The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-06-08
QUESTIONS OF NERACITY

, | Itslutul lNDUStNtll uCSCl lth HI'
Democratic allies, whose aid he had
solicited through former Senator
Chandler, and whom he had given
to understand that he would not
recede one JOt or little from his
ayoweG position in favor of a limit.
ed court review OF the rates fixed
| 10y the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, advocated by Senators
Bailey aud Tillman In calling at
teEtlOn to the President S treachcry
in surrenderlng to the broad or uu.
, limited court review supporters
without notice or warning Of any
kind to his Democratic allies. Mr..
TIiImau told how the President
had assured Mr. Chandler, whom
he had selected as a mediator be-.
twcca himself and the Democratic
leaders IN the rate fight, that he
had been troubled 10y the advocacy
OF an unlimited court review hy
some OF the lawyers of the Senate,
manning Senators Knox. Spooucr
land Foraker, as trying to iujurp on
defeat the hill by ingenious rou,'i.
tutIOnaI arguments, but that he
tad come to Il complete disagree.
meut with them.
This statement naturally created
II sensation in the Senate, aud
Senator Lodge to relieve the
strained situation phoned over to
the White House, apprislng the
President of what had been said,
and then arose confidently in the
chamber, and speaking for the
President, denounced the state
meDt of Mr.. Tillman as a "deliber.
ate and mischeivous falsehoOd,
in the strenuous and characteristic
language of the President. This
created a question of veracity
either Mr.. Tillman, Mr. Chandler
or Mr.. Roosevelt had prevarlcatcd.
Mr.. Tillman was too wary to be !
caught in a trap of that sOrt-tO
make II statement that he could
not sub3tantiate with indisputahlc
evidence. He had Mr.. Chandler
written confirmation of the latter's
interview with the President, and
Mr.. Chandler, who stands as high
as any man III Washington when
1t comes to a question of veracity, |
adhered to his statement like a
man. The Presidents later state.
ment, which avoided the strenuous
language he had phoned to Senator
Lodge, was n weak attempt to ex-
tricate himself from an embarrassing
position, to eXonerate himself from
the charge of treachery to the Dem.
Ocrats whom he had invited to his
help, and to mistify his surrender
to the unlimited court review law
yers, whom he had said were try
ing to defeat the bill by ingenious
constitutional arguments. The
confirmation of fOrmsr Senator
Chandler OF what the President had
told him aud the sophistry of the
Presidents statement, left Mr..
Roosevelt in a hole from which his
apologists have vainly tried to en-
tricate him. The President $ strenu.
Gus denial is universally discredlted.
This incident brings up other
questions Of veracity which the
Presidents Incorporate language
has raised, During the last Presi.
Dental campaign Judge Parker de.
clared that the corporations were
furnishing campaign funds to the
Republican committee. With his
usual rashness Mr.. Roosevelt de.
bounced the charge as 'monstrous
falsehood," declaring that If ii
we're true then Mr.. Cortelyou and
myself are two of the most in
famous men in the country" The (
exposures of the life insurance in.
designations show how true was =
Judge Parker's charge and how 7
ash Mr.. Roosevelt's spectacular
enial was. The President and q
lis party are the benefciaries of
be funds of widows and orphans ,
tolen by the insurance companies n