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The Commoner,
VOLUME 12, NUMBER 20
TIIM ROOHMVEIT-TAFT CON
TllOVEHSY (Contlnuod from Pago 10)
"Tho facto themsolvoa, of which
Mr. Taft is undonlably awaro and
which are capablo of comploto dem
onstration, 'show:
"First That Mr. Taft was present
at tho cabinet mooting whoro the
matter was discussed and tho final
doclslon reached and that ho not
only had full lcnowledgo of tho mat
tor but a deciding part in tho de
termination. "Second That tho sonato upon
boing mado awaro of tho situation by
Sonator Hansbrough, distinctly ro
fusod to stop tho investigation by
tho bureau of corporations and per
mitted tho department of justice to
go ahead with its prosecution.
"Third That Sonator Hans
brough, an inveterate opponent of
tho harvester company, was tho first
man to bo advfsod of tho situation by
tho attorney general and that he Im
mediately attempted to socuro action
by tho sonato which would pormlt
tho department to begin court pro
ceedings." Tho statement revlows tho Investi
gations of tho harvester company
mado in 1906 by It. D. Townsend for
tho department of justice and in
1907 by tho bureau of corporations,
which was acting under direction of
tho Hansbrough sonato resolution.
In tho summor of 1907, it stated,
Attorney General Bonaparto began
a special investigation with a viow to
prosecution. Ho did not learn until
August of tho activities of the bu
reau of corporations, but then sug
gested that tho larur bo continued.
"Early in January, 1908," the
Btatemont continues, "Attorney Gen
eral Bonaparto had receivod suffi
cient information from tho special
luvestigatprs of tho department of
justice to load him to believe that a
prosecution of the harvester com
pany should bo undertaken. In a
recent letter, discussing this matter,
Mr. Bonaparto says:
" 'I then told tho president that
I was prepared now to recommend a
prosecution. According to my rec
ollection, ho assented, certainly ho
did not forbid one, but soon after
ward ascertained from Mr. Smith,
commissioner of corporations, prob
ably through an inquiry on my part,
that his investigation, wnicn i imu
supposed was concluded, was still in
progress. I then submitted tho mat
tor at a cabinet meeting. From re
flecting a good deal on tho subject
recently I have a rather distinct rec
ollection of tho discussion which en
sued. " 'I stated tho question without
expressing a positive opinion either
way. Secretaries Straus and Gar
field advised against a prosecution
substantially on the grounds set out
in Mr. Herbert Knox Smith's letter
of September, 1907, to the president.
Secretary Cortolyou, in a very few
words, deprecated any important
trust prosecution at that moment,
since the money market was just re
covering from tho recent panic.
" 'Secretary Root then suggested
that, as tho law gave the senate the
right to order such an investigation
by tho bureau of corporations, the
bureau must be considered as a legal
not agree with the views expressed
by Secretary Cortelyou, Garfield and
Straus, but I thought there was a
good deal of force in tho advices by
Secretary Root.'
"Mr. Taft and his managers have
sought mendaciously to establish no
responsibility for Mr. Taft's part in
this matter, through the false pre
tense that, because Mr. Taft was out
of the country in the fall of 1907, he
was not in position to know about
or have anything to do with the mat
ter. It is not only an affront to tho
Intelligence of the American people
for .him to say to them, as he does,
that a man occupying the position of
the administration which he then
occupied would not of necessity be
thoroughly informed upon a matter
of such importance, but it is a posi
tive falsehood.
"Mr. Taft returned to the .United
States from his trip around the
world in December, 1907. He was
present at the cabinet meetings in
January, 1908, and, as Mr. Bona
parte's letter specifically shows, he
not only took part, but the deciding
part, in the determination of the
cabinet to postpone prosecution of
the harvester company pending the
investigation of the bureau of corporations."
PERKINS TAKES A HAND
Associated Press dispatch: New
York, May 19. Publication of all
agency of the senate for the purpose & tbeproee
of making the investigation and the
situation, was the same as if a com
mlttee were engaged in such inquiry
and requested that a suit be post
poned for a reasonable time until
this investigation could be com
pleted, in which case, he argued, that
due comity would require that the
request should be granted.
" 'I said, in substance, that I could
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cutions of the International Harves
ter company was suggested today by
George W. Perkins, the New York
financier", who, upon his return to
New York today, issued a reply to
the statement given out at the White
house last Friday night by Charles
D. Hilles, secretary to the president.
The statement reads:
"I have read Mr. Hilles' version
of the harvester matter and fail to
uuu uuyLuxug m it cnat in the re
motest degree answers my letter of
April 29, last, to Chairman McKin
ley. If Mr. Taft and his managers
had at any time meant to be fair
and square and frank with the pub
lic in this matter they would have
complied with the senate's recent re
quest and published in full all that
has taken place in regard to the har
vester company during the Taft ad
ministration? especially during the
last twelve or eighteen months.
Tlie public is being deluced dallv
with the Taft version of how Mr.
Roosevelt held up Mr. Bonaparte's
suit against the harvester company
and why; but great care is being
taiten to Keep irom the public all
knowledge as to whether or not Mr
Taft held up Mr. Wickershara's suit
against the harvester company and
why.
'ui lJuuuuiuy regarding the
whole affair would enable the public
to lorra us own judgment and reach
its own conclusion. It would also
show that Mr. Hilles regards as
proper favors for a private secretary
to appear so kind as to ask from the
officers of a corporation threatened
with prosecution by tho self same
president."
seo the utter wreck that he would
have made in the party if nominated,
and the great danger to which the
country would have been exposed
had there been any chance of his
election to a third term.
"Mr. Roosevelt says that he is tho
republican party and if the republi
can national committee in passing on
the credentials of delegates for tho
preliminary roll in the convention
shall hold to bo unfounded, his many
flimsy co'ntests, he will decline to
abide by the judgment of those hav
ing authority. Tho inference from
this is that he will bolt the conven
tion because a duly constituted re
publican national committee, shall
after a judicial investigation, refuse
to seat his contesting delegates. If
his edict is to be heeded, then tho
holding of any convention at all is
perfunctory and superfluous.
"The arrogance of his statement
that he is the republican party and
that failure to comply with his views
and wishes, puts those doing so in
the attitude of bolters, finds no par
allel in history save the famous
words of Louis XIV, 'The state I
am it.' It is on a par with his dec
laration that 'I typify and embody'
the progressive sentiment of the age.
"With clearly traceable premedi
tation he projected contests without
the slightest reason therefore, in
many cases weeks after the regular
conventions had been heldt merely to
make a basis for a campaign of bluff
and bluster. Now he threatens that
unless this campaign is carried on
so that he is recognized as success.
ful and unless honestly elected dele
gates shall be thrown out in suffi
cient numbers to give him a ma
jority, he will break from the party
and try to ruin that which he can
not rule.
"I appeal to all republicans to say
whether a man who assumes this
attitude does not forfeit his claim to
any right to become- a candidate- in
a republican convention? Honored
with the nomination to the presi
dency by that party, and with the
most sacred obligations resting upon
him to be loyal to its origin, to re
spect the rules governing its nation
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