Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-05-31
THE STRENUOUSLIFE
Charges and COUNTER.CHARGES
keep The President BUSY.
HIS Ardent and lmpulsive Tempera.
ment Leads President Roosevelt
INTO Trouble. Caught Between the
Upper and Neither rtiIIstOnes. He
"SquealS" Like Rat in a Trap.

"SqueaIS" Like Rat in a Trap.
President Roosevelt is known to enioy
q strenuous life, and there is no doubt
he is getting his fill of it. He is con-
stantly in hot wafer with some one and
often has to crawl out OF tight place by
declaring that his opponent Las lied-a
deliberate and unqualified liar-is his
favorlte expression. When he replied to
the claim Of Judge Parker. just before
the national election, that the corpora.
tions were furnishing campaign funds to
the republican committee, President
Roosevelt declared it was "monstrous
falsehood" and that if it "were true,
then Mr. Cortelyou and myself are two
OF the most infamous men in the coun-
try" The exposures in the life insur.
ance investigations and other evidence
show that Judge Parker told the truth
and there is very strong evidence to
show that Mr.. Roosevelt knew it was
the truth when he, for personal and
partisan purposes, said it was "mon-
strous falsehood." In spite of the pl laiu
evidence Mr.. Roosevelt has never apollo
gized to Judge Parker, nor has he caused
restitution to be made to the fund that
should have been sacred to the widows
and orphans Of policy holders which was
plundered to aid in his election.
Then there was the "Mason" incident
which came near to embroiling us with
Great Britain. Mr.. D. N. Mason, a can
didate for the Liberal party for the
British Parliament. had an interview
with President Roosevelt and quoted
him az expires sing "hearty sympathy"
with the Liberal party. There was q
great fuss made about this interference
With. pending political fight in q friend
~ country. especially as the party in
power in England at that time was Con.
servative. The President did not issue
q formal statement that Mason was a
liar, but ordered Secretary Loeb to say
that: "The President has no recollec.
tion Of meeting OF Mr.. Moson; nor has
Secretary Loeb, nor any other person on
duty at the White House. They do not
say. however, that MIR. Mason was not
received by the President. They mere.
ly say they do not remember him."
That was looked upon as crawling out OF
a very small ole.
The next case OF Importance was when
Henry M. Whitney. Of Massachusetts,
stated that the President declared to him
and some other members of committee
that he favored Canadian reciprocity.
The Presiden, denied the statement and
declared Mr.. Whitney had deliberately
misrepresented him." There is not a
shadow Of a doubt that President Roose.
velt did declare himself in favor of reci
procity with Canada, for Andrew &.
Webster, of Boston, and J. NJ. Hall, of
Cambridge, who were members Of the
committee with Mr.. Whitney, state that
their memory of what was said by the
President was in accord with Mr.. Whit.
aey's statement.
Now, in this latest and most exciting
issue OF railroad rate legislation. the
question of veracity between the Presi.
dent and former Senator Chandler is
forced upon the American people. There
is no reason why Senator Chandler
should msrepresent what the President
told him to do, and every reason why it
would have been absurd for him to
negotiate with Senators Tillman and
Bailey for an amendment that would be
acceptable to the majority of the demo-
cratic senators and that Attorney General
Moody should hold conference with
them and write the amendment unless
the President had ordered this action.
Why President Roosevelt went back on
Senator Chandler and declared that part
of his statement was an "unqualified
falsehood." is at present a matter of
conjecture, though evidently it was
awkward to have his statement to Sena.
tor Chandler made public that Knox,
Spooner and Foraker were trying to in
jure or defeat the railroad rate bill "by
ingenious constitutional arguments, and
that he had come to complete disagree.
ment with them" For while the nego.
tiations with Senators Tillman and Bailey
were in progress he suddenly chsnged
front and accepted the amendment that
Senators Knox, Spooner and Aldrich
were striving for. We are assured that
more evidence of the Presidents back
down will be forthcoming when it is
necessary to produce it.
The question for those democrats to
who thought 90 we'll of Presi.
dent Roosevelt as to endorse him, is
whether they can afford to cling to q man