Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28
SCORES
VIM. R. HEARST.
TEXAS SENATOR REPLIES TO
RECENT ATTACK
Declares Cosmopolitan Articles Con-
tain SIander and That Hearst
Papers Advise People to Buy
That Magazine
nv Assncinted Prn..

BY Associated Press
WASHINGTON, June 27--The first
reply in the senate to the series of
articles running through the Cosrno-
politan magazine under the head OF
THE Trtason of the Senate" was made
today by Senator Bailey Of Texas. who
spoke especially of the attack upon him
self and generally of the attacks upon
other senator's.
He spoke of the published matter as
false and offensive" but said that he
did not propose to consider it from
personal standpoint, because It is Of a
kind which If dealt with in that wav
would require a different place." He
then added:
Indeed, If L considered It purely
and only from personal point or view.
1 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 1 owe 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"
Hearst Buys Magazine
He then said that he had been in
formed that several months ago the
Cosmopolitan had been sold to w. r.
Hearst and that Immediately after
ward the Treason Of the Senate ar
ticles had begun to appear.
He then declared that, instead of
being written with care and with re-
gard to truth these articles "have been
so manifestly designed to prejudice
rather than to inform the public that
intelligent men have laid them aside
in absolute disgust" Still some people
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 on his death
bed, and even pursued in the grave.
He called attention to the fact that
the magazine articles are based upon
the assumption of a secret agreement
between Republican and Democratic
senators for corrupt purposes. He quot
| ed the charge that Senator German had
conspired with Senator Aldrich to shape
the Wilson German tariff bill so as to
cheat the public, 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 know
them when he does not, he is equally
unworthy of belief"
Discusses Magazine Article
Mr.. Bailey discussed at length the
charge in the magazine article that he
had lent himself to a scheme whereby
the antitrust law of Texas had been
evaded by foreign corporation. OF
this he said that 1t had been thor
oughly investigated by the very legisla-
ture 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 enemies in Texas
no longer discuss It,"
The Texas senator also made refer
ence to the magazine charges that he
had been a party to an effort to cheat
the Indians of Indian Territory out Of
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