The sun., 1906-01-18
TILLMAN RACES In SENATE.
ATTACKS TIE PRESIDENT on AC-
COUNT or MORRIS AFFAIR.
Promises to Introduce Resolution for
Investigation TO-tiay-says He VIII
Produce -Four witnesses Who Saw the
Woman MaItrcatc ed Sensational Scene.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator Benja-
min Il. Tillman of South Carolina made an
/ attack upon President Roosevelt to-day
which far exceeded in bitter denunci iation
anything that has come from Mr. Tillman s
lips since his service in Washington was
! begun.
Mr. Timan is master Of rough and
ready invective and given to the use OF
homely phrases adorned with spicy adjec-
tives that make his oratory interesting If
not elegant. He has seldom hesitated to
express his mind. and has frequently shown
n temper that many believed excused much
that seemed to be based on pure vindic-
tiveness.
When the present Congress assembled
in December it was reported around the
Capitol that the senior Senator from South
Carolina had changed greatly; that from
the most radical Of radicals he had become
a semi-conservative, and that there would
he no repetit ions of the lively scenes in which
he had participated as the central figure
In the past. But what occurred in the Sem
ate to-day showed that there was no truth
in these reports. Mr.. Tillman is still Pitch
fork Ben, but with the prongs of his weapon
sharpened and hardened.
Senators who listened to-day to the
laundering of the remarkable oratorioal
batteries which Mr.. Tillman turned loose
upon the President of the United States
said afterward that the South Carolina
members speech was the most sensational
they had ever heard in that body. They
were all the more astonshed because they
believed that Mr.. Tlmau had thrown
away his pitohfork. Senator Hale voiced
this sentiment when, during a colloquy
with his South Carolina colleague, the
most interesting episode of the whole scene.
he spoke of how Mr.. Tillman had grown In
the world of craftsmanship, but had now
become defamer of the President. Mr..
Tillman, however, had taken the bit in his
teeth and no warning could stop him.
PRESIDENTS WAR RECORD ATTACKED.
With his resolution calling on the State
Department for information about Santo
Domingo conditions as a text, he fiercely
assailed the Dominican policy of the Ad-
mnistration and then began an attack
upon President Roosevelts war record.
asserting that Mr., Roosevelt did not partici-
pate in the battle of San Juan Hill and had
achieved success under false colors, which
the newspapers had raised for him. The
newspapers, said Mr.. Tillman, had been
used by Mr., Roosevelt and after they had
made him he had applied gag rule to them
and i'll treated them in other ways
During this portion of Mr. Tillman's
speech his fellow members of the Senate.
sat quietly at their desks, intensely inter-
ested. The galleries were filled, for the
word had gone out that Mr., Tillman had
,lnsheathed his 5chfork and was using it
without regard to consequences. Many
members of the House came over to tES
Senate to witness the sensa tional episode.
There was not a vacant seat on floor or in
gallery lefore the South Carolina Senator
had l:een speaking half an hour.
1t was intensely dramatic throughout.
Secretary of War Taft. who dropped in to
see some of the Senators, was in the Cham
Der when Mr.. Tillman started, but he left
hurriedly when he realized the character Of
the Southerner's remarks. For the greater
part Of the time he was on his feet.
Mr.. Tilman was not interrupted. Almost
absolute quiet prevailed Only once was
there any noise. A buzz of conversation
Mr.. Tillman to turn toward a group,
some members of the House who
were sitting in the rear of the Republican
side, and deliver an implied reprmand
Throughout most of his speech Mr.. Till
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