The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-21
ST|NC|Nc WORDS
FROM CULDERSON
Texas Senator Ponrs II Into
Roosevelt's LaNIessness.
HIS PANAMA CONDUCT
DECLARED TO BE DiSGRAcEFuL--
SAYS THE PRESIDENT PRI-
vATELY iNSTi0ATED
THE REVOLUTION. Il
BY the Associated PRESS.

BY the Associated Press.
New Yok Oct 20.-- Under the aus
pieces of the Reform club a democratic
mass meeting was held here tonight
at, Carnegie hall, at which Senator
Chas. A. Culbertson, of Texas. Cover
nor Andrew J. Montague OF Virginia.
Congressman John Sharp Williams OF
Mississippi, and Borough President
Martin w Littletcn of Brooklyn were
the apeakcs
Paul FHller, of the Reform club pre-
sided and inrtdused Senator Culbere
| son
Hot Shot for the President.
MIR. Culbertson devnEed the greater
portion OF his remarks to a discussion
OF the Panama canal, going into detail
with the revolution by which the Pan
anna province Of Colombia became
an independent state, and subsequent
negotiations which resulted In the
canal treaty Abiding 70 what he
termed @the spirit of lawIessness
which led the president in this dis
graceful affair he declared that the
transaction above All others In his
career, strikingly typifies his con
tempt of all legal restraint and his
Unsuitable passion for personal and
arbitrary government.
Respected Neither Law Nor National
Good Faith.
Choosing an occasion upon which
he could appeal to the avarice OF the
people and thus temper their spirit
Of resistance to usnrpation, he re-
specfed neither legal bounds nor ns-
tional good faith. and az the Incident
ervcs 70 illustrate not oslly has ius+
,erious and despotic nature. but tbs
ianser to the country which is in
| rolvcd In his election, it is well To an-
lerstand. for, besides a want OF gen
Ira information ON the subject. I'M.
,ortant facts have been deliberately
withheld from the public"
Violated the spooncr Law.
He then sketched the course OF
vents In the passage by congress OF
he "Spooner law" authorizing the
anal. and charged that the president
N his course with Colombia defiant
ly violated both its letter and spirit"
The speaker entered with detail In
TO the legal aspect OF the matter. He
continued his argument against the
course of the administration In the cas
aal matter. He accepted as true that
the executive officers OF the admins
;ration did not officially and publicly
instigate the revolt in Panama, but"
he said that the administration. In
cluding the president. privately IA
vored and encouraged the movement.
and that this was widely known, Is
susceptible OF demonstration, and In
matter OF this character II was tan
tamount TO committing the govern
ment TO It,
Wanted Panama Secession.
Senator CulbertsOn then read the
following letter. dated October 10,
1903. from President Roosevelt TO Or.
Albert Shaw, editor of the Review Of
Reviews:
L enclose you, purely Tor your own
information. a copy of letter of
September 5. from our minister to
Colombia. | think II might interest
YOU to see that there was absolutely
not the slightest chance OF securing
by treaty any more than we endeav-
ored 10 secure. The alternatives we're
to go 10 Nicaragua. against the advice
OF a great majority Of competent en-
gineers-so some Of the most competent
saying that we had better have no
canal at this time than - there-or
else to take the territory ~ force
without attempting at getting trea-
ty. cast aside the proposition made
AZ this time 10 fomcnt the secession
Of Panama Whatever other govern
menis can do the United States can
not 90 into the securing by such un-
dc-hand means. the cession. Private
~. ! freely say 10 you that should
be delighted II Panama we're an inde-
pendent state. or II il made Itself 50
Concluded On second paxef