Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-11
Speech at Canton Is
ChOck Full of
Fight
Senator Answers Alleged
Statements of the
President
Former Declares That He VIII Do His
Duty and Defy Even Theodore
RooseveIt's ImperIaIistie
Dlctatlon
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
CANTON, o., April 10.-In speech
here tonight Senator Foraker dis
cussed published statements regarding
the presidents attitude toward the
senator's speech at this time, replied
to a publication mentioning him as
one of an anti-Roosevelt combination,
reviewed the investigation of the dis
charge Of the negro soldiers on ac-
count of the trouble at Brownsville,
Tex, reiterated his views regarding
recent railroad legislation, protested
against the infringement by one
branch of the government upon the
rights of another branch, declared the
representatives of the people in con-
gress are accountable only to the peo-
pie and are not properly subject to
any other influence" denied the right
of any one except his constituents to
call him to account and sounded a
note of warning against increased
surveillance of business men who need
mo moral regeneration"
He quoted published report that
president Roosevelt has drawn a
dead line for Senator Foraker" and
that "if he attacks President Roosevelt
President Roosevelt will be heard
from in no uncertain tones"
Senator Foraker said:
1.-THE wicked flee when no man pur-
sueth I have not forecasted the char
acter of any speeches I am intending
to make, and if 1 had it would seem
incredible to the average mind that
the story could be anything more than
a mischief-making pipe dream of an
overambitious correspondent. That
the president of the United States
should become personally engaged In
successor is without precedent, unless
it be the bad precedent set by Andrew
Jackson as to Martin Van Buren.
Discusses dead Line"
'That he would enter upon such a
struggle with a declaration that he is
to set limitations upon the freedom of
him, and that they are to disregard
those limitations at their peril, is with
out precedent even to the case of
Jackson, and is so inconsistent with
the dignity of his high office and the
proprieties always to be observed, that
1 feel 1t a duty toward the president
himself to enter for him, on my own
motion, disclaimer of all RESPONSE
bility for such publication.
"The time has not yet come, and no.
body knows better than the president
himself when dead lines can be drawn
in debate for anybody to observe; nor
has the time come when any real man
would respect them If they were
drawn.
$50 far as I am personally con-
cerned 1 shall always speak with mall
ice toward none but according to my
own convictions, whenever and wher-
ever l may have occasion to speak at
ALL"
Mr.. Foraker characterized as "sort
of companion piece" published state
ment of the president to his friends,
naming as members of the combination
to "do him up" for his attitude toward
Wall street e. H.. Hartman, ]. B. For
aker and John D. Rockefeller.
"In view of this publication" said
Mr.. Foraker, "I trust that must with
out impropriety say that until 1t was
given out at Washington few days
ago l never heard tell of any combina-
ton, trust or conspiracy to oppose the
president in anything; much less did I
ever hear of the so-called $5000,0 600
conspiracy of which we have heard so
much during the last week
"I trust / may be pardoned for going
Iurtner anu saying never saw JOnu
d. Rockefeller but once in my life, and
that was twenty years ago or more
while was governor of Ohio.
Meets John D. in Chicago
81 then had the pleasure of meeting
him in connection with the ceremonies
connected with the laying of the cor
ner stone of the Young Mems Christian
association building at Cleveland. With
that single exception 1 never saw him,
never spoke to him and never commu-
nicated with him in any way directly
or indirectly.
"Mr Hartman l have seen oftener.
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