The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-22
LODGE RIPS UP CULBERSON.
M GAVE DEMOCRATS LETTER
WHICH "EXPOSES" ROOSEI Eft.
President Made II Public Long Ago. says
the senator. and Democrats Had II
when They Voted on Panaina-Vse
Now ha Feeble EHort 10 Delude.

Now h:a Feeble EHOrt 10 Delude.
QUINCY, Mass, Oct. Pin an address
at Republican rally here tonight Senator
| Henry Cabot Lodge told how President
Roosevelt's letter TO Mr. Shaw on the
Panama revolution came to be in the pos
session OF Senator Culberson. He also
charged that IL President Roosevelt was
guilty OF completely in the revolution as
the opposition says, the Demo cratic Senators
| are equally guilty, because they permitted
the treaty to 60 to vote with that knowl-
edge in their possession Senator Lodge
said:
Nothing could show the desperate and
helpless condition OF the Democratic cam
baien more strongly than the publication
under misleading headlines Of the President =
letter to Dr. Albert shaw which was read At
II public meeting in New York last night ny
Senator Culberson OF Texas.
The headlines in the Democratic news
papers announced that the letter Is great
exposure OF the President and proves his
completely in the Panama revolution. 10
print such headlines TO such a letter shows
on the part OF the Democratic pnrty and Its
editors most unhattering contempt for the
intelligence OF the American public. because
the letter proves the exact reverse OF what
strates not that the President was guilty
OF completely in the Panama revolution but
that he had absolutely refused to do any
thing which could by any possibility be taken
as encoura cement to the projects OF revolu-
don.
Comment on the letter Is needless. 1t
wa, private one. written Oct. 10. 1903. The
reyo N, ion occurred on Nov. and the letter
written long before the revolution. in all the
fnlness Of private confidence. demonstrates
that the President, no matter what MS private
part whatever il, fomenting or encouraging
rhe attempt to make the public believe
that this letter shows the Presidents com
plicity in the revolution, when y proves the
rNact reverse. is. however. only the beginning
of the extremely crude dt Ire % Sr.ra
are trying to practise upon the public. ne
effort il made to give the IMPRESSION that
this letter is something new, new. j;istt , dragged ragged
shady transaction. What are the facts?
ags 0s er The rssE that the
ADMINISTRATION was guilty OF completely
| in fonlenting and encouraging the r.von.
this letter be given to the press and published
/ in order to show US 10 does show. that ne had
carefully and scrupolousy r ths Istssr iISs
| accordingly given out and published Just
se The letter ia not new. It has been pub d
| before. and published by order Of the Pres-
! dent. Az the sudden revelation OF a sup
pressed document this performance is sim
But this is not all. Senator Culberson says
! that from the correspondence on Panama
Significantly .hs Withheld. senator, Culberson
knows as well rs that no Senator has
ever asked or ever could ask for Presidents IT.
ever sent, or ever will send into the Senate
with oricia correspondence his private let;
unofficial. Moreover. this letter, was not
Withheld either Significantly or otherSis
Two months or more after NE revoi ,riot,
was going on in the Senate. an ofticer of the
senate told me that the Democratic Senators
stood had been written to DR., shaw. which
had appeared somewhere , and which they
understood convicted the pTesident oil con"
replied that knew the letter they meant.
that il had been sn9ihhsd ths} b WAS ,b fne
sHsGs rexsrse Of whs Wod KaSy yet them
copy of it, | went to the White House. got
q copy Of this letter 10 Pr shaw and, with
fun permission. took 1t TO the senate ana gave
4 day or two later Senator German asked
me IL had any objection to ne sissns ;, ~, sP
the letter had been published and they could
do what they liked Win i The ,a,,s ra IN r
I shaw in the possession Of Democratic SenH-
tors. You will observe that the letter was
frs, published and then S sent to- the senate Sn
I official channel,
| II il proves as the false headlines OF this
mornings papers pretend that 1t proves.
that the President was guilty Of completely
In the Panama revolution. then the Demo-
cratic Senators permitted the treaty to 20 to
"A vote aud half Of them vot ed FOR the treaty
with that knowledge IN their possession. ana
thus they became participants and shared in
an that the President had done.
II. as is the clear and shining truth, this
, nrivatp letter demonstrates that the Presi-
! dent absolutely refused 10 encourage the
] Panama revolution in any way; ". as IL also
/ the truth this letter was published by the
4 Presidents OF ders and by his permission
given 10 Democratic Senators then ms
sttenpt now to use the letter as proof OF the
worn out charge which II refutes il the most
crude aud feeble deception OF American
voters that was ever undertaken by de-
spairing party on the eve of n crushing
/ defeat M the polls.