Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-03-05
ATILLMAR BIOLOGIST.

open charges has accused his fellow members in the senate, as well as other officials of the government with being actuated by corrupt motives. His colleague, Senator McLaurin has been made special target by this South Carolina bully, and he has been nagging and prodding at him for some time. When he cast aside his tactics of insinuation and made direct charge that McLaurin had vir- tually been guilty of bribery, Sena tor McLaurin did what any other self respecting man would have done, characterized Tillman's assertion as a malicious, wilful lie. The bully in Tillman asserted itself at this, and he made a personal assault on McLaurin, simply because the latter dared to re- sent an insult, and refused to submit to the bullying tactics of Tillman.
 Tillman prior to this had been hon. ored by President Roosevelt with an invitation to dine with him at the White House, on the occasion of Prince Henry's visit. With the dis grace that he had brought on the United States senate, as well as on the entire country by his pugilistic encounter, the president sent friend to Tillman to quietly inform him that the withdrawal of his acceptance to the dinner would be acceptable to the president. The latter did not want to insult his guests with Till mans presence, and besides, no doubt, his own self respect would be shocked by the presence of a man of this char acter. Tillman refused the offer, when the president exercising the prerogative which every man in the country is supposed to have the priv ilege of doing-deciding whom he shall and whom he shall not enter tain, cancelled his invitation. For doing this the Prescott Courier, this morning, indulges in the following violent Tillmanistic assault on the president which is published without comment, leaving every fair minded reader to judge for himself as to the merit and denerit of it:
 Some weeks ago this paper took occasion to make note of the thriving mutual admiration society com posed of the Roosevelts and the Elm peror William and relatives. This monarchial and American imperial istic mutual admiration society has reached that advanced stage of de- velopment at which President Roose- welt has made some very unsavory American history for himself by Gc- deciding that Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, is not sufficiently up to the imperialistic stan dard to dine on sauerkraut, beer and garlic with Prince Henry of Ger many, and the said President Roose- welt, the American end of the royal mutual admiration society has per emptorily revoked and called in Sen ator Tillman's invitation to the Prince Henry banquet, all because Tillman landed on the snout of one McLaurin, South Carolina Murphy democrat, who publicly5lsulted him. Tillman is a man clo' ? to the people, and be- cause he is a man close to the people, the president of this republic does not think he is good enough to sit close to his friend Prince Henry and fellow member of the aforesaid mu- tual admiration society. When the American public fully digests this climax capping piece of toadyism and and the sacrifice of American man. hood to royalty, a Black Friday period of national nausea will surely follow. According to the Washing ton dispatches, the president sent word to Tillman suggesting the pro priety of his staying away from the banquet. With an evident determin- ation to put the president on record, Tillman refused to comply with the request. The president immediately cancelled the invitation in a special note to Tillman. Great is Tillman, with all his faults. Small is Roose- welt with all his great position as president of the United States. Such is the republicanism of today-a monstrous perversion of the patriotic principles and practices of honest Abraham Lincoln, the common rail splitter, who would have preferred to sit at the table with the humblest American citizen ill the land than with all the crowned heads of the l cor b g