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ESTABLISHED IN 1 CALLS HIM DOWN \ ? Bryan Demands Proof of the Charges Against Haskei! MADE BY ROOSEVELT. <l&alle*ges the President to Product: Evidence Upon Which He Basses His Endorsement of the Associa tion That the Governor Hod Any Connection With Standard Oil. The most sensational development Sb the present campaign was the sending Tuesday from .Detroit by William J. Bryan, Democratic candi date for president, of a telegram to. President Roosevelt, demanding that he produce proof that Gov. Charles N. Haskell of Oklahoma, treasurer on the Democratic national committee, ever was connected with the Standard Oil Company.. The telegram was sent in answer to the statement of President Roose velt, published Tuesday morning, In vhich the President endorsed the charges made against Gov. Haskei i ly William R. Hearst, that Gov. Haskell had been connected with the Staadard Oil Company and had attempted to bribe AttorneyGeneral Frank Monnett of Ohio. The tele gram i3 as follows: "Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. President of the United States. "Dear Sir: In a statement given out by you yesterday and published in this morning's papers tyou endorse a charge made against Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma to the effect that he waa once in the employ of the Stan dard Oil Company and as such em ployee was connected with an at tempt to bribe or influence Attorney General Monnett of Ohio to dismiss suits pending against the Standard Oil Company. In endorsing this charge you attack the Democratic party and its candid&te, says that *Goy. Haskell stands high in the councils of Mr. Bryan and is the treasurer of his national campaign committee.' and you add that "thj publication of tfs correspondence* Ttot merely justifies in striking, fash ion the action of the administra tion, but also casts a curious side light on the attacks. made upon the administration both in the Denver convention, which nominated Mr. Bryan, and in the course of Mr. Bryan's campaign.' "Tour charge is so serious that 1 can not allow it to go unnoticed. Gov. Haskell has denied that he was ever employed by the ot^.idard Oil Company in capacity or was ever connected in any way whatsoever with it or with the transaction upon which your charge is based. "Gov. Haskell demanded an in vestigation at the time of the charge was first made, offering to appear and testify, and he demands an in vestigation now. 1 agree with you that if Gov. Haskell is guilty as charged he is unfit to be connected ?with the Democratic national com mittee and I am sure you will agree with me that if he is innocent he deserves to be exhonerated from so damaging an accusation. As the selection of .Gov. Haskell .as chair man of committee on resolutions at Denver and also as treasurer of the Democratic committee had my ap proval and endorsement. I feel it my duty to demand an immediate investigation of the charge against him endorsed by the president of the United States. Your high po sition as well as your sense of jus tice, should prevent your giving sanction and circulation to such a charge without proof and I respect fully request, therefore, that yon furnish any proof which you have in your possession, or if you have no proof. I request that you indicate a method by which the truth may h* ascertained. Without consulting Mr. Haskell. I will agree that he will ap pear for investigation before and trib unal, public or private which you may indicate, and I will further agree that his connection with the national committee and this campaign shall cease in the event that the decision of such tribunal connects him in any way with this chrage, or in case you, after an investigation of the facts, say that you believe him guilty or the charges made. "As the candidate of the Demo cratic party 1 shall not permit any responsible member of the Republi can organization to misrepresent the acts of the Democratic p. rty in the present campaign. I have assisted you tothe extent of my ability in remedial measures which I deemed for the public good which you havej undertaken: I have urged Demo crats to support such measures and ] have advocated more radical meas ures against private monopolies than >either you or your party associates have been willing to undertake. The platform of the Democratic party is clear and specific, on thi subject, as on other subjects, while the platform of the Republican party is uncertain and evasive. The Democratic candidate for vice president. Mr. Kern, joined with me in requesting the Democratic nat ional committee to fix a maximVm of $10.000 for individual contribu tions and to publish before the elec tion all contributions above $100 anil the committee