The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-02-23
William Dudley Fou|ke Sounds
Praises of the President at
A Chicago Banquet Held
Yesterday.
MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT
OF THE GOTHAM PRESS
States That So Degenerated
Have Some of New York
Papers Become That Pub
lie Has No Confidence.

Chicago, Feb. 23-The principal ad-
dress yesterday at the afternoon meet
ing for high school students in Orches-
ira hall vas delivered by William
Dudley Foulke, of Indiana, one of the
warmest defenders of President Roose-
welt. His address on "The Freedom of
the Press" included not only justif1ca-
ton but praise for the libel suits
against Indianapolis and New York
newspapers in connection with the al
legged Panama canal scandal.
The speaker compared Roosevelt
with Washington and Lincoln who both
suffered from calumnious attacks from
the press. After detailing some of the
/ experiences Of the first chief executive
he said in part:
1T may not be pleasant to contem-
plate these outbursts of passion which
disturbed the superb calm equipoise of
the great father of his country and yet
the remembrance of them has it's dis
tinct value when men are denouncing
Theodore Roosevelt for r%esenting in
vigorous English i%mputations which
charge him not only with dishonesty
but with the exercise of t%yrannical
powers, of kingly prerogatives. this,
too, of a man who, like Washington
put aside a reelection to the presiden-
tial Office. which was his even without
the asking had he permitted it! They
abuse him with epithets which would
be libels if applied even to the most de-
graded Of human beings and then de.
nounce him for the utterance Of the
honest Indignation with which he
answers these calumnies.
Ask Him to Turn Other Cheek. -
1T is inconsistent with his dignity
to reply! 1t is Incompatible with his
great Office to prosecute, Be calm, be
calm, Mr.. President We spit upon you.
We load you with false and libelous re-
p~roaches. which nothing but an intern.
al imagination can conceive, but If you
answer. you are doubly censurable, and
if you seek to hold us to account you
are a monster, a whole star chamber, 9
tyrant more abandoned than Caracalla
We demand of you that when we smite
you on one cheek you shall not only
turn to us the other also, but that you
whose o duty it is to maintain
the rights Of all men must first abdi
cate your own that you who are the
chief executive of our laws must never
invoke them on your own behalf"
Dignity The indignation of honest
manhood unjustly assailed is worth
tons of dignity. BY whom is the de
! mand made that the president be silen,
and submissive? BY the men who arr
indicted Of a crime and by their aiders
and abetters. 1t is they who are de
handing from the president something
more than the virtues. of the meek
and lowly Nazarene. for even he criet
out in his wrath, Woe unto you Scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites..' Even hi
scourged the money changers from the
temple.'
Praises Press Of Chicago.
In speaking Of the public acceptance
of u~tterances of the press, he gave $
word of praise to the newspapers Of
i Chicago.
1T has happened in our large cities
particularly In New York" he said
that the press has opposed almosi
! unanimously certain candidates TO,
public office, but so greatly has the
public confidence in the newspapers
been impaired that the men they de
n0unced have been elected rsomaetme,