New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 16, 1914, Page 4

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1914. ROOSEVELT PRODUCES MYSTERIOUS LETTER Coloel Makes Publ Whiman's Attack on Baraes and Murphy. Oyster . Bay, July 16.—Colonel Roosevelt made public last night the mysterious .letter said to have been writtén by District Attorney Whitman attacking Barnes and Murphy. He included the letter in a long and ve- heénient ' attack on Mr. Whitman, pointing out that the letter was sub- Tiitted to him by Charles H. Duell, Jr; through the colonel’s son. The letter, said to have been framed by Mr. Whitman, was pre- sented to Colonel Roosevelt as the ifflugh draft of a communication that Mr. Whitman was to address to the | Whitman Non-Partisan league as a Means of clearing away all doubt that might exist in the minds of voters fand especially of Colonel Roosevelt that Mr. Whitman was secretly an adherent of Mr. Barnes. Conference With Duell. The statement contains not only Mr. Whitman’s letter but a statement of the colonel’s conferences with Dueld as the supposed agent of Mr. Whitman, seeking the colonel’s in- dorsement of the district attorney as the non-partisan candidate for gov- ernor. It was dictated and made pub- e after Colenel Roosevelt had a long conferencé some time yesterday with Mr. . Duell ;and hints that Duell him- self probably will make a statement today in regard to the situation. Colonel Roosevelt’s reply to the 'Whitman' challenge, given out by him here last night, is as follows: “Shortly after my return from Brazil the latter part of May, Mr. Duell asked to see me on behalf of Mr. Whitman. Mr. Duell accordingly went down to Washington on the train. with- me when I delivered my ddress before the American Geo- graphical society of Washington, re- urning on the train the following day. He was at that time busily en- lgaged in getting up the Non-Partisan [Political league in the interest of Mr. Whitman. 'He was announced in all the lpapers as so doing. Mr. Whitman now says he knew nothing of Mr. [Duell’s activities or of the existence of that league. If so he was the only Iperson in the state of New York who did not. Siuch a statement is sheer ponsense. . He could not have avoided being familiar with what Mr. Duell as doing, and if Mr. Duell was not his agent it was his business to re- pudiate him then or to repudiate him hen he came to see me on my re- urn-from Europe a month later, ‘hich fact was annournced in all the pers. “Mzr.. Whitman _never repudiated r. Dueéll as long as ' there was a shance of Mr. Duell succeeding in the bffort. Mr. Whitman had asked him o get me to support Mr. Whitman. e repudiated his agent only when agent had failed. | “On the way to Washington - Mr. Puell .showed me a letter signed by Mr. Whitman and written to Mr. Puell. This letter was in effect as follows: Mr. Whitman’s Letter. J n line with our last talk 1 agree ith you that the time is ripe for an fliance between the progressive re- blicans and members of the na- nal progressive party as well as of other good citizens sharing thelr jeliefs to rid the state of that kind ot jarty control which in my opinion 1s ainly responsible for the corrupt dnditions which have been clearly brought out in the various examina- ons anfl investigations carried on inder my direction during the past ‘These conditions are not localized fnd the men and the policies respon- lible for them are not confined to any e party. I believe that a fusion ght can be so carried on that We ould elect to the important offices ot he state responsible men who shall ‘guided by the state's best inter- I myself until brought into direct ontact with'these conditions had not palized the present conditions to hich the state had fallen or how dely prevailing these conditions gre. All these offices are great and owerful offices, especially as many It the officials sit as incumbents upon rious state boards and commissions, fact I doubt if the state engineer's &' was ever more corrupt than it as - during the first term of Gov. ughes, and of course the governor, lithough he himself was an honest han, could not.exert any power over o elected official over whom he haa o direct control. . “I know that you understand my beling in regard to the whole matter. am in favor of making up a ticket pmposed of men chosen solely by r fitness to occupy the high offices br which they are candidates. The thod by which such’a ticket could presented to the people is ot se provided by the direct nomina- ons+law. If we are to win in this Zht we must have real and earnest on upon the part of those honest- nterested and careful preparation, 54 T need not tell you that I am artily and unqualifiedly in favor of jnauguration of such a move- Says Duell Has Letter. above version is substantially yerbally exact. The letter is in on of Mr. Duell and if Mr. will ask him to publish it e will. ish it at once in detail. told Mr. Duell that the platform #lined Ly Mr. Whitman in his let- entirely satisfactory, provid- %flu&n would state explicit- g what Mr. Duell assured _stated again. and again t he was as hostile to as to Mr. Murphy and re~ machire as being ‘emphatically than the Mur- ine the enemy of decent New Picture of Dr. Carman Taking Flowers to His Wife " 11809 Loaeme o PRGERVI, GARMAY This .. .... latest picture of Dr.! Edwin Carman, one of the principals in the now famous Bailey-Carman murder mystery. It was taken when the doctor visited his wife at the Mineola (N. Y.) jail, where she is held charged with the murder of Mrs. William D. Bailey, one of her hus-| band’s patients. Dr. Carman car- ries flowers to his wife daily dnd Is directing the lawyers who are trying to free her. It