Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-06-02

a question of veracity to arise between
him and another. Many, of course, ex-
plain the fact by his impulsive habit of
speaking unguardedly, and few deny
him sincerity and honesty of purpose.
Not a few papers view the whole incl
dent as an attempt on the part of the
Democrats to put the president in a
hole" and to make political capital
from the episode. But the note of re-
gret is all-pervading. AL" says the
New York Even ing Post Qnd), 'all
the harsh descr ptions of Mr. Roose-
velt's recent Gov :se have simply led to
public appreciation of the presidents
real nature as it has long been known
to many in private. He pur-
sues his object with incessant and We
hement argument, large part of
which it is charitable to suppose he
instantly forgets" At bottom, the Post
concludes, it is a question of psychol-
ogy rather than a moral problem that
Mr.. Roosevelt oners.
SO tensely has the publics attention
fixed upon this controversy that when
the rate bill finally passed the senate
by vote of II to 3 Morgan, Pettus,
and Foraker voting against it scarce
ly so much as funeral note was heard.
1t was provided originally that the in
terstate commerce commission fix
rates which in it's judgment should be
just and reasonable. But the words lin
it's Judgment" were finally stricken out,
and, as the President expresses himself
as satisfied, he has obviously receded
from the Allison amendment. The bill
is thus of the ''broad-review" order. 1t
now returns to the house for agree
ment to the senate amendments.
To return to the veracity business,
.-.e Pittsburg Dispatch Und), as well
as other papers, thinks the presidents
characterization of the report concern
ing the executives attitude toward
Messrs. Foraker. Knox and Spooner as
a deliberate and unqualified falsehood
LEAVES the issue a simple question of
veracity which will be determined by
every partisan according to his bias"
The questions at issue were, first, that
the president said he was asked to
see" ex-senator Chandler, who could
speak for Senator Tillman, while Mr..
Tillman denies that he sent any one to
the president; and, second, that ac-
cording to Mr.. Chandler, the president
said he was at a disagreement with
Senators Knox, Spooner, and Foraker
because they were trying to injure or
defeat the Rate bill by ingenious con-
stitutional arguments" When Sena-
tor Lodge heard this on the floor of
the senate he promptly called up the
president by telephone, and the presi-
dent holly branded the Knox-Spooner-
Foraker statement as deliberate and
unqualified falsehood." Later the pres
ident wrote letter to Senator Allison
telling, among other things, of his nu-
merous interviews with Mr. Chandler
as spokesman for Mr.. Tillman, and of
interviews between Senators Tillman
and Bailey and Acknowledgement
Moody on behalf of the president. One
Democratic senator jocularly remarked
when he saw this long and carefully
worded statement, that it could have
been written only by Alton B. Parker.
The whole trouble was precipitated be-
cause the president, in the opinion of
the Democrats, deserted them after
making them espouse his cause "All
in ALL" says the Cleveland Plain Dealer
Qnd. Dem.), at is the most 'un-Roose-
veltian' chapter in Roosevelt's official
life" Many papers, as for instance the
New York Times (Dem.), object to the