Letter from President Theodore Roosevelt to Secretary of the Interior E. A. Hitchcock
This item is a letter regarding published attacks made by the Department of Interior on Senator Warren with regards to a proposed amendment of the joint statehood bill that would have made New Mexico and Arizona one state.
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to attack Senator Warren, if he wes to be attacked at all.
Assistent secretary Ryan tells me that the memorandum in question
was prepared by Mr. Acker, a clerk in the Interior Department; that it
was submitted to Mr. Ryan, who forwarded it to you to find out if you
approved of its form and degired to have it published; and that you ro-
turned it with your approval, after having, however, struck out a com
mendatory allusion which it contained to the action of Governor Frantz
of Oklahoma in opposing the amendmente
I call your attention to the enclosed clippings from such papers
as the Providence Journal, the Denver News, the Erie Horald, the Vin-
comms Sun. Thege are of importance because certain officials of the
Interior Department, as I understand, have alleged that the published
statement did not really contain an attack on Senator Warren. It will
be seen, however, that all the papors treated it as a personal attack
by you on Senator Warren. The Denver News says that you "roast Senator
Warren; that you have characterized his amendment as a deliberate steal;
that the amondment was urged by am organized band of land speculators,
resembled a raid on the treasury, and so forth and so forth. The Provi-
dence Journal says:
"Another striking demonstration of the courage of the Secretary of
the Interior = a courage most unusual in a public official dealing
with the weaknesses of influentia members of his own political party -
is afforded by his ungloved attack upon Senator Francis E. Warren of
Wyoming. Without mincing words * * and in plain English he names
Senator Warren as the power behind the throne, the conspicuous counsel,
friend, associate end, inferentielly, beneficiary of the 'combine'
of 'looters' and "grafters'. Senator Warren may be innocent,
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