is now over two weeks since Mrs. Bailey was shot to death in Dr. Carman’s office at Free- port, N. Y., and the only arrest made is that of Mrs. Carman, who had admitted that she had spied upon her husband with a’dictagraph when he had women patients. and honest government in the state of New York. “Mr. Duel! assured me that he had Mr. Whitman's authority to promise that Mr. Whitman would immediately make this statement such as I de- sired. I informed Mr. Duell that| my great ohject was this year to try to bring about a union of all the decent citizens of New York no mat- ter what their previous political af- filiations might have been, behind candidates of rugged and aggressive honesty, who would clean out ‘the ut- ter rottenness of the state govern- ment and would war just as merci- lessly upon the boss and sub-bosses of the Barnes machine as upon the boss and sub-bosses of the Mur- phy machine. I said that I had not liked Mr. Whitman's - at- titude in accepting the Tammany | nomination for district attorney and leaving in the minds of many men 2 question whether he was supporting Mr. Mitchel or Mr. McCall for mayor of New York, but that if he would in straightforward and unequivocal fashion come forward, as Mr. Duell stated he had the right to promise that Mr. Whitman would come forward, I would gladly do what I could to sup- port him as the head of a non-par- tisan union citizens' ticket in an open campaign aga'nst two bosses. Mr. Duell further tuid me that Mr. Whit- man assured him that he had voted for me for president as an evidenc: of his independence of the organiza- tion. “Immediately afterward I saw tie leaders of the progressive party in| the state o New York and told them of my conversation. They were strongly opposed to any indorsement of Mr. Whiuzan on the ground 'that he was utterly tricky and insincere. Meant as Test to Whitman. “What it they were right? No harm would foilow from my proposed course because what I intended to | do was to lay docwn what in my judg- ment ouglht to- be -the platform on which we conducted ', our campaign for honest government and for the overthrow of bipartisan boss rule in this state and T said that if Mr. Whitz- man failed to keep his promise and unequivocally to come out as he had said he would come out, it merely meant that he would show his unfit- ness and would leave us with the platform of our principles . intact, Teady to support any honest and com petent man whom we thought m. fit to carry out these principles and to rally the people of the state to his support. Accordingly, on leaving for Europe I issued a statement which in S0 far as it referred to the state of New York, ran as follows: “I doubt whether there is a state in the Union that shows more con- clusively than this state the dreadful evil of the two boss system in political life. The people of this state, the honest people, the good citizens who wish clean, honest and efficient gov- provides for the seesaw of the Mur- phy and Barnes machines in the gov- ernment of this state, There is not a state in which the evils of bipartisan boss rule are more concretely illus- trated than right here. Under such rulé it is absolutely impossible to get decent and effective government. It is impossible to secure fair treatment for the honest business men, for the honest wage worker or for the honest farmer. From canals and highways to the labor department each branch of the government has been admin- istered primarily with a view to the political advantage, often with a view to the personal enrichment of diffe ent political leaders. No advantdg whatever to the people at large can possibly come by keeping this system and substituting under bosses of Mr. Barnes for under bosses of Mr. Mur- phy as the beneficiaries of the system. I believe the time has come to clean house in New York. And I believe that all right minded people ought to act together, without regard , to their ordinary party differences, in a determined effort to accomplish this task. As far as I personally am con- cerned, with due regara to my obli- gations in other parts of the Union, I feel that this fall my main work must be done right here in New York. “Immediately after this statément appeared Mr. Whitman made his statement. It in no shape or way corresponded with what he had prom- ised. It was precisely the kind of statement that John A. Dix made at intervals in his campaign for gover- nor four vears ago and it was pre- cisely the kind of a statement which, if Mr. Whitman had consulted Mr. Barnes, Mr. Barnes would undoubted- 1y have advised him to make, T felt | that with this statement in view there. was no longer a chance of believing in Mr. Whitman’s sincerity and cour- age, Believed Duell Absolutely. “On returning from Europe I was met by Mr. Duell at Quarantine and he went up with me to Oyster Bay. I knew that Mr. Duell was absolutely sincere, absolutely straightforward, truthful and responsible and that if he stated that Mr. Whitman had made certain promises to him, Mr. Duell’s word could be accepted. I told him that in my judgment it was too late for him to try to get anything from Mr. Whitman such as Mr. Whit- man had promised to say. That either Mr. Whitman was g hopelessly timid weakling who was too afraid of Mr, Barnes to venture to attack him or else that he was in league with Mr. Barnes, I accordingly is- sued the following statement: “It is evident to me that the decent ctizens of this state demand that the state fight this fall shall take a clean cut movement against both the old party organizations, controlled as one of them is by Mr. Barnes and the cther by Mr. Murphy. ernment, no matter what their party “I am struck by the statement