The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-12-25
RASPS TEDDY.
Senator TIllman Takes President
Roosevelt to Task anu
HITS RIGHT And LEFT +.

HITS right And LEI
{ He Hurls Sharp Tines at That
Another Lie" Cortelyou, and Say
the President IS Too Careless Wit
f Words and Too Careful Of Hand
cuffs.-Gives His Idea of the Pan
: ic and It's Effect.
Senator Tillman one day last weel
: in the Senate spoke Of his resolu
tions directing an investigation of tht
recent bond issues anG clearing
house certificates. but he took occa
sion to comment on a good many
matters concerning the financial af
fairs Of the country.
"I must confess I have not studied
finance very much from the books,
began Mr.. Tillman apolgetically
my own labors in that direction
having been confined to my own ex-
penses.'
Mr.. Tillman said he did not know
whether the criticism Of the chair
man OF the house committee on
banking and currency (Mr. Fowler
had caused the secretary Of the
treasury to halt in the issuance Of
bonds. but a change of plans seems
to have been made and he had not
been able to learn how much Of the
proposed bond issue had been put
cut. He expressed the opinion that
the secretary had violated the spirit
Of the law, if he had not violated the
law itself.
IF we are not in the midst Of a
panic, we are in the midst Of a chill
produced by the danger Of panic. y
declared Mr.. Tillman.
The treasury, he said, has dump
ed" its money in Wall Street, and
the country has praised the patriot
ism of j. Pierpont Morgan "in aid
ing the country to get grip on it
self and not let everybody go crazy
and precipitate further loss and hor-
rors on the Country
Speaking of published interview
with the president by Mayor Dahl
man, of Omaha. in which the presi-
dent is alleged to have said that If
he was responsible for the panic he
was glad of it as it had brought to
view the rotten conditions of the
country's finances, he said:
"I fear that Mr.. Dahlman is IN
inminent danger Of joining the An
anias Club. Perhaps somebody will
use the telephone and find out about.
that"
He said that he would not worry
about the panic, but he found so
many facts connecting the treasury
department, even the senate and the
house of representatives, with Wall
Street, that he was obliged to re-
cognize them, especially as the far
mer, the cotton planter and the
manu- facturer were affected. He said
he wanted to know who struck Bill
ly Patterson y
He spoke of the manner in which
the financial stringency has operat-
&C.
"And," he added, "the president
says he is proud Of it. I cannot be-
lieye he said it. He has said many
things lacking discretion, but 90
not believe he is so callous as to feel
any pleasure in the condition of
paralysis which confronts up. l be-
lieve he is a patriot though he has
perhaps shown it badly at times.
The senator held aloft a banking
house certificate, and in a loud voice
called upon the senate to look at 1t.
Here is specimen, he declared.
Looks like what you call Confed-
crate money-shin plaster-and yet
thev are issued by National Banks.
Look at it. am going to have 1t
engraved if it can be done without
destroying it and put in the Congress
siona! Record. But I don't propose
to have it destroyed and lose dol
lar lust to enlighten rou on the
currency.
He wanted only good greenbacks,
and. in .rasping tones, speaking OF
the necessity of money, he said:
You will have to go to the bone
yard if you can't get it.
AS between the "shin plasters'
in the form of clearing house eerti-
Gates and greenbacks. he said he
would prefer greenbacks based on
railroad bonds. although they were
in his opinion filed with water.
He was. he said. daily in receipt
Of letters from papers who think
.hev know all about the currency asd
have schemes for currency reform.
But I don't even read them, ne
said.
It had been alleged he said. that
the bonds recently issued had not
heen sold to the highest bidders and
he read a newspaper copy OF let
Ter bv Mr.. Sherman, OF New York,
saving he had bid 103 IL on Soo.-
900 of the bonds. but had not re-
ceived any of them, although they
had been sold as low as s1o2. The
comm, tee on finance, ne added,
could find out whether that IS true,
The comptrollers Of the currency,
he said. are so complaisant and po-
lite while they are in Office that al
most every one Of them has gradual
ed INTO the presidency OF bank
Turn on the Hand Cuffs.
The officials about.the president, he
said. 90 out and join the kings OF
finance. The president turns on the
light. Why don't be turn on the
handouts when he finds somebody
stealing? He goes to the country