New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-10
STRONG DEFENCE OF PRESIDENT
SENATOR SPOONER REFUTES ALL CHARGES MADE
BY DEMOCRATS.
Lac Faithfully Feaesly and I'm partially Enforced by DR. Roosevelt
The People WM Elect Him Because They Knozg Him.

gerous than the work of the warrior in the open
field. He continued:
The Senators from Maryland North Carolina
and others have arraigned us for not ordering
a general investigation OF the Postof1ce Depart
ment but L am not certain that the crusade
which has been made here has been inspired by
unmlxed devotion to public duty. Somehow.
some way the speeches of my Democratic
friends have not sounded to me as If pitched
in that key. In fact. they have been mixed
with attacks on the tariff and on the President
OF the United States, Conceding his honesty, but
impeaching all else. The counsel for Machen
and Beavers could ask better thing than
that a resolution demanding that all the papers
in the postoffice investigation be sent TO the
Senate. They have sought i'm the courts. here
and in NewYork, the very papers which would
have been given to the world had that resolu-
tion been adopted. And why did the Senators
from Maryland and Tennessee insist in
cooperating in that resolution a provision that
the investigation should be completed by May
l? 1t took eight months for a trained corps
of inspectors TO investigate one bureau of the
Postofiice Department. Could Senators have in
vestigated the entire department I'm four? The
Senator knows well that Congressional investi-
cations slow and that the Senators on
whom would nave devolved the duty are busy
men, each on several committees of this Senate
each responsible for legislation, and each rep
resenting here a commonwealth OF the United
States. On looking the speeches OF my
Democratic friends. barely suspect that May
was fixed upon with some reference to political
conventions and political campaign ] tm IN
clined to think that the Congress ought TO exer-
else closer supervision the departments
or the government, but l submit that any gem
ersl investigation, to be effective. must be
undertaken without a time limit and with the
sole view of benefitirg the public service.
Because an honest and fearless President has
discovered fraud in the Postoffice Department
and has prosecuted ii. are doubt and suspicion to
be cast on all the departments OF the govern
ment and all the employees of those de-
partments? 1t would not do to say that be-
cause member OF this body had forgotten his
honor and his integrity It could be taken as an
impeachment of every member OF this body.
think may safely say that the great mass Of
the people Will agree with that the Presi-
dent will not tolerate-yea, and is keen to
scent-fraud. All in ALL 1 feel constrained to
say that suspect there is grain of politics
mixed with the great lump of patriotism which
inspires this demand for general Investigation
The Democratic Senators have adopted as
their slogan the word "Fraudr' They cannot
tell where they will stand the tariff That
lies hidden in the womb OF the future They
don't know whether not they will make a
paramount issue OF the Philippines. No man
knows II they VIII go to the people with the
issue that the President has acquired the PAN
tions OF an act Of Congress. But they all know
that IL Is easy-and cheap-to cry Fraud"
THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
As 10 the Democratic candidate. we are told
ne viii be judicial man. OF course he'll be
judicial, he'll be safe. he'll be calm he'll be
SOUND Your proposed candidate had to get a
certificate that he was Democrat. Now he
has that certificate from Grover Cleveland and
most OF you have been denyins, for the last four
years that Mr.. Cleveland was democrat
f1u charge Us with wanting T. adjourn early
Wen. we do-and DO you. And one reason
why want to adjourn early is my affection for
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