acted favorably upon the request. The Republican can didate and the Republican national committee proposed, not publication I HEARST LIE NAILED BY DEMOCRATIC COMMITTED '* CHAIRMAN MACK.! Who Says He Never Kecoived One Cent From the Former Chairanin ? Nor the Standard Oil. While in New York City Tuesday Mr. Norman E. Mack, chairman of the Democratic national committee, contradicted another of the numer ous lies that Hearst has beentputting in circulation about the Democratic campaign. Mr. Mack addressed a telegram to President Roosevelt in which he denied flatly the statements contained in the reported interview between Timothy L. Woodruff, chair man of the Republican State com mittee and President Roosevelt, which were printed in local papers Tuesday morning. Chairman Mack's telegram to the President follows: "I notice in The New York Tribune this morning you are quoted by Thomas Li Woodruff, chairman of the Republican State committee, in the following interview which Woodruff gave out from Oys ter Bay: " 'Incidentally, the President re marked that he considered it signifi cant that $300,000 had been found in the treasury of the Democratic party after Judge Parker had de clared throughout the last national campaign that the party's treasury was receiving nothing trom corpo rations; and. further, it was an nounced at the time of the election that the treasury was empty. The President said he thought it lookea queer that such.a large sum of mon ey should turn up after Haskell wa?3 appointed treasurer of the Demo cratic national committee.' "If you are quoted correctly no doubt you have in mind the publica tion in The New York American re cently that I, as chairman of the Democratic national committee, re ceived $300,000 from former Chair man Taggart, which was said to be left over from the 1904 campaign This, at that time, was emphatically denied when brought to my atten tion. I desire to say to you now, that there is not a word of -truth In this statement. I have not re ceived one cent from Chairman Tag gart or any one else connected with \ the last campaign; neither has any j one connected with the Democratic] national committee. I am wiring; you this direct as I desire to correct what seems to be an erroneous im pression in jour mind. COTTON MILLS I DLR One Hundred and Foity Thousand Knuds Quit Wora. More than 400 cotton mills in Lancashire, England, are idle today as'a result of Jthe dispute over wages between operatives and em ployers. This means that 4 0,000. 000 spindles are wholly or partially stopped, that more than $250,000 - 000 of capital is not bringing in any returns and that 140.000 operatives are without work and losing some thing over $700,000 in wages a week. In view of the present glut tod condition of the market it is not believed that this cessation of work will entail heavy damages to the employers. It is not felt here that the strike will last long, for the card room workers are expected soon to take a second ballot and a:,ree to the 5 per cent reduction in wages which already has been ac cepted by the spinners. ANSWERS CALL TO PREACH. Cives Up Big Salary to Enter the * Ministry. After spending three years in the making of iron and steel and in that time teaching his friend, W. Ellis Corey, most of what he knows today of steel making. Geo. L. Glunt, superintendent of the 119-inch mill of the Carnegie Steel Company, at Homestead, has resigned his po sition and will enter the Western Theological seminary, to become a Presbyterian minister. Mr. Glunt leaves a position worth $10.000 a year, including a bonus for fast work. When it became known that he was to quit the mills a< Homestead, a fine position, high up in the calculation department of the steel corporation was offen'd him. This he refused, saying h" believed he had been called to preach. ! before the election, but publication j after the elect ion. 1 suumit that! jour committee has given the better i evidence of its freedom from con | nection or obligation to the preda Itory interests. Our committee has I not knowingly received a dollar from an official of any corporation known as a trust, and it will not receive any money from such. If any money is contributed by such persons with out the knowledge of the committee lit will be returned as soon as thei fact is discovered. "The Democratic party is making I an honest and an honorable fight in defense of the principles and poli cies enunciated in the platform and it expects and will demand fair and honorable treatment from those who are in charge of the Republican cam paign. "With great* respect, etc.. "Very truly yours. "William J. Bryan. "Detroit. Mich., Sept. 22." "0 'I IT M ORANGEB?M-?, TEDDY FLUNKS. Ignominious Failure of Roosevelt | to Make Good His CHARGES Connecting Haskell With Standard ' : S&Hlk ? ? '<{ .