The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-28
BAILEY REPLIES TO HEARST,
WHO, HE SAYS, rs BACK or
"TREASON or THE SENATE"
Declares He Hasn't Spent In Six Campaigns
One-Fortieth OF what Hearst Spent In
Last New York MayOralty Fight
plains Charges Made Against Him.

N~AbHlNUTON June ~Si'-SndTRinR Ni'iaiii
Il. Hearst with responsibility for the series
Of articles entitled 'The Treason Of the
Senate" in the Cosmopolitan Magazine,
Senator Joseph W. Bailey OF Texas made a
response on the Senate floor to-day to the
attack upon himself which was contained
in one Of the series. He spoke also in de-
fence of the late Senator Arthur p. German.
Mr.. Bailey held that Mr.. Hearst controlled
the Cosmopolitan, and said some things
about the New York Congressman that we're
far from complimentary. He had a good
audience, which gave him close attention
throughout.
In the course of his remarks Mr.. Bailey
referred to a charge in the Cosmopolitan
that money had been used to secure Bailey's
election to the Senate. To this he responded
that he had spent less than q months salary
as a Senator in the ~speechmaking tour
which he had made in Texas when he was
after the Senatorship. and it was all his own
money. In the five campaigns be had
made for the House Of Representatives
and his one campaign for the Senatorship
he had spent, he asserted, only about one
fortieth of the money spent by Hearst
in the last Mayoralty campaign in New
York city. Hearst, he said, had used SEQ 900
in that campaign, while the money spent
by Hearst in one ward was greater than the
entire amount spent by Bailey when he was
making the race for the Senatorship. Sen.
ator Bailey announced at this period OF his
address that he would he reelected to the
Senate by an overwhelming majority.
Mr.. Bailey exposed what he declared
were incorrect statements in the attack
MAZDA m Gapntnr German and then cOD-
tinued, referring to the writer of the aga
articles:
Coming to the article in the last issue
Of his magazine in which he assails my
reputation and public services he is guilty
of even more vicious Misrepresentation,
if possible. thar those he made in respect
to Senator Gorman.
His first accusation against me relates
to a matter which was thoroughly investi-
gated by the very Legislature which elected
me to the Senate, and it was shown to be
so entirely unjust and absurd that the
decent men among my most implacable enc
mics in Texa no longer discuss il. In
order hat the Senate and the country may
understand how palpably and how grossly
he has misrepresented that episode | must
be pardoned while | briefly recall it.
In 1891 OF 1870 II lCTtlRH tCTI OTdliOU
then transacting business in our State was
convicted Of violating that section of our
antitrust law which prohibits exclusive
contracts, and its permit was revoked in
the spring of 1900. That judgment was
affirmed by the Supreme Court of the
United States and the officers of
that corporation then sought to settle
with the State by offering to pay
whatever penalty might be considered a
proper punishment, provided that they
could continue their busine in Texas.
| was asked to intercede in their behalf,
and upon the distinct and positive assur-
snce that the company was an independent
one and not controlled by any trust | ad-
vised our State officers to permit it, upon
the payment of a fine commensurate with
its ofIenc to continue ITS business IN
Texas.
THE Acknowledgement who was a college
m te Of mine and a true man in every sense,
submitted to me the Judgment OF court
and expressed the opinion that he could
not. under the terms of the judgment,
consent to suoh a settlement. After care
fully examining the judgment | concurred
in hi opinion and advised that the only
lawful course was to dissolve the offending
corporation and organize 4 new one, but
that advice was given upon the understand
ing that when the new corporation came
into the State it should obey our laws.
Immediately after that conversation |
returned to Washington and knew abso-
lutely nothing further about the transaction
until | read an attack upon the Attorney
General in respect to it, when Immediately
and without the slightest hesitation ! de-
Tended him, and avowed my responsibility
by stating what | had advised.
As so often happens in the bitterness Of
political strife, the circumstance was seized
upon and magnified in many ways, and it
was charged that | had received a fee rang
ing from $500 to $500 600, according to
the Imagination of the %relator. Finally one
man, who was mora reckless than the rest
and who happened to be a member of the
Texas Legislature, introduced a resolution
directing an inquiry into my connection
with the case
Mr.. Bailey went on to show that the
principal witness upon whose alleged testi-
mony the writer relied took to his bed as
soon as the Investigating committee
met. He sent doctors certificates the dav
after tina he was i'll and could not attend,
and finally the committees chairman calico
on him at his home and the witness admitted
that he would not swear to a fact or a cir
cumStance tending to support the charge.
Coming down to the charge Of being a
machine politician, Mr.. Bailey said he had
never organized a political committee in his
life and knew nothing about the use of
money. Then he made the remarks quoted
above about the cost OF Mr.. Hearst's cam
paigns.
Replying to the charge that he had been
helping to grab mineral lands in the indian
Territory. Mr.. Bailey declared that he called
attention to the ACCESSIBILITY of saving the
mineral lands before Mr.. La Toilette came
to- the Senate, He said he had advised and
conferred with Mr.. La Toilette in his efforts
to save the mineral lands for the Indians.
Turning toward Mr.. La Toilette, he ORA
maticauy called on him to rise and speak
on the matter. The Wisconsin Senator re-
sponded and said deliberately:
Before introducing the resolution | con-
ferred with the Sanat from Texas and
received valuable aid and suggestions from
the Senator from Texas
MIR. Bailey responded that he had ex-
pected Just such a manly statement from
the Senator from Wisconsin.
In referring to the criticism that he &C.
copied fees for legal services Mr., Bailey
said:
i despise those public men who think
they have'to remain poor in ORDER to be con-
sidefed honest. / am not ,one of them. If
my constituents want n man who is willing
to go to the poorlouse in his old ase in or Ter
to stay in the : nate during his mincla age
they will hava t. ttnd eomebony else. ! in
tend TO make every Gola that / ca hon. stly
make without neglscting or interfering
with my public duty. and the r. is no other
man in this country who would not do the
same II he has got sense enough to keep a
ohurchyari.