The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-08
STICKS HIS FORK
into RAILROADS
TiIiman Says Many of Their Of.
fiCiaIS Ought to Be in the
Penitentiary.
STILL SORE AT ROOSEVELT
GIVES AN INTERVIEW ON THE
PRESIDENTIAL OUTLOOK.
SENATOR TILLMAN ON
PRESIDENTIAL QUITO

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! Senator Tillman, after his lecture
| y last night was asked about the ques- y
| y ton of presidential succession.
= Whom Will the Democrats name, =
y SENATOR" +
! II don't know that they have any y
| 4 candidate yet
= "And the Republicans y
| y "Well. the Republicans seem to +
| ! have a raft IF em, but there's none =
= yet fully developed. They'll have to y
y go around the track a time or two TO y
| \ try their STEPS"
\ Reports have been published. SEN y
\ atOr, that if President Roosevelt y
| y should accept third term the south y
/ + would be for him. Is that true?"
! = Young man." replied Senator Till y
| = man impressiVely. you all can put y
| ! it in your paper that so long the y
| y Democratic party puts ticket in the =
/ 4 field and stands on its platform. the y
\ south is going TO vote the Demo- =
| = cratic ticket But there's one thing y
| y most sure, and that is. no Repub- =
| y lican candidate for president can y
= hope for success in the south who y
y stands on the Republican principles =
| 4 that endorse a Niger"
Senator Benjamin r. Tillman of South
| Carolina took a fall out of the railroads
| last night in a characteristic address de-
| livered in the First Congregational church
under the auspices of the University of
Utah Mr.. Tillman's lecture was to have
| been a discussion of railroads, trusts and
mOnopolies, but when the South CAROLYN
! ian had finished with his first subdivision
/ the time was grown so late that he dis
missed the monOpOiits and the trusts with
a few words MonOpolies, declared Sen
ator Tillman, were the creatures of the
/ tariff, which is the barrier between the
! trust and its competitors.
| Senator Tilman is not believer in gov
| eminent ownership of railroads. but he
| haIi hat he ed
| and controlled by the government so that
| the capital invested would be given
/ fair return; that the supervision of the
| government would put stop 10 all the
abuses that now exist; that lot of rail
| road officials ought to be in the peni-
| Tertiary, and that fines imposed are only
a drop in the bucket. so to speak. Sen
| ator Tillman is not at all pleased with
! the railroad rate bill, of which he was put
/ in, charge at the last session of congress.
| because it is not faT-reaching enough.
A large part of Mr.. Tillmans address
! last evening was devoted to a description
/ of the quarrel he had with President
Roosevelt that resulted in Mr.. Tilimans
standing refusal to go TO the White House
unless the president apologies for what
Mr.. Tillman declares was a gratuitous in
| suit Senator Tillman also described in
detail the Chandler incident, wherein the
! New Hampshire senator was made the
! famous gO-betWeen when the railroad bill
was nearing the crisis of its candidacy as
a measure for passage in the senate.
| Senator Tillman, with remarkable fOTtf-
| tude forbore touching the negro ques-
ton, save once. People marveled that he
| has trimmed his speech down so that il
contains so little of what everybody
knows the senator really wants TO talk
| about-the negro question.
An Unfinished Effort.
The opinion of many of those who at
| tended Senator Tillman's lecture last
| evening was that the effort was not bI
IL n 10 nit of
| addresses in this city. Some said that
the lecture was like piece of copy En-
| edited, lacking eliminatiOns here and in
| sertions there. The man who said this
| pointed out that if Senator Tillman had
| kept on lecturing on the three subjects
| announced ne would not have done with
This talk before o'clock in the morn
ing. Senator Tiilman'S lecture is a 'ScOrch-
| ing Of the railroads. but his array is far
| from the orderly marshaling of cause and
effect that he does so masterfully in his
talks on the south and its grievance.
| Senator Tillman was introduced to an
| audience of 500 people in the First Con-
| gregatiOnal church at $50 O'clock. Judge
William III. King presented the senator
and paid him high compliment saying.
| among other things, that he is one of the
greatest statesmen in America. Judge
| King also called Mr.. Tillman an honest
man and that characterization gave the
| course of his lecture to refer to the fact
| that he had been labeled honest so often
that it seemed as though il were indeed
a rarity to find an honest man in this age
of dishonesty.
Wall Street Coterie.
1T was only d little while back" said
Senator Tillman since the man worth
to our rapid growth and advancement
there are many milliOnaires, and as the
millionaires have multiplied the multi
millionaires have kept pace with them
There are even semi-blliOnaires A man
| worth a million now is labeled as poor.
All of this wealth is produced by the
American people and it is controlled by
! the little cOterie in New York, or else
where, that manipulates the stock market,
but we don't get share.
| Fifteen or twenty men," said Senator
Tillman, can dictate the policy of finance
of the United States They can and do
dictate the policies of 80 per cent of the
railroads.
Senator Tillman said that it is the Gus
tom for these big fish" to acquire a rail-
road, prOmulgate a list of Improvements
| and reOrganize the stock at a high figure
issue bonds, have receiver appointed ana
where are the stockholders? The little
fellows" who bought were always the vic
tins.
Il am a Democrat" emphaticaIly de-
| clared Mr.. Tillman, who must have aW-
fully hard hands to bring them into con-
tact SO violently and often, Il believe in
the principle of equal privileges to all and
| special privileges to none. / believe in an
equality of opportunity and an equality
of burden, but l never have and never
will stomach matter. and 1 don't want
to be one"
Whirl at Railroads.
Senator Tillman took a rafting whirl at
| the railroads in the west He enumer-
| ated a number over which he had traV-
eled during the last month or two and
rounded up somewhat after this fashion:
| They herd you like cattle. i honestly
| tell you that if the railroads treated US
in the south as they do you in the west
somebody would get shot
| The BOrah case was a magnet for Mr..
Tillman. He noted, he said, that SEN
| ator Borah had just been acquitted of the
charge of stealing sixteen thousand acres
of land. From the way things are being
run in Washington he ought TO have
stolen a hundred and sixty thousand
acres" said the senator.
| Continued on PAGE 8.