-. ?'' :v -c- ? . * |i - Oil Bribery -Case and Falls Back Upon Local Affairs in Oklahoma as Described in a Political Article / in a Republican Magazine. President Roosevelt Wednesday night, following upon a prolonged conference with members of the cab inet at the White House, prepared and gave out his reply to William J. Bryan, the Democratic candidate, relative to W. R. Hearst's charges that Governor Haskell, treasurer of the Democratic committee, had rep resented Standard Oil interests both in Ohio and Oklahoma. Mr. Bryan had demanded proof of the charges, promising that in the event of their substantiation. Governor Haskeil would be eliminated from the cam paign. Here Is the lame reply of Roosevelt: " "The YVhite .House. "Washington. D. C. Sept. 23,190S. "Dear Sir: In your telegram you speak of so much of the charge against Governor Haskell as dealt, with his relations, while in Ohio, with the Standard Oil Company. You omit the charge as to his rela tions with the Standard Oil interest as shown by his action while gover nor of Oklahoma, this very summer, this action being in part taken while i he was at Denver, where, as you state, he was by your wish made chairman of the committee which drafted the platform upon which you are standing. In my statement I purposely made no specific allusion to the Ohio matter, and shall at this time make none, in spite of its sig nificance, and in spite of the further fact that Governor Haskell's close relation with the Standard Oil in terest while he was in Ohio was a matter of common notoriety. in Oklahoma it is a matter of record. By this court record it appeared that the attorney general of the State, elected by the people, ob tained an injunction to prevent the Prairie Oil and Gas Company from j building a pipe line, and that Gov ernor Haskell found this out while he was at Denver, as appears by the representations for the dissolution of the injunction mach- In his name, on behalf of the State, before a court ' of superior jurisdiction to that which had issued the injunction. In this] the governor stales that the acting] governor, in his absence, had asked j that the hearing be postponed, thai > he, the governor, might return and] have an opportunity to investigate the controversy. The governor sets; forth in his petition that he is the sole authority to demand such mat ters, and that the attorney general and the judge of the lower court had j no right ill the matter, and that the action of the judge of the lower court represented 'an encroachment by the judiciary.' The attorney gen-' eral opposed the disolution of the Injunction, stating that the Prairie! Oil and Gas Company was a foreign j corporation which had not accepted the provisions of the constitution applicable to such corporations, and that without authority of law it was employing a great force of men and teams to dig up, across and into va 8. C FRIDAY, SEPTEM] THE CROSSING. rious highways of the State for the puropse of laying its pipe lines. The governor prevailed, the injunction was permitted to continue its work, to use the words of the attorney gen eral, 'without any color of law.' I call your attention to thp fact that the question is not whether or not the judge erred, or whether the in junction was proper. The point is that the governor was alert to take out of the hands of the attorney gen eral what the attorney general felt was his sworn .duty to prevent, an alleged .instance of the breaking of the law by this particular great cor poration. "A3 far as I have seen-Governor' Haskell has hot even attempted any thing which can be called a defense of this action of his. It thus ap pears that his action was as inex cusable as it' was wanton except on the theory that in defiance of the attorney general of the State and at all hazards, he intended for some reason of his own to protect the Interest of a. great corporation against the law. It has been sugges ted on his behalf that after all he did not favor the Standard Oil Com pany but merely the Prairie Oil and Gas Company. This claim is dis posed of by the testimony of the Standard Oil Company itself in the latter part of 15)07 In the suit now pending in the United States court against the Standard Oil Company. In this testimony the Standard Oil Company, upon being required by the government to put in evidene* a list of all the companies in which it held stock or in which its sub sidiary companies held stock, repre sented among the others the Prairie Oil and Gas Company, total capital $1 0,000,000, of which the National Transit Company's proportion was $9.999.500; and furthermore it ap pears that the National Transit Com pany owned $25,451,650. In other words, this Prairie