Arizona republican., 1906-05-13
He Charges Him With a Surrender of His
 Convictions
Weakening Before the Pressure Which His Party Leaders Steadily Applied the Matter of the Rate Bill and Tariff Revision.

Minneapolis before his nomination,
 the president had in distinct, unequiv-
 ocal terms announced his position up
 on the subject and likewise in anti
 trust prosecutions and legislation.
 In reply, Senator Bailey said ne did
 not know the president had discussed
 the railroad question in his speech in
 Minneapolis, but he had examined the
 presidents public messages prior to
 the election, and had found nothing of
 that character in them. Senator Bai-
 ley said that the presidents secretary
 had written to the editor of a publica-
 tion known as Freight" in the sum
 mer of 1904 declaring that in his let
 ter of acceptance the president would speak out" on the railroad question.
 He said the presidents promise had not been redeemed.
 Continuing, he said: q do not say
 that the president put it in his letter and then, when his astute political ad- visers told him that the railroads would not contribute, he cut 1t out. l only put before the senate and the country the fact that his secretary said the president would speak on Il and he did not speak on it
 Perhaps these insurance companies which Were contributing the funds of
 widows and orphans to secure his election owned so many of those rail road bonds that they deterred not only
 the president, but the presidents ad- visers from incorporating in his letter l a message of hostility against the rail- roads preceding the elections.
 MT. President, love brave man I love q fighter, and the president ot
 the United States is both on Occas- | ions, but ne can give up with as much alacrity as any man who ever went to l battle, either civic or political. He i fights furiously when it is a physical | contest, I grant you, because that Is a question of courage as well as endur- ance. but he seems to have not endur- ance in the political contests here l Why, he was going to revise the tarin i when his friends called him off. and ! that great voice that was filling the nation with a demand for tariff re- 1 vision suddenly sank into the gentle | ness and weakness of a whisper
 "Then ne was going to have the | railroads regulated and it was an nounced that congress would be con- vened in extra ordinary session to deal with it, but the great leaders assem- | bled with the president. prayed with | him q little. and no call was issued ! for an extraordinary session of con- 1 gress. He waited until the regular ses- l sion and i've months of that mas elapsed and still no legislation. And 1 when we do get a bill. God save the l country from such a bill as it will be If the president has been this he roic fighter as the senator from Mon | tana would have us believe ne was you know what he would have done | He would have summoned the republi- can leaders to a conference from the 1 house and senate and he would have | said to them: Gentlemen, I am not
 talking to you now as the president of l the United States, am talking to you
 as Theodore Roosevelt, the republican. | l want to tell you that I happen to ! have learned that unless you pass a good bill, the president of the United | States intends to veto it.
 1 And then they would have passed bill fulfilling in some degree the 1 laudable expectations of this people
 If congress had failed to do it, and he
 had vetoed the bill they passed, and i then convened them in extraordinary l session to pass a good one. he would | have written his name side by side