The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-17
ROOSEVELT
IMPALED ON
PITCHF ORk
Fierce Denunciation of the
Chief Executive by Sen
ator TiIIman.
RIPPED UP THE BACK
AND DOWN THE FRONT
SENATE SCORED FOR sERVILITY
HOUSE ACCUSED OF BEING
A MERE MACHINE.

Washington, March 16.-With eau
ton unusual for him, Senator Tillman
today read a part of his speech in the
senate in which he denounced execu-
tive encroachment on legislative power.
With this apparent caution he proceed
ed to deliver one of the most direct and
oenunciatory addresses ever heard in
that body. He was given a careful
Bearing. Most of the senators on both
Rides of the chamber were in their
places. and the galleries were filled
with visitors. His speech was based
on his resolution instructing the COM
mittee on finance to inquire whether
national banks of New York are in the
habit of furnishing permanent capital
for speculative enterprises. etc. The
resolution was adopted.
One-Man Power.
The subject of Mr. Tinman's speech
was executive entertainment upon the
legislative branch of the government,
and he traced what he termed a
swinging of the pendulum" from the
regime of Andrew johnson, when con-
gress assumed control almost to the
exclusion of the president from legis-
lative influence, to the administrations
that followed. which ne declared wit
messed growth of presidential power.
Now" he said. the house has de-
generated into little more than re-
,cOrding machine to do the will of the
I speaker and his ieutenants. Freedom
kof debate in the old and true sense has
disappeared from that end of the cap
itol. In the senate servility and cow
ardice are the order of the day" ne de-
oil
still exists. the shadow of the execu-
tive hangs over all and the presidents
wishes are almost the only law"
Compelled to Silence.
f~There is" he proceeded TO saw
"lsSme show of resistance on matters
affecting the multi-millionaires and the
great corporations The president
writes scolding messages and makes
infiammatory speeches appealing to the
unthinking and ignorant masses He
has the potent influence of the press at
his command; he has used the news
papers and magazines in exploiting
my policies with a skill and daring
that compel admiration. While sena-
tors denOunce his radical ideas in pri-
waite and oppose in every possible way
the measures which he clamors for by
the passive resistance of non-action. no
one of the dominant party dares lift
his voice in opposition or denunciation,
bat the executive influence is the only
sslAfiuence i'm evidence, while the senate
Mowers i'm silent resistance"
The cause of this condition. declared
Mr.. Ti.lman. is federal patronage"
THE theory that the senate must
advise and consent before laws are
made" he said, sis of little or no mo-
ment when senators show such want of
courage and self-respect and bow sub
missively to orders from the White
House. The members of the minority
party are, Of course, largely ignored.
Appointments in the south where the
Democracy retains control are in the
hands of referees who fill the Offices
for the sole purpose of maintaining the
political machines.
Afraid of Roosevelt.
1.-THE senators of the dominant party
are afraid TO resist the executive will.
lsst they themselves should fail to OBJ
Akin the patronage of their states. They
Aksve Also he declared, "a dread lest
they should be forced into retirement "
When clashes have come between the
president and senator's or representa-
tives, the people have in almost every
instance sided with the president 1.-The
people, poor, simple souls, reading the
special pleas and sophistical abuse of
Republican editors, are led to think
the president alone is honest and patri-
otie," said Mr.. Tillman. "They believe
religiously that the senate is corrupt
and the house debauched. and that the
policies-My policies which are so ex-
plotted in the press-must prevail and
become law before any relief can be
obtained. Senators who do not agree
with the executive and refuse to abide
by his will, must not be reelected.
Congressman who refuse executive die
tafion are replaced by those who will
obey.
FIN the mad rush to placate the ne
$40 vote. we may expect to see before
The Chicago convention meets, to quote
a New England newspaper, the presi-
dent reviewing the re-enlisted negro
battalion on the White House green,
after which there will be luncheon al
the executive mansion. The president
action in that matter, was hasty and
unjust inasmuch as the innocent were
punished along with the guilty, but il
iSa pitiable spectacle, all the same, TO
see the mad rush for negro votes.
President Loud-Mouthed.
Mr.. Roosevelt is always loud
mouthed and vehement i'm the procla-
nation of his own purity of purpose
end patriotism. He has absolute faith
in his own infallibility, and is appar-
entity so drunk with power that he un-
consciously Iapses into the imperial
we and sends cablegrams about me
and my people But these things are
of small moment-'yagaries of d noble
and impetuous spirit and we could
pass them by were il not for the eX-
istence of coid-blooded facts TO show
executive responsibility for many of
the faults which exist without dispute.
Paul Morton, as vice president OF
the Santa Fe railroad" said Mr.. Till
man, lin the rebate cases laid himself
open TO indictment for and liability to