Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-27
BAILEY MAKES REPLY
Gives a Public Answer to
David Graham Phillips.
TREASON OF THE SENATE"
Scores the Author Of This Magazine
Serial.
HIS INTEREST NOT PERSONAL
Criticises the Change In Policy That
Came, He Said, With Mr..
Hearst's Purchase.
HIS INTEREST NOT PERSONAL

SSNSic SiElttuleS maze against MIN OY Ia
vid Graham Phillips in a chapter OF his Sc
ries on The Treason OF the Senate pub
lished in the Cosmopolitan Magazine This
statement by the Texas senator has been
looked forward to for several days. as it
has been known that Mr.. Bailey resented
the statements referring to HIM.
1t is understood that some of Mr.. Bailey's
friends have endeavored to dlssuade him
from his determination to reply to these
charges, but he has insisted that he would
not allow them to go unanswered because
OF the inference that would arise from such
course on his part.
The senator began his remarks after 2
o CLOCK today, when the Senate galleries
We're well filled and when a large number
or senators were present.
On Suffering Silence.
To be misunderstood by some good
men and to be misrepresented by many
Dad men Is penalty which every man
must pay FOR actively participating in the
PONIES OF this free republic" said SEN
ator BAILEY, and it would be worse than
waste or time for any senator to answer
al oi the unfounded and malicious charg.
es whlch may be circulated against him.
, am moreover. inclined to believe that
the rule pursued by nearly all public men
OF making no answer to any charge Is the
wiser one: because II some are answerad
ana others are left unanswered the very
iact mat an answer has been made, TO
some and not to others will be used as al
evidence that the unanswered ones are
true. For this reason an answer must he
maze TO all or to none; and as any man
would make himself ridiculous by asking
the public to- listen while he repels every
story which the ingenuity of personal and
polt!cal malevolence may invent the only
sale rule is to trust an intelligent public
I'm hyy -Iox
without reference to what he is charged
with having done or said
But the fact that the publication which
contains the false and offensive matter to
Which OBJECT is owned by member OF
congress seems to take this case out of
the general rule and to demand the answer
which am about to make
I shall not deal with this as matter
personal TO me, because It is of a kind
which. Ii dealt with In that way would re-
qutre different place. Indeed, If I con-
sfdered 1t purely and only from a personal
point of view I should not regard II as
worthy Of any notice; for nothing which
this ma gazine can say will injure me with
my constituents or In the estimation Of
those with whom I have served in either
house Of Congress.
But, Mr. President, cannot free myself
from the belief that / owe 1t to the Ameri-
can people to show them what manner OF
men these are who are striving to destroy
popular faith IN the integrity of all public
servants.
Changed Owner and Policy.
Several months ago the Cosmopolitan
Magazine. which I am Informed was up to
that time a reputable publication, fell into
financial difficulties, and was sold to Will
fam r. Hearst. AS I state this upon in
formation and not upon my own knowledge,
I think it proper to lay before the Senate
the facts as they were furnished to me by
gentleman familiar with the transactions.
In a letter to me upon the subject that
gentleman says:
Immediately following this change Of
ownership this magazine announced a series
Of sensational articles entitled THE Urea
son Of the Senate" AS those articles were
deliberately planned and widely advertised,
the public had right to expect that they
would be written with scrupulous care and
a due regard for truth and justice but 50
far from meeting this reasonable expection
they have been SO manifestly designed to
prejudice rather than to inform the public
that intelligent men have aid them aside
IN absolute disgust.
Some shallow and lnfiammable minds
who support them with the argument that
II they were not true they would have been
denied. For the sake of the men who de-
sire to know the truth, and who would not
do even their political enemies an injustice,
I have determined to expose the reckless
meudacity of the man who writes the ar
ticleS.
German Attacked.
1T do not, of course feel at liberty to
refer to what he has said about other sena-
tors. because I must respect their deter
mination to pass his attacks on them In
silence: and am. therefore. driven to the
necessity of using the article In which he
ISLANDERS me.
But before proceeding with that I feel
myself warranted In saying word about
one VINO was grossly abused, and who was
not here then and who can never be here
again to speak In his own defense. While
senator German was confined to his home
by the sickness which terminated in his
death he was made the object of bitter
arraignment and pursued even beyond the
grave. for even in his last article this
writer reaews his miserable aspersions
upon the dead senator.
1T has been observed by every inteiii-
gent man who has read these articles that
the basic charge which runs through them
all Is that democratic and republican SEN
ators are acting together in secret agree
ment. and the unsuspecting reader is asked
to believe that this secret agreement is
carried out behind closed doors and In COM
mtttee rooms, It was necessary to impress
this view upon the public In order TO give
the articles even the appearance OF the
truth. because II 1t had been charged that
the democrats and republicans cooperate
in the open Senate the Congressional Rec
ord would completely and overwhelmingly
refute that charge
bue the public mind with the belief that
senators acted one way in the secrecy of
the committee room and another way in the
open Senate. In accordance with this line
OF appeal to the suspicious of the people
this writer has selected as q special In
stance to illustrate and establish that
charge the tariff act of 1891. commonly
know as the Wilson bill. He declares and
in order that there may be no mistake
about it, viii read exactly what he says:
As usual Aidrich and German retired
to their finance committee with the tariff
bill AS the Senate was democratic. German
had taken the Craftsmanship of the COM
mittee and the leadership of the Senate
that goes with IT. and Aldrich had become
nominal second in command. All the mis-
chief. all the treachery that was put into
that bill In the secrecy of that committee
BY those slippery twins will never be
known: 1t Is impossible for any one not
in the secret to grasp the effect of the sly
amendments slipped In here and there
If the man who wrote that statement
had sincerely desired to know the truth
he could have learned IL with very little
trouble. and II he had been seeking to en-
tighten those who read his articles he
would not have misled them with state
ment like that. Whether he knows the
facts and deliberately misstated them. or
whether no merely pretends to know them
when he does not. he Ia equally unworthy
OF BELIEF Mr.. President when the Wilson
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