The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-25
THE ISSUE MADE
UNAVOIDABLE.
EX-SENATOR CHANDLER AN
SWERS ROOSEVELT.
ADDRESSED TO TILLMAN
While RciteratinH His Former As
sertions He Declares He IL Done
With the Missionary
Business.

Washington, May 17.-Former SEN
ator William E. Chandler Wednesday
| cent to Senator Tillmanl a statement
| regarding the accusation of having told
a DELIBERATE AND UNQUALI-
FLED FALSEHOOD," made against
him by President Roosevelt. The text
| Of the statement follows:
Mr. Chambers Reply.
"My Dear Tillman-As the telephone
denial by President Roosevelt sent to
| the senate through Senator Lodge re-
mains in the Congressional Record of
| May IL, it seems to me that l should
take some notice of it, which do now
by reafirming. the essential truth of
| the statement l made to you, and which
you repeated in the senate.
An Unavoidable Issue.
Much as l regret that the hasty &C
ton of Senator Lodge and the president
| has forced an issue between the pres
| ident and myself, the extreme language
| he used makes such an issue unavOid-
able, and | can not shrink from or
| evade it. although l can not use toward
| the chief executive of the nation Ian
| guage like his own.
Says President Is in Serious Error.
For those who do not know me there
Is fortunately circumstantial evidence
of a high order which shows that the
president could not have omitted to
l ~ Ia IN eo,hcfonnn Tho cfotorpopt which
he denies. Nor could he have then
made the whole statement which he
now substitutes. His impulsivenesS
has led him into serious error upon a
point of no importance in itself, but
orly as affecting his attack upon me.
prior to March 81 | had not seen
| the president for a long time. l did
not go to the White House as a repre-
sentative of Senator Tillman, but sole
ly because the president summoned me
there by the letter from Mr.. Loeb, and
I waited for him to express his object"
summoned by President.
Mr.. Chandler says the president said
| that he parted from them finally, nam
ing Senators Knox, Foraker and Spoon
er as the senators who had made the
arguments in the senate to sustain that
view, and he used as nearly as ] a.
recollect the language given in my
statement repeated by Mr.. Tillman.
The conversation included the I'M
derstanding which he had that day
reached with Senators Long and ALI
son, the fact that not over one-third OF
the republican senator's could be relied
on TO vote for the limited court review,
and that it was vital that the support
| of nearly all the democrats should be
obtained.
Found TiIlman D%fstrustful.
when, an hour later, l visited Mr..
Tillman, and told him my mission from
and suspicious. lie questioned me close
ly as to what the president had said,
| and | related to him as accurately as I
could the statement made by the pres
idert to me, and I, convinced him that
the president had ceased to hope for
compromise with the senators named
and the other advocates of an unlim-
tied court review. When satisfied that
| this was the case, he readily consent
ed to cooperate with the president,
| and said he would see Senator Bailey
and report to me the result, which he
did, saying there would be perfect ac-
| cord upon the limitation of the right
of review if carried forward in connec-
| tion with a limitation Of the right to
issue ex parte injunctions.
sure President Mistaken.
Consider next the statement which
| the president says he thinks he made
| instead of the one narrated by me.
Senator Foraker, he says, was not men,
| toned. I am quite sure he is mistaken.
| Senators Knox and Spooner, he says,
| were mentioned, but that all that was
said about them was as to Senator
Knox that the president did not agree
with a portion of his proposed amend
ment. but that he thought he had made
a strong argument for asserting affirm
atively the jurisdiction or authority of
the court, and as to Senator Spooner
that his lame was only mentioned by
him to express a cordial approval of
Senator Spooner's amendment. =
Out of the Missionary Business.
ION the whole, perhaps I ought to
consider myself fortunate. If the old
imperialist days had been fully revived
at the White House, n whom l o n
slider the best of friends. Senator Lodge,
upon demand, would have cut off my
head and taken it to President Roose-
welt on a charger, and l should have
spoken no more. Now I have, at least,
left to me the power Of speech. But l
shall never use it again as a mission
airy from President Roosevelt to the
democratic party. Sincerely yours,
"WILLIAM e. CHANDLER"