Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-04
PRESIDENTS
SPEECHSTRS
HOTDE TIE
coNGRESSMEN DISCUSS THE
MESSAGE
RoosEvELT's MOTIVE is CUES.
TONED BY DEMOCRAT
Republican Representative Claims for
His Party All Vital Legislation
in the Last Fifty
Years
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in the newspapers, but would be quiet
" seeking tickets to foreign lands"
He did not believe the president yet
has exhausted all his powers, but he
said: 81 do say this message shows the
president appreciates his duty"
Loud Republican applause followed
this remark.
Mr. Cochran discussed the Judiciary
of the country and said he had noticed
in his own state federal and state
judges leaving the bench to accept pro-
fessional employment by corporations.
1t was no wonder, he said, that the pub
lie conscience should be alarmed. He
declared that justice was the founda-
ton of prosperity. 1t was, he said. only
the ragged, the rotten and the corrupt
that had reason to fear the light of
publicity or the word of justice.
May the light never De obscured. ;"
he exclaimed. "and may the sword
never be sheathed."
Roosevelt Barred
Mr.. Cochran referred further to Pres
ident Roosevelt as a crusader, "the only
one the Republicans had" But, he
said, the president was disqualified.
His nomination by you or us would be
personal lishonor."
The president had renounced the field
of politics and had taken a noble posi-
ton before the civilized world.
Never before in the history of the
country" he said. mad a president
still in office been the object of the Bit
terest attacks, hated as no hatred ever
before was treasured against public
of1cer, yet able while still in Office to
practically fix the conditions upon
which the parties will contend
Thunderous applause greeted this re-
MARI and one which followed, that
there was "a Democratic crusader in
Mr.. Bryan"
He did not think Senator Cannon was
one nor was Senator Knox, or Secre-
tary Taft.
Referring to Mr.. Bryan. Mr.. Cochran
said: I'VE have q crusader as to whom
there is some doubt as to whether he
is Lot too strenuous. opposed him In
the past, / might still. oppose him, but
I believe this message has outlined the
conditions under which he becomes the
foreordained champion of law and
order"
The applause which this utterance
evoked among the Democrats was so
great that it was some time before Mr..
Cochran proceeded.
Continuing, and still referring to Mr..
Bryan, Mr.. Cochran said that if he de-
clared himself the champion of the
principles which were directly and in
directly embodied in the presidents
,aessage, 'If he represents the deter
mination to prosecute Indicators for
their crimes and IL rigorous enforce
ment of the law should result in con-
costing the criminal courts, then the
plunderers of millions will be given pre-
cedence in the pathway to prison over
the pilferers of pennies.
Hepburn Sarcastic
Mr.. Hepburn of Iowa declared that
the Democrats had shown great versa
4off in. he RI nf fndaV One he
said, spoke in unseemly terms of the
president; another said he could not
tell whether the message was by Mr..
Rooevelt or by his own political idea.
"This message" said Mr.. Hepburn,
sis received in some sections of the
country with violent condemnation.
This condemnation comes from the or
gans of the very men and those only,
whom the president of the United
States has seen fit to denounce as the
malefactors, the great Indicators of
the age, and that is the only source
from which it has come except from
the gentleman from Ohio, Mr.. For
aker'
The stock gamblers, he said, have
done more than any other class to
bring on this disaster, to bring into
Gisrepute the value of our securities.
Some may say there will be nothing
done by this congress. / do not believe
it. l assert the American people are
earnest in so clothing the hands of
executive power so that he may be able
to accomplish the reforms advocated
in this message, and is any man stands
in the way he will simply be run over"
Again wave of uproarious applause
swept over the house.
Some men," said Mr.. Hepburn,
complain that the president has not
put a larger number of these nalefac-
tors in the penitentiary. I know good
man.r in whose behalf 1 would like to
see his energies doubled, but we must
remember that there are difficulties in
the way"
He said the Democrats knew the
presidents message meets the expecta-
tions of the people, and on that ac-
count they are trying to appropriate all
of it's provisions.