The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-05-18
OBJECT OF SUSPICION.
This n What Correspondent Say.
Of Senator Bailey.
REPLY OF RAYMOND.
Says 1t Vas Chandler Who Carried
to white Honse the iutimstion
That the Texan Intended
Blocking Court Review.

Chicago, May 1.-THE Tribune pub
fishes under date Of 10th a telegram
from Raymond" Its Washington cor.
respondent. in answer to the attack
made upon his veracity by Senator
Bailey. II says In part.
When the Hon. Joseph Y Bailey.
senator from Texas, struck at the pres.
fdent OF the United States over my
humble shoulder, for that Is all he did
on the floor Of the senate, to-day, he
apparently was unaware that there
was documentary evidence in exist
ence, both in the official Congression-
al Record and in the form of written
memorandum by former Senator Will
lam +. Chandler, absolutely proving
that he was an object OF suspicion
but that his motives and his acts in
the Democratic conferences, in the
Democratic caucus, on the floor Of the
senate and IN conference between Till
man and Moody, and through Mr.
Chandler with the president, gave rise
to the suspicion that he was not true
to the principle of railroad rate legis-
lation, is clear from the Record itself,
and cannot successfully oenied Mr.
Bailey may be as innocent as a babe
unborn, and he says he Is, but the sus-
picions did exist, and they have exist
ed Off weeks that they have been talk
ed of in the cloak rooms of the senate
on the streets, at the white house and
elsewhere They have been mntion-
ed in many newspapers, and II they
have not been justified, Mr.. Bailey is
unfortunate, and his character should
be relieved from aspersions
First of all, let me quote W. F. Chan
dler, formerly senator from New
Hampshire, now the president of the
Spanish claims committee. He is the
personal friend of Senator Tillman
He was the intermediary between Mr..
Tillman and the president. Whichever
of the two originated the negotiations,
Chandler certainly conducted them. 1t
| was his evid nee, which has twice been
citeu by Mr.. Tillman on the floor of
the senate, and it is Chandler who, in
| effect, has given the lie direct to the
president
In the dispatch sent by me on Mon
| day to the Tribune, which aroused such
| tempest in the senate this afternoon
and which provoked Senator Bailey tc
declare it to be a malicious lie, and
to insinuate it was directly inspired
by the president himself, | stated fact!
| on the authority of Mr.. Chandler him
| self. 1t was he who conveyed to tn
white house the intimation that Bale
was traitor, and if the Texas sen;
tor has any one to blame 1t must b
| Tillman's friend, William E. Chandle
In the very outset of the nogoti
/ | lions hQ c0nHnftjno ho
, pared and left at the white house
written memorandum for the benefi
OF the president. haven't the tex
OF that memorandum before me, but
quoting frol memory, it says.
The railroad senators want the
Bailey amer dment, but Tillman is fol
the presidents court review amend
ment. and will block their game.
This is nearly a literal quotation
out no one could have the text prob
| ably, with the PERMISSION of the presi-
dent.
The dispatch | sent to the Tribune
was telegraphed on my own authority
and without the knowledge or consent
OF the president. against whom Bailey
trained his batteries to-day. and not
against me. | have not seen the presi-
dent since the dispatch was written,
and / have not asked him for the text
OF this memorandum OF w. E. Chan.
dler, because the text COULD. at best
add only few words TO the quotation
! have given. | know | am correct in
the statement that during the course of
the negotiations w. r Chandler. who
since, has accused the president of
falsehood, made an oral reply, either
to the president himself or some one
representing him, which WAS more spe
cific. During the week Mr. Chandler
In explaining the difficulties in Sc
curing unanimous action by the Demo.
Gratis. said In so many words that he
and Tillmsn were suspicious of aBiley
believing he was in an alliance with
Aldrich and sssociating with IN.
Standard OIL company and railroad
crowd In the senate. but that Ttlman
was watching his maneuvers and ax
pcCted % be able 10 prevent any evil
effects
These were the suspicious 20 which
| alluded In The previous dispatch as
haviu. constantly existed and as has
ing Influenced the administration be
yond all doubt in dropping the u.so
tiatious with Democrats