend," said W. .T. Bryan in a letter addressed to , President Presi-dent Roosevelt, roplj-ing to that of the President written Sunday last. Mr. Brj-an points to his record, and declares that it is a sufiicicnt answer to the insinuations in-sinuations of tho chief executive that ho is in sj-mpathy with or controlled by tho trusts. Reverting to tho charges mado against Gov. Haskell, Mr. Br3an says that tho President, in response to his request, did not deign to suggest a tribunal which could detcrmino those charges, but, instead, proceeded to pass judgment upon him. and he "informs the President that the occupant of that high office cannot deny to tho humblest citizen the right to protect, his reputa tion and viudicato his naino in the courts. Taking up tho President's assertion that certain trust magnates, fearing prosecution under Mr. Taft, will sup- Eort tho Democratic candidate, Mr. iryan charges that the President wordod his statement in such a way as to claim tho support of all the trust magnates, "and yet put it on tho ground that they arc supporting jour nartj' for patriotic reasons, rather than for tho promotion of a selGsh interest." inter-est." Shot at President. Such an argument, ho contends, is ingenious, but not sound. In proof of tho fact that ho would not be controlled con-trolled by the trusts. Mr. Bryan says that if elected he will enforce "the antitrust anti-trust laws, "not spasmodically and intermittently, in-termittently, but persistently and consistently." con-sistently." Mr. Brj'au, in dealing with the Democratic Demo-cratic campaign fund of 1S06, as compared with tho Republican campaign cam-paign fund of 1901. charges that tho President pays "more attention to the mote than to the beam." and asserts that in 1904 the Republicans used in ono State alone a fund almost as large as the entire sum tho Democratic party-had party-had in its control. Tho letter concludes with notice to tho President that an opportunity would be afforded him to "misrepresent the motives of those who give to our campaign fund, and to arouse all the suspicion -ou can." The letter is as follows: ' "Rock Island. 111., Sept. 29, 19QS. "Hon Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United Slates, Washington, D. O. "'Dear Sir: A brief reply to 3'our last letter is all that is necessary to call attention to your attempt to shift tho issues raised. In your letter attacking at-tacking Mr. Forakcr you iuscrtod an attack upon Gov. Haskell, and attempted at-tempted to use the charges against him to connect tho Democratic party and mo, as its candidate, with the trusts. I asked you to name a tribunal before be-fore which tho charges could bo investigated, in-vestigated, or, if you would not do that, offered to leave you to say whether, in your judgment, the charges justified Mr. Haskoll's withdrawal from tho organization. You did not deign to suggest a tribunal, but proceeded pro-ceeded to pass judgment upon him. He immediately resigned his position that ho might be more free to prosecute those who brought accusations against him. Thus his connection with the organization ended. . I had no authority to submit, and did not submit, to you tho question of his guilt or innocence for final decision. President Not a Ozaw "Even tho president ennnot deny to the humblest citizen of tho land the i right to protect his reputation and viudicato his name in courts established for tho purpose, where witnesses can be examined nnd ovidonce submitted ae- J cording to the rules of law. In piy first letter to you I resented tho. imputation that any charges made against Governor Haskell could bo justlv construed as connecting the Democratic party or mo, as Hb candidate, with any trust or Jaw-def3'ing Jaw-def3'ing corporation. You replied that tho charges wero a matter of uciieral notoriety, and 1 asked von why Mr. Taft did not mention llicm when he !?pokc in Oklahoma. You at once endeavored en-deavored to connect me with new matters mat-ters which arose nfter the Denver convention, con-vention, and. conscious that those charges wero insullicieut. you have since given wings to accusations that no disinterested dis-interested party would make against another without investigation. I am willing all your charges against mo shall be submitted to the voters of tho country coun-try and with your charges I submit my denial of auy knowledge- that could in the remotest way connect mo with any trust, monopoly or 'law-defying corporation..' corpora-tion..' "My record is sufficient .answer to V your insinuation. T have lived in vain MH if vour accusations lose