The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-29

" "dSulHStOu, June LI.-1n6 nfSt re-
ply in the senate to the series of arti-
cles running through the Cosmopolitan
magazine under the head Treason In
The Senate" was made today by SEN
ator Bailey of Texas, who spoke es-
pecially of the attack upon himself
and generally of the attacks upon
other senator's
Beginning with the statement that
he did not make it a practice to take
notice of criticisms, he said that the
fact that the Cosmopolitan is owned by
member of congress, takes this case
out of the general rule He then
spoke of the published matter as
"false and offensive" but said that he
did not propose to consider it from
a personal standpoint, because it is
Of a kind which if dealt with in that
way would require a different place"
He then added:
Indeed if | considered it purely and
only from a personal point of view, I
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 whom | have served in either
house of congress, but" he went on,
Il cannot free myself from the belief
that | owe it 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
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
wards ''The Treason In The Senate"
articles had begun to appear. He
then declared that instead of being
written with care and with regard 70
truth, these articles have been so
manifestly designed to prejudice rath-
er than to inform the public that in
telligent men have laid them aside in
absolute disgust"
Still some people seem to expect re-
plies.
Calling attention to the fact that the
magazine articles are based upon the
assumption of a secret agreement be-
tween republican and democratic SEN
ators for corrupt purposes, he quoted
the charge that Senator German had
conspired with Senator Aldrich to
shape the Wilson-Gorman 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 tearn the
truth he could easily have done so.
He then called attention to the tact
that instead of Germans being chair
man of the finance committee, as was
charged, he was not at that time even
a member of it, and asked: What
must fair-minded men think of writ
er who charges that senator abused
a position in the face Of the official re-
cord, which shows that lie did not oc-
cupy the position which he is charged
with having abused?'
Mr.. Bailey then discussed at length
the charge in the magazine article
that he had lent himself to scheme
whereby the antitrust law of Texas
had been evaded by foreign corpora
ton. Of this he said that it had been
thoroughly investigated by the very
legislature which elected me to the
senate, and it was shown to be so en-
tirely unjust and absurd that the de-
cent men among my most implacable
enemies in Texas no longer dis
cuss it."
A committee appointed by the Texas
legislature, he said, had made a re-
port unanimously generating him,
and the state officers from every shad-
ow of offense He pointed out that as
the case did not involve his Official
conduct, he would have been entirely
justified in appearing as an attorney
in the corporation case.
Mr. Bailey said further: Il have
been five times elected to the house
of representatives and once to the sen
ate, and in all those elections l spent
less money than the man who owns
this magazine spent in one ward in
his race for mayor of New York. His