The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-11
Says He'll Tolerate No
Boss Within or With
out Ohio.
Compares Presidential
Campaign for Success
sor to JackSon's.

banquet or the Dt1Eu u AAnN1 AStcs
About four hundred guests were at the
tables.
The Senator was vigorous in his
declaration that he would not tolerate
a boss. big or little. within or without
the state This statement was re-
ceived in silence.
Roosevelt's name brought long ap-
plause.
The Senator said:
Gentlemen: First, let me thank those
having this occasion in charge for the
Invitation that has brought ne here.
My invitation generously gave me
permission 70 select my own subject
IN the exercise OF this privilege deem
it my duty 10 first address myself 10
some matters that may seem somewhat
personal
In a Washington dispatch published
in the Cincinnati Times-Star / find the
following:
President Roosevelt has drawn
dead line for Senator Foraker. Thus
Ear. but no farther is the warning.
It applies 10 the Senator's forthcom-
ing speeches IN Ohio. If he goes be-
yond the line drawn. II he attacks
President Roosevelt, President ROose-
welt Will be heard from in no uncertain
tones
The wicked fee when no man pur-
sueth. / have not forecast the charac-
ter OF any speeches am intending 70
make. and If I had it would seem Ia
credible to the average mind that such
g story could be anything more than
misunderstanding pipe dream Of an
overambitious correspondent,
Jackson and Van Buren
"rhat the President OF the United
States should become personally en-
gagged in political contest TO determine
his successor is without precedent, un-
less 1t be The bad precedent set by An
drew Jackson and Martin Van Buren,.
THAT he would enter upon such a
struggle with a declaration that he is TO
set limitations upon the freedom OF
speech of those who may differ from
MIN. 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
nifty Of his high ONCE and the pro-
prieties always to be observed. that 7
feel it duty toward the President him
self 10 enter for him. on my own motion,
a disclaimer of all responsibility for
such a publication
THE time has not yet come. and no.
body knows that better than the Presi-
dent himself, when dead lines can be
drawn in debate for anybody 10 observe;
nor has the time come when any real
man would respect them If they were
drawn
so far as an personally concerned,
/ shall always speak with malice toward
none, but according TO my convictions
whenever and wherever / may have oc-
CasiOn TO speak at al.
Here's another-a sort of companion
piece. From the Scripps-McRae papers
] take the following:
The President TO his friends has
named as members Of the combination
TO do him I'D for his attitude toward
Wall Street, Z. II. Hartman, J. B. For
aker. and John D. Rockefeller
Never Heard Of Conspiracy.
"In view of this publication. I trust 1
may without improperly say that until
Il was given out at Washington few
days ago I never heard tell Of any COM
bination or trust or conspiracy 10 op-
pose the President in anything. much
less did ever hear Of the so-calIed s.
100000 conspiracy OF which we have
{ heard so mitch during the last week.
Il trust / may be pardoned for going
further and saying I never saw John
D. Rockefeller but once In my life. and
that was twenty years ago or more.
while I was governor Of Ohio.
Mr.. Hartman I have seen oftener.
have seen him three dmes-twice at
the White House. the last time as an
niles OF the Presidents daughter. On
neither OF these occasions did 1 have
any conversation with him.
THE only other time I ever saw him
WIS to meet him at a dinner party given
by Senator and Mrs. Depew, where
Speaker Cannon and his daughter, Sen
ator Spooner and his wife, Senator FL
kins and his wife, and many others
were present
No man over 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.
The Brownsville Case.
Another session of Congress has just
closed. There were numerous measures
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 1 have taken a
different view from him. refer to the
olscnarge without honor, OF the mera-
oers Of Companies B, c. and D, of the
Twenty-ffth United States Infantry, on
account Of the shooting ARRAY at
Brownsville, Tex.
These men had been given no on
portunlty 10 be heard 1t seemed to
me that no man in this country was so
humble that he should not be given a
day Ia court somewhere. or some time
or some place, TO make his defense, con-
front his accusers. and refute their tes-
timony against him and esDecialiv
should soldiers have the benefit of such
a hearing
II believe that this was their right
under the Constitution. I did not believe
that even the President as commando
in-chief of the army. had power TO de-
privc them of this right
But without regard to that question
felt that they should have this opoor-
unity. I secured il for them 1t was
a long. hard contest In the Senate
which resulted IN the adoption Of a
resolution. ordering an investigation
The Investigation has been in prog
ress. it is not yet completed / would
prefer not to speak Of the results until
they have been fully determined; but
challenged as ] am, I do net hesitate
To say that fezffrrnFzr 50 t=tra-