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Show ' - ' - -' y - r ' -v y ' r irritis Sfccntircn tc Executive Is Printed . la ' ; : Ii::r$' F r::?l::-of r:nvcr., : ': 7, BUTTE. Mont., Pept 23. Wten B? sa-tor sa-tor Falrbanki ni bit party .rrtvd - here they found tb Republican Ieadra cdTJEldfratTy ;exerclsd cv th f uh'.li cation Jn'th Miner Maraiina, pub-IIh"d pub-IIh"d at Denver by the Western Federation Fede-ration c hllner of.Fbjf F?rP0,1ed 1? be V denunc!a.tlon ot labor union by President Rooawettr---- denUl of ' thautheptlctty by the President, Thj Pfeeid'enfa Vontradlctjon Vii aent' to former Senator Lee ManOe, in reiponse to, a telegfram of inquiry frpm lilin, and m follows:' ' White House-Wa?hn(rton. Septereb 2. Bon. Le Maatla. L4.ue:Your te6gram received. The letter you refer to purport- Int: to be addreBed y me to Mf. Michael Donixr'ly and pr.-ited In the Minera' Mag- .. atne of September tZ, la. ef course, an a.-ii rd'And lr pudent forpfry. 1 have wruten- no juch letter, nor any letter even resembling it, to Mr. Donnelly, nor any one eise. I have written Mr. Donnelly re. q - stlni? to know if he has received any j a letter and requesting him, if s, to t o"'-e lay it bfor. the District Attorney cf Ci C8o to find out wb' iher it ls-pos-s.t'e lo tiseoTr and rir l' ri the forger. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The letter In which the President was represented (o have made his attack Upon Up-on union labor was addressed to Don-: nelly, president of. the Butchers and Meat Cutters 'union pf Chicago. The document Is given In full, with Preel-cent Preel-cent Roosevelt's name attached, but without date," And It sthted that 1t was Written J,n response,-, to an appeal by ponnelly to him to interfere for the settlement set-tlement of the late ' butchers' strike. Following are seme extracts from it: 1 stand ready to do as my lllustrlou predecessor, Grover Cleveland, did;" snd assert the power t this nation Against all local nulliners. w - ' ' Last summer I- felt Impelled to write a letter calling upon my countrymen to put down lynching. But labor union, terrorism and crime are as great a national menace as lynch law. Let me tell you that the first duty of the officers of the law, whether they be Sheriff, Sher-iff, Constable, municipal ofnevena, Mayors. Governors or the president himself is to maintain public order-and put owtt"tht tnob with i iron hand. ' After' sdvlslng Donnelly to put a stop to the strike, the President ts represented as saying: "In any case be assured I will keep my hands off unless your tolly brings lou Into collision "with the laws of tbs United States, when my hsnd will go on in iiy you. Will no like. So far as I am Concerned, you have barked up" the wrong trs.. I am not to be either wheedl.d or frightened into meddling " with What Is hone of my business." . ' - ' , . Wliat Federatiotdsts Sa7f ' DENVER,' Colo1.. SepV kSecretanf W. D. Haywood of-the 'Western" Federation Federa-tion of Miners said last night that the re buted letter of President Roosevelt' to" President Donnelly of the Butchers' union un-ion was copied from the Wisconsin Toll-er.' Toll-er.' Secretary' Hay Wood' said he did' not know where the Tpiler was published. So far as -the letter pf President 'Roosevelt having been a forgery, Secretary "Haywood "Hay-wood says he was -net aware of it. The Miners' Magaxlne is published under the cirectipn ot the Federation and both President Moyer and Secretary Haywood take aq active' part, In Its direction.' 1 '.'' . . '.ij.ii 'i. i -i - |