in affiliations may be, are growing bit- | the Tribune this morning that the terly indignant with a system which | Whitman candidacy is being en- — | gineered by Mr. Barnes and his per- sonal lieutenants M Albany county. I have similiar information from other sections of the state. “It is evidently the intention of the Farnes machine to run either Mr. Whitman or some other man on whose real subserviency it can count—in short, to have a rubber stamp ticket from top to bottom, a ticket of which the personnel would be wholly unim- portant because the. directing force behind would be that of Mr. Barnes. “In my judgment neither the pro- gressives nor the independent citizens will accept either Mr. Whitman or | one else who has failed already to show as a matter of principle and | not as a matter of expediency by clean cut statements in the open that he is: as unalterably opposed to the Barnes | machine as to the Murphy machine. | I shall, of course, fight for the rrogressives in this state just as I shall fight for them in the nation. And when the progressive party has nominated its state ticket, as I am sure it will, on' a basis of frank and utter antagonism to the boss con- trolled organizations of both the old parties, alike to the Barnes organiza- tion and to the Murphy eorganiza- tion, I shall do all I can to aid in the election of that ticket and as far as my voice yill permit I will speak in j every section of the state from one end to the other in support of the | cause to which I think we have a right to expect all good citizens in the state to subscribe. “A day or two later Mr. Duell called ion me stating that he had seen Mr. Whitman and that Mr. Whitman realized that he had made a great mistake and was only anxious to Te- | d»em himself and that he would | shortly issue the statement that he had promised and attack Mr. Barnes by name, announcing that he was as much against Mr. Barnes as he was against Mr. Murphy. I told Mr. Duell that I doubted whether Mr. Whitman would venture to make any such state- ment and that I could not commit myself in advance as to what my action would be in the event that he | did make it. “A little later, on July third or fourth, Mr. Duell forwarded to me through my son a rough draft copy of the letter to be addressed to Mr. Whit- wan by the committee .of the Whit- man Non-Partisan league and a rough draft copy of Mr. Whitman’s pro- posed reply. Mr. Whitman's pro- rosed reply was as follows: Whitman’s Proposed Letter. July 3, 1914 To the Executive Committee, Non- Partisan Whitman League, New York, N. Y. Gentlemen:—In answer to your let- ter of Jul -, 1914, to the effect that in the newspapers of the state considerable nisunderstanding has arisen on tlie ground that I am Mr. Barnes’s machine choice for governor. 1 wish to say that any such statements are unequivocally false. You say that my silence has had the tendency to estop my friends from denying that I am opposed to boss rule. I regrat this, of course, but notwithstanding this fact and any former misunder- standing, I have always meant to be perfectly clear on this point. In order therefore that there may be no furtlier doubt and so that I may dispove once and for all of the absurd questirn that I am Barnes's choice for governor I will state that I am and always have been absoluteiy against him and all that he stands for in politics. No Middle Ground. There is no middle ground and in the coming figac this fall each voter of the state is either for Mr. Barnes or against Mr. Barnes, for Mr. Mur- phy or against Mr. Murphy. I am ageinst Mr. Barnes and shall oppose Hr. Barnes; I am against Mr. Murphy and shail oppose Mr. Murphy —both of them—to the bitter end. Decent government in this state must be restoréd. Let us make it even ' plainer. Ever since I have occupied the office of district attorney, al- though I have never been a republican Mr. Barnes has never, either directly or indirectly, been in my:office. 1 have steadfastly conducted the office of district attorney during my incum- bency on a strict basis of non-partis- anship. The merest investigation ir this connection will bear out the truth of this statement. I believe in the direct primary and prefer to éarry my fight, win’ or lose, to the people themselves, and if Mr. Barnes is able to beat me in the pri- maries it mercly means that the fight must be carried on with renewed vigor until the day finally comes when those who stand for decent. citizen- ship and goruine popular government have swept awwy the last vestigc of ring rule; in very fact the rule of such political parasites is the cause of the corruption which today domi- nates our entire state. Very truly vours, Cc. wW. | | I S. OLYMPICS AT SHORE. Loval Boys Enjoying Sport at Their Cottage at Myrtle Beach. President A. Larson, Treasurer M. Larson, and the following members of the Olympic club are enjoying a va- cation at the "Clairmont Cottage” at Myrtle Beach: A. Hylander, T. Lock- ten, J. C. Smith, A. Burquist, William Standel, N. G. Fredericks, F. Glaba, . Gustafson and Gearing. The local people are enjoying all sorts of sports and in a rival swim- ming match over a two mile course Rurquist defeated Larson. Two ball Bames with the Meriden Anchors were also played at the shore and the Olymplics won both by the respective scores of 7 to 4 and 5 to 1. The entire party will return home for a dinner at Hurry Bond's Saturday night, SALVATION ARMY OUTING. The annual Sunday school outing of the Salvation Army will be held Sat- urday at Wallen’s grove on the Ken- sington road about ten minutes walk from the end of the Arch street trol- ley line. tion are invited to attend. 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