The San Francisco call., 1906-06-28
Bailey Of Texas Replies
to Cosmopolitan S
Attacks.
Defends the Memory Of
the Late Arthur P.
German.
Members and Gallery Ap-
plaud Excoriation
of Editor.

WASHINGTON, June 27.-The first
reply in the Senate to the series of
articles running in the Cosmopolitan
Magazine under the head of The Trea-
son of the Senate was made today by
Senator Bailey of Texas, who spoke es-
pecially of the attack upon himself and
generally of the attacks upon other
Senators.
The Texas Senator read a portion of
his speech from manuscript and he
spoke with even more than his ordinary
celebration. Beginning with the state
ment that he did not make 1t prac-
tice to take notice of criticisms, he
said that the fact that the Cosmopoli-
tan was owned by a member of Con-
gress took this case out of the general
rule. fie- then spoke OF the published
matter as false and offensive" but
said that he did not propose to consider
1t from a personal standpoint because
it is of kind which, il dealt with. in
that way, would require a different
place" He then added:
Indeed. IL 1 considered it purely and
only from a personal point of view !
should not regard it as worthy of any
notice. for nothing which this maga-
zine can say will injure me with my
constituents or in the estimation of
those with whom / have served in
either House of Congress.
But" he went on, II cannot free
myself from the belief that / owe 1t to
the American people to show them
what manner of men these are who
are striving to destroy popular faith
in the integrity of all public servants"
DEFENDS A DEAD SENATOR.
He said that he had been informed
that several months ago the Cosmopoli-
tan had been sold to w. r. Hearst and
that Immediately afterward the "Trea-
son of the Senate" articles had begun
to appear. He declared that instead
of being written with care and with
regard to truth these articles have
been so manifestly designed to preju-
dice rather than to inform the public
that intelligent men have laid them
aside in absolute disgust" Still some
persons seemed to expect replies
He did not feel entirely at liberty to
speak of the attacks upon living SEN
ators. but considered himself not thus
bound with reference to the article
about Senator German, who. he said.
had been grossly abused when on his
deathbed and even pursued in the
grave. He called attention to the fact
that the magazine articles were based
upon the assumption of a secret agree
ment between Republican and Demo-
cratic Senators for corrupt purposes
Bailey quoted the charge that Sem
ator German had conspired with SEN
ator Aldrich to shape the Wilson-Gor-
man tariff bill so as to cheat the pub
lie. saying that it was not true and
that if the author of the article had
desired to learn the truth he could
easily have done so.
Whether" he said, "he knows the
facts and deliberately misstated them,
or whether he merely pretends to
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equally unworthy of belief"
Bailey then called attention to the
fact that, instead of German being
chairman OF the finance committee, as
was charged, he was not at that time
even a member of II.
ANSWERS Personal ATTACK.
Taking up the article in which he
had been assailed, Bailey said that the
writer had been guilty of even more
vicious misrepresentation than those
made in respect to Senator German"
In the German case, he said the mis-
representation as to the committee po-
sition might not have been Intentional
but mo such extenuation can be Of
fered for his misrepresentation in re-
spect to me, because he read the Rec
ord, which he distinctly misrepresents
in some particulars and deliberately
suppresses in others"
in the magazine article that he had lent
himself to a. scheme whereby the anti
trust law of Texas had been evaded by
a foreign corporation. OF this he said
that it had been thoroughly investi-
gated by the very Legislature which
elected me to the Senate, and II was
shown to be so entirely unjust and alb
surd that the decent men among my
most implacable enemies in Texas no
longer discuss IT."
The Texas Senator also made refer
ence to the magazine charge that he
had been party to an effort to cheat
the Indians of Indian Territory out of
their coal lands, which would have been
successful but for the efforts of Sen
ator La Toilette. He called upon La
Toilette to say whether he Bailey
had not co-operated with La Toilette
In what the latter had done.
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