me a single ''-IH friend. I challenge- you to name a trust LilH official w-ho is supporting mo, and, after cMI searching tho country, you produce the 'T-ll naino of ono man, not' a trust official, jtil but the local attorney of a trust. With- U ttl out inquiring whether ho stands for. me &2lH because of his connection with a trust. vtlH or in spite of it or because of his 'fear Jifl of business adversity under Mr. Taft, you accept his statement that he will 'vl vote, for mo as conclusive proof that I 4; am in league with the trusts, although H 'M you admit trust officials aro supporting 'H'l the Republican ticket. You compliment mo when you measure mo by a higher ' -HH standard than you do your political associates, for you insist that Mr. Rock- 11 efelJor's contribution to Governor Hughes's campaign fund was no rcfiec- fH tion upon him, and I take it for granted that you do not criticize Judge Tift's H recommendation of a Standard Oil at- ' J torney to the federal bench, a placo rvH whero tho judge might havo to pass J H upon charges against the very trust for j iH which he had been attorney. While the iH trust attorney to -whom you refer is not f JjH an official of any trust, I will warn yuPH him, and through him his clients, that IviH if I am elected I will not only vigor- ,?I -H ously enforce against all offenders tho rlt'll law which wo hopo to have enacted in !-VjI complianco with the Democratic plat- MIM form, but that I will also vigorously S'H enforco existing laws against any and -SH all who violate them; and that I will ml enforco them, not spasmodically and intermittently, but persistently and con- Xl sistcntly; they will not bo suspended, 9flH even for tho protection of cabinot of- S Uses Bible Quotation. "You say 'tho attitudo of many men -21 of large financial interests warrants ill .you 'in expressing the belief that those k3H trust magnates whose fear of being 1 prosecuted under tho law by Mr. Taft lH is greater than their fear of general business adversity' under me, will sup- 'H port mo rather than Mr. Taft. You :IH havo attempted to word that statement in such a way as to claim the support al of all tho trust magnates, and yet put. . it in ground that they aro supporting t your party for patriotic reasons rather lH than for the promotion of a selfish in- terest. That is ingenious, but it is not sound. Tho trust, magnates arc support- ' ing the Republican party, and the biblo i offers an explanation: 'The ox knowoth his owner, and the ass his masters' $ crib. v "You admit that you gave permis- sion to the steel trust to absorb1 a rival, j H and thus increnso the control of the a output of the steel and iron products. M 1 I will leave- tho American people to iH pass judgment, upon that act and com r ,-9 pare our position on the trust qucs- t i tion witii nunc. H Campaign Contributions. '(T'lfl "You rofer to our campaign fund ) -1 in 2S9G and accuse us of allowing two j men to contributo largely to the small x fund with which th9 committee con- ; -StB ducted the campaign. I am not sure jH about tho figures because I havo not xk seen an authentic statement of the con- -jH tributions. but I was informed that -the , largest of tho two sums which you men- ' tion was not all contributed by the i jH man to whom it was credited, but in- i . jH eluded contributions from others as well i ns that which he gavo himself. But if' L lM you wunt to be fair why do you not T 'M give the amount of tho Republican cam- 7 :yH paign fund that year and the sources f of it.7 I am willing to havo both funds J S published. Are you? If some of those ) who contributed to our fund of less -f'fl than .:00,000 had a pecuniary intorest ' IH in the result of tho election, how will I A-M you explain the enormous contributions 1 (f nmdo to the Repub'ican fund? If j-ou 'f'l will rcmcmbor tho Democratic platform f declared tho party's purpose. If the . p-H carrying out of that policy would have jB boon' of advantage to anyone, tho whole. Tl public knowledge and tho publications' , lH I of tho contributions would not havo lH ' affected the result. Publicity as to 1 flH enmpaien is not needed to make known ) IB that which is disclosed by tho platform, iwH but direct attention lo secret agree- Af?H monts expressed or implied, which IIlI would othcrwiso be concealed from tho lflH public. You certainly pav more attou- HH tion lo tho moto than to Uie beam when lfl you find fault with our national cam- Jl "paign fund in. .1S9( and ignore the sig- ',JH nificanco of a fund almost as larga, 'ill which at your request was collected T'l from a few