Oil and Gas Com pany was owned, all except $5 00, by the National Transit Comapny, and this National Transit Companv was owned, all except about $3,550, by the Standard Oil Company. "Now, contrast your action fn this case to Governor Haskeii with Mr. Taft's action as regards Senator Foraker, as set forth in his letter of July 20, 1 907, which I quoted in my statement. It was a matter of common notoriety about Senator roraker, as it has ,ong been a mat ter of common notoriety about Oov ernor Haskell. that he was the de fender and supporter of certain corporate interests and therefore hostile to the policies for which this administration has stood. There was no such convincing proof againstj Senator Foraker at that time, how ever, as there is against Governor,1 Haskell. when, as you say. he was with your approval, made treasurer of your campaign committee. Hut Mr. Taft refused to be a party to the renomination of Senator Foraker. even though it was reported that only thus could he advance his own interest, shoving by actual deed.--1 that his words were true when he said. 'I do not care for the presi dency If it has to come by compro mise.' With a hundredfold clearer evidence before you as to the con nection of Governor Haskell witti the Standard Oil than Mr. Taft then had as to the connection of Senator Foraker with any corporation, you I nevertheless, having secured Gov ernor Haskell as chairmen of the committee to write the platform on which you stand, put him in as treas urer of your campaign committee "Let me add that Governor Ha. kell's utter unfitness for any public! position of trust or tor association | with any man anxious to make an j appeal on a moral issue to the Amer-| lean people has been abundantly shown, wholly irrespective of this action of his in connection with Standard Oil interests. As an Amer ican citizen who prizes his American ism and his citizenship far above 3ER 25. 1908. ?Macauley in N?w York World. any question of partizanship, I re gard as a scandal and a disgrace that Governor Haskell should be con nected with the management of any national campaign. I hnve not th^j space in this letter to discuss Gov ernor Haskell's conduct, for instance, in vetoing the child-labor bill; or the fact that his name appears as one of the defendants iin various suits brought by the government to prevent the Creek Indiana from having certain of their lands fraud ulently taken; or his connection with various matters of the kind, but let me call your attention to his con duct in prostituting to base purpose the State University,' as set forth in an article in The- Outlook or "Sep tember 5, last, under the heading of "Shall the People Rule?in Okla homa?" In this article you will see that Governor Haskell was given full opportunity to make every ex planation, and that he made none. After setting forth the facts as to Governor Haskell's conduct, The Outlook article concludes as fol lows: " 'On this state of affairs we have two comments to make and two riues tions to ask. " "The people of Oklahoma an; taxed to support their educational institutions, from the primary school to the university. They pay their money to have their cnildren edu cated. When the politicians use this money to promote the interests of a political machine or a church sect, they are guilty.of a breach of trust. What do the taxpayers of Oklahoma think of the use to which their public servants are making of the public funds What do they think about this financial policy?rthe taking o!' the money due their sons and daugh ters/and diverting it for the benefit of politicians, eccleastlcal and civil? " 'Governor Haskell was one of Mr. Bryan's right hand men in the Democratic convention and at Mr. Bryan's instance has been made treasurer of the Democratic national committee. It is hpp?ling to think what would be the results of the educational systems of the Philip pines and Puerto Rico, in the digging the Panama canal, in the work of| Irrigation and reforestation, in the administration of the postofflce, the interior and agricultural depart ments, in the appointments of foreign ministers and consuls, if the spirit which has actuated the Democratic authorities in the otate of Okla homa should be permitted to take control jof the Federal government at Washington. Governor Haskell, actions which speak louder than words, has declared his disbelief in Grover Cleveland's motto. "A ptibli: office is a public trust." and Mr. Haskell is a representative leader in the Bryan Democracy. What does Mr. Bryan think of Mr. Cleveland's principle What do the American people think of Mr. Haskell's con temptuous reversal of it "Yon close your telegram by say-1 ins that you expect and will demand ; fair and honorah.e tre-ue<(>nt from thos> who are in charge of the Re publican campaign. I am not 'n charge of the campaign, but am' greatly interested in it. I havci shown you above fairly and honor ably that Governor Haskell is a mail | who. on every account I have named. 