The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
Life-sizeO OI PoItraiIs of UnwiN :  ing Subjects With Hartman,
 Now Number Eight
NOT COUNTING T|HTYPES,
 TIE UNCATALOGUED MANY
Varieties Seen Passing Along the Gal lery Are aAtrocious," "Delberate" and "WillfuI Liars," With One
 or Two Just Plain Liars.
BY PATTERSON sTEALEY.

BY PATTERSON STEALEY.
 Washington, April -(Special)-When President Roosevelt hung up MT. E. II. Halrman's picture in his Liars Gal- lery' yesterday it brought the total num- Der of distinguished portraits in that col lection up to eight. Of course there is quite a collection of what you might call the tintype style of liars, such as congressman of the opposition party muckrake magazine writers and the like but the real lifesize oil portraits now number eight.
 To he sure the originals of these DOT traits strenuously object to being in- cluded in the Presidents liars gallery and most of them claim that they can prove or have since proved that they were unjustly classified by the hanging committee and should be in quite an- other aleove. However, the President has put them there and there they are.
 There are different varieties of alleged liars in the gallery. There are "atroeious liars" deliberate liars" ''willful liars" Adisingenuous liars,'' inventive lars,' and utter liars,'' with one or two just plain liars.
 FafkeF the ftfSt.
 The first portrait to go up was that of Judge Alton B. Parker, d few days before election day in 1901. Judge Par Her, democratic candidate for President, had made some charges abo;lt+eontribu- tions of trusts and corporations under pressure to the republican campaign fund The President came out in a state- ment saying in conclusion:
 a are unquali1edly and atroeiousiy false,"
 Passing rapidly along the gallery, DOT trait No is found to be that of MT. Henry M. Whitney of Boston, distin- guished citizen of that town, who got into a controversy with the President over what was said or was not said upon the occasion of a talk between them on the subject of tariff revision. Mr. Whit ney was very insistent, but the President had the last word and in referring to MT. Whitney's recollection of what oc- cured. said The absolutely and I am constrained to believe deliberately mis- represented what had occurred"
 The next portrait you pass along. shows the sarcastic, saturnine, cynical and quizzical features of ex-Senator Will liam E. Chandler. The details of that squabble are well known, arising as they did over the efforts of MT. Chandler to bring Senator Tillman and the President together on the railroad rate bill. MT. Chandler kept a diary. He is one of the Samuel Pepy's kind. anyhow. who takes notice of everything that goes on in pub lie life and among public men, and sets it down in a little book at night. He makes comments in the little book, too, it is said. If that book is published after he dies, it will make mighty in- teresting reading. Anyhow, there was a clash between MT. Chandler's recolee- tion of what occurred and the Presi- ,42x I TA.ltr Senate and speaking for the President, said:
 ''The President said in reply, that the statement which I had read to him, at tributed to him by MT. Chandler, was a deliberate and an unqualified false hood.''
 Wallace In Full Light.
 That portrait in commanding position in the gallery evidently hung with a de- sire to get a good light on it. is seen to be the face of Mir. Wallace, sometime engineer in charge of the Panama canal.
 He .'yumped the yob.'' Ole Olson would say, and tagged by the admin istration as he went out Mr. Wallace in resigning gave several reasons for quit ting the government service. Secretary Taft, in commenting upon these reasons said. by authority of the President:
 These statements utterly untrue" That portrait in the center with the fes- toon of crepe above it is easily recognized as the face of Dear Bellamy The crepe is in ilemroy of dead friendship. Everybody recalls the correspondence be- tween President Roosevelt and Bellamy Storer. sometime ambassador to Russia and minister to Spain
 It was a long series of letters backward and forward between the two of them but for the purpose of Identification in this gallery the whole thing resolves itself i,.tf Ia cta to MT. Storer
 'The position that in any private con- vcrsation l took an opposite position from that which I was, thus repeatedly ex- pressing in writing is not only untruth but an absolute untruth.'
 Automatic Shotgun. The next portrait Is one not so we'll known to the public. It is Mr. G. O. Shields. president of the League of Amer ican Sportsmen- The trouble was some- thing about a bill to prohibit the use of automatic shotguns in the territories It's a long story and involved, anyhow the President settled the thing. He wrote to Mir Shields: Not one single sentence you quote as I said 1t. Some of the sentences are sheer inventions, others are inventions in part" So bing, goes up Mr. Shields DOT trait.
 The next portrait is that of Mir Bowen sometime minister to Venezuela He got tangled up in a three-eornered fight with acting Secretary of State Looms and the President and when the President re- viewed the case he wrote to Secretary Taft: Tt is disingenuous for Mir. Bowen repeatedly to use such language. Mr. Ravens statement is shown to be abso- lutely untrue.
 Cf course the Hartman portrait in the center is familiar to all, since the details | ss- aacautauca by the hanging coT1mit-