persons in 1901, and was "il all obtained in one state, and was only, a- ill small item in the fund collected that' vll year. t(H liaises New Issuo. :K "But your letter presents a defense 1X1 of your party's position arid an ac- iSB cusation against the voters which cm- iwfl phasizes an issuo already prominent. v -'H You are the first conspicuous member of your party to attompt an explana- ) 'M'W tion of the party's. opposition to pub-. j Continued on Pago Three,., ' - vMjB WEAK TICKET NOMINATED BY CHURCH REPUBLICANS Continued from Page Two. of additional planks, Jake Grccncwald spoke in opposition to tho move. Then, after an hour of oratory, there was a demand for the previous question, ques-tion, and the chair put the question to the convention, "Shall wc reconsider the vote by which the platform was adopted?" Thero was but 0110 dissenting dis-senting vote, that one being Daniel llarriuglon. Mr. Christensen was then recognized and ho had the following four additional addition-al planks which ho asked to be incorporated incor-porated in and becomo a part of the platform: Realizing tho value of measures looking to the prevention of crime wc commend tho work of the juvenile court .system as established and maintained throughout the state by tho Republican administration, administra-tion, the detention school of Salt Lake county, also established by tho Republican Repub-lican administration, as an approved and valuable adjunct to tho court, and an aid In its work. Wo heartily Indorse the work of the city Juvenile court commission commis-sion and tho officers In charge of tho local lo-cal detention school, and pledge ourselves to the support of those Institutions, and to tho Increase of facilities for Industrial training and for the establishment of schools for tho girls. We plcdgo our leglslatlvo nominees to tho support of such remedial legislation as may be proper toward tho greater Bnfcty and protection of the inetnl and coal miners and smelter employes of this state. Wc favor a primary election law, and we pledge our legislative nominees to work for tho enactment of the same. Wc favor the enactment of a lire and police commission law for cities of tho llrst class, and wc plcdgo the nominees of this convention to the legislature to work to that end. Each of the planks was adopted separately sep-arately and then as a whole, and thus soino life was injected into the most meaningless platform over adopted by a convention in tho history of Utah. Three Senators Named. After lho adoption of tho additional planks to the platform, nominations for Senator being tho order, the following follow-ing gentlemen were presented, viz.: S. J. Stookcy. Carl Badger, S. IE. Love. Sam Park, A. E. Marks. W. 11. Woodriug and H. C. Tvcrson. Tho delegates dele-gates who presented theso names eulogized them to tho skies. There wero a Jiumbcr of seconding speeches, and then a call of the roll was had, resulting result-ing as follows: Marks 420 Woodrlng . 201 Badger 358 Love 224 Park 21S Stookey 323 Ivcrson Messrs. Marks, Badger and Slookey wore declared tho nominees of the cou-, vention. Tho emblem adopted by tho party was the eagle on tho beehive. ' Get In a Hurry. On motion of A. B. Irvine, as a substitute sub-stitute for a- motion limiting nominating nominat-ing speeches to one minute, it was agreed to read to the convention tho printed list of names of candidates for House of Representatives, and place them all in nomination without any speeches. The following list was placed in nomination by Ma,j. My ton: Hugh Mc-Millin. Mc-Millin. Joseph J. Cannon. Thomas E. Vissing. Brigham CI egg. Daniel McRac, S. A. Krinier. Parley P. Jensen. "William "Wil-liam MeMillnn. IT. L. Xclson. Briant S. Young, T. C. Mariner, Joseph M. Holt, A. 13. Leo, 35. J. Eardlev, W. L. Dunn, Claude Y. 'Russell. C. S. Price, Prod McGurrin. Ted Molmaii, William 12. . Cox, F. IL Rudy, R. T. Porter, J2. C. Ashlon. I The following were declared iiomi- ! noes for representatives: J. J. Cannon, , 560; David McRac. -lo4; Brigham 1 Olugir. i-H: J. M. Holl, 3fl-i; 12. J. : Eardloy, 3-10; Ted Ilolman, 406; E. C. AshtOii. 350; Hugh McMillan. 32-1; ' Claudo Russell. 251; William McMillan, 26S. Gus Backnian said that the decorations decora-tions were the property of the American Ameri-can party and wore left as a courtesy to the Republicans, aud ho moved a vole of thanks to tho committee which loft thorn. Ilnrry Joseph said thov paid for the decorations, and the vote of thanks was due to Captain Reid for leaving them in position 1 At .1:15 o'clock tho convention ad-I ad-I journcd sine die. |