1 is unworthy of any position in our public life. No further invest igri-; tion of tnese facts is required. They are spread on the record before y^,i | and they were available before Mr. i Haskell was chosen for his ;?'sitioilj as treasurer." Five Persons Killed. A dispatch from .Lisbon, Portugal, says twenty-two bulls escaped from the arena at Moiat today and ran amuck through a crowd that was assembled to witness a bull fight. Five persons were killed and som-' twenty were injured. Troops were summoned and shot the animals to death. HEARST FLUNKS HE DECLINES GOY. HASKELL'S CHALLENGE. The Yellow Renegade Knows That He Would lie Proven a Liar If He Accepted. I Wm. R. Hearst, who has been campaigning for the national ticket of the Independence party in the South and Middle West, returned to New York Monday night and soon afterwards issued a statement concerning the challenge of C >ver nor C. N. HaskoJI, of Oklahoma. In his recent speeches Mr. Hearst had charged that Haskell. who \s now treasurer of the Democratic! tfational committee, sought in 18h9 to Influence Attorney General Fran't Monnett, of Ohio, to dismiss certai.i suits/then pending agjinst the Stan dard Oil Company. In a telegunm to Mr. Hearst, which he made public Sunday night. Governor Haskell invited Mr. Hearst to publicly prove his charges before a committee of editors. i Mr. Hearst refuses to accept the suggestion of an editorial board of arbitration in the following language: To the Associated Press: I ad dress this communication to you, as I cannot have the slightest cor respondence or controversy with a man of Mr. Haskell's character. "Mr. Haskell's proposition reminds me of the well known story of the burglar who was caught in the act by the police. When the police burst in upon him they found him in front of a safe which had been blown open, with his tools in his pocket, a dark lantern in one hand and his other hand on the valuables in the safe. The police dragged the burg lar to the court room and the judge said to the culprit: " 'Well, what have you to say for yourself?' "The burglar said: 'Look-a-here, Judge, let's arbitrate this case." "The court reeords, the complaint of the ex-Attorney General of Ohio, Mr.. Monnett, the affidavit } of* the present assistant of the present At torney General of Ohio, Mr. Bur nett, the Court of Records of the State of Oklahoma in the Prarie Oil ant$ Gas Company case pccusc -Mr. Haskell and not I. "Mr. Haskell has had many yeah In which to sue Mr. Monnett If that gentleman committed a libel in nam ing C. N. Haskell as one of the men who attempted to bribe him in the Standard Oil case. "Mr. Haskell's proposition to ar bitrate the matter now shows that he has a sense of humor, even if he has not a sense of honor. (Signed) "William R. Hearst." HE FOUND OUT. Wanted to Fnd Out if Young Wife Loved Him. At. Paris, a grey bearded French man recently married a girl in her teens, and kept wondering whether she loved him. Would she weep when he died, or would she rejoice, and marry again? He would put her to the test, and he revised gruesome strategem. He locked himself up in a room, ami waited. After some hours his wife wondered at his unaccountable disappearance: had the door broken open. On tin; bed lay her husband, his hands crossed, his face white, his body motionless, apparently dead. Now. the wife would show what she really felt. She gazed at him, came to the conclusion that he really was dead, and danced a break down in the room. Up leaped the corpse and roared, "So that is how you would grieve for me? Then take this." and threw clocks and candlesticks at her. She fled, and he continued to vent his disappointment by smashing all the furniture in the flat. NIGHT RIDERS IN GREENVILLE Ii. C. Willmon Warned Not to Gin Any More Cotton. A dispatch from Greenville to The State says word reached that city Tuesday of the position of a threatening notice by supposed night riders on tin- gin of R. C. Willmon. eight miles from Greenville. The notice reads: "Take warning and do not gin any more cotton. If you do. you will suffer the consequences. i Signed) "Night Riders." | It is also reported several other gins were posted last night, though j no damage is reported. Wlllmon's gin is a new plant ami started up Tuesday morning, despite ih.' threat. VCCIDENT ON FRENCH CRUISER, j _ j Hille Gun Explodes and Killed; Crew of Thirteen. At Toulan, France, during a gun drill Tuesday one of the big tur ret guns on He- French armored, cruiser La Touche Treville exploded | with terrific violence. completely j wrecking the after turret ami kill-1 ing outright the entire gnu crew of 13. A number of men were se riously injured, some of them prob ably fatally. The accident was sim ilar to t'.iat aboard 'be gunnery d Hyeres August 12, last, when, by the bursting of the breech of the gun six men were killed and 18 injured. ?1.50 PER ANjNUJM. MORE RASCALS Many Republican Leaders Now Supporting Taft in Same BOAT WITH FORAKER And the Republican Candidate for Il-esident Will Be Lonely If H*> Eliminates All Who Have Been or Are Now AlUgned With Standard Oil and Other Trusts. At Toledo. Ohio. on Tuesday, former Republican Attorney General Monett, of Ohio, was asked, "What do you think the effect of Taft, eliminating Poraker will have on the Republican party in Ohio this fall?" Here is Air. Monett's answer: "ThVs is extremely amusing ia light of the nominees on the Repub lican ticket put there by Taft, Cox, Brown and Guilbert! If Taft com mences the eliminating business he will have to resign from the ticket or get new bed fellows. He cun ningly accepted the nominationfrom the gang, the Standard Oil lobby, being the same crowed he at once denounced as unworthy of the sup port of the decent citizens. If he rises to the high moral plane of elim inating Foraker, he will surely have to eliminate Judge A. Shanck from the supreme bench, whose record in the Standard Oil contempt pro ceedings is more vulnerable than anything Foraker has done. "Shauck voted to acquit the Standard Oil agents against .thtj combined votes of Judge Thaddeus J. B. Bradbury, Min.shall, and A. Mitchell and Williams. He voted to acquit Virgil Kline, for the Stand ard Oil Company, who openly defied' the court when ?ordered to produce the books of the company. They charged the attorney with contempt of court and throwing away of the books during the very time the court ordered them produced. "They burned twenty-eight boxes of day books and ledgers in the furnaces of the Standard Oil re fineries before it was found they had notified the conrt they had no such books and when this infamous treat ment was laid bare to the court and testimony and depositions furnished by laborers that burned the books, this same Judge Shauck, now run ning a third term on the supreme court bench, voted to clear the crooks by dissolving proceedings against them on a motion of John M. Sheets, my successor as attorney general." "Was Foraker a friend of Burkett, the judge whom Archbold asked him to support?" was then asked. "Yes. Foraker was of the same political faction as Judge Burkett. He was also the political friend of Judges Williams, Bradbury and Min shall. All of these last three named judges voted the Standard Oil guilty of contempt, and every one of them, was beaten for renomination over whelmingly. They were not sup ported by Foraker, his friends, or the Standard Oil clique, but that Minshall on the day he voted the Standard Oil guilty, while Shauck voted them innocent, was approached on High street. Columbus, and warned publlcally that it would be his death knell. The Ohio Republi can bosses kept their word and every judge tha* -voted against him and myself were all slaughtered whila Judges Shauck, Speak and Burkett, who voted for them were supported by the Standard Oil lobbyists and Foraker and other Republicans and yet Taft doesn't propose to elimi nate them." sheriff kills negro. Georgia Officer Shot Five Timc% t ', ? . But Gets His Man. Sheriif W. W. Beard, of Clay county. Ga.. was shot , times here Monday morning by George Thomas, the negro alleged to have murdered, the Blue boys about ten days ago. and Thomas in turn was shot and instantly killed by the sheriff. Sher iff Beard met Thomas on the street and ordered him to halt. Thomas, opened lire and wounded Beard five times before he could" draw his pistol. Beard finally got his pistol out and shot Thomas dead. Sheriff Beard's condition is reported to be critical. Three other negroes. Es sie Coleman, Alma Johnson and Sa vannah Woods, the woman whose house is near the scene of the tragedy, are con fiend in the county jail as accessories. INSANE MAN" KILLS TWO And Injures a Woman at the Wash ington Asylum. At Washington In demanical fury, Andrew Lightfoot. a mulatto in mate of St. Elizabeth's asylum for the insane. Tuesday killed Patrick Maloney. overseer of the grounds, and Millie Follin. a young ill mat*) of the asylum, and severely injured .Miss Robinson. another inmate. The murder escaped from the grounds and fled to the swamps near by where, shortly afterward, a score of police surrounded the place of his concealment. He finally was subdued after the police found it necessary to shoot him. Inflicting wounds in his legs, and he was taken back to the asylum.