Bisbee daily review., 1906-06-08
TIE STRENUOUS LIFE.


 President Roosevelt is known to enjoy a strenuous life, and there is 10 doubt he is getting his fill of 1t. Ae is constantly in hot water with some enc, and often has to crawl ont Of a tight place by declaring that his opponent has ied-a deliberate and uneua.ified .lisr is his favorite expres. sion When he replied to the claim # lCage Parker, just before the na- ssc,L, election, that the corporations were furnishing the campaign funds 10 shc republican committee, Presiden; Roosevelt declared < was mon strous fa,cehood." end that if it were true. thea MT. Cortelyoa and myself are two of the most infamous men in thc country The exposures in the Insurance Investigations and other evi- dencc show that Judge Parker told the truth. and there is strong evidence to show that Mir. Roosevelt knew it was the truth when he, for personal and partisan purposes. said It was a mon strors salsehood" In spite of the plain evidence, Mir. Roosevelt has ney- er apologized to Judge Parker, nor has he caused restitution to be made to the funds that should have been sacred to the widows and orphans of policy holders, which were plundered to aid in his election.
 Then there is the Mason" incident, which came near to embroiling us with Great Britain. D. N. Mason, a candi- date of the liberal party for the Brit ish parliament, had an interview with President Roosevelt and quoted him as expressing "hearty sympathy" with the liberal party. There was great fuss made about this interference with a pending political fight in a friend ly' country, especially as the party in power in England at that time was conservative. The president did not issue a formal statement thar Mason was liar, but ordered Secretary Loeb
 
 ollection of meeting Mr. Mason, nor has Secretary Loeb, or any other per son at duty at the White House They do not say, however, that MT. Mason .Yas not received by the. president. They merely say that they do not re- member him. That was looked apon as crawling out of a very small hole.
 The next case of importance was when Henry M. Whitney, of Massa- chusetts, stated that the president de. clared to him and some other mem, bers of a committee that he favored Canadian reciprocity. The president denied the statement, and declared Alr. Whitney had deliberately mis Represented him." There is not a shadow of doubt that President Roose yeft did declare himself in favor Of reciprocity with Canada, for Andrew C. Webster, Of Boston, and J. NJ. Hall of Cambridge, who were members of the committee with Mir. Whitney, state that their memory of what was said by the president was in accord with Mr. Whitney's statement,
 z Now in this latest and most excit ing issue of railroad rate legislatson the question of Yeracity between the president and ex-Senator Chsndler is forced upon the American people. There is no reason why ex-Senator Chandler should misrepresent what the president told him to dc, and every reason why it should have been absurd for him to negotiate with Sem ators TilIrnan and Bailey for an amendment that would be acceptable to the majority of the democratic Sen ators and that Attorney General Moody should hold a conference with them and write the amendment unless the president had ordered this action.
 Why President Roosevelt went back on ex-Senator Chandler and declared that part of his statement was an 'un. qualified falsehood," is at present a matter of conjecture, though evident iy 1t was awkward to have his state. mept to MT. Chandler made public that Knox, Spooner and Foraker were trying to irjure or defeat the railroad bin 'by ingenious constitutional argl,- ments, and that he had come to com plete disagreement with them" For
 
 while the negotiations with Senators Tillman and Bailey were in progress he suddenly changed frcnt and accept.