The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-03-20

retains control, are in the hands Of
referees who fill the offices for the
sole purpose for maintaining ma
chimes. The Senators Of the domi-
lnant party are afraid to resist the
executive will, lest they themselves
should fail to obtain the patronage
of their States"
They have also, he declared a
dread lest they should be forced into
retirement When clashes have come
between the President and Senators
or Representatives the people have
in almost every instance sided with
the President, he said.
"The people. poor, simple souls,
reading the special pleas and sophis-
tical excuses of Republican editors,
are led to think the PresideI. alone
is honest and patriotic" said Mr.. Till
man. "They believe religlously that
the Senate Is corrupt anG the White
House debauched and that the Loli-
tics-my politics, which are so ey
plotted in the press-must prevail
and become law before any relief can
be obtained Senators who do not
agree with the Executive and who
refuse to obey his will must be re-
tired Congressman who resist Exec
utive dictation must be replaced by
those who will obey
I'm the mad rush to placate the
negro vote we may expect to see be-
fore the Chicago Convention meets,
to quote a great New England paper,
''the President reviewing the re-en-
listed battalion on the White House
green, after which there will be lun-
cheon at the Executive mansion
The Presidents action in that was
hasty and unjust, inasmuch as the
innocent were punished along with
the guilty, but it is a pitiable spec
tacle all the same to see the mad
race for negro votes
"Mr. Roosevelt is always loud
mouthed and even vehement in the
proclamation of his own purity of
purpose and patriotism. He has alb
solute faith in his own infalibility and
is apparently so drunk with power
that he unconsciously lapses into the
imperial we and sends cablegrams
about me and my people. But these
things are of small moment-'vaga-
ries of noble and impetuous spirit,
and we could pass them by were 1t
not for the existence of cold-bloOded
facts to show Executive responsible
ity for many of the evils which ex-
ist without dispute"
Paul Morton, as vice-president of
the Santa Fe Railroad, said Mr.. Till
man, Gin the rebate cases laid him
self open to Indictment Ind liability
to personal punishment, but the Pres
ident peremptorily refused to permit
Messrs Judson and Harmon to pros
ecute him..
Senator Tillman denounced Presi-
dent Roosevelt for not prosecuting
land grafters, and Senator Beveridge
interrupted to say that the only diff
ference between the President and
Senator Tillman was that the former
prosecutes upon evidence and the
latter without it. Mr.. Beveridge
wanted to know why Senator Tillman
in his flood of messages has not COW
cred the subject. Mr. Tillman replied
that if Mr.. Beveridge wants me to
make more criticisms than | have the
Senator from Indiana is great big
glutton.'
Mr.. Tillman reviewed the events
of the recent currency crisis and
charged Wall street with many mis-
Idemeanors.
1.-The profits Of this nefarious stock
mongering have" he said, found
their way into the pockets of the
very man who with evil results OF
their fraud manifest pose as 'saviors'
and and crowned kings and are
lauded to the skies when they were
really irving to save themselves from
the disasters which threatened to
overwhelm them along with their de-
iuded victims One of these say
iors' had done more than any other
of the money kings to deluge the
stock market with watcred stocks. -
A long review was given by Mr..
Beveridge of Democratic politics, and
he declared that conference had been
held in Washington for the purpose
of coming to a plan for asking for