LETTERS STOLEN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3002, 26 September 1908, Page 5

LETTERS STOLEN.

INDIGNANT DEMOCRATS. THE PRESIDENT'S "TAME CAT." AN IGNOBLE ELECTION ROW. Received September 25, 10.5 p.m. NEW YORK, September 25. The Standard Oil Trust state tnat the letters Mr Hearst published, with many others, were stolen. Mr Haskell gives President Roosevelt the lie direct in connection with the latter's statements concerning him. g President Roosevelt warns Mr Bryan that the measures he is advocating will be wholly ineffective for curing a single evil now existing, :and -will .merely throw business into hopeless confusion. The Democrats profess tremendous indignation at President Roosevelt's persisten 4 : interference with the election. They state that his xiiccesaor v(Mr lait) ; is only "PresiJtnt Roosevelt's tame cat,"or "man Friday." The "New York Evening Post" complains ot President Roosevelt's undignified attitude in plunging into a;i ignoble election row.

President Roosevelt recently attacked Senator Foraker and Governor j Haskell for bitterly opposing all rej forms proposed by the Government. ' He .added .that Mr Hearst's recent [exposures as to the connection of the pair with the Standard Oil and other Trusts Justified the actions of the Administration, and cast a curious sidelight on tne attacks made on the Government by Mr Bryan's friends. Mr Bryan, the Democratic candidate lor the Presidency, in reply, declared that Mr Haskell, who is treasurer of the Democratic National Fund, was willing to appear before any tribunal Mr Roosevelt might name. Mr HearstJs object in searching for .Senatorial .bribes from the trusts and in publishing his discoveries is to assist his own brand new National Independent .party, composed of dissatisfied Radical Republicans and advanced iDemocrats, which recenly nominated MrThos. Hisgen as Pre»i-\ dent and Mr J. T. Graves as VicePresident. He avers that neither <<l ■! the great parties is sincere in its' desireitb.aiirb the trusts. Mr Taft, in accepting his nomination as Republican .candidate £or the Presidency, recently paid a tribute to PresidentRoosevelt for having given expression to the popular conscience, in raaommandine airailroad rate law and other measures udtaling trusts, by means of which the moral standards of the business community had been raised to a higher plane. The chief function of the next administration would be, he said, to complete <and perfect the machinery whereby .these standards could be .and .whereby law-break-ers could-be promptly restrained and punished, tout which would operate with sufficient accuracy and despatch to intei-fete .with.legitimate business as iiitble .as possible, Mr William Jennings JRry.a'n, in formally accept-.., ing the (Democratic nomination for the Presidency, the reaj, issue of the election was whether the people of the United States should rule themselves tin Jihe .interests of all or be ruled by a rfew.in the interests of j the few. Heiattributed the abuses of whifb ithe Trusts were guilty to the unwise ipdlioies followed by the Republican .party during the past decade, and .cilaiimtsd for the Democratic party that tit was the protector of legitimate industry. They did not seek the annihilation of the Trußts, but wanted them >to be controlled in such a manner ,as to prevent the establishment <of .monopolies prejudicial to the interests of the people. Reform, and not revolution, was, he averred, the desire of the Democratic party.