The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-01-19
.TILLMAN AIMS FIERY
WORDS AT ROOSEVELT
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him. He declared that not for ten
years had there been anything on the
island but military dictatorship.
He stirred up trouble from tho start.
He quoted an extract from q speech OF
Mr.. Lodge, whom he repeatedly charg-
ed with being the mouthpiece OF the
president.
The senator from South Carolina de-
elared that the presidents policy to-
ward tho South American republics
was that Of q big policeman with a
bondhoider's claim, who announced to
those governments:
"WeIe your big brother; you're not
behaving; settle this claim or we'll
whip you and make you pay it,
He said the Monroe doctrine was
being wrenched and stretched beyond
all decehcy.
Mr. Tillman characterized the Do
minican modus vivendi as Having
been forced from Morales and his jun
to of eut-throats by the persuasive
eloQuence of United States Minister
Dawson, backed by gunboat or two.
He said it was but barely possible
that some person connected with the
United States did not own some Of the
Dominican bonds.
II do not know" he shouted, "but
there is an awful lot of anxiety some
where by some one to have somebody
see that these bonds are paid"
The modus vivendi, he defined as "a
rope on which you hang or are hung"
Uaughter).
He said the president had trans
gressed the canons of a century in
carrying into effect a. treaty that had
never been ratified.
ut used to be that the failure OF
the senate to act on a treaty was suf-
hcient," he shouted Now you've got
to say mo- in very loud voice to
theodore Roosevelt in order to gel
him to hear at ALL"
Speaking OF Morales flight, Mr.. Till
man said that he expected . to heal
IRON him next as holding o position on
the Panama canal.
Wouldn't that be glorious?" he
asked. Qaughter).
Mr. Tillman criticized the abandon
ment of necessary local projects for
the quixotic policy of interfering with
other countries business. He declared
that IL panic comes, "as 1t will come
wen have enough to occupy us here
with millions of workingmen out ol
work and starving"
MIR. Tillman declared that his belief
that unless the senate said mo- with
big NJ the United States will have
control and hold Santo Domingo"
He said the president liked to have
his own coed way regardless of con.
sequences; called him "our Caesar
and characterized the house OF repre-
sentatives as puppets in q servilt
programme"
Mr.. Z illman said he understood thai
the president was Cooking about foi
few White House Democrats, who
for mess OF pottage, would be will
ing to vote for the Dominican treaty
and declared that the country stood
under the shadow Of annexation oi
Santo Domingo, with "all the delight.
full negro acquaintances." He dubbed
the president "our lord and master.
He wanted to know whether tht
senate had sunk SO low, was so OBJ
livious to its obligations, that It wal
afraid to stand up and say to the pres
ident: Theodore Roosevelt you hav,
got TO obey the law" will tak'
you by the throat?"
He likened the to Andrew
Jackson, Napoleo. IShaparte, or an!
other fellow who pushed things to tn,
limit. He inquired what was the mat
ter with the president? What motive
underlies his conduct? Why he want
ed his own way and considered him
self superior to his predecessors? Wh!
he strode the world like a colossus?
Your master, but not mine, thanl
God" he exclaimed turning to the Re
| publican side. He spoke about tn
crawling about the legs Of the treaty
looking for patronage. Here Senate
Spooner. Rep. Wis.,, jumped to hi
leet and exclaimed smilingly: ''1n
| senator pointed his finger at me-"
| Mr.. Tillman apologized, saying h
| meant no personal reflection. Il will
welcome the senator from Wisconsin
in this debate at any moment" he ex
planned. (Laughter.)
\ Mr.. Tillman then declared that TIL
| president has known for long tim
| the value of the newspapers. "Whel
he won his great military reputation i
was rather strange to o man who wa
familiar with, the dispatches from tn
,ivil war. when grown-up battles wer
being fought, that so much was sal
about the rough rider and his regi
ment. 1t was Colonel Roosevelt her
md Colonel Roosevelt there, when tn
regular army officers, who bore tn
irunt Of the battles, were hardly men
Toned, except in official reports"
The senator said he had read of
great painting which depicted 'iColone
Roosevelt" on his horse. riding Il
San Juan hill, but declared that