The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-16

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effort had cen brought TO bear on the
President TO grant to the railroads the
privilege of appeal to the courts where
the orders of the interstate
commission go into effect. He had even
heard that threats were being made
that the President must yield. IF ne
stands firm and does not yield. then /
will have more confidence" ne added.
Mr.. Foraker asked Mr.. Tillman If he
did not believe there should be p-ovi-
sion for review by the courts and Nj.
I1lIman replied that ne believed in il
If properly provided for. Otherwise"
he said. the poor devil Of a com
plainant will be bullyragged and drag
ged from one court 10 another until
he Is forced into bankruptcy"
Mr.. Tillman confessed that he was
not entirely satisfied with the Hepburn
Dill. n drew from Mr.. Foraker the
statement that he would not vota for
il.
The South Carolina Senator then
went on TO say that the Senate was
under a cloud and should AXE steps
20 clear its good lame. The Jews
paper press associations, however con-
trolled, and | have my suspicious on
that point" he said, have educaJ-
ed the people to believe that Theodore
Roosevelt is their only friend here,
and the Sen4te is the supple tool of the
corporations unless it takes Ihei.
ipse dixit." He then told how the Hep
burn bill had been gotten through, say
ing that the President had said u
the representative whose name the bill
bears: Here, Pete. take it and get it
through" and that the latter waddling
about through the words of the dill
had sworn that there were things in
1t which are not, and that there are
u things in it which are there"
Why shouldn't he be suspicious2'
he asked. He decrared that the Dill
had a loophole in it that a freight
train might De driven through, and
added: You'll never stop the devil
ment till you put some millionaire in
prison and put the stripes on him"
He said that he had asked the in
teTstate commerce commission to make
the inquiry called for by his resolu-
ton because, for n reason, the Sen
ate has not the time and because I'VE
know better how not to do it than any
body on Gods green earth
He then proceeded to give reasons
why he thought the President could
" oC uSpSAoOo uSS1 W LIN
interests of the people. In that connec-
ton ne referred to former Attorney
General Griggs, saying that Immediate
ly after retiring from office he had
taken the merger case Of the Northern
Securities Company against the attor-
ney general.
Speaking OF Paul Morton, Mr.. Till
man said that he had resigned from
h navy with the concession of re-
bate on him, made by his own mouth
and the proof hanging over him"
He is promoted" Mr.. Tilfman con-
tinued, land made head of the great
Insurance organization in New York
which ms beer made the stamping
ground for as dirty a lot of thieves as
ever walked Gods green earth. And
they sen a man with this clean rec
ord n put him in charge of these
scores of hundreds of millions which
are the savings, so to speak, of widows
and orphans who have policies in hat
company
"Yet, here we 60" ht went on, '"tthe
White House is immaculate. | do not
doubt Theodore ROosevelt.s integrity
and patriotism. AS | stated the other
day he is monstrously persuaded by
same people who get around him and
'honeyfuggle' him with ffattery. What
ever their methods may be, he stands
by his friends. He gave Morton a
certificate of government character"
Mr.. Tillman then referred to a din
ner recently at the White House, 20 the
executive committee of the Republican
national committee and said:
1.-The President has been elected
nearly a year and a half and never has
- INn- f0,nI raoncCnrv M 1Acirahln
to bring these friends of his, these
true and tried lieutenants and counsel
lOrs in his last race for the Presidency
to dine with him. The inevitable con-
clusion in my mind. at least, it ought
t be if it is not. is that these people
were brought together to confer how
the money could be raised to help
poor old Mccall out of the bog into
which he has sunk and refund s14S, 000
which he stole from the policyhoiders
of the insurance company and contrib
uted to the campaign funds of the
national Republican committee. For
surely this man Mccall is not going to |
be left in the lurch and run the risk !
of bankruptcy or OF being sent to the
penitentlary because of the fact that
his love for the Republican party got
him into this trOuble."~ He closed as
follows:
1.-The other day somebody here made |
an allusion to the comparison between |
Andrew jackson and President ROose~
welt. Let us look at it. Andrew
Jackson never put Nicholas Biddle in
his cabinet. In his fight against the
money power he fought to the bitter
end. He used no Establishments, lie
used no bludgeon. The President had
no need for any campaign fund, but
his lieutenants did. Mr.. Bliss collect
ed it. Mr.. Cortelyou spent, Mr.. Cor
telyou is in the cabinet and, as l said,
the trusted friend and attorney of the
money power in New York. Mr.. Elihu
Root acknowledge, he is a very
bright and great man and | admire
him. But Andrew Jackson never would