The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-11
FORAKER HOT ON ROOSEVELT Ohio Senator Boasts
 President. WILL NOT SUBMIT TO BOSS Conduct of Executive is Without
 Precedent. Campaign ls Opened at Canton With nm ApeaI to Constituents-Re-
 views Record on Pub-
 lie Questions.


 tonight, Senator Foraker discussed pub nshed statements regarding the Presi- dents attitude toward the Senator's B speech at this time, replied to a pub hcation mentioning him as one of an anti-Roosevelt combination, reviewed the investigation of the discharge Of the negro soldiers on account of the trouble at Brownsville. Texas: reiter- ated his views regarding recent rail- road legisiation, protested against the infringement of one branch of the gov ernment of the rights of another branch: declared that the :epresenta- lives of the people In Congress are &C., countable only to the people, and are not properly subject to my other in- nuence': denied the right of any. one except his constituents to call him to account, and sounded a note of warn Ing against increased surveillance of generation" He quoted published report that ,.President Roosevelt has drawn 6 dead line for Senator Foraker." and that If ne attacks President Roosevelt, Presi- no uncertain tones."
 senator Foraker said:
 The wicked flee when no man pur- sueth.' l have not forecasted the char acter of any speeches l am intending 70 make and if had, 1t .sould not seem incredible to the average mind that such q story could be nothing more the a mischief making pipe dream of an der ambitious correspondent.
 Fhat the President of the United states should become personally engaK- ed In political contest to determine ms successor, is without precedent, un- less 1t be the bad precedent set by An orew Jackson as to Martin Van Buren.
 Inconsistent With Dignity.
 That he would enter upon such A strugg.e with declaration that he Is to set limitations upon the freedom of speech of those who may differ from him. and that they are to disregard those limitations at their peril. is with out precedent even in the case of Jack son, and is so inconsistent with the dig nity of his high office, and the proprIeTy always to be observed that l feel it a duty toward the President himself to enter Tor him, on my own motion. dis claimer of all responsibility for such n Tlblication. ~
 "The time has not yet come. and mo- body knows that better than t Pres ident himself. when dead lines can be drawn In debate for anybody to ob- serve: nor has the time come when any real man would respect them if they were drawn.
 s far as l am persona. V concerned. shot oAWdNo epedk with malice tO- ward none, but accord to my con victions whenever and wherever I may have occ sion to speak at all"
 MT. Foraker characterized as Sort or companion piece. a published state ment of the President to his friends as to 8 combination to do him up" for his attitude towards Wall Street., D. H. Hartman. J B. Foraker and John D. Rockefeller
 Tn view of this publication" said MT. fruu propriety. say that until 1t was given out at Washington a few days ago. 1 never heard tell of any combination, or trust or conspiracy, to oppose the Pres ident in anything; much less did ever near that so-called five million dollar conspiracy of which we have heard So much during the last week.
 Lines Up With TiIiman.
 call attention to all this with par ticularity so that at she outset, such wild. reckless. crazy stories may be put into the class of campaign literature. where they properly belong.
 But these stories are but samples of many others, all of which. taken togeth- dissemination of the idea that I am at Roosevelt.
 No man ever occupied the White House who has been identified with so many legislative measures as President Roosevelt He is a tireless worker. He is constantly doing. or causing to be done. something of great importance. This Is true not only as to domestic. but also as to foreign affairs. He has been President since September, 1901. almost six years.
 During all that time have support ed all measures that have come before the Senate of the United States for con sideratton with which he was fin any way identified. except only three
 T differed from him as to join. state hood for New. Mexico and Arizona. in- sisting that they should got be forced into the union as one State: unless a majority of the citizens of each territory might so vote. The proposition fla vored was adopted by Congress and the people of the territories voted against joint statehood. That was a proposition about which men might well differ. There was no occasion for any bitterness of feeling in con nection with It's consideration and there was none on my part nda never heard that there was any on the part
 T was unable to agree with the president as to conterring the rate making power upon the Interstate Commerce Commission as provided in the Hepburn law passed at the first session of the ffty-ninth Congress, was not opposed to the proposition. however. because I did not W; mt gov ernmentaI control and supervision of
 
 merce. for was among the first to advocate such a measure, but because I thought the He burn law in partic- ular was both upconstItutional and unnecessary and that it was a long and serious step In the wrong direc- tion as q matter of public policy.
 Hasn't Rate Making Power
 q did not believe either that if Con gross had the power to make rates 1t had the right to delegate that power to an administrative body"
 Continuing the Senator said: An other session of Congress has just closed There were numerous meas ures pending and acted upon with which the president was prominently identified. So far as I can recall. I supported every one of them There was one matter. however. about which I have taken different view from him. refer to the discharge with out honor of the members Of compa- nies B. c and D of the 25th infantry on account of the shooting sflray at Brownsville. Texas. This vas an in "ident. not policy. But, It was an incident of such character hat felt nv dutV rQDraganfNfiya Of fha